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South African teacher Johan Nel had a draining and dangerous journey to escape war-torn Ukraine. He recounted his experience at a SA Jewish Report webinar on...
In 1907, Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completed a striking gilded portrait of Jewish socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer in Vienna. Commissioned by her husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a banker...
Child sexual abuse is a nightmare and it’s easy to think it will never happen to our kids and that it’s not something we need to...
Not everyone gets Ryan Reynolds to play them in a movie. Meet Randy Schoenberg, the lawyer who forced Austria to return Gustav Klimt’s “Austrian Mona Lisa”...
This is the real state of the nation! Later this week, in our annual fashion show/pep rally, our president will deliver the State of the Nation...
The Lithuanian Parliament changed the law to make it easier for South Africans of Lithuanian decent to reclaim their citizenship and obtain a Lithuanian and European...
As an archivist at the National Library of Lithuania was opening boxes to show off some recent discoveries, she pulled out a Yiddish theatre poster to...
Understanding, confronting, and reporting sexual abuse is difficult and painful for any community. Leaders tend to want to close ranks and cover up any impropriety. Survivors...
On the anniversary of the storming of the Unites States Capitol, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an international Jewish non-governmental organisation combatting hate, has called on the...
At some point in their lives, most parents will probably type “How do I talk to my kids about sex?” into an internet search engine. However,...
When King David Junior School Linksfield principal Ruth Isaacson listens to two children each telling their side of a story that potentially involves bullying, she usually...
The recent election results offer hope of a new kind of unity in diversity, one in which South Africans work together in broad alliances to promote...
The Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv’s oldest shopping mall, sits in the heart of the bustling central business district. Surrounded by skyscrapers, it’s the last place you’d...
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” On the first day of her then-new job at Facebook, this is what Michal Oshman encountered on a...
Reverend Frank Chikane, an icon of the anti-apartheid struggle, “declared war on Israel and its supporters” during a Zoom webinar on 6 February 2021, according to...
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...
“If Auschwitz as a place stands as a symbol for the Holocaust, then Mengele as a perpetrator has come to serve a similar role for the...
How do you grow up in the shadow of a renowned father who survived the Holocaust, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and inspired millions? This was...
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...
Sylvia Raphael’s story isn’t well known in South Africa. This remarkable, vivacious woman, born in Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo in 1937, became a Mossad superspy. Raphael’s...