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As 750 Harley Davidson riders gathered for their first Montagu Rally in three years from 9 to 12 February, so too did the sprinkling of Jewish...
Acclaimed British fictionalised biography writer Louisa Treger recently released her fourth book, Madwoman, on the life of iconic investigative reporter Nellie Bly. The SA Jewish Report...
As South Africans fear that their country is about to be greylisted, the reality is that we’ve been facing international scrutiny for years, and our businesses...
“If a master beats his servant and causes the damage of a tooth, eye, or limb, then the servant must immediately be released.” (Shemot 21:26-27) The...
When I heard that ZAKA South Africa was heading to Turkey on a search and rescue mission, I was overcome with pride. I had a sense...
The South African Rugby Union (SARU) continues to come under heavy fire locally and internationally for its decision to withdraw an invitation to the Tel Aviv...
Hirsch Lyons Grade 6s brighten up school Pupils in Hirsch Lyons’ Grade 6 class received their monitor badges at an assembly on 10 February. Their first...
King David high schools recently hosted The Galilee Dreamers, a group of 20 Israeli school children representing Jewish and Arab communities, who visited the schools as...
The head of SA Rugby was bullied by anti-Israel “human rights” lobbyists, and given an ultimatum to withdraw the organisation’s invitation to an Israeli rugby team...
JTA – Israel is sending aid to Turkey and Syria in the wake of two earthquakes on 6 February, one 7.8 and one 7.5 in magnitude,...
JTA – After initially sounding the all clear in the hours after a devastating earthquake on Monday, 6 February, the Turkish Jewish community now says that...
In the space of less than 24 hours on 2 February, there was a sea change in relations between Israel and two predominantly Muslim African states...
South Africa experienced a perfect storm last week when a marketing campaign with a “gigantinormous” price tag collided with a situation in which there appears to...
It has been a week of high drama and headlines at South African Tourism (SAT) following leaked information about a controversial proposed multi-million rand deal with...
It’s recommended that certain people get yet another booster shot of the vaccine, and questions abound as to why – or if – this is necessary....
This should probably contain a trigger warning. Sensitive viewers might be offended. But honestly, when did rugby players become such wimps? Such cowards? What happened to...
Israel’s supporters have long claimed that it’s “the only democracy in the Middle East”. But a new study by the United Kingdom-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)...
One month after the gas tanker explosion on 24 December that rocked the lives of the Boksburg community, I went with our team working on the...
Tu B’Shvat translates in English to the 15th day of the Hebrew month Shevat, and is the day we celebrate the birthday of fruit trees. The...
In spite of a possible backlash from the anti-Israel lobby, two South African artists have decided to share their genius with Israeli audiences in 2023. Former...
When Steven Feifke’s parents emigrated to the Unites States (US) from South Africa three years before he was born, they took their piano with them. It...
When teachers arrived back to school this year, they found “their world had been turned upside down” with ChatGPT having infiltrated their classrooms, according to Shaun...
Who would have thought it possible to detect cancer with just a drop of blood? Or to make sense of the sequencing of the genome of...
When Susan Clapper (nee Eichmann) was a little girl, she was sent away from her parents, never to see them again. That journey saved her life,...
Hatzolah has confirmed a measles outbreak in a school “in the area” amidst a nationwide outbreak. To date, 441 laboratory-confirmed measles cases have been reported across...
They grab the same tomato at the supermarket, she crashes into him, he goes to the wrong table on a blind date. Typically occurring in movies,...
When I heard news of the earthquake that hit Turkey earlier this week, my first thought was whether there were any Jews living there. Antakya –...
This Torah portion is named after Jethro, the chief idolatrous priest of his time, who eventually joined the ranks of the Jews. Rashi says it was...
Of all the international Jewish organisations with which the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has had close working relationships over the decades, the Hebrew...
Just more than 30 years ago, a Jewish couple got married in Cape Town. The bride was Mary Menell and the groom, Jeffrey (Jeff) Zients. Nelson...
The granddaughter of South African olim was stationed at an army base just 5m away from the senseless terror attack in Jerusalem on 27 January, International...
While Israel still officially has observer status at the African Union (AU), it’s unlikely to be allowed to attend the organisation’s annual summit in Addis Ababa,...
In a week, the city of Johannesburg has gone from being led by an educated, eloquent friend of the Jewish community to one that believes in...
Recent deadly Palestinian terror assaults that killed seven Israelis including a 14-year-old boy in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighbourhood, and in the City of David just outside...
A raging home fire last Shabbos in the heart of the frum community brought together neighbours and communal emergency workers in an heroic effort. What was...
The new Israeli government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has committed itself to judicial reform, which has become a populist cause in the country, said...
I wanted to tell you an AI (artificial intelligence)-generated Jewish joke about AI. Written in the style of Winston Churchill, or even better, Spinoza or Freud,...
If you squint your eyes while looking into the sun, you might imagine that the gold reef mine dumps that are dotted around the city are...
The Holocaust evokes nightmarish imagery: depraved medical experiments, asphyxiation in gas chambers, emaciated walking skeletons. One subject that has been consistently difficult to discuss, however, is...
Human rights across the globe have been threatened by people with ill intentions. We must recognise this, and counteract it appropriately, António Guterres, the United Nations...
