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In one week, we went from the triumph of the rule of law with the arrest of former President, Jacob Zuma, to mass looting and violence...
It’s one thing for the South African government to have an anti-Israel stance, but it’s a whole different ball game when the department of international relations...
Israeli marketing guru Klil Kimhi (32) was enjoying a swim at a party in Karmei Yosef (central Israel) on 21 July when the unthinkable happened: a...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has criticised a particularly ugly post by local extremists Africa4Palestine (A4P) which the SAJBD said clearly showed the...
“It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Jewish community since World War II, and remains the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentinian history,” said Harold...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor this week called on the world to join South Africa in its fight against Israel “until victory is...
Last Monday, our firm, like so many other businesses in South Africa, celebrated Mandela Day, a tribute to the country’s revered former leader and distinguished international...
As much as I love my wife, I’m very happy to not sit next to her at shul. And as much as I might like other...
A Hassidic tale tells of a rabbi who used to dip in the river every morning. One day, the new local policeman sees him diving into...
After three emigrations in less than two years, 12-year-old Doris “Dossy” Ehrenstein (who became Lurie) arrived in South Africa with her mother. They were destitute, but...
Polish-born Miriam (nee Teitelbaum) Lichterman would have been 100 in September had she not passed away on 18 July. With her long life, she graciously defied...
South Africa’s Maccabi rugby team is bringing home gold after it overwhelmed the Great Britain team by 33 to 6 in front of a record crowd...
South Africa’s junior cricket team won gold at the 2022 Maccabi Games for the fifth consecutive time since the introduction of junior cricket to the Jewish...
South Africa obtained two gold medals in the 1.5km open swimming at the Maccabi Games on 24 July, with matric student Hannah Robertson winning the open...
South African tennis star Jacqui Boyd has now won a total of nine Maccabiah medals, including seven golds. In this year’s Maccabi Games, her fifth time...
“You experience almost a spiritual feeling while surfing in the sea. Every wave is totally different. You need the creativity to pull off different types of...
OPEN TRACK AND FIELD: Adam Lipschitz defended his 10km run in Jerusalem in a time of 31:37 (winning gold). MASTERS GOLF: Moshe Duek won gold in...
He’s the great-grandson of the reviver of modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. He’s descended from a long line of writers and journalists. But Gil Hovav is very...
I take offence to the money I diligently hand over every month in taxes being spent on a foreign embassy when so many of our fellow...
Sequestrated businessman Martin Levick has paid back most of the money he took from an elderly couple after he promised to invest their life savings and...
When a newborn, abandoned baby was miraculously picked up by a Johannesburg couple walking home one Shabbos night, it not only heralded the start of a...
As the SA Jewish Report opens nominations for Jewish Achiever Awards 2022, we recognise the incredible calibre of people who have won in the past and...
Out of the darkness always comes a light far brighter than if there had been no darkness. And so it is with the Jewish Achiever Awards...
As a child in Johannesburg, Dr Ian Froman refused to go to kindergarten until they set up a place where he could play tennis in the...
The terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Centre in Buenos Aires in July 1994 was a watershed moment in modern Jewish history. The atrocity, in...
One of the most popular Jewish teachings is from the Mishna, that says, “When the month of Adar enters, we increase our joy.” And so, as...
As KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng erupted into political, social, and criminal violence and looting – we want to understand what’s happening on the ground. Was...
“Should South Africans be tolerant of Zionists is a question we have yet to answer as a society because some could equate them with South Africans...
It was an emotional moment for Israel Premier Tech (IPT) cyclist Hugo Houle when he won Stage 16 of the Tour de France (TDF). The Canadian...
“They arrested me, hanged me from the ceiling, beat me up and interrogated me for five days,” says a gay Gaza Palestinian now living in exile...
A group of senior, experienced and committed leaders have formed an advisory group in Cape Town, calling themselves The Elders Group, to guide the community through...
Twelve years in prison was the sentence that a former senior executive of El Al’s security division received on Tuesday, 19 July, for his part in smuggling...
While South Africa continues to shun and slate Israel at every turn and has discouraged high-level political visits to the Jewish State, US President Joe Biden...
Last Sunday was World Emoji Day, but don’t panic: there’s still time to join in the fun. In fact, you probably already are, every hour of...
I think I might have scurvy. It’s day number four in the Kruger and I am starting to fantasise about fruit and vegetables. I dreamed last...
Team South Africa won its first gold medal of the ongoing Maccabi Games when its lone golfer, Johannesburg-based 74-year-old Moshe Duek, won the individual net competition...
Matric pupil Hannah Robertson has won four medals, including two golds, for South Africa at the ongoing Maccabi Games. This St Andrew’s School for Girls scholar...
Professional runner Durbanite Adam Lipschitz defended his 10km title in Jerusalem on 18 July at the Maccabi Games, crossing the finish line ahead of about 2...
South Africans are being pitted against South African expats or their children at the Maccabi Games and for some, this poses a small conflict of interest...
Prior to the opening ceremony of the 21st Maccabi Games (MG), an experienced Israeli squad beat a young SA Sevens rugby squad 12-5 in a closely...
