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At first glance, Jason Woolf seems like any other 27-year-old American expat enjoying everything Cape Town has to offer. That is, until he starts speaking in...
They experienced unthinkable tragedy, but Bat-Galim Shaer and her husband Ofir continue to live with optimism and a desire to make the world a little brighter...
In a rapidly changing world, careers aren’t what they once were. Although there is certainly a place for getting a degree and working your way up...
Stuart Diamond has been the executive director of the Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape Board) for only two and a half years, but...
I blame my mother-in-law. She is the one that started all this, and it’s thanks to her I was placed in mortal danger when making a...
At the beginning of each year, Jewish university students are confronted with the challenge of responding to Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), a malicious and mendacious anti-Israel...
Yeshiva College’s parent-teacher association has started a fundraising campaign which has the entire community laughing out loud. School moms leave home early each morning and pick...
On a recent visit to Tshwane, I was horrified to see the dilapidated state of the Old Synagogue on Paul Kruger Street in the city centre,...
“When I look back to my youth in years to come, I don’t want to have to tell my children I was one of the people...
A South African health-food company opened the door to getting a hechsher from international kosher certifiers when it adopted the Canadian Kosher Certifier (known as MK)...
The success of Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine programme may seem like a far-away reality, but it’s actually much closer to home – over the border in fact....
A warrant of arrest has been issued for white supremacist and Nazi sympathiser Jan Lamprecht, who allegedly breached an interim protection order issued against him last...
As the deadline for him to apologise drew to its final hour, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng announced that he had chosen to appeal the Judicial Conduct...
This week is Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which usually means a week of trouble on university campuses around the country and in many other countries. The...
In Pirkei Avot, it says, “If I am not for myself then who will be for me? If I am only for myself, then who am...
In the month of Nissan, in which the redemption from Egypt took place, there is a Talmudic discussion about the time of the future redemption. Rabbi...
Ripples of pride, joy, and nachas spread from the Cape Town Jewish community around the world as news broke on 13 March 2021 on career website...
It’s not often that twenty-somethings are given the chance to tell a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor’s harrowing story on screen, but clearly Jordy Sank and Gabriella Blumberg...
“Don’t be scared of the virtual. When our ancestors tried to recreate the exodus every Pesach, they struggled with how to make the virtual real,” said...
When Berlin resident Hertha Reis was evicted from her home in 1941 because she was Jewish, she had no qualms about denouncing the Nazi regime. In...
Could you teach someone to speak a language that doesn’t exist if your life depended on it? This is the question which Holocaust film Persian Lessons...
Maccabi South Africa wishes lifelong Maccabian, George Mendelsohn, a happy 90th birthday. Born in Berlin, Germany, on 12 March 1931, George left Germany five years later...
Former Johannesburg major, the late David Neppe, held an official dinner at the city council mayoral banquet hall to honour the late King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu....
One of the more unfortunate consequences of the online communication revolution is that it has given bigots, cranks, and conspiracy theorists of every stripe easily accessible...
It is with a deep sense of loss and sadness that I mourn the passing of his majesty, King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu. My condolences go out...
In regard to the article, “Student barred from gap year speaks out’” (SA Jewish Report, 12 March 2021), we would like to clarify that the Israel...
King David High School Victory Park Grade 11s are leading davening groups at the primary school, furthering the family atmosphere that exists among the four schools...
Weeks of marking ancestors travels on maps, discovering family heirlooms, and interviewing relatives culminated in a My Family Story art exhibition at King David Linksfield (KDL)...
WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organisation) Johannesburg held its 107th annual general meeting via Zoom on 4 March 2021 with Joceline Basserabie in the chair. Rabbi Ryan...
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) South Africa hosted a tour of Linksfield Ridge on Sunday, 14 March, a series of koppies with spectacular views to the...
One of the few good things to come out of the Oprah interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on 7 March were the spectacular memes....
If you’ve been on the fence about investing in Israel, now might be a good time to get off – and fast. Jewish people have always...
My apartment in Ra’anana is dominated by beautiful woven baskets, gifts of his majesty, King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, the monarch of the Zulu nation, South Africa’s...
“Antisemitism is an international problem that is a threat to democracy.” So said Dr Ahmed Shaheed, special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, office of...
When news broke on 4 March 2021 that the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) had directed Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to apologise unconditionally for statements he made...
Demi Putziger, a King David Victory Park (KDVP) matriculant in 2020, was looking forward to her gap-year programme this year and was devastated when, at the...
Mike Shingange, the first deputy president of the National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU), lambasted Israel for “war crimes and violation of international law”...
When our judiciary orders a person to apologise for something they said, which was 100% their opinion and uttered in a personal capacity, what kind of...
Can you imagine 365 days without leaving your place of residence during a pandemic that plagues such facilities, and surviving not only with your health intact,...
Exactly a year ago, COVID-19 entered our living rooms as news broke of the first case of the dreaded disease striking a member of our community....
