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A friend showed me a short video this week, to see whether I found it amusing. I did initially, but it left a sense of lingering...
There weren’t any losers at the Investec Jewish Achiever Awards on Sunday night. We were all winners, and walked out of the Sandton Convention Centre feeling...
When I arrived in Israel just days after all the living hostages were returned, I expected to feel elated and in a country in the midst...
We all get angry and frustrated. There are few of us who never lose our tempers. We are all human. It is, however, how we choose...
Six people were brutally slaughtered by terrorists in Jerusalem this week, and more than 20 were wounded. I’m pointing this out here though the story is...
We all have our problems, some bigger than others. However, when someone whose life was a living hell reminds us of the need to smile and...
Loay Alshareef is a breath of fresh air! This proud Muslim has been in South Africa this week, espousing peace in the Middle East, something that...
It is awesome to witness hundreds of Johannesburg Jews descend on the Indaba Hotel for the annual Limmud experience. I looked around me on Friday evening...
Was there anyone in our community who didn’t have a reaction to the announcement that there was a good chance that King David Victory Park was...
Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa stood up at a Liberations Movement Summit to proclaim that he was “particularly horrified by the deliberate starvation” of Palestinians in...
It is true. There are people in Gaza who are starving. Many of the photographs that are going around the world showing the malnourished state of...
Those who dislike us can be quite absurd. Last week, we ran a really positive story about the South African Jewish community raising money to renovate...
We have a majority party in South Africa that took Israel to the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide, so we can be certain...
Antisemitism cannot be tolerated – not on social media, at music concerts, at protest marches, or anywhere. Verbal or social media-driven antisemitism is just one step...
In the past few weeks, every day has aged the news of the day before. So, while one day, we were writing about people being devastated...
The human spirit is incredible, and it doesn’t take much for so-called ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Granted, being stuck in a country at war...
While people in Israel may have a sense of déjà vu to the COVID-19 pandemic when they were forced to stay in their homes, we in...
The image of the once international teen-environmental-activist darling with a silly grin on her face as she happily accepts what was said to be a pastrami...
What makes this edition of the SA Jewish Report different to the many that have come before it? It does have some new voices, but that’s...
Bullying is unacceptable on every level. Ganging up on someone if you don’t agree with them, don’t like them, or don’t approve of what they did,...
Sometimes being old-fashioned is spot on. Here’s the thing. These days, it seems it’s acceptable to say whatever comes to your mind about someone on social...
Our imagination or fears are often much worse and possibly less manageable than reality. In the past week, one of our favourite radio hosts and columnists...
The misreading and denigrating of what it means to be Jewish is particularly hurtful in this week of Yom Hazikaron, when we commemorate those who have...
I just so happened to be looking for matzo at Pick n Pay Hypermarket in Norwood the day before Pesach, and searched up and down aisles...
As we count down to Pesach this weekend, many of us are furiously clearing out our homes of chometz to put in place this annual eight-day...
Do you believe you have heard enough or too many hostage stories? I’ve heard people say that it’s enough with the hostages in the SA Jewish...
I lost a friend this week. Not a close friend by any means, but someone I shared a connection with. Standing at his funeral, it was...
It is astonishing that it has been more than 30 years since South Africa became a democracy, and political leaders are still abusing each other because...
You may have noticed that, of late, we are allowing some people who write opinion pieces for us or are quoted in stories to change their...
Within the past week, I found myself in need of urgent help. I became a crime victim, but fortunately, nobody was physically harmed. The person who...
Oded Lifshitz was a journalist. He was a dedicated father and grandfather. He was a kibbutznik through and through, having helped to start Nir Oz 70...
We’re living through Jewish history. When my colleague, Tali Feinberg, messaged to say this in reference to the hostages returning, it rang true although we imagine...
Asking for money is an extraordinarily difficult thing for most of us to do. But the alternative, not asking for financial assistance to sustain the SA...
A colleague of mine this week told me of a Jewish family that had been planning to emigrate to Australia for years and were finally leaving...
A young man I know and respect who has recently come across antisemitism first hand, reiterated something that seems so clear to me. His views are...
Seeing those three young Israeli women hugging their mothers for the first time in almost 16 months was heartbreaking, but beautiful. I’m sure that we all...
There’s nothing better than downtime to reassess where we are at, how we see the world, and how the world sees us. And there’s no better...
In planning this week’s edition, our last of 2024, we had hoped to have an uplifting, lighthearted publication that would herald the beginning of our December...
Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire. It sounds like incredible news, but is it really? How do we ensure that Hezbollah stops its war with...
Am I the only person who gets incensed when the truth is twisted out of all proportion to fit a narrative specifically created to make Israel...
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