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(JTA) Aslan Karatsev, a Russian tennis player with Jewish heritage who lived in Israel for nearly a decade, is making history at the Australian Open. It’s...
Fifty-two years ago this week, student and Israeli army paratrooper Edward “Eddie” Joffe, who had recently made aliyah with his family from South Africa, was senselessly...
The PJ Library programme was officially launched at all King David pre-primary and junior primary schools in 2021. Founded by American philanthropist Harold Grinspoon, PJ Library...
Rather than being a stiff-necked people who complain a lot, it’s better to be a “light unto the nations” and glow with goodwill. Unfortunately, holding on...
In Exodus: 25:1-2, “G-d spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Speak to the children of Israel and have them take for me an offering; from every person whose...
‘’If you want this, or are doing this now, then you need to join me,” says Shelley Trope-Friedman, the new president of WIZO (the Women’s International...
I’m not sure we need Purim this year. I felt the same about the high holidays back in 2020, when we were much younger, thinner, and...
Last year’s COVID-19 lockdown rendered impossible the traditional Yom Hashoah commemorative gatherings. Instead, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), working with the South African...
Yeshiva College Primary and Girls High School celebrated Rosh Chodesh Adar with music, movement, delicious food, and lots of fun. The primary school was filled with...
When a group of marauding arsonists torched and destroyed a luxurious Mpumalanga game lodge recently, it not only devasted one Johannesburg family but affected the lives...
Watching a quarter of their patients die from COVID-19. Being yelled at by a family unable to come to terms with their father’s demise. Spending hours...
What do you get when you combine antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and COVID-19 denial? While white supremacists and QAnon supporters feel like they are far off, this...
This week, a balloon of hope that thousands of healthcare workers would be well on their way to long-awaited immunity against COVID-19 was deflated as the...
The recent decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to allow an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Israel isn’t a surprise. But that doesn’t...
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is on track to start as soon as next week say community medical experts in spite of the curve ball wrought by...
At the beginning of the week, the news broke that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine that we had been waiting for, and which arrived last week, wasn’t going...
There were 43 breathtaking synagogues in Johannesburg at the turn of the 20th century and, tragically, not one of them is still standing. They were, indeed,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that no matter who they pray to, religious communities have a lot in common and are dealing with similar difficulties. Recognising...
Eran Eyal seemed destined for success: a head for business, a love of technology, insatiable ambition, a charming personality, and extreme intelligence. But all this may...
(JTA) Statements and appearances by United States (US) officials suggest the Biden administration’s emerging Middle East strategy, namely reassuring Israel while resuming ties with the Palestinians...
Eskom is making progress, though it may not be visible yet, Andre de Ruyter, Eskom’s group chief executive, told a SA Jewish Report webinar last Saturday...
Art assumed a central role in helping many Holocaust survivors come to terms with their ordeal and share their harrowing experiences with the world. In their...
Herman Rothenberg, who turns 100 on 15 February, escaped the Holocaust in Germany in 1934 when his parents sent him out the country on his own...
There is a saying that a successful marriage means falling in love many times, always with the same person, and this couldn’t be truer for Esther...
The South African Association of Progressive Rabbis (SAAPR) has made the decision to recommend that its progressive shuls remain closed for the time being. “The Jewish...
It’s not often that you find a nice Jewish girl from Cape Town captaining a super yacht in the Mediterranean, but for 28-year-old Kaela Bermeister, it’s...
“The situation in South Africa is more desperate than ever. The need for food security and employment is greater than ever, and government social-support grants have...
News that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine isn’t effective against the “South African” variant came as a terrible blow. The first consignment had already arrived in the country...
Biz hundert un tsvantsig (may you live until 120), as Jews like to say when wishing each other a long life. The South African Jewish Board...
The Elise WIZO Gift Shop sadly closed its doors at the end of 2020 after being a well-known feature of Johannesburg Jewish life for many decades....
Overnight sensations are often just that. They don’t necessarily last. Slow and steady, step by step, the gradual approach usually has longevity and more enduring success....
My name is Lisa. I work as a child and adult psychologist in our community. It’s been almost eight years since my husband and child passed...
(JTA) For much of the past year, the young mothers of Lakewood, New Jersey, have experienced the pandemic as much as a nuisance as a matter...
(JTA) I can’t stop thinking about Flory Jagoda, Joseph Sassoon, and Kitty Sassoon – three American Jews in their 90s who died last week. As an...
Paul E. Marik, MBBCh, MMed, FCP(SA),FRCP(C), FCCM, FCCP, FACP, ABPNS, UCNS-NCC, DAvMed, BSc Hons (Pharmacol), DA(SA),DTM&H Biography Dr Marik is Professor of Medicine and Chief of...
One of the community’s top COVID-19 advisors this week lashed out at the community for flouting rules and putting lives at risk. Professor Efraim Kramer said...
Zimbabwe and Israel have had full diplomatic relations since 1993, but further overtures by our northern neighbour to the Jewish state could cause conflict with South...
After a great deal of public clamour, media noise, and anxious expectations, the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines have finally arrived. What can we expect? Undoubtedly,...
There has been a focus on frontline healthcare workers and emergency medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic, but what about the community’s loyal and over stretched...
At 07:00 on Wednesday morning, 96-year-old Shulamit Klein passed away alone in hospital in Akko, Israel, with no visitors allowed and her care worker in quarantine....
