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Nine on the British Sunday Times Rich List of 2019 are South African – and of those, five are Jewish.
The recently introduced “Moses Moyo Award” for courageous journalism in community media has upset industry players who have criticised the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef)...
Nicknamed “Captain Sunshine” by the New York Times, American-born maverick Josef Abramowitz, (55), waged multiple battles to feed solar-generated electricity into Israel’s national grid. That tenacity,...
While Israel is acclaimed for being the start-up nation, it now looks to Haredi women and Israeli Arabs to secure the future of its entrepreneurial technology...
International-award-winning Polish film director Joanna Kos-Krauze is adamant that countries must face their genocidal pasts head-on, and that film can play a key role in starting...
How could a little Jewish boy born in the Congo end up having an international career as a dancer and choreographer, and teach some of the...
Gold Reef City was turned into a Yom Ha’atzmaut festival park last Thursday afternoon, and those who made the effort to be there celebrated as they...
Just days after Israel endured hundreds of rockets fired on its civilians, Capetonians of all kinds came together to celebrate the Jewish state’s 71st Independence Day.
Jewish band Breindy and Matt has been nominated for the 2019 South African Music Awards (SAMAs).
(JTA) Judging by all the media attention, the world loves short Jewish women named Ruth.
I have climbed Mount Sinai. Although the exact location of Mount Sinai is unknown to archaeologists, I was fortunate enough to have toured with the real...
A siren wailed at exactly 10:00 last Thursday morning in Pretoria. This eerie sound –streamed live from Israel Radio – brought Jews in Israel and those...
The Torah was donated by the Genn and Mielke families in honour of their father, the late Dave Genn. It was presented to the shul on...
Last week, I nervously proposed an idea to the family. I suggested that for one hour from when we sat down to dinner, we would all...
However one interprets the results, last week’s national and provincial elections undoubtedly ushered in a new era in the history of our democracy, one that hopefully...
Amidst the complicated post-election analyses going on in South Africa and Israel, ordinary people are often confused. And, notwithstanding the intellectual analyses, most people actually voted...
Daniel Ackerman can be forgiven for thinking that he’d cornered the market on bad luck. On the eve of the Touch World Cup in Malaysia a...
The hall was full at the Yom Hazikaron ceremony at Yeshiva College last Tuesday (7 May), but attendance was poor in relation to the size of...
As South Africa went to the polls on Wednesday, the SA Jewish Report’s roving photographer, Ilan Ossendryver, captured the Jewish vote around Johannesburg.
As about 700 rockets were launched at Israel this past Shabbat, South Africans living in the south of the country raced to find their children, hid...
(JTA) Criminal goes to ‘federal Jewish heaven’ Michael Cohen, a former attorney and fixer for United States President Donald Trump, is reported to have started his...
Every day, twice a day, we emulate the angels on high and say kedusha (a prayer describing G-d’s holiness). We exclaim that Hashem is “kadosh, kadosh,...
“I thought I was going to die, and in a way I wished I would, not knowing what would happen,” says Stacey Urdang, who was hijacked...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) senate is to meet on 10 May to consider and clarify its proposal for an academic boycott of Israeli universities.
This week in South Africa, you could be excused for thinking nothing was happening other than our elections. Most news items have been about local politics...
The timing of the Gaza flareup this past weekend was not co-incidental.
Four Israelis were killed this week as about 700 rockets were fired from Gaza. These victims represent the mosaic of the different tribes of Israeli society...
Paul Trewhela, an important member of the Jewish left-wing during apartheid, believes South African politics is “dictatorial”. Visiting South Africa recently, he told the SA Jewish...
Amid a maelstrom of mobility scooters and walking sticks, residents of Sandringham Gardens converged upon the home’s auditorium in their numbers to vote on Monday this...
(JTA) One night years ago, when a Jewish man was driving to his parents’ house in Caracas, Venezuela, two cars blocked off the street he was...
Baron Kevin Shinkwin is not Jewish, but he dedicates his time to fight for the rights of the disabled, and to combat anti-Semitism, using his position...
Have you ever talked to a holographic image of a real person? It’s a strange thought, but one that is already being put into action –...
As Cape Town community members entered the Yom Hazikaron ceremony at Herzlia High School Hall on Tuesday evening, they walked through an exhibition that brought home...
“Were our sacrifices for ourselves alone, I’m not sure they would have been worthwhile. If our sacrifices are for the sake of the whole Jewish people,...
(JTA) Eva Heyman is an energetic 13-year-old Jewish girl with a bright smile. Go to her Instagram page, and you’ll see selfies of the brown-haired teen...
The recent attack at Chabad Poway in San Diego is, like all other anti-Semitic attacks, a warning to the rest of the world of the spread...
The hatred of Jews that fuelled the Holocaust, even slavery in Egypt, has taken new forms, Israeli Ambassador Lior Keinan warned at this year’s Yom HaShoah...
“When Auschwitz was liberated on 27 January 1945, I was on a death march from there to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. I was liberated only six...
The state of Israel might not have existed had it not been for the contribution of South African volunteers. Heeding the call to defend the fledgling...
I had the privilege of representing South Africa at the inaugural March of the Living Emerging Leaders Conference aimed at aiding and motivating young leaders to...
