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Former Western Cape provincial secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) Tony Ehrenreich last week ‘apologised’ for hate speech committed five years ago,...
The Cape Town Jewish community has experienced vandalism of graves in its country communities. However, it has now discovered that a stonemason working in the Pinelands...
South African-born businesswoman and couture handbag designer, Lana Marks, intends to deepen trade and investment ties and strengthen the relationship between South Africa and the United...
It’s not time to pop the champagne yet, say insiders, but things are looking up for the once sour multibillion rand Clover deal, which anti-Israel activists...
South African-born Sir Mick Davis has quit as chief executive and treasurer of the British Conservative Party, warning that the party risks putting Jeremy Corbyn in...
Saying sorry is easy, but not if you really mean it. We say sorry all the time, but it doesn’t mean anything unless we intend to...
My grandmother had a very particular world view. For the 25 plus years I’ve been a journalist, regardless of what was happening in the world, she’d...
South African anti-Israel lobby groups “don’t want South Africans to visit Israel because they have something to hide. They will lose control of the ‘apartheid narrative’...
While South Africans have had a taste of “Day Zero” and load shedding, our compatriots north of the border face this reality every single day. Water...
Egils Levits, the former Latvian justice minister and representative at the European Court of Justice, was recently elected president of the Latvian Republic.
(JTA) In the 1960s, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and John Glenn were household names, idolised as g-d-like figures by a public enraptured by NASA’s (the...
Whether you’re a user of Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, the odds are you’ve been inundated with pictures of wizened and wrinkly faces this past week.
After matriculating at Herzlia High School in Cape Town about twelve years ago, Glenn Stein spent a year in Argentina as a Rotary Exchange scholar. It...
Acclaimed former South African cricketing great and sports administrator, Dr Ali Bacher, says South Africans Jews no longer excel in administering or playing sport for the...
(JTA) American Jews know more about religion in general than their non-Jewish neighbours, a new survey shows.
Chicken soup is easily the lifeblood of any Jew, flowing through the veins from kop (head) to kishkes (guts). The aroma of chicken soup pervading the...
World-famous South African artist William Kentridge says that allowing some uncertainty to enter into his work process, particularly during multimedia collaboration, has been key to his...
Temple Israel Heritage Centre Hillbrow, 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day, The Outreach Foundation Hillbrow, and the Mercy Church in Kensington joined forces in Kensington on...
Bet David in Morningside has a tradition of inviting children from the Alexandra Orphanage and child-care initiative, Look and Love, also situated in Alexandra, to an...
The Nashua Children’s Charity Foundation introduced former Miss South Africa Kerishnie Naiker and singer Danny K to the foundation’s 72 young representatives and their caregivers before...
Women from the Klerksdorp Jewish community visited the oncology department, wards, and chemotherapy room of Klerksdorp Hospital on 18 July to hand out hand-crocheted blankets, cupcakes,...
Chabad Hyde Park-Sandhurst held a surprise birthday brunch recently to celebrate Rebbetzin Mashi Lipskar’s 70th birthday.
Emfundisweni Primary School in Alexandra Township was the beneficiary of Medicare Percelia Pharmacy’s Mandela Day donation drive on 18 July, part of the organisation’s focus on...
Johannesburg’s Norwood Mall was abuzz on Mandela Day on 18 July with hundreds of volunteers making sandwiches for those in need.
Who gets to see a new culture being born? Is it the Woodstock groupie, gathering his guitar, beads, jeans, and marijuana to join 400 000 people...
At this time of the year, the WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organisation) Centre in Savyon has an annual Bar/Batmitzvah party for children whose parents cannot afford...
Don’t even ask. For some reason, we landed up at the World of Dogs and Cats Pet Expo in Midrand on Sunday afternoon. After having spent...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) are often described as “sister organisations”, although, to take the sibling metaphor...
Corbyn says Labour has anti-Semitism issue Jeremy Corbyn said the Labour Party must recognise that anti-Jewish bigotry has become part of the movement, and drive out...
In the aftermath of Pinchas’ slaying of Zimri and Kozbi at the end of last week’s Torah portion, we read this week how some of the...
There was a spring in the step of cricket fans in local English shuls on Shabbat last weekend following England’s dramatic win in the World Cup...
One is not supposed to speak in a shiva house unless the mourners speak first - for very good reason.
We appreciate our SA Jewish Report, thank you. Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein’s opinion piece refers, (vol 23, number 24.)
As uncomfortable as some of the stories which have occurred over the past two weeks may make us feel, we need to know the truth.
On Sunday night, Evan Speechly, one of South Africa’s leading physiotherapists, will be jetting off to the European Maccabi Games in Budapest as part of the...
He has been described as a son of Africa, a white Zulu, a voice of revolution, a genius, a teacher, student, and mentor, but before all...
In the space of a few weeks ex-Durbanite Evan Cohen has gone from being a linguistics professor in Tel Aviv to becoming the face of the...
When Johnny Clegg was 16, his mother, Muriel, the public relations officer at a record company, begged me to speak to her teenage son who was...
Simon Gear, Eyewitness News (EWN) weatherman and science correspondent, has just returned from a trip to Israel, and he thinks it would be wrong if South...
South African-born businesswoman and couture handbag designer Lana Marks is one step closer to Pretoria and filling the shoes of the next United States ambassador to...
