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South African Jewish leaders and antisemitism experts are angered by anti-Israel organisation Africa4Palestine’s endorsement of the Mapping Project in Boston, Massachusetts, which has been called “antisemitic”...
When six-year-old Khayalethu Magadla fell into a sewer manhole in Soweto on 12 June 2022, Johannesburg’s Darryl Epstein felt he had to help find the little...
I won’t lie. I slumped when I heard the news. A generation of feminists my age feel like our life’s work has just been obliterated. In...
The recent ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States (Scotus) upturning Roe v. Wade has certainly set the cat amongst the pigeons. To my...
An elderly, ex-South African Jewish doctor this week recalled the perilous time when he was one of a few doctors countrywide performing illegal abortions. He risked...
The bond between Jewish South Africans and Israel is unbreakable. And the role that this community has played in various fields of South African society over...
Rhoda Kadalie, a passionate human-rights supporter, strident critic of the corruption of the South African government, and lover of Israel, was remembered at a service at...
Thirty-five-year-old Barak Lufan, the head coach of the Israeli national kayak team and father of three, died in April 2022, the day after he was shot...
Whether it be emotional or, in the case of children, developmental, the impact of mask-wearing has gone far beyond providing COVID-19 protection. And though many are...
I believe that children are the greatest gift, and I cherish my own. However, I also believe that parenting isn’t easy and it should be taken...
Six weeks after having double brain surgery, 16-year-old South African national junior swimmer, Matt Carrol, is ready to compete at the 2022 Maccabi Games in July....
When Jacqui Boyd got the call to be one of Team Maccabi South Africa’s flag bearers at the Maccabi Games in July, her lifelong dream came...
Johannesburg 74-year-old grandmaster golfer, Moshe Duek, won’t just be Team Maccabi South Africa’s oldest athlete at the Maccabi Games in July, he’ll also be the sole...
Do you lie awake at night waiting for the power to return? Do you feel anxious when the electricity remains on when according the schedule, it’s...
Team Maccabi South Africa’s padel convenor, Rob Sulcas, will be competing in his fifth Maccabi Games in his fourth sport, padel, a game making its debut...
The mental-health crisis in South Africa is leading to a loss of lives, including a spate of suicides across all ages in the Jewish community. At...
I cannot help thinking that we’ve been thrown back into the dark ages – literally – as I sit here in the dark, wondering when the...
Humanity and dignity. These two concepts need to be at the heart of all our dealings with the refugee, asylum seeker, and migrant communities. They were...
According to our sages, Korach made many valid claims about the worthiness of the Jewish people. Chief among them was that he reckoned that, as all...
The world looks at Israel as a country full of Israelis, but there is no such thing as a typical Israeli. Rather, there are about 30...
Xenophobic sentiment has become pervasive in South Africa and all too often, what begins with inflammatory rhetoric leads to direct attacks against the targeted group. One...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi Pandor has been heavily criticised for “hijacking” one of the country’s most tragic events, Youth Day, to express...
Senior Israeli officials have told Israeli travellers to get out of Istanbul, and if they can’t, to lock themselves in their hotel rooms and not open...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein has called on South African Reverend Professor Dr Jerry Pillay to “retract statements accusing Israel of apartheid and calling for a...
When activist Olga Meshoe Washington spoke in Geneva, Switzerland, in mid-June, she didn’t mince her words about how South Africa’s apartheid history was being manipulated by...
Naftali Bennett made Israeli history this week when he announced the collapse of his government on Monday, 20 June. Serving barely a year in office, no...
The 2021 local government election continued the trend of the 2016 election, with more coalition governments, more losses from the African National Congress (ANC), and more...
This is a story seldom told. Which is why on Sunday, 19 June, ChaiFM got together with Alex FM for a joint broadcast. For three hours,...
Carolyn Gad had attracted international attention, been invited to be artist-in-residence at a prestigious medical institute, and illustrated a book to raise funds for cancer research...
“Bitcoin represents something profoundly important, notwithstanding some of the scepticism that surrounds it,” says Steven Boykey Sidley, the co-founder of multiple technology companies and an award-winning...
LIFT airline co-founder Gidon Novick felt a deep sadness when it was announced that competitor Comair would be liquidated last week. It meant the death of...
My mask compliance is spotty at best. Sometimes it covers my mouth, sometimes it rests on my chin, and I invariably lower it when I’m unable...
About seven weeks ago, South African-born Mark Blankfield was walking to the doctor in Melbourne, when his phone rang. “Hi Mark, I’m Fiona from the governor’s...
To be named on the Queen’s 2022 Birthday Honours list with one of Australia’s highest civilian honours was a wonderful surprise for South African-born social entrepreneur...
“Our culinary delights are the same. No English Jew knows of perogen or taigel, but Irish and South African Jews do,” says Yanky Fachler. He discussed...
Author Tamar Hodes recently published a book called Mixed, which looks at different types of Jewish people and their lives. The SA Jewish Report spoke to...
I find it astonishing that our government or minister of international affairs and cooperation is scoring points with Hamas, a vicious group known around the Western...
A high school teacher decided to demonstrate to his class the dangers of alcohol abuse. So, he conducted an experiment. He took one glass of water...
The uprising that began in Soweto on 16 June 1976 was a turning point in South African history. It sparked off the most sustained period of...
Gary Bress was minding his own business while waiting his turn to cross a busy intersection where the traffic lights weren’t working. It was 13:15 last...
