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South African Jews and their relatives in Israel are battling yet another travel ban implemented by Israel at the beginning of May, which forbids travel to...
Members of the community – among others – this week flocked to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital following rumours that the COVID-19 jab was available to...
On Monday, Israel implemented a ban on its citizens travelling to South Africa, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and Turkey amidst fears of COVID-19 variants. But...
Families baking cakes, icing drive-by party cupcakes, and fermenting sourdough starters was one of the more celebratory public images of the COVID-19 lockdown. However, for some,...
Every time we drive our vehicles into the streets in South Africa, we embrace real risk. The Automobile Association of South Africa has previously quantified that...
Going into our second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been fed an ample diet of despair, blame, and negativity, especially when it comes to...
It has been a week of high drama on the global COVID-19 vaccine stage as niggling concerns about both the Pfizer BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson...
There is a widespread perception in the community that South Africa is lagging way behind in its vaccine rollout, but insiders say there will be enough...
The appropriation of antisemitic tropes, including by protestors against government policies to fight COVID-19, needs to be taken seriously, says Holocaust educator Dr Matthias Haß. “When...
Exactly a year ago, COVID-19 entered our living rooms as news broke of the first case of the dreaded disease striking a member of our community....
Can you imagine 365 days without leaving your place of residence during a pandemic that plagues such facilities, and surviving not only with your health intact,...
We know about the doctors and nurses battling the pandemic, but there are also teams of other healthcare professionals who put their lives on the line...
After a sleepless night marked by a mix of anxiety and excitement, Dr Mark Kadish woke up on Tuesday morning, 23 February, ready for a historic...
The myalgia I awoke to this morning isn’t unfamiliar to me. It’s the common achy feeling we all experience at the onset of a touch of...
Although South Africa is only starting to vaccinate its healthcare workers, Israel has already vaccinated nearly half the population. It’s not only Israel’s citizens who have...
Around the same time that President Cyril Ramaphosa got his COVID-19 vaccination in Cape Town on Wednesday, 17 February 2021, an unassuming Jewish doctor was one...
Although a top Israeli professor revealed that Ivermectin had been successfully tested on COVID-19 patients in a SA Jewish Report webinar on Thursday, 11 February, South...
Watching a quarter of their patients die from COVID-19. Being yelled at by a family unable to come to terms with their father’s demise. Spending hours...
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is on track to start as soon as next week say community medical experts in spite of the curve ball wrought by...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that no matter who they pray to, religious communities have a lot in common and are dealing with similar difficulties. Recognising...
The South African Association of Progressive Rabbis (SAAPR) has made the decision to recommend that its progressive shuls remain closed for the time being. “The Jewish...
One of the community’s top COVID-19 advisors this week lashed out at the community for flouting rules and putting lives at risk. Professor Efraim Kramer said...
After a great deal of public clamour, media noise, and anxious expectations, the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines have finally arrived. What can we expect? Undoubtedly,...
There has been a focus on frontline healthcare workers and emergency medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic, but what about the community’s loyal and over stretched...
Israel is reporting promising initial results from its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the fastest in the world. The first official findings released by the health ministry show...
A Johannesburg doctor is battling to come to terms with the tragic passing of his esteemed colleagues who died in a fatal helicopter crash last week....
Sigal Josselowitz never got to say goodbye to her father after he was admitted to hospital with COVID-19 at the beginning of December 2020. During their...
The war against the second wave of COVID-19 raged in the Western Cape in December, and many of those hard hit were either local community members...
When the second and more virulent COVID-19 wave came crashing down at the beginning of the holiday season, Hatzolah Medical Rescue went above and beyond the...
South African healthcare workers can now register for their COVID-19 vaccination using a platform launched by Discovery this week. Information captured will be fed into the...
With the rollout of vaccines imminent in South Africa, a panel of local experts weighed in on the subject in a webinar hosted by the SA...
As the second wave of COVID-19 hits the country, so did the trifecta of curfew, an alcohol ban, and the closure of beaches. These all had...
My beloved Jonathan, our two boys, our household staff, and I battled the COVID-19 V2 variant. Of all of us, it hit me the hardest. I...
Buffets of canapés and dessert, the sharing of snacks and dips, and horah dancing – allegedly without masks – were just some features of a Jewish...
While people around the world line up for vaccination against COVID-19, only 53% of South Africans plan to get vaccinated when it becomes available to them....
Since its arrival, COVID-19 has challenged physicians to gather evidence and make firm decisions. This isn’t a behaviour to which good evidence-based doctors are accustomed. A...
“The price of vaccines is so ridiculously low in comparison to the terrible economic damage of every day of a national closure. The argument [of cost]...
When Cape Town opera singer Belinda Silbert caught COVID-19 in March 2020, she says she was in “excruciating agony that was indescribable”. “I was screaming constantly....
When the text message popped up on my phone at the end of December, I gave a huge sigh of relief. The message was from my...
A year ago, we were holidaying in South Africa, visiting family and friends, and my late parents’ graves in the Pinelands Jewish Cemetery. We were also...
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Netanyahu’s speech to Hamas a hoax
A hoax mail has travelled world Jewry in the past 24hrs...
Jumping the queue in vaccine free-for-all at Charlotte Maxeke
Members of the community – among others – this week fl...
SA olim hunker down under a rain of rockets
As rockets rained down on most of Israel from Monday t...
What really happened in Israel this week
It’s just gone 03:00 in the morning on Wednesday, 12 M...
SA government and politicians show bias as Israel conflict escalates
As Israel faced a steady bombardment of deadly rockets...
Mount Meron tragedy devastates South African family
Yohanatan Hevroni was so excited about going to Mount...
Israel travel ban leaves SA olim high and dry
On Monday, Israel implemented a ban on its citizens tr...
A portrait of PE through a life of service
As Port Elizabeth community stalwart Isaac Rubin refle...
The Jewish woman behind CJ Langenhoven’s legacy
They say that behind every great man is a great woman...
It’s Shavuot: Let them eat milchik
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The Woolies cream cheese in the...
Netanyahu’s speech to Hamas a hoax
A hoax mail has travelled world Jewry in the past 24hrs...
Lost Barmitzvah boy finally finds his way home
When Stephen “Sugar” Segerman started searching for th...
Johannesburg shul robbed in broad daylight
Following what appears to be one of the first armed ro...
Mount Meron tragedy devastates South African family
Yohanatan Hevroni was so excited about going to Mount...
Israel travel ban leaves SA olim high and dry
On Monday, Israel implemented a ban on its citizens tr...
BDS attack on Unterhalter ‘defamatory and shameful’, says SAJBD
The South African Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)...
UCT lecturer’s Hitler comment causes outrage
The fact that a high-level University of Cape Town (UC...
Jumping the queue in vaccine free-for-all at Charlotte Maxeke
Members of the community – among others – this week fl...
Community fights fire on all fronts
Jews across the Mother City watched in horror as an un...
“Lucky to be alive” says Melrose Arch gunshot victim
Brandon Regenbaum, who was shot in the face following...
Netanyahu’s speech to Hamas a hoax
A hoax mail has travelled world Jewry in the past 24hrs...
Wedding leads to a number of COVID-19 cases
Buffets of canapés and dessert, the sharing of snacks...
Kramer quits COVID advisory over “community flouting protocols”
One of the community’s top COVID-19 advisors this week...
Couple caught in crossfire of attempted mall robbery
A young couple attempted to flee the scene of a botche...
A life-saving friendship that lives on after death
A Johannesburg doctor is battling to come to terms wit...
Second wave surges over community
The second wave of COVID-19 is currently crashing over...
SA chiropractor in Melbourne jail pleads guilty to drug trafficking
A former head boy of King David Victory Park (KDVP) ha...
Student barred from gap year speaks out
Demi Putziger, a King David Victory Park (KDVP) matric...
Arsonists destroy family’s Mpumalanga bush hotel
When a group of marauding arsonists torched and destro...
Jews around the world call for Moshiach
For 3 000 years, Jews have been praying for Moshiach (...
