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Afrika Tikkun, has been given a multi-million-dollar boost by MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The South African social upliftment organisation is one...
“It’s horrific out there,” said Dr Richard Friedland, the chief executive officer of Netcare, the country’s largest private hospital group, as rising COVID-19 infections continue to...
When former East London Rabbi Chanoch Galperin was accused of forging the will of a community member, he took his case to the Beth Din. But...
As Israeli and South African legal authorities collaborate in securing a court victory against Ronald Bobroff and his son, the fugitive attorney continues to rail about...
Professor Karen Zwi may have left South Africa more than 20 years ago, but she has carried the ethics and ideals that she grew up with...
I haven’t been out much lately because of my fear of this dreaded coronavirus that is at war with us in Gauteng. However, when I did...
If you struggled to imagine what was going on in Wuhan in March 2020 as I did at the time, June Gauteng 2021 is your opportunity...
Exactly 80 years ago, on 22 June 1941, the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa, a savage assault on the Soviet Union. Named after the Holy Roman Emperor...
June is Pride Month, celebrating the freedom that we have in South Africa for the LGBTQI+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex) community to live...
He was senselessly killed during the Soweto uprising of 1976, in the wrong place at the wrong time because of his dedication to the disenfranchised. And...
The sudden passing this week of renowned entertainment critic and journalist, Peter Feldman, brought to an end his 50-year career across print, TV, and radio. For...
Gauteng has emerged as the epicentre of the much dreaded third wave of COVID-19 infection in South Africa, and the Western Cape has also been hard...
As if we didn’t have enough to worry us, there’s genuine concern about diabetes amongst healthcare workers. And if there isn’t, there certainly should be. Because...
What’s it like living a few streets away from the prime minister of Israel? According to Israeli media, the residents of Ra’anana are up in arms...
If cybercrime were a country, it would have the third largest GDP (gross domestic product) in the world after the United States and China, said Andre...
There was once a noted Torah scholar who prided himself in his acute ability to correct other people’s mistakes. He had an eagle-eye for errors, and...
With just a few days left until the Section 12J tax break becomes a thing of the past, Grovest has been inundated with enquiries from taxpayers...
During these difficult times, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and not see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yet we’ve all experienced challenges in...
The new government in Israel gives us the opportunity to become a “light unto the nations”. As I understand it, every shade of political opinion is...
The COVID-19 pandemic poses basic questions to us about what it means to be human. Not only are we asking ourselves how to stay alive but...
I don’t often air my opinion on any of the columns or letters in the SA Jewish Report, but the letter penned by the anonymous doctor...
We are now well into a third wave of COVID-19, and it seems we are still a few weeks away from its peak. All evidence suggests...
My guess is that you don’t know much about Ivan Barrow, or to give his splendid and gloriously antiquated full name, Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow. Barrow was...
Victor Gordon, who passed away this month due to COVID-19, had so many divergent sides. Gordon was a multi-talented man – a playwright, an artist, and...
My wife, Naami, and I were last week summoned to a school in the slapdash city of Hadera to be re-educated on how to drive. This...
Most financial planners will tell you that you have only two choices with your spare cash. You can either pay the tax and invest offshore, or...
It’s our 100th webinar, and we celebrate this extraordinary milestone by honouring The Great Jewish Entrepreneurs who built the retail sector in South Africa. Checkers, Pick...
Communal experts this week issued a stern warning to “catch a wake up” as the community has been hard hit by death, severe illness, and an...
“I felt targeted because I’m Jewish. It’s antisemitic,” said a businessman affected by an alleged boycott of companies purported to support Israel. A group of 300...
The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) has predictably come in for some heavy criticism by the anti-Israel lobby for lodging a complaint against retired Judge Siraj...
The former director of the South African Board of Jewish Education, Rabbi Craig Kacev, has been selected as pedagogical director of a new project called the...
Amid a merciless third wave unlike anything the Johannesburg Jewish community has seen before, a number of Jewish schools have decided to close, and Chief Rabbi...
When I heard that King David School alumnus Gidon Novick was involved in taking over the lion’s share of South African Airways, I felt inspired and...
To commemorate Youth Day, the SA Jewish Report asked some of South Africa’s most illustrious photographers to share a photograph that they felt evoked something of...
Former kulula.com now LIFT Airline mastermind Gidon Novick may be a sucker for punishment, but he has taken to turning South African Airways (SAA) around and...
After 12 consecutive years of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israelis are coming to terms with the fact that the magician, as his fans like to call him, has...
(JTA) Whether this week marks the last of Benjamin Netanyahu’s record-setting tenure as prime minister or is just a prelude to another never-count-him-out comeback, it seems...
Losing a child to violence devastates the parents left behind. It creates an unspeakable emptiness, a void of loss, pain, and anger. Two bereaved Israeli and...
History books may detail the facts, but it’s through the notes and melodies of Jewish liturgical music that the emotional story of the Jews of South...
Kęstutis Pikūnas put together a beautiful coffee table book called ‘Passport – The Litvaks’ about the Jews of Lithuania. Being Lithuanian and having grown up there,...
