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They say that age is just a number, but when you turn 100 during a pandemic, there’s every reason to celebrate. Riviera resident Rose Norwich marked...
The outfits modelled by graduates of the Union of Jewish Women’s (UJW’s) Sewing School were all the more spectacular for the fact that some of their...
It saddened me to read Shimshon Fisher’s article about his negative experience of being a Jew on the campus of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)....
We need to give schools a break. They are forced to find a perfect balance between trying to educate our children, keep them and the teachers...
South African Jewry has long been regarded as a model diaspora community. We are famed for our excellent communal infrastructure, high level of identity and involvement,...
The advent of COVID-19 has resulted in every one of us having to make sacrifices to keep ourselves, our family, and our community safe. So, it’s...
Once again, Israel is being demonised with the usual apartheid slights, this time relating to the COVID-19 vaccine and the country’s success first in obtaining the...
Thank you for the obituary you published about Rabbi Ben Isaacson, who was my rabbi and teacher in the days when he ran the Emet Women’s...
Donald Trump lost the presidency. By doing so, he has allowed: A Jewish senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to replace Moscow Mitch (McConnell); A Jewish White...
Last week’s SA Jewish Report (15 January 2021) reports on a selfish Glenhazel shul that has operated illegally and hazardously right through the lockdown since March...
My grandparents suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. I grew up witnessing their internal, silent agony. They were victimised by antisemitism, and suffered. As the clouds gathered,...
According to Maimonides, the highest level of charity is to give anonymously. If there was ever a man who epitomised this, it was Eric Samson, who...
Following the death of iconic businessman and philanthropist Eric Samson this week, we are reprinting this interview done in 2013. I had the privilege to be...
(JTA) In an annual survey of British Jewish adults, two-thirds said Jews have a future in the United Kingdom – the highest level of confidence since...
The second wave of COVID-19 is currently crashing over the South African Jewish community, leaving tragedy, despair, and fear in its wake. In Cape Town, one...
While countries like Israel have already vaccinated many of its people, South Africa is still negotiating the procurement of vaccines in the battle against COVID-19. The...
For the second time in 10 months, shuls have had to close their doors as COVID-19 rampages across the country. While most within the community have...
Six years ago, infamous campus rabble rouser and Fees Must Fall student activist Mcebo Dlamini was a fiery, Israel-bashing antisemite prone to hurtful and divisive words,...
There is no doubt that our community and wider country are starting 2021 in a meitzar, a narrow place, filled with fear and anxiety. Caught in...
As Jewish schools across the country begin the year amidst a second wave of COVID-19 and a new variant of the virus, educators are confident that...
We have emerged from the eye of the storm to confront a second wave that is significantly worse than we anticipated. It feels like a tsunami....
COVID-19 has done so much damage to our world, and not just to the numbers of people who have contracted or died from it. Nothing can...
The United States of America’s ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, has described the frightening experience of contracting COVID-19 and landing up in the intensive-care unit...
I’m hardy, I’m a traveller. I climb mountains and hike for weeks in remote forests. I never get sick. But I did. 2020 what have you...
COVID-19 has taken many community stalwarts in the past few weeks. Just two are my in-laws Barney and Esther Singer, who celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary...
It was a hot summer evening on 6 December when I felt the first chill. Surely it wasn’t COVID-19? My husband and parents had it two...
Historians of South African architecture divide their field into two periods: BC and AC. BC is “before Chipkin”. AC is “after Chipkin”. Clive Michael Chipkin was...
As Ruth Wasserman Lande was sworn in as Israel’s newest member of the Knesset (MK) on Monday 11 January, it was the culmination of a long...
“For the first time in my life, I was so relieved to be home after the December holidays. It felt like we had run the frightening...
(JTA) Brennan Leach wants you to know that the caption on the viral photo of her taken inside the United States Capitol building last Wednesday was...
(JTA) The sweatshirt, spotted amid the mob that stormed the United States Capitol, seemed designed to provoke fear. “Camp Auschwitz”, it read, along with the message,...
(JTA) The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) hardly ever pronounces on any issue that doesn’t relate to Israel. It’s also loath to criticise a sitting...
I’m Nicola Date, a 32-year-old arts manager, comedian, and costume designer, mother, and two-time COVID-19 survivor. I have had a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse through hospitalisation. When...
Imagine you’ve been working on the job for years and years. It’s hard, manual labour and you’re not simply tired but exhausted, demoralised, drained, and frustrated....
I was fortunate to go to Umhlanga in the last week of November on a celebratory holiday after finishing matric. For the few days I was...
The closing weeks of 2020 brought with them the long-anticipated onset of a second wave of COVID-19 infections in South Africa. Over the December period, the...
Dear Mr President We know you have so much on your plate, and that you have tried to look after the people of the country as...
In about two months, Israelis will vote in a national election. Seem familiar? It is. Israel will be holding its fourth election in just two years,...
My first year at the University of the Witwatersrand was in 2017 and it was a strange year. There was no Jewish establishment. Each student came...
The happenings at the Capitol building left most sane people winded. And whereas many were quick to blame 2021 for letting us down so spectacularly and...
