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As the government slowly lifts lockdown, health experts have warned that we need to be extra-vigilant in preventing the virus spreading in the community and beyond.
Residents and staff at the Jaffa Home for the Jewish Aged in Pretoria are “anxious and fearful” following a coronavirus outbreak at the home over the...
The Cape Town Jewish community is reeling after an eleventh-hour email on the afternoon of Friday, 19 June, announcing the closure of United Herzlia Schools’ [UHS]...
“The fact that we are keeping our shuls closed should be the clearest statement about the dangers of the current increased infection rates,” said Chief Rabbi...
Suddenly, the number of people we know who have tested positive for COVID-19 is increasing daily. We have spoken ad nauseum about the upcoming spike in...
On a chilly Saturday night, we logged in to a Zoom panel discussion with 40 boys and 40 girls from two very well-known private schools in...
International audiences have been fed a heavy diet of misleading, factually false, and even propagandistic news and commentary on the United States administration’s Mid-East peace plan.
Amid general outrage over the antisemitic comments of Pretoria fitness enthusiast Simone Kriel on social media, a number of South Africans have expressed support for the...
There is a fundamental mitzvah that is alluded to in this week’s parsha. When Moshe addresses the Jewish people in the stand-off against the rebel faction...
A powerful photograph taken during the nationwide lockdown shows a shirtless, scantily clothed homeless man dragging his tattered blanket down a desolate stretch of Long Street...
When Johannesburg wellness coach Nikki Temkin tested positive for COVID-19, she felt as though her world had caved in.
As Bianca Rubenstein heads for the Sandton Clinic on Thursday evening to give birth to her fourth child the next day, she is anxious about doing...
We may not be able to travel in the near future, so the next best thing might be to explore the world through other people’s adventures,...
When American Rabbi Sholem Ber Hecht decided to visit the Jewish community of Tehran in 1978, he simply intended to strengthen ties with Jews there. Little...
First it was a zebra in Glenhazel, now it’s a caracal in Camps Bay. Natalie Barnett was enjoying her usual Sunday walk with her husband, daughter,...
In an extraordinary display of unity and co-operation, leaders of all Jewish communal and civic structures came together this week to find ways to prevent further...
This week Afrika Tikkun distributed hundreds of blankets to families who lost their homes and belongings in shack fires in Alexandra, Gauteng, last week.
Generous donations from the community have enabled the provision of winter essentials for elderly, indigent, and lonely members of the community through the Jewish Women’s Benevolent...
Kosher consumers are being ripped off at certain establishments in the Glenhazel/Fairmount area, not only in the price of meat products, but in terms of other...
Two articles in last week’s SA Jewish Report (19 June 2020) struck a chord that can’t be ignored, namely the proposed annexation of parts of the...
From the very outset of the COVID-19 crisis, Jewish communal leadership has worked exceptionally well together to help our community negotiate these difficult times.
We know this: it’s much easier to stand on the extreme side of any discussion than it is to contemplate the nuances of the conversation. Which...
For the first time in its 132-year history, the Chevrah Kadisha is calling for emergency financial support as it battles on all fronts in the “perfect...
A 52-year-old resident of the Glendale Home for Jewish people with intellectual disabilities in Cape Town who tested negative for COVID-19 died unexpectedly on 17 June.
Following extensive discussion and consideration, Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein has extended the moratorium on reopening shuls until 1 July.
Gauteng doctors at the coalface of coronavirus have pleaded with the community to stop making light of the pandemic following a precipitous rise in the number...
Good leadership isn’t about being in charge, but about taking care of those in your charge, Simon Sinek told South Africans at a SA Jewish Report...
Just how is COVID-19 changing our lives on a personal and geopolitical level?
“It's hard to believe it, but at this very moment there are families in our community who are hungry,” says Barry Levitt, the executive director of...
As a philanthropist rather than a psychologist, I know more about people helping each other than why they do it. At the moment, we’re seeing much...
We are in a precarious position. We are gatvol with lockdown, and want to get on with our lives as we knew them. We have just...
Israel has reached an historic junction. It’s now able to expand its legal borders and declare its sovereignty over parts of the occupied territories it has...
As a young boy growing up in South Africa in the 1980s, I was acutely aware of the stigma attached to being South African. I remember...
When Canadian lay leader Joel Reitman’s uncle passed away as a result of COVID-19, Pesach was only three days away.
Nicholas Ngoma was an orphan and living on the streets before he fought his way to dignity through a talent for tennis. He has been coaching...
“I was out fighting the deadly bushfires for weeks on end during the summer months, and now my wife, Kate, is on the frontline in the...
Former South Africans Shmuel Shantall and Avigdor Book, who both live in Modi’in in Israel, had planned to take part in the 2020 Comrades Ultra Marathon,...
Since October 2017, young armed Islamist fighters have been carrying out vicious attacks on civilians in the north-eastern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. Victims have been...
Political activist Ahmed Kathrada’s staunch opposition to the racist policies of the apartheid government was inspired by his exposure to the tyranny of Nazi Germany against...
Former University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) lecturer Dr Ittamar Avin retired from the university’s English department after 30 years of teaching in 2002, so few expected him...
