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(JTA) Art Spiegelman once complained that Maus, his classic memoir about his father’s experiences in the Holocaust, was assumed to be intended for young adults because...
This is the real state of the nation! Later this week, in our annual fashion show/pep rally, our president will deliver the State of the Nation...
Shockwaves have ripped through the community following the allegation on social media last week of a popular Hebrew teacher in Johannesburg who has been implicated in...
The protracted Clover strike, which started as a local wage and retrenchment dispute in November, has grown into a full-blown anti-Israel hate fest. In its third...
An Amnesty International (AI) report calling Israel an apartheid state has been criticised by leading Jewish organisations and Israeli leaders. Though the report acknowledges Jews’ right...
South African-born advocate Hertzel Katz, who turns 90 this year, was deeply moved when he was recognised in December 2021 for his tireless efforts towards sustaining...
A director of the recently formed new kosher hechsher resigned in the same week of its launch. Akiva Mallett of Kosher Certified South Africa (KCSA) resigned...
The new Israeli ambassador to South Africa, Eli Belotsercovsky, dreamt of being a diplomat from an early age when he was still a child in the...
I would be first in line to see a paedophile or a sexual offender convicted of the crimes he or she has committed and sentenced to...
In 2005, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly passed a resolution designating 27 January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is the day the Soviet Union’s...
I was born five years after World War II ended, the son of a German Jewish refugee, grandson of two people who barely escaped the Holocaust....
Blake Andrew grew up in Zimbabwe, was raised Christian, and felt strong ties to the Scottish roots of his grandfather. But his grandmother’s story never came...
Many entrepreneurs dream of ringing the bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), but not everyone makes it there. Yet this vision became a reality...
Thirty-six years ago in South Africa, Karen* gave birth to premature quadruplets, one of whom was stillborn. The baby’s body was buried by the Chevrah Kadisha,...
The world is holding its breath as it watches Russian troops amassing on Ukraine’s border, threatening invasion or war. Warnings of the possibility that world powers...
After two years of no machanot and very few in-person events, local Jewish youth movements have reached a precarious turning point. Left battered and bruised by...
When acclaimed veteran South African cartoonist Dov Fedler celebrated his 82nd birthday recently, he received a gift of the first copy of a book he had...
After five years of dogged toil, Gavin Kaplan has just begun to create a name for himself in Western Province cricket circles. An upper-order batsman, he...
(JTA) In spite of the continuing COVID-19 chaos and the mounting protests about China’s human-rights record, the 2022 Beijing Olympics are proceeding on schedule, just six...
Six South African sportsmen represented Israel as part of Tel Aviv Heat, the country’s first professional rugby team, in the European Super Cup, which concluded at...
In this week’s parsha, Hashem tells us of the building materials that were required to create the beautiful Mishkan, the tabernacle – opening with gold, silver,...
On Sunday, I joined my colleagues in the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) in attending the official opening of the Union of Jewish Women...
If President Cyril Ramaphosa had a Jewish mother, he would probably be a doctor today. Whether it was his profession or not, he would have been...
There is an unfunny joke that where there are two Jews, there are three shuls. It was recently reported that three former Beth Din kosher supervisors...
I want to thank Andrew Baker of King David Victory Park for not putting the number of distinctions next to each successful student’s name; and the...
I can quite understand why the SA Jewish Report would want to show the Israeli ambassador with the president of South Africa and the African National...
Yeshiva College Grade 11 history students held an assembly to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January, giving students insight into the Holocaust and emphasising...
King David High School Victory Park held a special assembly last week themed “We Remember” to commemorate International Holocaust Day on 27 January, the day Auschwitz...
The Union of Jewish Women (UJW) Johannesburg held the official opening of its new home in Percelia Estate on Sunday, 30 January, which included a celebration...
When the COVID-19 pandemic descended, Sandringham Gardens Shul was enjoying a large weekly turnout of residents and a consistently increasing number of non-residents. After the Shabbos...
(JTA) My entire adult life I have espoused and jettisoned multiple theologies and philosophies after subjecting them to the ultimate test: would they survive Auschwitz? Sometimes...
