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South African chess prodigies, 11-year-old twins Judah and Caleb Levitan, are doing what they love – playing competitive chess in a country that has a thriving...
“It was a powerful experience to be among a group of like-minded people and share the emotions of those previously injured in battle, either mentally or...
South-African oleh Herschel Gutman has put cricket on the map in Israel. This former captain and coach of the Israel national cricket team wasn’t just named...
The Tel Aviv Heat (TAH), Israel’s first professional rugby union team, are scheduled to tour South Africa this month. The team, made up of South Africans,...
“I would love to be number one in the world, and win multiple grand slams.” This is the ambition of 19-year-old Dylan Salton, the 1 123rd...
There once was a time when little boys across the land wanted to be Richard Levi. That time didn’t last for as long as it possibly...
Johannesburg-born fighter coach Gavin Harris watched his protégé, the Mozambique-born Edson “Trapdoor Spider” Machavane, win the long-awaited 12th edition of the Alpha Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)...
Had you been a Midmar Mile observer in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, last weekend, you may have noticed one man swimming the one-mile (1.6km) distance three times, each...
After five years of dogged toil, Gavin Kaplan has just begun to create a name for himself in Western Province cricket circles. An upper-order batsman, he...
(JTA) When Josh Groban’s cover of the 1965 song The Impossible Dream blares from the loudspeakers at Beijing’s Capital Indoor Stadium on 18 February, its lyrics...
(JTA) The Novak Djokovic COVID-19 scandal may be stealing the headlines ahead of the Australian Open, which starts next week, but there are several Jewish players...
Larry Cohen trained with football stars like Gareth Bale, Harry Kane, and Gianluigi Buffon during his playing career, but now he’s cheering for the likes of...
(JTA) This Chanukah, we’re celebrating Jewish sport miracles. We picked one for each of the holiday’s eight nights, plus one for the shamash. Our only criteria?...
South African-born rugby player Sarah Levy scored a hat-trick as the Barbarians trounced the Springboks 60-5 at Twickenham in London. A record crowd for women’s rugby...
South African-born Greg Joseph is the only Jewish kicker in the National Football League (NFL), and has been for years now. Last Sunday, he revelled in...
Hip hop national champion Leilah Jankelowitz puts her success down to hard work. The Grade 10 student at Roedean School in Johannesburg won the 15 to...
I’ve never thought of us as the invading type, we’re more “people of the book”, but for five amazing days, even if in our own minds,...
Mila Ben David, known as “The Cheetah”, became the youngest ever person to be crowned Woman Achiever of the Year at the Johannesburg Women in Sports...
Sixteen-year-old Jessica Bennett started playing golf regularly only in 2021. So she was overwhelmed when she won the ladies division of the 18-hole Gauteng Provincial Club...
Although basketball seldom grabs the headlines in South Africa, SA Jewish Report readers have probably heard of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Lebron James. Another basketballer...
When Ian Furman and his son, Justin, participate in the World Powerlifting Championships in Sweden at the end of September, they will become one of the...
Jewish golfing champions are a bit of an anomaly in South Africa. However, right now two young Jewish golfers are on a winning streak. Professional golfer...
The modern Olympic Games have been cancelled only three times since their introduction in 1896. The Games of Berlin in 1916, 1940 in Helsinki (originally awarded...
We can say without fear of contradiction that the Idaho Falls Chukars haven’t quite ascended to baseball’s fields of heaven just yet. How could they? As...
SA Jewish Report readers of a certain generation might be vaguely familiar with the name Con Travis, a stand-up and television comedian of the late 1970s...
My guess is that you don’t know much about Ivan Barrow, or to give his splendid and gloriously antiquated full name, Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow. Barrow was...
Adam Lipschitz, 27, is soaring high after scoring a silver and fourth place for his races at the South African Championships at Tuks Athletics Stadium last...
The thrill-a-minute Rugby 7s have captured the hearts of fans around the world. The Blitzbokke, South Africa’s national Rugby 7s team, ranks second in the world,...
Shireen Sapiro was water-skiing with her family shortly before representing South Africa in swimming at the junior nationals at the age of 13, when she fell...
JACK MILNER writes that a new SA Jewish sport magazine is coming out soon and the International Tennis Federation took flack for fining the Israeli Federation...
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