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The fate awaiting Europe’s Jews was made public knowledge as early as 1933.
What has the power to shock us so deeply today that we sit up and take notice? Could it be the increase of right-wing demagoguery and...
At the time of writing, we are less than a day away from South Africa’s sixth national and provincial elections since the transition to democracy, which...
An accurate barometer of our collective mood is the communication that I receive. When we are in a more positive and less anxious space, I either...
I belong to a Facebook group called Children of Holocaust Survivors. This is quite a select group, but not one which I would have chosen to...
The 19 April edition of the SA Jewish Report contained an article on the island of Majorca and gave an overview of inhabitants who were of...
We often focus on the negative. Nevertheless, I would like to share two positive experiences that my mother, a white woman in her eighties, experienced over...
In the lead-up to Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Deputy Ambassador Ayellet Black visited Emmarentia Shul to talk about the latest Gaza rocket attacks on Israel.
Chabad of Greenstone managed to raise more than R1 million in 24 hours to renovate its new home.
In a moving ceremony, Klerksdorp community members commemorated Yom HaShoah on 1 May with readings about dehumanisation, and candle lighting in remembrance of the victims.
WIZO Johannesburg honoured Madeleine Heitner, who passed away recently at the age of 100, among other survivors and righteous individuals at its Yom HaShoah commemoration at...
Three Torah Academy Primary School pupils, Shmueli Goldschmit, Tanni Cohen and Kayla Kay, won medals for obtaining more than 90% in the annual Chabad Lubavitch Mitzvot...
Simon Dimant, a life-long “table-tennis addict” as he describes himself, speaks English with a quaint flourish. This is because he is of Latvian descent and English...
Aubrey Meyerowitz, originally from Johannesburg, was in the Chabad shul of Poway, California, on Saturday when he heard shots ring out. “It was the first aliyah...
Third record year for Canadian anti-Semitism Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose to a record high for the third consecutive year, according to an annual audit by...
The SA Jewish Report attempted to interview all the leaders of the main parties running for election.
President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed in a pre-election interview with the SA Jewish Report that the decision to downgrade South Africa’s embassy in Tel Aviv had “not...
“The reason the Jewish community should vote for the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is the same reason any South African should vote for the IFP: we...
Everyone is welcome to support the EFF unless they support Israel, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) election spokesperson Veronica Mente told the SA Jewish Report this week.
Congress of the People (COPE) National Spokesman Dennis Bloem used a Jewish anti-apartheid icon to explain the impact small parties could have in driving big changes.
“Besides the ACDP, there is no political party that supports Israel as a state, its right to self-defence, and its right to live within secure borders....
A vote for the United Democratic Movement (UDM) would be a sign of support for the fight against corruption and in favour of the party’s call...
(JTA) Here’s what we know about the shooter who took the life of a worshipper at a San Diego area Chabad and wounded three others: he...
Blending a religious message with a political one, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) recently suggested that Jesus was a Palestinian. Wishing South Africans well over Easter,...
This coming Wednesday is election day, and the run up to this momentous day is confusing and frustrating for many of us. Just who do we...
On 18 October 2011, after 1 941 days in Hamas captivity, missing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was returned to Israel. The moment the first pictures of...
By now, you have most likely read about the cartoon that the New York Times published last week. It depicted a Dachshund with the face of...
(JTA) The Israeli ambassador to the United States has linked the New York Times to the “Jew-hatred of growing parts of the intellectual class”.
“The youth are feeling excited about the experience of voting, possibly for the first time, but I think few are invested in this country. The majority...
Among the numerous Afrikaans names which appear on the Freedom Front Plus (FFP) list of election candidates, the lone Jewish name of Sidney Anolik stands out...
“Israel is the only country in the world that welcomes us, wants us, and offers so many opportunities,” says Sally Leibowitz, who plans to make aliyah...
Who better to understand the real significance of the story of Pesach than modern-day refugees and asylum seekers?
We think of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust in terms of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising or acts of sabotage in the camps, or even the Oneg...
“Survivors need to have their pain witnessed. There are those who are too traumatised to speak. When they are prepared to give testimony, their stories need...
Protect the constitution. That was Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron’s overriding message to a captivated audience at the Union of Jewish Women’s Houghton headquarters. They were...
The South African Consulate in Southern California was waiting last Saturday night at 23:00 for Paul Wayburne to come and cast his vote in the national...
(JTA) On a warm summer day in Oslo last year, Kaveh Kholardi heartily greeted spectators at a city-organised concert celebrating diversity.
Clinical psychologist Dorianne Weil (known to many as “Dr D”) was inducted into the Southern African Educators Hall of Fame (SAEHoF) by The Professional Speakers Association...
“I became a journalist and wanted to change the world.” So said veteran journalist and author Benjamin Pogrund on being awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in...
If anyone was bent on convincing us that Torah was old-fashioned, this would be a good Parsha to prove it. Leviticus, Chapter 18, contains the Bible’s...
