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The high-profile extradition hearing of notorious Israeli fugitive and alleged crime kingpin Yaniv Yossi Ben Simon attracted a watertight police and military presence at the Randburg...
South African olah and Jerusalem resident Ilanit Liberman and her husband usually catch a bus to work and university every day, but on the morning of...
For music producer, songwriter, and performer Autumn Rowe, winning a Grammy for Best Album of the Year was her second-best moment, but being brought to South...
“For the past two months, the Iranian government has violently suppressed protests calling for women’s rights. It’s morally repugnant that our government would welcome the Iranian...
Sequestrated Johannesburg businessman and alleged fraudster, Martin Levick, who has evaded prosecution for many years, was this week arrested on fraud charges. Levick was arrested on...
There has been much gnashing of teeth, disappointment, and possibly equal amounts of joy in South Africa over onse (our) Charlize saying that her home language,...
No one tells you that baby girls will one day turn 12. And that for the next five years, they will love and hate you in...
When Gidon Novick took on the role of a director on the board of the Takatso Consortium at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many saw...
Kosher bagels are available for fans attending the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, thanks to New York-based Rabbi Marc Schneier and Istanbul-based Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, who...
Born in Potchefstroom and growing up in Swaziland, Wendy Fisher never dreamed that she would one day be given an award at the United Nations (UN)....
Most people who experience career disasters do their best to move on, but businessman Rael Levitt has chosen to come clean about his life story. The...
Known as “the saint of the townships”, Helen Lieberman, the founder of Ikamva Labantu, delivers social support services to township communities. Meaning “future of the people”,...
Jewish Greek American Dr Albert Bourla knew that his multinational corporation, Pfizer, had saved the world when he heard that the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine had a...
“The field of sport and exercise medicine is about getting people to perform at their best. It’s a challenge and a balancing act which sometimes I...
Advocate Carol Steinberg reflected on the importance of speaking out against injustice when she accepted the Europcar Women in Leadership Award at the Absa Jewish Achievers...
The man behind some of the most recognisable buildings along the Sandton skyline, architect Anthony Orelowitz, has always had vision. In accepting the Art, Sport, Science,...
Grant Friedman and brothers Justin and Greg Blend of Africrest Properties took a gutsy move at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it paid off....
“We ultimately have choices. We can allow ourselves to become immobilised by a sense of hopelessness, or somehow draw on our inner strength and provide support...
“There are many successful and talented nominees here today. I really can’t see how I deserve to stand out,” said Rob Leon, 38, the youngest ever...
“I’m overwhelmed with emotion,” said the owner of Fremax Farms, Fred Kadish, aka the potato king of South Africa, on receiving the Absa Business Icon Award...
A celebration with a difference, this year’s Absa Jewish Achiever Awards moved from traditional formality to a vibrant party atmosphere. Honouring hundreds of nominees and 10...
There’s no “Start 101” school that teaches you how to create a business, the secret is just to start, says entrepreneur Miles Kubheka. “It’s 90% showing...
Though some may have lost hope in the future of South Africa and the Jewish community, others are looking to the next 180 years and beyond....
The holy day of Shabbat is intimately related to the concept of blessing. Hashem blessed the Shabbat. The rabbis call it the source of blessing. Shabbat...
Do you feel the heaviness, which has weighed us down for much of this year, lifting? Are you still feeling the darkness brought on by loadshedding?...
This week, I attended my first World Jewish Congress (WJC) executive committee meeting in Rome. It was a remarkable experience meeting contemporaries from around the world...
Each year the South African Jewish Report honours nine remarkable South Africans who are building the post Apartheid South Africa. This year the Absa Jewish Achiever...
World-renowned antisemitism expert Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt has confirmed that the cartoon that led to the SA Jewish Report leaving the South African Press Council was, without...
“Israel was everything to Eli, and Eli was everything to Israel,” Eli Kay’s father, Avi Kay, told people gathered in the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael – Jewish...
Almost everyone who has visited Istanbul would recognise the busy pedestrian street near Taksim Square where a bomb exploded on 13 November, killing six and injuring...
A Johannesburg man is “lucky to be alive” after being kidnapped and brutally beaten for nearly three days when a person he met through an online...
A few days ago, I had the privilege of meeting Professor Deborah Lipstadt, the United States special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism, after her keynote...
“I really do worry about [Benjamin or Bibi] Netanyahu’s ability to control the tiger he has ridden in on. A challenge not to be underestimated,” tweeted...
Antisemitism is on the rise throughout the world, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the United States (US) Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, told the audience at...
The team which won the 13-year case against Bongani Masuku had the challenge of proving that Masuku’s statements targeting the Jewish community were antisemitic although he...
The new South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) Gauteng Council is focusing its attention on improving the South African Jewish community and broader South African...
Much like Padel, summer camp is all the rage. What started when we were young, with parents finding an old “trommel”, throwing in a few odds...
COP27 (the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC) in Egypt from 6 to 18 November...
Brent Lindeque isn’t Jewish, but he has discovered he has a deep connection to the Jewish state. This South African writer, radio host, speaker, and founder...
It was just a momentary sense during lockdown in 2020 that led Michalya Schonwald Moss to finding a long lost cousin who had survived the Holocaust...
