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Israel hosted on Thursday its third-largest ever gathering of international leaders after the funerals of former leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. More than 45 world...
Many South African Jews are descended from an immigration wave from Lithuania in the 1920s. Our grandparents seldom explained the context; here it is.
Josef Bergmann was just six years old on the night, in 1938, that the Nazis raided the home of the Heimann family. The family of six...
Israel presents unprecedented opportunities for South Africans for investment in innovative high-tech companies destined to change the world. So says Shelly Hod Moyal, the founding partner...
More than 1 200 people gathered in a cavernous marquee at the Wanderers in Illovo last Wednesday evening, but this time to celebrate a victory in...
What do businessman Shaun Matisonn, lawyer Hugh Raichlin, and Shaun Zagnoev, the chairperson of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, have in common?
If you’re looking to join the world’s largest book club, you’re in luck. Membership is free, requires no paperwork, and anyone can sign up. Take note:...
Starting a roaming chef business. Becoming a teenage entrepreneur. Doing makeup on film sets. These young adults might not have university degrees, but they’re successfully charting...
Culture shock. That’s what many matriculants from Jewish schools experience when they enter the demographically-diverse world of university. Do they embrace the opportunities this offers or...
The Ethiopian church on Tudhope Avenue in Berea, located on the premises of the former Berea Shul in Johannesburg, last weekend celebrated the Ethiopian Timket (baptism)...
There are few doctors who understand the rigors of singing and how to save and protect the voice quite like Johannesburg ear, nose, and throat specialist...
When Sarit Keinan came back to South Africa, the country of her birth, as the wife of Israeli Ambassador Lior Keinan, she wanted to do something...
From being bullied as a child to healing children through music, Jon Samson’s creative journey is deeply personal. Now nominated for Best Children’s Music Album at...
French survey shows prevalence of anti-Semitism In a survey about anti-Semitism in France, nearly a quarter of 1 027 Jewish respondents said they had experienced a...
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Apart from reminding me of my high-school education, Malvolio’s lines in Shakespeare’s...
South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP) was pleased to see the SA Jewish Report’s retraction of its front-page report which falsely claimed that the...
Those schools which didn’t publish the number of distinctions lost an opportunity to recognise and congratulate students who achieved exceptional matric results. Students who are gifted...
I wish to commend you, the various schools, and teachers highlighted in the 17 January edition of the SA Jewish Report for your guidance in bringing...
The sheer hypocrisy, brazenness, and chutzpah of the South African tourism ministry boggles the mind – “SA tourism ministry slams Israeli travel advisory” (17 January 2020).
In spite of many areas that have declined in South Africa since the end of apartheid, a shining achievement is the fact that we have freedom...
I was driving home from a wedding on Sunday night when the strangest song started playing in the car. It was in German, and it turned...
“Mir zaynen do!”(We are here!) The defiant concluding words of the Partisan Song constitute a ringing declaration by the Jewish people that in spite of the...
Roy Nissany has recently been unveiled as Israel’s first-ever Formula One driver, an announcement that sent ripples of expectation through the country’s community of racing fans...
A heavy wooden crate was delivered and pried open in Forest Town last Friday morning. As the lid came away, all eyes in the room fixed...
Surrounded by walls of flames and with his vehicle alight, volunteer firefighter Noel Kessel said the Shema as he was almost killed in one of Australia’s...
The South African tourism department has criticised a travel advisory issued recently by the Israel foreign ministry that warns tourists about crime in South Africa.
It’s not often that a Jewish South African billionaire becomes intimately involved with British Royalty and aristocracy.
While many South Africans recently enjoyed end-of-year holidays in the sun, sea, and sand, Jewish communities in other parts of the world were hit by a...
The other day, I was asked a shocking question on social media.
The matric year is the culmination of our childhood. It’s the finale of 12 years working towards those final exams. It’s the most stressful year of...
Almost immediately after the United States assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on Friday, 3 January, the Israeli army went on high alert along the country’s northern...
When local singing sensation Loyiso Bala stood on the shores of the Dead Sea in December, a group of star-struck South African fans touring the country...
On the first night of Chanukah, 22 December, South African immigrant Hayley Sevitz Varenberg was tragically killed in a bus accident near Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel...
It is appalling that Khalid Sayed, the African National Congress (ANC) shadow MEC for education and chairperson of the ANC Youth League in the Western Cape,...
Our principals have reason to be proud of the accomplishment of their students, especially because of the 100% pass rate, hundreds of distinctions, and all those...
Our world is changing, and with it the world of work. Previous generations would probably have considered the careers our matriculants are embarking on to be...
Matric is about so much more than distinctions. It’s an opportunity to celebrate collective achievement. It’s the final leg in a five-year journey, and every student...
I can’t believe that it’s just my daughters whose favourite emoji – in their WhatsApp correspondence with me in any event – is that pinched little...
Times have changed, and with them the required skills to succeed in the rapidly developing 21st century. Certain school subjects once considered essential are becoming less...
In a landmark achievement, Beis Yaacov and Torah Academy (both religious schools) were among the top ten department of basic education (DBE) schools nationwide in terms...
