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The Israel Quiz, for many years has focused on encouraging students to learn about Israel’s history, current events, and their connection to Zionism. This annual event...
We have a kind, generous and caring community. You just have to read the story about the 11-year-old Hannah Katz on page four to be inspired....
Zahava Alon is an Israeli mother. She doesn’t stand out from the hundreds of other Jewish Israeli mothers I’ve interviewed over the years, except that she’s...
It’s not every day you get to have a tête-à-tête with the Pope.
“You have cancer” are three words nobody wants to hear.
Just weeks ago, in mid-July, the Katz family was like any other ordinary Johannesburg family. Julian is an architect working from home, and his wife Hayley...
Plot AE49 looks like any ordinary unmarked grave in the Jewish section at West Park Cemetery. Gravelly, patchy and bereft. But this is the place where...
Judaism strives to releases us from tyranny of time. We are mortal, for sure, but our passing days have been elevated from mere flow. These are...
The Israel Prison Parole Board gave its approval for a convicted sex offender rabbi, who is under house arrest, to make a pilgrimage to Uman in...
What do Donald Trump, Warren Buffett, Gal Gadot, Bob Dylan and Jared Kushner have in common with South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein?
From October 23 to 27, up to 30 African heads of state were slated to attend the first Africa-Israel Summit in Lomé, Togo, but Israel abruptly...
NEW YORK - Allowing hateful terms as options was “a fail on our part”, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said in a post in which she also...
Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron has called on all South Africans to do what little we can to make a difference, reminding us that inertness is...
A hard-hitting advocate and MP, Glynnis Breytenbach, has faced death threats, criminal charges and unruly politicians. Now she’s collaborated with veteran journalist and best-selling author Nechama...
Leigh Nudelman is an engaging and vivacious young woman with an old Yiddishe soul and a song in her heart.
Torah law has - in many cases - been successfully adopted by the secular legal system, especially in the protection of human rights. So says Chief...
For one awful moment Elly Gotz stood frozen with fear. His heart skipped a beat. Then he plunged abruptly into the abyss. The icy air hit...
Mary Atlas (née Cohen), one of the two oldest residents at Highlands House in Cape Town, passed away on Shabbat Shuva, a few days after her...
There are thousands of soldiers currently serving in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) who have left their countries of residence to commit themselves to serving in...
A group of concerned students, parents and alumni of the University of Cape Town, have called upon UCT's management and leadership to stand against an ongoing...
We were warned by many that the summer school holidays here would be incredibly hot. We weren’t phased - after all, how bad can it be...
Was your father a rabbi? When I tell people that I wanted to be a rabbi from the time I was four years old, they always...
Light the Fire! F-I-R-E. This is dynamo Nadia Bilchik’s mnemonic for kicking relationships up a notch.
In 1984 the Lubavitcher Rebbe launched a campaign to get as many people as possible to study the works of Maimonides - the Rambam - on...
Speaking at last Sunday’s SA Jewish Ex-Service League’s memorial service at West Park cemetery, Rabbi Ron Hendler emphasised how appropriate it was that this event should...
The past week’s events in the United States and Germany add fuel to a perennial question: What is a nation’s true nature behind its outward veneer?...
I was absolutely appalled by your recent decision to publish an article about the conduct of Dr Stephen Levy.
I refer to recent articles by Howard Feldman in the SA Jewish Report
The doctor got suspended but his victims got a life sentence! I cannot stand in the wings any longer without commenting...
I would just like to commend you and your writers on your bravery in exposing Dr Levy (Jewish Report September 15).
Recent events have brought people face to face with the fact that the BDS movement's dishonest contention that it is anti-Israel and not anti-Semitic, is shown...
To the women who came forward and to you who pursued reporting on the sexual harassment charges against a doctor who violated a most important trusted...
Kwara Kekana on behalf of BDS South Africa, issued a press statement expressing “shock” that the Department of International Relations and Co-operation (Dirco) presented the previous...
The SA Jewish Report has always been revered and respected for what it is and should be: a community newspaper of the highest standard, catering for...
Tzipora Krawitz of King David High School Victory Park (KDVP), was the winner of the 16th annual Israel Quiz, now rebranded as the Shimon Peres Israel...
Shortly before Rosh Hashanah, the Grade Rs, Grade 3s, Grade 6s and Grade 9s from King David Linksfield held an exhibition of their artworks in the...
With September being Heritage month in South Africa, Mina Lopato Nursery School used this opportunity to show its children the different cultures in their very own...
Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School did their own Tashlich in the water trough on the playground last Tuesday.
For Kevin Musikanth, rugby has always been more than just a game - it’s a passion. That is a word often used quite loosely these days,...
The SA Jewish Report is looking for a journalist, who is passionate about and hungry for news and who writes both news and features beautifully.
