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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, Johannesburg interior architect Kim Kur decided to form a circle of support to get South Africans home. But in...
JTA – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s direct and emotional appeal to the world’s Jews on Wednesday, 2 March 2022, marked something of a departure for him....
An unlikely yet beautiful friendship has formed after 40 years between a former schoolyard bully and his defenceless victim, which carries a message of reconciliation and...
As much of the world unites in support of Ukraine, many in our community are looking for ways to assist those still in the Eastern European...
COVID-19 brought a halt to face-to-face interaction in many fields, but not the game of klaberjass, which participants are playing more frequently than ever and challenging...
This Shabbos, we take out two Torah scrolls. From the second, we read, “Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt,...
Leaving your family home with a small bag with the bare essentials and battling for days to reach a border to flee your country of birth,...
Between images of bombed buildings, desperate refugees and injured soldiers and civilians, it’s easy to see why our children may be distressed by the war in...
“The message of this book is to use the things you’ve been given – or the things you haven’t – to make your contribution and step...
“Life expands and contracts in proportion to one’s courage. That makes building your bravery, flexing your courage muscle, a sure path to self-growth and personal development.”...
South African teacher Johan Nel had a draining and dangerous journey to escape war-torn Ukraine. He recounted his experience at a SA Jewish Report webinar on...
The president, executive committee and members of the Union of Jewish Women South Africa express their deepest dismay and horror at the tragedy unfolding in the...
I’m not irritated at Mr Stern for having an opinion in the letters column (SA Jewish Report, 3 March 2022), neither am I irritated about him...
At King David Victory Park High School, we study Maus in Grade 9. It was with great interest that I read the recent article regarding the...
I’m a rebel. Finally. After 53 boring years, I have now become a lawbreaker. And it makes me feel alive. Until it kills me. And then...
When Nelson Mandela delivered the keynote address at the 1993 South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) national conference, he commented on how many anti-apartheid activists...
Yeshiva Girls’ High School’s Shabbaton at Sarabi Lodge was a weekend like no other. Starting with uplifting davening and hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar ב last...
Torah Academy Grade 2 boys last week helped Yad Aharon & Michael to pack food parcels for those in need. The boys assisted the food fund...
Mina Lopato Nursery School in Johannesburg has introduced brag bracelets to reinforce the behaviour the school wants to encourage. Children wear the bracelets home to show...
It was the sudden death of his twin and fellow educator at the end of last year that made Jeffrey Wolf decide to retire from teaching...
Almost a million Israelis are former citizens of the Soviet Union, most of whom arrived in the 1990s. However, in Israel, they are still considered olim...
As the Russian invasion plunges Europe into war and Ukraine struggles against the might of the former Red Amy for survival, we dive head first into...
A man gets his wife and baby into their car at the crack of dawn while bombs fall around him. In a state of shock, he...
Bongani Masuku, who was found guilty of hate speech by the Constitutional Court last month, has finally apologised to the Jewish community after many years of...
The South African government, the ruling party, and anti-Israel lobbyists have embarked on a campaign to keep the now upstaged pro-Palestinian narrative alive during one of...
There’s a brutal war going on in this world in which civilians – including children – are being murdered. At the last count, close to 300...
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in South Africa’s latest attempt to stifle freedom of expression has failed. The movement tried to stop Israeli artists from...
Four men living in South Africa have been identified by the United States (US) as allegedly being involved in terrorist activities across the country and on...
As the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolds, Western countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union bloc have imposed sanctions on...
The pictures coming out of Ukraine are devastating, heartbreaking, and beyond justification. No-one supports war. At least I don’t. I’ve seen it up-close and in the...
The Odessa opera house was full of the great and the good on 24 August last year, when the Black Sea port, Ukraine’s third largest city,...
(JTA) In launching his war on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared his goal was the “denazification” of the country – referring specifically to his allegations...
(JTA) Rabbi Aaron Motuz fled Odessa on the night of 24 February aboard several buses with about 200 other community members in defiance of a government-mandated...
(JTA) Four years ago, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was an actor on the humorous Ukrainian TV show Servant of the People, starring as an unlikely president of the...
Harold “Smoky” Simon passed away this week in Herzliya just short of his 102nd birthday. He left a significant legacy as one of the founders and...
A brilliant strategist, champion of chess, scientist, and devastating squash player, Eddie Price was deeply loved. He died on 26 February after a long illness. He...
In the midst of the Ukraine-Russian war in Eastern Europe this week, an elderly Ukrainian-born woman who served as a doctor in the Red Army died...
School uniforms are something our institutions inherited from this country’s British colonial past, but are they helping or hindering students and their parents? The SA Jewish...
With ever-changing COVID-19 travel regulations, family reunions have been repeatedly delayed. Now that most international borders have reopened, many are finally getting the chance to see...
The rate of suicide, divorce, addiction, and depression has accelerated in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and community members are in dire need of support....
