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Take us to bed with you this Saturday night? It’s cold out there but we can warm your heart with ️Saturday Night Acoustic and Unplugged Saturday...
Families, yeshiva bochurs (students), lone soldiers, and a nonagenarian will be among the 87 new arrivals at Ben Gurion in Israel this week in the largest...
One week after Ben & Jerry’s announced that it would stop selling ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory”, the company’s board chairperson for the first...
The South African government this week lashed out at the recent decision by the African Union (AU) to grant Israel observer status. After nearly 20 years...
The director of the Israel Centre South Africa, Liat Amar Arran, says the organisation received “100 enquiries” into aliyah over the past three weeks, and that...
“What do you do when the leadership of an organisation you’ve spent your whole working life serving adopts a policy or position that your conscience won’t...
I can’t say I’m surprised that people get nervous when they read that aliyah figures are at a record high. They aren’t worried about those leaving...
In addition to the health pandemic we are, unsurprisingly, in the midst of a global mental-health pandemic. Instead of hiding behind whispers and closed doors, mental...
On Sunday, amidst all the challenges and trauma of this pandemic, I had a most inspiring experience. I decided to visit the pop-up vaccination site at...
Fighting misinformation and a pandemic is taxing. However, it doesn’t help for Reform UK leader Richard Tice to make misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines and fertility....
As vaccination becomes more freely available in South Africa, questions arise such as can you make vaccination compulsory and can you dismiss someone if they refuse?...
Seventy-eight years ago, a Jewish man gave his 17-year-old daughter a maroon handkerchief as a way to remember him. She never saw him again – he...
ABSA BUSINESS ICON AWARD Awarded to a Jewish person who has achieved iconic status within the business community. ABSA BUSINESS LEADERSHIP AWARD – FROM COVID TO...
Lady Kitty Spencer, the niece of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, tied the knot last weekend with her billionaire beau, ex-South African fashion industry mogul...
Operation Mercy will go down as one of the most remarkable human chains of support to take place in post-democratic South Africa. In the days and...
A recent webinar on antisemitism hosted by the SA Jewish Report was banned by YouTube as “hate speech”. Attempts to rectify this situation soon revealed that...
The drop in cases of new COVID-19 infection in the community in the past week is like the loosening of a noose around the necks of...
Victor Nkomo is one of the backstage heroes who is helping community members get vaccinated against COVID-19. Over the past few months, Nkomo has become a...
A pop-up vaccination site in Glenhazel carried out just more than 11% of the total 27 053 vaccinations administered across the country on 25 July, setting what...
(JTA) Before last November, Shlomo Lipetz already had his dream job. After drinking coffee and listening to a morning news podcast – The Daily from the...
(JTA) Sid Marantz loves tradition so much that he spent 20 years as a board member of his family’s Los Angeles synagogue. So it’s a big...
(JTA) Is gold-medal swimmer Lydia Jacoby Jewish? Lydia Jacoby, the 17-year-old swimmer from Seward, Alaska, surprised many when she came from behind to win the 100m...
In response to our community’s continuing struggle with COVID-19, King David High School Linksfield recently ran a challah bake to pray for those in need and...
Yeshiva College Primary School staff started the term by partnering with Read for Hope to prepare and distribute 20 story packs. Read for Hope is an...
As the spotlight shines on the introduction of the “Jewish Kardashians” in My Unorthodox Life, ordinary Jewish woman have begun to air their own stories under...
“If you do obey these rules…” This is the opening line of the Torah portion this week. More accurately, the Torah states, “If you eikev obey...
As the sun rises through the darkness of the pandemic and looting in South Africa, we begin to renew our hope for the future, and with...
This is an apology to my daughter, Abby, to animal lovers everywhere, and to the late Yorkshire Terrier called Fred. May his memory always be for...
There was a welcome return to shul and school this week, as well as the reopening of restaurants and other facilities. While infection rates remain high,...
We can say without fear of contradiction that the Idaho Falls Chukars haven’t quite ascended to baseball’s fields of heaven just yet. How could they? As...
Two disturbing letters dominated your letters page in the 15 July edition of the SA Jewish Report. The fact that they appeared on the eve of...
The KwaZulu-Natal Jewish community has begun emerging from the shock of last week’s chaos, remaining vigilant and expressing gratitude for assistance provided by the wider community....
All Rudy Rochman wanted to do was to shine a light on unknown, disconnected, and re-emerging Jewish communities around the world, but something went horribly wrong....
“Last week’s events ripped the plaster off of a big wound. They forced me to re-examine my life in South Africa – things I miss and...
The newly elected Israeli minister of diaspora affairs this week sent a heartfelt message of support to the South African Jewish community following last week’s devastating...
The sudden closure of Gary Friedman Caterers, one of Johannesburg’s largest and much-loved kosher caterers, has left the community in shock and shone a spotlight on...
As social media in South Africa last week became a minefield of fake news and incitement amidst civil unrest, one WhatsApp user attempted to draw the...
South Africa has survived an insurrection, if President Cyril Ramaphosa is to be believed. This is no laughing matter. The extent and context of the violence...
I’m cursed with optimism. But as the smouldering cinders of last week burned themselves to charcoal and our president flanked by his podgy unkempt generals wailed...
As the dust settles on the violence and looting that took place last week, the community has bonded in raising funds and gathering essential goods for...
