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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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Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman once successfully searched fo...
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ISIS attack hits close to home
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BDS attack on Unterhalter ‘defamatory and shameful’, says SAJBD
The South African Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)...
UCT lecturer’s Hitler comment causes outrage
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Enough vaccines to go round, say experts, but not for a while
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Wedding leads to a number of COVID-19 cases
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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
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A life-saving friendship that lives on after death
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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
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Arsonists destroy family’s Mpumalanga bush hotel
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Jews around the world call for Moshiach
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Reverend Frank Chikane at centre of anti-Israel storm
Reverend Frank Chikane, an icon of the anti-apartheid...
