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While our Lithuanian background forms the very basis of South African Jewish identity, a leading historian of South African Jewry, Gideon Shimoni, says the actual numbers...
As America heads towards a historic presidential election in just under a month’s time, American Jewish expats and dual citizens in South Africa feel strongly about...
If you haven’t yet seen the hit documentary My Octopus Teacher currently streaming on Netflix, you might be living under a rock, much like the subject...
As Gusti Yehoshua-Braverman ends her decade-long term as head of department of diaspora affairs at the World Zionist Organization (WZO) in October, she is more determined...
The Jewish community in Johannesburg has experienced a dramatic drop in COVID-19 deaths since the surge in July. “So far in September, we have only had...
When 19-year-old Johannesburg medical student Adam Seef took his own life on a trip to Israel in June 2019, it rattled the community to its core....
Getting a divorce is tough enough, but having your spouse refuse you a gett (Jewish divorce) can be torturous. This is where Go Getters – the...
A six-year-old boy singing an English and Hebrew version of Avinu Malkeinu with passion and gusto has gone viral around the world. This story, however, begins...
As people were giving heartbreaking accounts of life after tragedy at the SA Jewish Report webinar last Thursday, 10 September, the live stream on YouTube was...
As families are forced into lockdown together, the fault lines in relationships become clearer, which has increased divorce in some countries by as much as 30%....
A video by the South African Rabbinical Association of 40 South African rabbonim and chazzanim singing Avinu Malkeinu is being shared around the world as a...
The Iron Dome missile defence system is a part of Israeli life, especially in the south of the country, where it has shot down thousands of...
Sir Ronald Harwood (formerly Ronald “Ronnie” Horwitz) passed away in London last week at the age of 85, after a lifetime as a leading writer, playwright,...
The Kingdom of Bahrain has joined the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in recognising the state of Israel, an agreement formalised with the historic signing of the...
The East London Chevrah Kadisha (ELCK) is in an ugly dispute with the former rabbi of the coastal city’s community, which has led to the breakdown...
Facing the challenges and choices of the Jewish community and greater South Africa is vital, so we can put them into perspective in a post-COVID-19 world....
The president of Malawi has said that his country would open an embassy in Jerusalem, making it the first African country to take this step, either...
Most of us are viscerally offended at the thought of Holocaust jokes, but the reality is that such jokes, humour, and satire have existed during and...
For many Cape Town Jewish couples, United Herzlia Schools (UHS) was not only where they got their primary education, but the place they met their bashert...
United Herzlia Schools (UHS) is a formidable institution as it celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, but when community leaders came together in 1940 with a...
When tennis champion Angela Buxton died last week at the age of 85, she was lauded as a “pioneer against prejudice” on and off the court....
Shireen Sapiro was water-skiing with her family shortly before representing South Africa in swimming at the junior nationals at the age of 13, when she fell...
The building that used to be the ohel of the Jewish cemetery in Springs, Gauteng, is reported to be in a dire state, with vagrants occupying...
The Cape Town Jewish community lost out on a property in a case in which they were a casualty in a much bigger war. This week...
Thirty-three gravestones have been vandalised in the Jewish cemetery of the town that was once called “the Jerusalem of South Africa”, demonstrating the uphill struggle to...
As Women’s Month draws to a close in South Africa, it’s clear there is much work to be done in this country to protect the lives...
A new non-fiction book, described as a detective story and a thriller, explores the life and motivation of a low-ranking SS Nazi officer, whose name would...
South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, has openly acknowledged Israel’s right to exist in peace and security as a Jewish state, and...
When Rabbi Menachem Bombach turned 20, he had no knowledge of the Hebrew or English alphabet, couldn’t do basic maths, and only spoke Yiddish. This was...
A hundred South Africans have made aliyah since lockdown began in March, as South Africa’s economic and political future remain a strong “push factor” for Jews...
Emigration is expected to increase in the months and years ahead as South Africans struggle to survive in a battered economy and volatile political climate exacerbated...
Following the police raid in Kliprivier two weeks ago that may have uncovered a Gauteng-based terrorist cell linked to ISIS (Islamic State), the question remains if...
Aimee Chiat, Herzlia Constantia’s foundation phase head of department, has taken a step that some might say is risky, but has been met by relief by...
In a heart-wrenching post on the Joburg Jewish Mommies Facebook group last week, Tracy-Lee Langlois shared the tragedy of having passed COVID-19 on to her mother,...
As the epicentre of COVID-19 moves to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), five people have died from the virus in the tiny Durban Jewish community of 1 800, all...
The South African Jewish community has had an unprecedented number of COVID-19-related deaths, with a fatality rate higher than that of the United States and the...
Members of the tourism and hospitality industries protesting harsh lockdown measures were dispersed with water cannons and stun grenades by police in Cape Town on 24...
South African cyclist Daryl Impey has signed on to join Israeli cycling team Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN) in 2021, with plans to help the team win...
A Jewish man from the South African Jewish community gave a heart-wrenching, anonymous account of how victimisation by Jewish females from a young age had a...
All Jewish people fought to survive and care for their families as their world was ripped asunder when the Nazis rose to power, but Jewish women...
