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Two Johannesburg businessmen heeded the recent call from Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein to help Ukrainian Jews, setting up a 50th birthday fundraiser which raised R750 000....
Musical maestro Bryan Schimmel, a King David Linksfield alumnus, is about to launch his new one-man musical show in Johannesburg, More Than A Handful. The SA...
Johannesburg attorneys Raymond Joffe and Ivor Feinberg were on 11 March given one of the highest honours from the president of Lithuania for nationals outside of...
Larry Borowitz may appear an unlikely poet, but appearances are deceiving. His first book of poetry, Poetry in the Pandemic, has just been published internationally. We...
The Theatre on the Square finally reopens with Locked Upside Down, an almost wholly Jewish cast and crew bringing us a revue on living in the...
Shirley Valentine is coming to Montecasino Theatre from 26 January. The SA Jewish Report speaks to director Gina Shmukler about the show, long delayed by the...
It’s not often you find art that focuses on goodness and kindness, but leave it to Chabad House and Rabbi David Masinter to paint a different...
The extraordinary personalities who won the 2021 Absa Jewish Achiever Awards tonight have brought hope to us all. Glynne Wolman of The Angel Network kept hundreds...
Tali Nates, the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, gives her all to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, and educate...
David Dison has brought out a second crime novel based in Johannesburg titled The Good Nigerian. The SA Jewish Report catches up with him to find...
Acclaimed author and South African emigrant to Australia, Joanne Fedler, has brought out another book, Unbecoming. The SA Jewish Report catches up with her in South...
Acclaimed journalist and author Jonathan Ancer (and journalist Chris Whitfield) recently published the unauthorised biography of Pravin Gordhan, titled Joining the Dots. The SA Jewish Report...
South Africa isn’t the only country to suffer state capture at the hands of powerful, ruthless politicians and businessmen. Russia, too, has been captured by Vladimir...
Remember when you were raving about the incredible work someone in the community had done? Well, if you haven’t done so already, now is the time...
Mazaltov to the newly-elected student leaders for 2022 from their schools and the SA Jewish Report! King David High School Linksfield Head Student Leaders: Gabi Sassen,...
If you’ve been wondering about the meaning of life, you’re not alone. Mark Oppenheimer and co.’s new book, Conversations about the Meaning of Life, has some...
Media consultant Janine Lazarus has just published a book that was inspired by her experience as a Sunday Times journalist covering a serial killer who operated...
ABSA BUSINESS ICON AWARD Awarded to a Jewish person who has achieved iconic status within the business community. ABSA BUSINESS LEADERSHIP AWARD – FROM COVID TO...
As the sun rises through the darkness of the pandemic and looting in South Africa, we begin to renew our hope for the future, and with...
Under lockdown, but still want to do something good on Mandela Day? Here are a few options. Mensch and the Cape South African Jewish Board of...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein wrote a piece in Business Day on 29 June criticising the government for its slow vaccine rollout. It got a mixed...
Kęstutis Pikūnas put together a beautiful coffee table book called ‘Passport – The Litvaks’ about the Jews of Lithuania. Being Lithuanian and having grown up there,...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein stood up to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s anti-Israel statement in the media, and on 28 May, asked for Muslim leadership to join...
Zionism, the term that has been bandied around by the anti-Israel lobby, isn’t a uniform approach to Israel. It has many forms resulting in differences even...
Frans Cronje, the chief executive of the Institute of Race Relations, wrote a penetrating critique – “Ramaphosa woefully misreading the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”, News24, 20 May –...
There are few people more precious in our lives than our mothers. So, to celebrate Mother’s Day, we asked moms on Joburg Jewish Mommies to send...
On Shabbat morning over Pesach, Sydenham Shul passed the leadership baton from the incomparable Rabbi Yossy Goldman to his successor, Rabbi Yehuda Stern. For the first...
“My photographs try to weave together the complex tapestry of the Jewish African peoples segregated by historical, cultural, linguistic, and regional divides yet united by a...
For 3 000 years, Jews have been praying for Moshiach (the messiah) to come, but this weekend, the Jewish world is upping its game with a...
So many in our community have lost their jobs since the onset of lockdown. We have invited people in this position to send in their details...
Irwin Manoim, best known for being one of the joint editors of the original Weekly Mail, has authored a book on progressive Jewry in South Africa...
So many in our communiy have lost their jobs since the onset of lockdown. We have invited people in thi poition to send in their details...
So many in our community have lost their jobs since the onset of lockdown. We have invited people in this position to send in their details...
Anton Harber, one of the most respected media minds in South Africa, has released his latest book, So, For The Record, a book said to be...
Renowned investigative journalist and talk-show host Mandy Wiener has written a book about the experience of whistleblowers in South Africa in the hope that it might...
Dr Nechama Brodie, journalist, author, fact-checker, producer, and publisher, has just brought out a new book, “Femicide in South Africa”, based on her PhD thesis. We...
