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The Bricha Trail is the new South African JNF-Keren Kayemet joint project with Israel, which launches on Tu Bishvat (January 31).. Situated in one of Israel’s...
“South Africa’s Israel-haters should be held to account for pressuring to limit sharing of Israel’s water-management technologies,” tweeted former Israeli ambassador to South Africa, Arthur Lenk,...
The day the taps are turned off is predicted to be April 12. All organisations of the Cape Town Jewish community are working to make this...
Yes, that’s the impression you’ll get from your Capetonian friend’s Facebook timeline every time there’s the slightest drizzle – when, in reality, it doesn’t make the...
Johannesburg jewellery designer Beverley Price got the surprise of her life when she was alerted to an Instagram photograph of Hollywood actress Alfre Woodard, wearing one...
A remote community of Ugandan Jews, who live an Orthodox way of life, pray every day to live in the so-called land of milk and honey...
#WeRemember The World Jewish Congress (WJC) launched the second annual #WeRemember campaign on January 7 that culminates in International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to be commemorated this...
This past week, Turkish tanks rolled across the border and entered northern Syria. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been threatening to do this for a...
In November, while preparing a slide comparing the size of various global economies for a presentation I was giving, I noticed that Israel was ranked higher...
More than 70 rabbis around the world recently signed a declaration advocating veganism as “the Kashrut for the 21st century”. This was spearheaded by Rabbi David...
The couple stood under a tallit at their wedding while Rabbi Ramon Widmonte recited both the priestly blessing and brachot for life. The groomsmen held the...
In Israel today there are 38 000 asylum seekers from East Africa, mainly Sudan and Eritrea. They fled from civil war, genocide, dictatorship and ethnic violence...
On the anniversary of the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith – a statement of core principles co-signed in January 1974 by the late Harry Schwarz, who was...
“Touch me and your first lesson is free,” says Anthony Segal’s T-shirt.
Susan Sherman finally received her gett last week after seven years of trying. She and her estranged husband, Anthony Sherman, were permanently separated by then. The...
There was no sign of forced entry on the cold December morning when a Canadian billionaire businessman and his wife were found dead inside their mansion,...
The pressure placed on matriculants to achieve as many distinctions as possible continues to mount with every passing year, stressing pupils out enormously. The reason for...
When Anne Katz heard about the Na’ale Elite Academy programme, in which her 16-year-old daughter Paige would be able to go and finish school in Israel,...
As I write this column, my family of four is getting ready to celebrate exactly one year as olim hadashim in Israel. As clichéd as it...
What does it do to one’s sense of self to be among a handful of people of your community saved from a violent death?
South African schools teach the Holocaust in Grades 9 and 11, but few teachers have a real understanding of what happened. A group of 20 South...
If Germans and Jews had a relationship status on Facebook, they’d probably choose the “It’s complicated” option. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis failed to make Europe Judenrein, but...
This Sunday, we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is not to be confused with Yom Hashoah, which takes place on April 12 – in less...
In November 2005, the UN General Assembly designated January 27 – the date of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau – as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The text...
What should someone who loves Israel feel about a film showing the Israeli army negatively rather than heroically – especially when the war against the country...
Last week’s edition of the SA Jewish Report displayed a rather embarrassing and undignified front-cover selfie of Zev Krengel with new ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa. But...
How sad it is that your two leading columnists, Paula Slier and Geoff Sifrin, both report negatively about the great announcement by US President Donald Trump...
King David Ariel has officially opened for school on January 16.. After months of planning, building and fine-tuning all the tiniest of details to provide a...
More than 100 Grade 11 pupils from Jewish day schools visited Israel in December as part of the annual Israel Experience tour – but this may...
Two veteran tennis players will give the Israeli team loads of experience when they play South Africa in a Euro/Africa Zone Group 1 Davis Cup tournament...
Star gymnast Aly Raisman, one of dozens of young American athletes who have testified that they were sexually abused by former team doctor Larry Nassar, has...
Like a Liquorice Allsorts packet, there was something for everybody in Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first major speech, in his capacity as newly elected president of...
South Africa is believed to be used by Iranian intelligence “as a significant area in locating, recruiting and operating agents against Israel and the West Bank”,...
The ANC was steamrolled by anti-Israel lobbyists into making its unilateral decision to downgrade the South African embassy in Israel, said one of the Jewish community’s...
The ANC remains determined to downgrade the South African embassy in Israel to a liaison office – even after recent calls by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini...
As the process of redemption moves towards its climax, our Sages tell us that great tragedy occurs. A terrifying number of Jews perish during the plague...
Happy New Year to all of you! As so many of us have spread the word on social media, it is 20-Chai, which can only be...
Last Friday was the first time in weeks that I wasn’t running away from teargas or taking cover behind a brick wall.
The decision to downgrade relations overshadowed other international issues at the party’s national conference
Central figures in key anti-Israel boycott organisations, including BDS South Africa, are to be blacklisted and barred from entering Israel.
