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In celebration of Tu B’Av, the Jewish holiday of love, Mirah Langer asked communal spiritual leaders to share their personal stories and insights about relationships. Rabbi...
Veteran South African pilot Robert Schapiro wrote Secrets from the Cockpit before he died. His wife, journalist Arlene Getz, talks to Mirah Langer about it. How...
Kosher supermarkets are rethinking their inventory. Politicians are emptying their freezers. And the foreign minister of Israel is vowing to get involved in local American politics....
After greening the desert with fruit and vegetables, Israelis looked elsewhere to make improvements. The country’s latest environmental achievement is to turn the Hiriya rubbish dump...
When Madeleine Hicklin recently viewed the dilapidated state of the Old Synagogue on Paul Kruger Street in the Tshwane city centre, she was moved to tears...
Psycho-social media and literature have long highlighted the negative effects that the cyber age is having on our youth. The computer screen, cell phone, internet, game...
Fred died this morning. Not to speak ill of the dead or anything, it needs to be said that he was a bit of a narcissist....
In the early days of his presidency, when the United States was all but crippled by the effects of the Great Depression and a pall of...
And Charlton Heston came down from Mount Sinai and gave us the ten commandments. Oops! Sorry, make that Moses. And he was carrying the tablets with...
The Union of Jewish Women in Johannesburg showed it cared on Mandela Day by delivering a number of cakes, scones, and cookies to the Norwood Police...
The tree-filled haven of Herzlia Kerem Pre-Primary School’s new campus in Constantia offers the same warm, stimulating preschool experience as before, with an added sense of...
Adam Bertoldi (King David High School Victory Park) beat thousands of contestants around the country for first place in the 2021 South African National Geography Olympiad....
SA Jewish Report readers of a certain generation might be vaguely familiar with the name Con Travis, a stand-up and television comedian of the late 1970s...
Having witnessed probably the worst outbreak of civil unrest since the dawn of democracy, one difficult question needs to be answered. Who are the real looters?...
The oldest South African Holocaust survivor, Ella Blumenthal, turns 100 this Shabbat, the day after I Am Here, the award-winning documentary made about her life, has...
As lawlessness and looting spirals out of control in South Africa and the politicians, police, and military seem helpless to stop it, we pause to reflect...
As South Africans face the largest outbreak of unrest and violence in the post-apartheid era, the community of KwaZulu-Natal reels from safety concerns, lost businesses, and...
As violence erupted, a Jewish doctor and his colleagues defied calls to leave their posts at the Hillbrow Clinic, choosing instead to serve the dozens seeking...
The economic devastation that COVID-19 has wrought on the Jewish community has been extensive and potentially devastating, but some have been rescued by the Gesher Fund,...
Giving a vaccine may take a second, but the administration that needs to happen for every jab takes a lot longer. Local doctor Menachem Hockman, who...
Sydenham resident Aidi Posner was spending the last few minutes before Shabbos saying tehillim when she asked her husband, Leon, to turn on their gas heater...
This week, the words of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, “…madness takes its toll” keep playing in my head. We are living through what feels like...
South Africa has been in the grips of a well-publicised growing crisis ever since Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, and their co-conspirators unseated President Thabo Mbeki. Under...
One and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic may be a suitable time to look back, and try to visualise possible future scenarios. The world...
As Israeli ambassador to South Africa Lior Keinan repacked his dusty suitcase – that has long been ready for a potential emergency exit – he marvelled...
Israeli diplomat Paul Hirschson and I agree to meet up for an easy exchange. I’ll give him a packet of biltong I brought back with me...
“What are your plants trying to say?” That’s the question that drives SupPlant, a company rooted in three generations of one Israeli family. Through cutting-edge technology,...
The Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv’s oldest shopping mall, sits in the heart of the bustling central business district. Surrounded by skyscrapers, it’s the last place you’d...
As our senior citizens were the first to get vaccinated and have been isolated more than most because of comorbidities, the SA Jewish Report asked a...
It was no ordinary shul brocha on the Shabbat when Nelson Mandela came to Marais Road Shul and had a cup of rooibos tea. Yet, beyond...
Eighty-six percent of viewers of a recent SA Jewish Report webinar said they thought antisemitism in South Africa was getting worse but the South African Jewish...
“How can we be brave enough not to look away?” These were the words that writer and thought leader Beth Amato asked on Facebook after yet...
July 18 was chosen for Mandela Day because it marks Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s birthday, but it’s also the day he chose to marry Graça Machel in...
Under lockdown, but still want to do something good on Mandela Day? Here are a few options. Mensch and the Cape South African Jewish Board of...
The chairperson and executive of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) would like to clarify the organisation’s response to the SA Jewish Report’s interview...
The Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 Vaccines (VMAC) as well as the two other MACs are concerned about the extent of vaccine hesitancy in the country....
Devarim is the parsha associated with Tisha B’Av, the Jewish national day of mourning. After Shabbos, we will recall the destruction of our holy temple nearly...
(JTA) Orthodox player second to hit the big league The Washington Nationals selected Elie Kligman in its final and 20th round pick on 13 July, making...
On Sunday, I had an article that would write itself. Those are my favourites, as the words flow from the heart and the pages are filled...
Along with continued high levels of COVID-19 infection resulting in an extension of lockdown conditions, South Africans have been confronted over the past week with a...
