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Remember when you were raving about the incredible work someone in the community had done? Well, if you haven’t done so already, now is the time...
Master’s graduates, performing artists, business owners – if the people behind these success stories had allowed themselves to be defined by their learning difficulties, they may...
Fifty-eight specialised Israeli emergency medical kits were donated this past week by the Israeli embassy in collaboration with the South African Zionist Federation Cape Council (SAZFCC)...
Most of us picture archaeology as digging in the dust, but Ruby-Anne Birin is using cutting edge technology to blaze a trail in the field. An...
Born into a Christian family, South African born Rebbetzin Elisheva Goldschmidt never felt that she quite belonged. When a trip to Israel sparked a passion for...
History was probably made at the Red Ivory wedding venue in Hartbeespoort on 8 August 2021, when a progressive Jewish wedding took place without a rabbi...
Offering weekly menus, baked goods, Shabbat meals, and yom tov specialties, home-based cooks aren’t just sustaining the community through their delicious meals, they’re also building viable...
An easy, albeit shallow, approach to understanding suffering in this world is to suggest that Hashem is just letting things happen, that it’s just nature taking...
Poland ponders changing concentration-camp trips Amid a growing diplomatic crisis between Israel and Poland, a senior Polish diplomat said his government was “reviewing” changes to annual...
More than 1 500 children took part in the recent Pirkei Avot Arts and Culture Competition, designed to bring the teachings of the Pirkei Avot alive and...
The Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centre (DHGC) hosted a dialogue on 12 August, “Reflecting on the effects of the current unrest in South Africa on refugees,...
Mazaltov to the newly-elected student leaders for 2022 from their schools and the SA Jewish Report! King David High School Linksfield Head Student Leaders: Gabi Sassen,...
As we flounder in the unrelenting chaos of COVID-19, Hatzolah comforts and cares for those stricken by the virus when others turn away for fear of...
The “good book” is quite specific. It tells us that we need to circumcise our sons, teach our children Torah, make sure that they understand what...
PowerFM broadcast a programme on 12 May in which several callers propagated various antisemitic conspiracy theories without being challenged by the host. The comments made were...
(JTA) Video from a packed engagement party is roiling the Jewish community of Melbourne, Australia, amid a growing outbreak of COVID-19 that has extended yet another...
During the early days of the pandemic, Gillian Kay chose to spend lockdown in her beloved childhood home in South Africa instead of being alone in...
The African Union (AU) Commission has defended the continental body’s decision to grant Israel observer member status, saying it was at the “express demand of many...
As Cape Town braces for the peak of the third COVID-19 wave, three generations in one family all become infected with the virus. Giuliana Levetan of...
A week ago, South African olim and their families told the SA Jewish Report about their despair in dealing with Israel’s extreme COVID-19 travel restrictions. But...
The third COVID-19 wave is ongoing, driven by the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In spite of decreasing case numbers in Gauteng, the national test...
We are living through one of the most traumatic times in which uncertainty reigns supreme, but we tend to focus on the physical consequences and forget...
When we go to bed at night, we need to be able to look ourselves in the eye and feel proud – or at least satisfied...
“If my father could live his life again, he would live it another ten times. He had a good life, and helped so many people. He...
Pick n Pay’s Wendy Ackerman received the Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Best of Africa Awards ceremony in New York City on 6 August. The...
In a string of beautiful coincidences, a machzor that was printed in Yiddish in Vilna in 1876 has resurfaced in Cape Town just before the high...
Internationally acclaimed futurist Clem Sunter says that when he wrote his latest book, Thinking the Future, he believed South Africa’s chance of overcoming its most negative...
Two weeks ago, one of the biggest groups of olim left South Africa to live in Israel. We caught up with a few of them. Hymie...
If you’ve been wondering about the meaning of life, you’re not alone. Mark Oppenheimer and co.’s new book, Conversations about the Meaning of Life, has some...
Media consultant Janine Lazarus has just published a book that was inspired by her experience as a Sunday Times journalist covering a serial killer who operated...
Sometimes we forget to have the most important conversations with our children. Life is so busy, we are scrambling to keep up with school lifts, homework,...
(JTA) Twenty years ago today, a deadly suicide bombing in Jerusalem plunged Israel into grief and, for its citizens, crystallised a feeling articulated by the city’s...
Have you ever considered the effects of your words on little ears? Children, big and small, have been severely impacted by a continuous daily diet of...
For the #MeToo generation, intimacy co-ordination has become a vital role on film and television sets – one that didn’t exist until recently. “One of the...
Children at King David Pre-Primary Linksfield had an uplifting start to the week on Tuesday, with balloon arches welcoming them into school in celebration of Rosh...
King David Senior Primary Linksfield Grade 7 students Jessica Solomon and Noah Greenblatt won a bronze medal in the Upper Primary category of the Indonesian International...
Hearing the shofar blown every day (except Shabbat) during the month of Elul until the day before erev Rosh Hashanah is a wake-up call to begin...
Abel keeps physically fit, regularly attending yoga and pilates classes at the Wellness Centre of Melrose Manor, where he has lived for 15 years. His commitment...
Grade 9 students at King David High School Victory Park recently took part in a healthy relationship workshop to guide them in their journey through adolescence....
The great historian, Paul Johnson, in his introduction to A History of the Jews, lists several key concepts and institutions which originated completely within the Torah...
