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When Maxine Nerwich watched from Cape Town as her son, Craig Nerwich (44), swam into French waters during his English Channel crossing on 23 August, she...
“I don’t know why, but I have a sinking feeling that there’s going to be some sort of uproar if the results don’t go as planned,”...
Dr Irwin Krombein (72) had worked in underprivileged Cape Town communities for decades, but that meant nothing to the mob of angry young men who stoned...
Wikipedia is such a part of our lives that we rarely take time to think about how it works and what role it plays in shaping...
As one of the few female comedy writers in Israel today, Michal Zoran has succeeded to the point where she now writes for satirical Israeli TV...
Seasoned Israeli journalist Allison Kaplan Sommer says the November 2022 election campaigns of Likud and other right-wing Israeli political parties didn’t allude to judicial reform, and...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an international organisation that combats antisemitism and other forms of racism, has criticised Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) after...
For most of his adult life, Stephen “Sugar” Segerman believed that his musical idol, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, was dead. The tale of how Segerman and others...
From a place to buy meat to a meeting place for South African olim, Ra’anana’s iconic Meatland has been a beloved institution for South African olim...
The holidays of two Israeli families visiting Cape Town turned into living nightmares when their vehicles were stoned in the chaos of the taxi strike that...
After successfully leading the campaign for the official downgrade of the South African embassy in Israel, National Freedom Party (NFP) MP Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam still...
The taxi strike that brought Cape Town to a standstill this week, interrupting the economy, service delivery, healthcare, education, and even the food supply chain, has...
For almost 40 years, Zimbabwean Brian Brom has wondered what happened to the Torah his father leined from as head of the tiny Gwelo (now Gwero)...
When Capetonian David Nivison (23) decided to give up his studies and try his hand at filmmaking, it was a huge risk. Never did he imagine...
As the single biggest donor to political parties in South Africa, Durban-born billionaire Martin Moshal is deeply motivated to helping the country fulfil its potential and...
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema visited Israel this week to strengthen relations with the country, and met Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Zambia...
When Kosher SA, the kashrut department of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues (UOS), announced on 28 July that Avron’s Place, an iconic kosher restaurant in Sea...
The incoming director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC), Jakub Nowakowski, may not be Jewish or South African, but he comes from Poland,...
South African olim are devastated and exhilarated by the passing of the Reasonableness Bill this week, but all feel that much more passionate in the fight...
When Brian Ndlovu turned up for his first day of work at SWVG Attorneys on Monday, 24 July, he could have been any other graduate making...
It’s not every day that an entrepreneur born and raised in South Africa meets a king and a president to launch a bold plan to combat...
Herzlia alumnus and Cape Town resident Romaney Pinnock has always been passionate about “creating spaces for girls and women in the world of football”, and now...
Amid a countrywide Day of Resistance on the streets of Israel on 18 July, protest organiser and leader Roee Neuman (39) told the SA Jewish Report...
When 13-year-old Joshua Le Roux sang, danced, and shone on stage as one of the brothers in King David Victory Park’s (KDVP’s) stage production of Joseph...
The story of the Zimbabwean Jewish community in recent decades has largely been one of exodus. However, 35-year-old entrepreneur Yaron Wiesenbacher is reversing that narrative. Last...
When Israeli musician Omer Goshen met Capetonian videographer Bella Russell while travelling in South Africa, the two women instantly formed a connection. Now, they have collaborated...
Two young brothers, aged nine and 11, shovel earth onto their mother’s grave, then stoically say kaddish. The rabbi leads the congregation in a rendition of...
Less than 50 people gathered for a “vigil for Jenin” in Cape Town on Sunday, 9 July, and though the crowd was tiny, the message was...
An elaborate samovar, otherwise known as a Russian tea urn, is being escorted from Cape Town to Lithuania by the outgoing Lithuanian ambassador to South Africa...
When Johannesburg student Yishai Basserabie’s single My Own Skin hit streaming platforms Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Spotify recently, it was a milestone for this talented...
National Police Commissioner General Sehlahle Fannie Masemola assured Jewish leadership that he would take any threat to the Jewish community seriously at a meeting with the...
A top-level delegation from Israel is heading to South Africa next week to engage with local authorities at the coalface of the country’s water challenges. It...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading international Jewish human rights organisation, has come out in support of local Jewry after the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) called...
Another South Africa government minister has just returned from visiting the Middle East without setting foot in Israel or engaging with Israelis in any way. This...
When Gabrielle Union’s character, Jenna, moves to New York City in the Netflix romcom The Perfect Find, her new apartment reflects the style of a woman...
Shaka Zulu was a formidable figure, but this didn’t deter Jewish explorer and traveller Nathaniel Isaacs from getting to know him and even fighting alongside him...
Independent political and economic analyst Dr Frans Cronje has warned South Africans “not to wish for the ANC’s [African National Congress’s] demise [in the next election]...
When King David pupil Noa Nerwich wrote a poem about a maroon handkerchief given by a father to his daughter before they were torn apart by...
Growing up in Johannesburg, Ivan Kadey could sense the injustices of apartheid, even as a child. So it made sense that as a student in the...
Johannesburg executive producer and the founder and chief executive of The Star Film Company, Adam Thal, is still in shock after a documentary he co-produced, Rise:...