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I try not to take it personally but sometimes, in my darkest moments, I suspect that Naledi Pandor doesn’t love me. It happens in the small...
The Marikana massacre, which took place exactly 10 years ago on 16 August 2012, was a horrific watershed moment for post-apartheid South Africa. It was the...
Comedian Claudine Herman (formerly Ullman) is a finalist in Mrs South Africa. The SA Jewish Report caught up with her in the run-up to the big...
The Absa Jewish Achiever Awards 2022 is going to be the party of the decade. In previous years, we have had delectable dining – if a...
We have a lot to be grumpy about, but if you think a little further than that superficial grumpiness, we have so much to be grateful...
I like a good advert. Some years ago, McDonald’s was running a campaign, and in the centre of the full-magazine page was a big, fat, juicy...
After a two-year hiatus, Cycalive is back on the roads. This bridge-building initiative departed from the Nelson Mandela Foundation on Sunday, 14 August, with cyclists making...
Since its founding 14 years ago, Limmud has provided our community with an unrivalled array of outstanding local and international speakers presenting on topics relating to...
“Blumenthal is a vision of vigor and faith” – New York Times. This is the edited version of the show without the documentary movie included –...
“Massacre, carnage, butchering, and ethnic cleansing,” were just some of the ways that the African National Congress (ANC) described Israel’s defensive actions in Gaza over the...
A community hero who had been in a coma for three years after tragically being stung by bees was this week laid to rest. Father of...
Few shuls in South Africa can celebrate 40 years with the same rabbi and rebbetzin. Chabad of Sandton is one of them, with Rabbi Yossie and...
The Mandela name is associated with human rights, so it would make sense that awarding the late president’s grandson an award would be reason to celebrate....
The Anglican Church made a conciliatory statement regarding Israel this week following outwardly antagonistic statements made by the organisation in the recent past. In 2019, the...
The site of the Iron Dome upon a hill in Modiin is comforting yet fills me with dread. Israelis know that when Iron Dome batteries are...
Israel’s relationship with Jewish communities around the world is now “more of a two-way street”, says Sam Grundwerg, the world chairperson of Keren Hayesod United Israel...
It’s almost six months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February. Israel has opened its doors and heart to 32 000 Ukrainian and...
It has taken the African National Congress (ANC) 14 years to not solve the electricity crises. It has taken it 30 years not to address land...
JTA – Olivia Newton-John, the iconic pop singer of the 1970s and 1980s, died at her home in Southern California on Monday of the breast cancer...
Walking away is the toughest but often the most empowering thing to do for a woman living with an abusive partner – and they don’t have...
Who better to give advice on love and marriage than those who have successfully weathered storms together for more than 50 and in some cases 60...
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape SAJBD) has decided to accept a formal apology from Chief Aùtshumao Mackie, a member of the Western...
They have almost 79 000 ancestors and descendants and count among their relatives Barbra Streisand, Billy Crystal, Bob Dylan, Bette Midler, Gene Wilder, Kirk and Michael...
The Eternal Scholar portrait photographic exhibition portrays the life and loves of Arnold Castle. The SA Jewish Report spoke to his daughter, Elana Castle. What drew...
Simeon Hurwitz, the co-owner of Hurwitz Farming, didn’t expect his farm’s eight-year-old Boran bull, named Jumbo, to be sold for a record-breaking price of R2.3 million...
Seventy-year-old Johannesburg lawn bowler, Desiree Levin, couldn’t walk 10 years ago, so winning bronze at the Commonwealth Games on 3 August was “beyond her wildest dreams”....
If South Africa’s National Intelligence Agency confirmed that a dangerous and violent organisation, which was well known around the world for its terrorist activities, was planning...
Tisha B’Av is a day that the Jewish Amoraim attributed to the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem as punishment from G-d for the baseless hatred...
Diaspora Jewry has learned to brace itself for the inevitable backlash whenever conflict erupts between Israel and its neighbours. Over the past 15 years, most of...
A Jewish mother whose weeks’ old baby boy was kept from her by her abusive, estranged lover, last week won the right to equal contact with...
The ruling party firmly placed itself in opposition to Israel while at the same time setting up camp with “rogue” nations like Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Syria,...
The kidnapping of a Jewish mother in Cape Town has shaken the community to its core. The woman, who cannot be named at this point, is...
The South African Chinese community has expressed gratitude to the Jewish community for supporting it during a protracted hate-speech matter in which it emerged victorious last...
“The South African Jewish community is important to the state of Israel and the country values its support,” says Ambassador Belaynesh Zevadia, the head of the...
“Rabbi, I dare you to give me a convincing argument why I should bother to fast on Tisha B’Av. Just don’t get too preachy and guilt-mongering...
Little did Brian Lurie know that, at the time of his death, a search was going on which would result in information that would alter his...
Though many of us have moved on from the COVID-19 pandemic, some families are still embroiled in its devastating effects. Cape Town mother Lauri Berman’s family...
We may mark Women’s Day this Tuesday, 9 August, but the reality is that most women still have to fight that much harder to attain success,...
According to my on-board computer, I have 38km left in the tank and I’m not in a good way. It’s Monday afternoon, and I’m playing “chicken”...
The victory of South Africa’s women’s football team, Banyana Banyana, at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations on 23 July shows that women have a place...
