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South Africa’s political mechanisms are failing the country. Consequently, we rely too heavily on our courts, turning to judges to help secure rights which should be...
When a young woman in the community was sexually assaulted and robbed at gun point in her home two years ago, it was an elite team...
“This was the year we were going to bring it home,” says talented first-team rugby captain, Joshua Pimstein, of King David High School Linksfield (KDHSL), lamenting...
A palpable sense of anticipation has begun to permeate our homes. This isn’t uncommon for the latter part of August, for the renewal of spring and...
Our community has felt the impact of COVID-19 hugely, what with 106 people having lost their lives to the coronavirus, and so many more becoming very...
The South African Jewish community has had an unprecedented number of COVID-19-related deaths, with a fatality rate higher than that of the United States and the...
Shuls, shuttered since 18 March, are to reopen this month in some provinces, but they will have to comply with strict safety protocols, says Chief Rabbi...
Yeshiva College last week announced its new student leadership for 2021, with the positions of head boy and head girl going to Akiva Fox and Kayla...
On Sunday, we celebrated the Barmitzvah of the son of a close friend. It took place on Zoom, as has been the 2020 way. Although I...
The first-ever online South African Jewish Board of Deputies regional conference went ahead without any serious hitches on Sunday, 16 August, with speaker Dr Edith Eger...
The historic bilateral mutual establishment of diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel will be a huge boost for the Palestinian economy within Israel...
In my letter to the SA Jewish Report on 18 June criticising the pending annexation of parts of the West Bank by Israel and citing warming...
It may be almost impossible to get from Johannesburg to Jerusalem now because of lockdown, but the Jozi2Jerusalem project will enable people across South Africa and...
My son, who was wearing a kippah, walked into the iStore over the weekend and asked the sales assistant for help with his laptop. The perfectly...
South African cyclist Daryl Impey has signed on to join Israeli cycling team Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN) in 2021, with plans to help the team win...
Amidst the COVID-19 chaos, heroes deserve to be celebrated more than ever before. Only a week remains before the close of nominations for the 2020 Absa...
Members of the tourism and hospitality industries protesting harsh lockdown measures were dispersed with water cannons and stun grenades by police in Cape Town on 24...
The Honourable Justice Ralph Hirsch Zulman passed away in Johannesburg last Shabbat from medical complications caused by the coronavirus. At the feet of this man, many...
Exegetical license is a powerful tool in the hands of rabbis. (In simpler English, it’s the right to stray from the literal meaning of scripture in...
A Jewish man from the South African Jewish community gave a heart-wrenching, anonymous account of how victimisation by Jewish females from a young age had a...
From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I worked on the frontlines as a pharmacist. Each day, I would go to work, much to the...
It’s Sunday, 14 June, just more than 11 weeks after South Africa has gone into full lockdown, and so far, no one I know has COVID-19....
Sylvia Raphael’s story isn’t well known in South Africa. This remarkable, vivacious woman, born in Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo in 1937, became a Mossad superspy. Raphael’s...
All Jewish people fought to survive and care for their families as their world was ripped asunder when the Nazis rose to power, but Jewish women...
In my husband’s family, everything is celebrated: a marginal increase in school grades; a lucrative month in the family business; a friend’s successful sporting accomplishment; even...
Whether it be through healthcare, altruism, or leadership, many women have made their mark in fighting against COVID-19 or simply helping others survive this pandemic. There...
During the COVID-19 crisis, we’re battling three pandemics – a health pandemic, a financial pandemic, and an emotional pandemic. Nowhere is the pandemic of loneliness, anxiety,...
A raid on a property in the south of Johannesburg on Friday, 24 July, may have uncovered a cell of South Africans sympathetic to terror organisation...
This year, Women’s Day falls on Sunday, and by edict of South African law, the following day will be yet another day where people just don’t...
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape Board) is heading towards a groundbreaking election after it instituted reforms that were recommended by the Seligson...
As 103-year-old Bertha Meltzer left Cape Town Mediclinic hospital on Monday, she waved to staff lining the corridors, as they cheered in celebration of her miraculous...
Coronavirus was just a blip on the horizon, confined to Wuhan in China, when Michael Bagraim, the shadow minister of employment and labour began checking if...
Years ago, I was talking to a female editor of an important mainstream newspaper, someone I held in high esteem, a mentor of sorts. She was...
Over the weekend, we were saddened to learn of the passing of our esteemed friend and colleague, Judge Ralph Zulman. Zulman combined a stellar career on...
When a family home burnt to the ground in front of its owners’ shocked and bewildered eyes one Shabbos morning last year, a few members of...
Incidents of violent crime have dropped in the community, while soft crime and snatch and grabs are on the rise, security experts revealed this week in...
On the day when the first coronavirus case in the Jewish community was announced – 11 March 2020 – the South African Jewish Board of Deputies...
An article in the New York Post put it into perspective for me. The headline read, “Teachers bring coffins, guillotine while protesting NYC schools reopening plan”....
Amidst the doom and gloom of the past few months, an exciting phenomenon has emerged, with people around the world recording themselves dancing to the smash...
World WIZO (the Women’s International Zionist Organisation) celebrated its official centenary on 11 July 2020. There were greetings and celebratory messages from the 50 WIZO federations...
