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What we have as a community in this country is unique. I have a good sense that those who know about us, especially ex-South Africans, long...
After three emigrations in less than two years, 12-year-old Doris “Dossy” Ehrenstein (who became Lurie) arrived in South Africa with her mother. They were destitute, but...
Polish-born Miriam (nee Teitelbaum) Lichterman would have been 100 in September had she not passed away on 18 July. With her long life, she graciously defied...
I take offence to the money I diligently hand over every month in taxes being spent on a foreign embassy when so many of our fellow...
As the SA Jewish Report opens nominations for Jewish Achiever Awards 2022, we recognise the incredible calibre of people who have won in the past and...
Out of the darkness always comes a light far brighter than if there had been no darkness. And so it is with the Jewish Achiever Awards...
I am astonished how the ANC, our incumbent ruling party, which I know includes many smart, educated people, cannot understand the connection between Jews, Judaism and...
Lorri Strauss and Sharon Spiegel are talented actresses and singers, but more importantly, they’re Jewish mommies. The SA Jewish Report has a heart-to-heart chat about their...
We live with certain realities, many not wonderful. How we see them is about our own perspective and attitude. The frustration of living with loadshedding three...
Our community may not be massive, but it certainly is diverse. And as a newspaper for our community, we do our best to include all aspects...
I cannot help thinking that we’ve been thrown back into the dark ages – literally – as I sit here in the dark, wondering when the...
LIFT airline co-founder Gidon Novick felt a deep sadness when it was announced that competitor Comair would be liquidated last week. It meant the death of...
Author Tamar Hodes recently published a book called Mixed, which looks at different types of Jewish people and their lives. The SA Jewish Report spoke to...
I find it astonishing that our government or minister of international affairs and cooperation is scoring points with Hamas, a vicious group known around the Western...
“The history of the Jewish people can be summarised in four words: ‘We are still here’,” Rowan Polovin, the chairperson of the South African Zionist Federation...
For decades, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) was known for raising money to develop Israel’s agriculture and environment, but its focus has grown to include helping...
Though Youth Day was inspired by the Soweto Uprising in 1976, our youth wasn’t around then. The SA Jewish Report asked pupils at Jewish schools what...
When word got out in the community last week that someone from our community had been kidnapped and was being held hostage, for many of us...
The anti-Israel hatred is getting louder and louder in South Africa, and it’s disconcerting to say the least. In most cases, when something goes on and...
The SA Jewish Report is in the news this week for supposedly having been “expelled” from the Press Council for not obeying an order it gave...
Jerusalem isn’t just another city. To commemorate Yom Yerushalayim, the SA Jewish Report asked a few South African olim who have made their way to this...
When we write a story that “names and shames” someone, we don’t do it lightly. The SA Jewish Report isn’t in the naming and shaming game,...
I remember being asked to speak to the “youngsters” at Our Parents Home many years ago, and I giggled at the imagery until I got there....
There’s so much happening in our world, but when tragedy strikes too close to home, the rest becomes a blur. There are a few people within...
Johannesburg military historian Mayor David Brock Katz recently penned a book on General Jan Smuts. The SA Jewish Report spoke to him about this mammoth task. Tell...
Laughter is medicine, especially when it accompanies some integral cultural, religious, and familial issues. We catch up with From Koe’siestes to Kneidlach – With Kids!’ director...
I had a conversation with an Israeli grandson of a Holocaust survivor this week. It gave substance to thoughts that were ruminating in my head all...
We have our national president on our front page today. It’s wonderful to read that President Cyril Ramaphosa and the South African Jewish Board of Deputies...
Kate Normington may be a Storm in a B-Cup and married to a Jewish actuary, but she isn’t “part of the tribe”. However, director Russel Savadier...
We have so much to be grateful for. That may sound like such a trite thing to say when there’s still coronavirus around us after two...
As we’re gearing up for Pesach in a world where COVID-19 is becoming part of our day-to-day lives and the war in Ukraine continues, we asked...
Jewish cookbooks abound and so do special Pesach editions, but this year, Linksfield Shul put together a Pesach cookbook with a difference. The SA Jewish Report...
When Advocate Christiaan Bester took on the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC’s) hate-speech case against the Congress of South African Trade Union’s (Cosatu’s) Bongani Masuku...
If I didn’t know it was 100% true, I might have thought that Telfed’s new seven-year medical degree in English in Israel, specifically for South Africans,...
South African journalist and author, Jonathan Ancer, has just brought out a book, Mensches in the Trenches, which documents the “Jewish foot soldiers in the anti-apartheid...
Jewish educator Joseph Gerassi directed Cabaret, on stage at Redhill School this week. It wasn’t by chance. He chose a play that tackles the issue of...
In just eight days, 11 people living in Israel have been brutally murdered in three separate terrorist attacks. If you consider that 13 Israelis were killed...
Can I say that if I had a surname with the status of Mandela, I hope I would use it for good? I would like to...
As I write this, Ukrainians are being battered and their homes destroyed by Russian soldiers, all in the name of recolonising areas that used to be...
Leaving your family home with a small bag with the bare essentials and battling for days to reach a border to flee your country of birth,...
