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The Afrika Tikkun Group – which was the brainchild of late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris and philanthropy and business icon Bertie Lubner, created to uplift South Africa’s disadvantaged...
Rather than waiting for a matchmaker to make you a match, you can match with a matchmaker to help you find your perfect match. With more than 100...
There are few things more awkward than a first date. Unless that first date is interrupted by your mother’s best friend, your cousin, and three family...
For most teenagers, gaming is a hobby. For a small group of Herzlia High School pupils, it’s become a serious competitive pursuit. And the organisation behind the ACG School Showdown last weekend made...
Capetonian tennis player Jacqui Boyd has etched her name even deeper into South African Maccabi history, winning her third consecutive Masters singles gold medal at the Maccabi...
For many South African Litvaks, a Lithuanian passport represents a reconnection with a family history shattered by war and persecution. It is also a ticket to travel to many countries visa-free. ...
South Africans inadvertently did South Africa proud at the Maccabi Games, winning nine medals in pickleball. If you’re wondering why this wasn’t widely known, it’s because they are...
There is a growing problem of teenagers’ drinks – even tap water – being spiked at clubs, pubs, and parties but them being afraid of their parents’ reaction if they find out. ...
At first glance, the Kyalami Country Club looks like any other leafy Johannesburg golf club. But hidden in its history is the story of a community that created...
For more than four decades, Cliff Garrun has helped shape Jewish sport, mentoring generations of athletes and volunteers while strengthening South Africa’s place within the global...
Rock stars and rabbis don’t usually share the stage, but in her debut solo exhibition, Rockstar Rabbis, South African-born artist Natalia Rabinowitz brings the two worlds together. Her...
Gauteng Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for the Environment Ewan Botha visited the Jewish National Fund (JNF) Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre in Mamelodi on 2 July to seek...
Businesses, commuters, and security officials braced for a day of potential disruption as calls for nationwide protests circulated in the lead-up to 30 June. But as the day...
Thousands of kilometres from South Africa, pockets of green and gold filled the stands to cheer Bafana Bafana on in their historic Fifa World Cup round of 32 encounter with Canada. ...
For most football fans, attending a Fifa World Cup is a dream. For 18-year-old former King David High School pupil Adam Schlosberg that dream became a reality when...
As concerns grow over planned protest action and a possible national shutdown on Tuesday, 30 June, security organisations are urging the community to remain vigilant while going about their daily lives. Several groups...
What started as a normal day of work for Saul Emanuel, a South African expat in Montreal, Canada, quickly evolved into chaos as a shooting on 22 June left three people...
Amid xenophobia and threats to foreign nationals, an incident in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs has sparked alarm among residents. A domestic worker was allegedly detained by men in a police van...
“Brains don’t like it. It’s not a healthy, happy thing for a brain to have too much screen time.” So said Dr Jess Meddows-Taylor, a Johannesburg-based psychiatrist with a...
When thousands of Jewish athletes gather in Israel for the Maccabiah Games in July, South Africa’s presence will be unusually small. Although the country has a proud history of sending large...
Scrabble South Africa has renamed its prestigious Masters Tournament after the late political analyst and SA Jewish Report writer Steven Gruzd, recognising his role in elevating the local game on the international stage. ...
When hosts Mexico faced South Africa in the opening match of the Fifa World Cup, supporters in both countries, and as far away as Israel, were glued to...
All photographs by Harold Silber. Music echoed through the city, rainbow flags lined the streets and tayelet (promenade), and more than a hundred thousand people from Israel and abroad gathered...
Residents of Glenhazel, Johannesburg received a measure of reassurance this week after three suspects were arrested in connection with a violent home invasion that left one victim in hospital. ...
Congregants arriving at the Sydenham-Highlands North Hebrew Congregation in Johannesburg on Shabbat, 6 June, were met with an unexpected disruption after a burglary at the synagogue overnight. It prompted a police investigation and the...
For Selwyn Margolis, 87, returning to his home on Kibbutz Kissufim near Gaza last week was not about unpacking boxes and rearranging furniture. It was a return to keeping the memory of his...
For generations of South African families, Dr Cyril Karabus was more than a doctor; he was a lifeline. The pioneering paediatric oncologist, who later became the...
For most people, spending a Saturday or Sunday running, rowing, sled-pushing, and lunging their way through a fitness competition seems daunting. Yet for a growing number of South...
Few South Africans get to shake hands with the Pope. Yet two weeks ago, Professor Benji Rosman did just that after attending an international conference, titled “Preserving Human...
For decades, Silwood Lodge was a place of comfort, dignity, and care for Johannesburg’s elderly. But following a serious medical scare involving owner Trish Maynard, the much-loved facility closed its doors at the end of...
“We are living through massive transformations, a world that is in different forms of crisis. Our sense of who we are, our identity, our institutions, and...
Three weeks after a chance encounter on a storm-battered Sea Point promenade captured the hearts of South Africans, Sidney Miller’s life looks very different. The homeless wheelchair...
How does a failed military mission become a national myth? And how do people who seem to have few military accomplishments become great national heroes? These are the...
Despite growing up in a Christian family, and being told to beware of Jews, Bellamy Bellucci has become one of the most prominent South African Jewish voices on social media, promoting Zionism and Judaism “STOP THE LIES! Israel isn’t at...
Sandton Shul recently opened its doors to a group of final-year Catholic seminary students eager to learn more about Judaism and the Jewish community. In partnership with the South...
As King David Linksfield alumnus Geena Cohen and Nathanael Stanislas stood under the chuppah in Stellenbosch 18 months ago, Noam Bettan – the Israeli Eurovision 2026 superstar ‒ surprised guests with a moving rendition of Im Eshkachech Yerushalayim (If I forget...
An attempt by anti-Israel activists to silence dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was thwarted last week by the commitment of St Mary’s School, Waverley to have this conversation securely. The Johannesburg school invited Coordinator of...
What begins as simple scrolling through social media easily spirals into hours upon hours of consuming distressing headlines, arguments, and negativity, otherwise known as doomscrolling. Talk show...
Striking up a friendship in the howling wind led to an outpouring of care that will change the life of a disabled, homeless man. This followed days of stormy weather, uprooted trees, and flooded...
“Mamash, a code popped up.” The warning, posted in a Jewish community group after a suspicious phone call allegedly linked to a pro-Israel organisation, is one...
