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A recent webinar on antisemitism hosted by the SA Jewish Report was banned by YouTube as “hate speech”. Attempts to rectify this situation soon revealed that...
Eighty-six percent of viewers of a recent SA Jewish Report webinar said they thought antisemitism in South Africa was getting worse but the South African Jewish...
By 2050, the world’s population is expected to be close to 10 billion people. Innovative technology must be harnessed to feed them all, and tiny Israel...
“Thirty five years ago, I had to contend with lubo-phobia – Jews afraid of the ‘black hat’. I had to show people I was normal,” jokes...
He was senselessly killed during the Soweto uprising of 1976, in the wrong place at the wrong time because of his dedication to the disenfranchised. And...
If cybercrime were a country, it would have the third largest GDP (gross domestic product) in the world after the United States and China, said Andre...
Losing a child to violence devastates the parents left behind. It creates an unspeakable emptiness, a void of loss, pain, and anger. Two bereaved Israeli and...
“Living on the Gaza border is 95% heaven, and 5% hell,” said Adele Raemer. She’s made it her mission to tell the world what life is...
Sleep should come naturally, yet our inability to get enough of it is an obsession of the modern age. “Sleep is a smiley faced curve of...
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...
Stretching from Libya in the north to Mozambique in the south, from Mali in the west to Somalia in the east, over the past two decades,...
Albert Einstein said, “If you don’t believe in miracles, you are simply unrealistic.” This was a motto of late Israeli President Shimon Peres and is a...
Jews continue to play a pivotal role in securing democracy in post-apartheid South Africa, their values and social consciousness central to the democratic project. So say...
When Berlin resident Hertha Reis was evicted from her home in 1941 because she was Jewish, she had no qualms about denouncing the Nazi regime. In...
“Who would have thought this webinar would be possible a year ago?” asked Amit Deri, the co-founder and director of Sharaka (“partnership” in Arabic). This organisation...
The infamous World Conference Against Racism held in Durban in 2001 set the standard for much of the anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric of today. Numerous so-called...
Social media demands responsibility, marijuana has incredible potential, sex before marriage is a personal choice, and novelty isn’t always a good thing. These were some of...
Confirmation by judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC’s) of the court’s jurisdiction over the situation in Israel and Palestine cannot be considered antisemitic, according to...
“Performing artists rely on gatherings of people. So in a sense, they’ve been hit hardest by lockdown. Any way you look at it, they have no...
Art assumed a central role in helping many Holocaust survivors come to terms with their ordeal and share their harrowing experiences with the world. In their...
When anti-apartheid activist Maxine Hart was arrested by the feared security police in 1984, she was forced into solitary confinement for 156 days. Detained again the...
Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other European concentration camps are familiar to most of us, but few of us know about those that operated during World War II...
When Baltimore resident Isaac Pretter took his family paragliding off the coast of Herzliya in Israel, he never imagined it could end in a tragedy. The...
“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 19-year-old Johannesburg medical student Adam Seef took his own life on a trip to Israel in June 2019, it rattled the community to its core....
As people were giving heartbreaking accounts of life after tragedy at the SA Jewish Report webinar last Thursday, 10 September, the live stream on YouTube was...
If you ever doubted the ripple effect of one person’s good deeds on the world, a recent webinar featuring the heroic actions of a few individuals...
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