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(JTA) The simmering fear among Middle East watchers that President Donald Trump might attack Iran in the waning days of his presidency was inflamed on Friday...
The cost of kosher meat continues to rise, and in spite of assertions that they can’t be compared with the non-kosher industry, butchers within the Johannesburg...
While we hope that the challenges of 2020 will be over when the clock strikes midnight on 31 December, experts warn that this is just the...
This was evident in the vast number of people who tuned in to watch the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards (JAA) on Sunday night. A little bit...
In the days following the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, I feel like a heroin junkie, coming down after an orgasmic high, at least that’s what I...
Jewish professionals Dr Jonathan Witt and Lesley-Anne Gatter have been elected to serve on the executive committee of convocation at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)....
The quiet of a suburban street in the greater Glenhazel area was broken when a rally of gunshots was fired at the home of a Jewish...
Sydenham Shul spiritual leader Rabbi Yossy Goldman will be stepping down from the pulpit after devotedly serving his community for 34 years. The news was announced...
It’s a wrap! And just like that, matric 2020 has finished! Yeshiva College’s brave and strong matrics have completed their exams, and can have a well-deserved...
Communal organisations and rabbis have responded with outrage to recent spoof videos that made fun of the controversy over kashrut prices. A video of Hitler shouting...
The annual Absa Jewish Achiever Awards held last Sunday showed once again how even in the most trying times, Jewish community members from across the age...
If there is one event that we attended in abundance in 2020, it has been funerals. Larger and more conventional ones early on in the year,...
(JTA) Since astronaut Jessica Meir returned to earth in April from the International Space Station, she, like all of us, has spent a lot of time...
It’s a showstopper of a cake – pancake-thin baked biscuits layered with homemade custard, piled high in a way that’s pleasing on the eye and the...
This week the dreaded encounter between Jacob and Esau finally materialises. After two decades, the twin brothers who are anything but identical square up. Jacob, who...
When is a Jewish National Fund (JNF) Blue Box not a blue box? Never. Even though the physical box now has a digital donation option, it’s...
Ensuring that millions of South Africans have food on their table is all in a day’s work for Suzanne Ackerman-Berman. The transformation director for Pick n...
When COVID-19 struck, Dr Jonathan Broomberg heeded the call. Discovery’s chief executive of Vitality Health International, Broomberg assumed the role of head of healthcare for South...
Jody Scheckter’s exploits on the Formula One (F1) circuit live on in the minds of many South Africans. Although he has gone on to become a...
So many in our community have lost jobs since the onset of lockdown. We are publishing their details to help them find work. This is the...
Greg Borowsky was in an Uber last week when a friend called to tell him that a song he had composed, Let Me Go, had just...
“His life’s work has been saving lives.” With these words, Mary Kluk, the national president of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), summed up...
No matter the odds, Professor Mervyn Mer believes that what sometimes seems impossible might not necessarily be so. “The expression ‘nothing is impossible’ is often bandied...
The extravaganza that graced our screens on Sunday night in the form of the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards 2020 was a labour of love by Mann...
Most parents think their teenagers spend too much time on the internet and too little time engaging with the real world. Chabad has come up with...
South African born but long-time Israeli aviation legend Harold “Smoky” Simon may be 100 years old, but that didn’t stop him from taking to the skies...
A teddy bear is a timeless symbol of comfort, reassurance, and innocence, and now it’s becoming an icon of bravery and hope. Penny Stein, who has...
Wherever political, social, or economic dislocation manifests, the longest-standing hatred in history – antisemitism – rears its ugly head, and unless we do something about it,...
When an ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) attends an event in support of an Israeli medical centre, it’s a momentous occasion. When that ambassador...
How do you grow up in the shadow of a renowned father who survived the Holocaust, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and inspired millions? This was...
By the time Jock Isacowitz died in his mid-forties, he had achieved more than a whole team of people would in their lifetime. He fought in...
(JTA) In the days after the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history, Pittsburgh became a symbol of the enduring dangers of hatred as well as the...
An Umhlanga rabbi will make sure an old man’s memory is kept alive thanks to a pair of tefillin and a tallis found in his room...
When the United Nations (UN) Second Committee passed an Israeli resolution on “Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development” last week, it was supported by 144 nations. South Africa...
As we enter the most significant weekend of the SA Jewish Report’s calendar, that of the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, there is a great deal of...
The Holocaust was a catastrophe of such epic proportions that the Jewish world will never fully recover. There are still those alive who experienced the horror...
When a white Jewish student in the red garb of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) spouted extremist rhetoric outside Brackenfell High School on 20 November, South...
Mandy Yachad and Herschel Mayers, who both have extensive legal and commercial experience, have been appointed to the new independent pricing review panel for kosher manufactured...
The South African Rabbinical Association has strongly condemned two community-made spoof videos which have been circulating on social media that depict Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein...
The Union of Jewish Women (UJW) has tackled the COVID-19 pandemic with passion, creativity, and incredible generosity. Beneficiaries in rural and urban areas across South Africa...
