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Season 5 of Fauda is shocking because of how realistically it evokes 7 October. For those of us who weren’t directly affected by that horrific day...
This past weekend was Rosh Hashanah, but in my area the new year began under the shadow of failing services: no electricity at the start of the weekend and no water by...
Rosh Hashanah 2026 means different things to people in our community. At the SA Jewish Report, we try to show what this means. So, we asked King David High...
Our New Year, Rosh Hashanah, isn’t a festival of pure, unadulterated celebration, like the one many of us mark on 31 December in the Gregorian calendar. It is a deeply introspective time, filled...
There is no question we have people who despise us. We have people who will skew all sorts of facts to make it look like we, and...
Spending a weekend absorbing information from so many exceptional and learned people, as we do at Limmud every year, is phenomenal. Every year, I come home at the end of...
The passing of Jeffrey Wolf this week has highlighted the end of an era in Jewish education. It also reminds me of the extraordinary value our community places on education....
I am feeling unusually positive about this country and our place in it this week. So often when we speak about South Africa, the government, the...
It’s enough of people tarring all Jews with the same brush. It’s lazy, ignorant, and offensive. It’s like saying all women are the same, or all Portuguese or black people are the same. We all...
On Sunday morning, as thousands walked through our beloved, battered but still beautiful Jozi, something happened that we can’t take for granted. Or perhaps it wasn’t extraordinary at all. Perhaps it was simply South Africa as it is. ...
For me, commemorating Mandela Day this year was a wakeup call, an “aha moment”, when I came face to face with some of the most serious crises...
We have Mandela Day on Saturday, 18 July, and Tisha B’Av from sundown on 22 July, and I wonder why they are so close together and whether there is some universal message in...
There are moments when silence feels like complicity. This is one of them. We have watched, with growing anger and sadness, as a small but politically connected element of...
In the days leading up to Tuesday, 30 June, there was a heaviness in the air. It wasn’t overt, but sat quietly niggling in our heads as we got on with our daily...
Safe, clean, and affordable drinking water is not a commodity, a gift, or a matter of charity. It is also not something we should be hugely grateful for. It is a human right, designated as...
On Monday morning, waking up to news that Iran had fired missiles towards central Israel again sent shivers up my spine. Not again, was my first thought. The idea that the...
When CSO Johannesburg – those smart fabulous people who are out there protecting Jewish lives – warns of an increase in aggravated antisemitic incidents, it is hard not to become a tad concerned. On Monday, CSO explained that these incidents “included...
A young idealistic man travels the world, running marathons in memory of two little ginger-haired Israeli boys who were brutally murdered in Gaza after being taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on 7 October. The...
It was a real coup for us to get an interview with the new United States Ambassador to South Africa, L Brent Bozell III. The ambassador has hardly...
There are some disastrous events that we cannot control, nor can we prevent them happening. There was nothing anyone could have done to prevent the severe storms that hit the Garden Route last week and then Cape...
Israeli Ambassador Ilan Fluss is in South Africa for two weeks to send a clear message that the Israeli embassy in Pretoria is very much open for business...
“They came to kill us because we are Jews. Knowing this, it makes it really hard to feel safe as a Jew in Australia.” These are the words...
We have a whole day set aside by the government every year to honour workers and their rights. It supposedly celebrates the working class and trade unions, highlighting their role...
For the past few years, it’s felt so much easier to commemorate Yom Hazikaron and feel the pain of loss than to celebrate on Yom Ha’atzmaut. The devastating and ongoing losses seem interminable and way...
In a discussion about the education department’s plans to condense the hours school children spend learning about the Holocaust in history classes, I was told by...
At 11:44 on Friday morning international analyst Steven Gruzd – an integral member of the SA Jewish Report team – committed to writing a feature for the next...
“I don’t care how you get me there, but I have to be in Israel for Pesach,” the woman near me this week at the Norwood...
For most people, the idea of getting into and out of Israel during a war could pose a minor inconvenience when the skies effectively close to air transport....
There is something surreal about Israel being under attack and seeing visuals of the horrific destruction in the Jewish State, knowing it is our people being bombarded...
When I walk into a room with other people in it, I do it with confidence. Sometimes I may not feel so self-assured, but those in the...
I was sure that Roedean School apologising for the antisemitism behind its refusal to play tennis with King David High School would make everything right. I believed it would put a full stop at the end of what was an ugly rigmarole concerning...
Sorry seems to be the hardest word, as Elton John sang in the song of that name. It’s so true, because saying sorry requires humility, vulnerability, and a willingness to accept...
Last Friday morning started with a sense of calm, celebrating the warm reaction that our community got on the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg, when its members went back after...
Like everyone else this week, we at the SA Jewish Report had the cathartic experience of removing our yellow ribbons and took off our “Bring them home” dog tags. The SA Jewish Report team has also finally removed the yellow ribbon we...
Thousands of civilians being mowed down in the street by the national guard. Thousands being detained without trial and, in some cases, simply disappearing. Communication with the outside world has been shut off. ...
In Iran and Venezuela this month, ordinary people like us have been taking their lives into their own hands by protesting on the streets demanding change....
Many people I know dismiss miracles as something biblical that don’t happen today. But then, many are generally negative about the world around us and aren’t looking for goodness or miracles. For most, miracles would literally have to...
Saying farewell to your children as they fly out to machaneh at the end of the year is bittersweet. As a mother, it’s never easy for me – no matter...
It seems that all eyes are no longer just on Israel, as we were led to believe in the past two years. All eyes are on anyone who doesn’t slate Israel as...
When a planeload of Palestinians arrived in Johannesburg last Thursday and were initially told they couldn’t disembark or enter the country, there was an outcry. The...
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