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Chabad’s 30th annual Miracle Drive Gala Dinner held at the Sandton Convention Centre on Wednesday, 4 March, proved the power of disrupting the status quo.
For Rami Sherman, Operation Entebbe wasn’t just a national accomplishment, but a personal one. This former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) operations officer played a critical role...
Twenty eight years ago, a small group of dedicated volunteers began a project to research and write the history of the Jews in South African country...
At the age of seven, Stefan Brozin lost his father to a brain tumour. Forty-three years later, his wife died of a similar condition. In spite...
Toni Strasburg, the daughter of anti-apartheid activists Rusty and Hilda Bernstein, recently wrote a book about their experiences. She tells us why it’s important to keep...
My parents read all the time. I remember my father in his armchair and my mother at the dining room table, each absorbed in a book...
Imagine leaving your family for a year to live with three people you’ve never met, in a country you’ve never visited, to teach hundreds of school...
Organisers of this year’s March of the Living in Poland on 8 March announced that the event would be postponed due to the spread of coronavirus.
“OMG! My child has ADHD!” was the topic of a recent ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) workshop presented by Dr Tamara Jaye, a medical doctor and...
Most of us are familiar with the Habonim, Bnei Akiva, and Netzer machanot, but few know of Camp Kesher, another Jewish youth camp that takes place...
“It’s too late. I’m too far gone.” How many times have we heard those words? Or, worse still, said them?
There is an unfortunate tendency for people to resort to irrational scapegoating when confronted with threats they are unable to fully understand. History has shown time...
A few years ago, when it wasn’t as windy in Muizenberg, and when great white sharks would still hang around the False Bay area, it was...
Picture the scenario: it’s winter in Europe. Snowing. Young men – soldiers – are in the trenches, at war with one another. And then midnight strikes...
I refer to your “Business-class lounges open at King David” article published on 6 March 2020, and formally lodge an unreserved letter of contempt. In your...
I’m a Jewish teen in Johannesburg. I read your slow-lounge article (SA Jewish Report 6 March 2020), and don’t understand why the newspaper is mocking Jews.
No matter what explanations Mr Zagnoev tries to spin (Letters: SA Jewish Report, 6 March 2020), the facts can easily be determined by simply examining the...
I am the chairman of the concentration camp survivors of the Shoah in Johannesburg. Your article on the decline of anti-Semitism in South Africa (SA Jewish...
This month, the South African chapter of the “Zionism equals apartheid” gang is girding its loins to play its role in delegitimising Israel. Their crocodile tears...
I’m trying to locate any descendants of my great-uncle Nathan Klass, born in Zagare, Russia, in 1874. Nathan married Fanny Marks, and they emigrated to South...
One of my favourite components of Purim each year is the “Purim Shpiel”, a Purim tradition going back centuries, equivalent to the secular April Fool’s joke....
Liat Amar-Arran, the director of the Israel Centre and a Jewish Agency representative, spoke about the “women who influenced her life” at the 106th annual general...
The name “Sally Little” will be well-known to a generation of South African sports fans, but the name “Kathy Gorchoff”, Little’s former caddy and current manager,...
South African ex-pat Adam Wolov looks out the window of his tiny flat in Wuhan, China, to see barbed wire around the building in which he...
In a dramatic and shocking move, King David high schools around the country this week announced that they would be building business-class lounges at the premier...
Israel has two options, either incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is able to form a coalition government, or the country heads to an unprecedented fourth election.
The president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, has announced that he will appoint an ambassador to Israel for the first time...
Jewish communal leaders met political heavyweights last week to tell them that South Africa had bucked the rising global trend of anti-Semitism.
As countries around the world scramble to get Covid-19 under control, medical research teams across the globe are working around the clock to combat the feared...
When our health is challenged, everything else fades into the background. All worries, battles, and differences become secondary when our physical well-being is on the line.
The expat tax that many in our community have been dreading was officially implemented on Sunday, 1 March, just four days after Finance Minister Tito Mboweni...
(JTA) Joe Biden made an appearance via video and Mike Bloomberg turned up in person. So did Mike Pence. Even the coronavirus got a shoutout.
Israel is a world leader in counter terrorism, because, sadly, the country has had so much experience. Jews were the earliest victims of terror, experiencing it...
Public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which saw its Waterloo in South Africa after stirring up racial divisions for political gain, is now at the heart of...
(JTA) Ruben Golran had studied for a year and a half in anticipation of his Barmitzvah this week, when 600 of his relatives and friends were...
Science and religion may clash, but they share a unique relationship. In fact, science could provide compelling support for religious faith, and it could have its...
Seasoned former Cape Town journalist Elaine Durbach recently launched her newly published first novel, Roundabout, at the Gitlin Library back in the mother city.
There is so much to worry about. Mental-health statistics from international agencies reflect a dramatic rise in the incidence of anxiety, depression, even suicide. Spread across...
“Nobody really knew what the trouble was with Aunty Vi – all I knew, was that it was gran’s fault.”
The Sandton Gautrain station on a Sunday night is a fairly eerie place. There are few commuters, and signs all around to remind patrons to safeguard...
