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A humanitarian crisis is brewing in Gauteng after the Gauteng Department of Social Development (DSD) made a unilateral decision to re-allocate millions of rands towards substance...
In the run-up to Israel’s 75th Yom Ha’atzmaut this week, Israeli President Isaac Herzog announced the establishment of consultations among world Jewry to precede the launch...
It happens once every seven years. Marking Hakhel, an auspicious time to assemble men, women, and children to encourage Torah observance and study, Chabad’s Unity in...
World Rugby has accepted the claim by the South African Rugby Union (SARU) that it rescinded its invitation to Israeli rugby team Tel Aviv Heat because...
Amid the darkness from the loadshedding that swept through Glenhazel on Tuesday evening, 25 April, beams of light emanated from Yeshiva College as the Jewish community...
A Capetonian artist and a South African oleh have combined forces to create a unique series portraying 12 Israeli prime ministers as they’ve never been seen...
A few years ago, an important shift occurred in the distribution of world Jewry. Israel became the country with the world’s largest Jewish population, taking over...
For many Jews, it was but a dream to rebuild their nation after 2 000 years in exile. When the opportunity arose in 1948, the Jewish...
Before Israeli water-tech company BlueGreen Water Technologies intervened at Setumo Dam on the Molopo River in South Africa’s North West Province in 2020, the water had...
I believe it is a privilege to have been born before 1948. As contentious as that may sound, let me explain why. I take tours of...
Sharon Shtrachman will never forget that awful moment in 2015 when she and her husband, Miki, received the call to say that their daughter, Lee (now...
Once again, South Africa leads the world. And this time it’s in the vexing area of gender assignment. The debate around gender can finally be solved....
Since the declaration of the state of Israel in May 1948 – 75 years ago – 24 213 men and women have died defending the Jewish...
“Even before the state of Israel existed, the Jewish people paid a heavy price, the heaviest price of all, for our land,” Israeli Ambassador Eli Belotsercovsky...
It’s hard to imagine a world without a Jewish state, but for most of Jewish history, this was the reality. Yet a small number of our...
To celebrate Israel’s 75th birthday, the SA Jewish Report asked school children why Israel is important to us this Yom Ha’atzmaut. Here is a selection of...
As a prominent Jewish youth movement, Habonim Dror Southern Africa has a love and connection with Israel. Our constitution says it best when it recognises Israel...
There’s nowhere quite like the land of Israel. The air there is different – not just in the way that it’s thick and humid in summer...
A woman in Poland and a young Capetonian girl are unlikely to have anything in common. But Rachel Ancer and Magda Lewandowska are “a match made...
Well known Johannesburg Chabad rabbi, David Masinter, took a trip down memory lane when he heard of the recent passing of his long-time friend, legendary MAD...
I’m told that the moment of birth is painful, bloody, and messy. So, too, was the birth of our democracy in South Africa. More than 300...
Space, psychiatry, chocolate, politics, and more. The impact South African olim have had on Israel is immense. “South Africans have made a contribution to Israel a...
When Theodor Herzl envisioned the modern Jewish state in our ancient homeland, he had a plan for how it would look. More than that, he thought...
Cape Town author Joanne Jowell recently launched her latest biography, I am Ella, about Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal. The SA Jewish Report speaks to her about...
My favourite Israeli word – the one that best sums up the spirit of the place, its hustle, bustle, and jostle, its teeming intersection of cultures,...
Sought-after Tel Aviv chef Danna-Lee Berman (32) is about to open her own restaurant in the heart of Tel Aviv, and is bringing her African heritage...
South African photojournalist Ilan Ossendryver, who has lived in Israel and visited it many times over the past 25 years, shows the country’s growth through his...
Who is holy? Is it the mystic in the mountains, the monk in the monastery, or the guru in the garage? Perhaps it’s the lady with...
I read on social media this week that on Yom Hashoah, we’re reminded of what happened when we didn’t have a Jewish state and Yom Hazikaron...
This week, our community joined fellow Jews the world over in celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut. Every such anniversary is a special occasion, of course, but what made...
For our 150th broadcast, on the eve of Freedom Day, as we celebrate 28 years of democracy, we come face to face with South Africa’s reality....
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has expressed “hurt and dismay” over the “deafening silence” by the department of international relations and cooperation (DIRCO)...
The wife of award-winning retired journalist, author, and poet, Jeremy Gordin, said he was “the love of her life”, and the family was battling to pick...
Men, women, and children encircle an Israeli flag and set it on fire while shouting “one Zionist, one bullet” and “death to Israel”. Flags of terrorist...
JTA – The journalist arrested in Russia last month and the Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy are among the 10 Jewish members of Time Magazine’s “100 most...
Many innovations have originated in Israel, but whisky isn’t one that immediately comes to mind in the land of milk and honey. However, when the World...
Conspiracy theories work. Not just as clickbait but as political instruments. And when lies generate violence and reap rewards for their propagators, fanatics like the Hamas...
Jewish Advocate Glynnis Breytenbach is leading the way in uncovering the large-scale corruption and incompetence that allowed convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester to stage an...
Next week, the world’s only Jewish state celebrates 75 years since her rebirth in 1948. We honour 75 years of Jewish self-determination and freedom in our...
It’s been a month since the University of Cape Town (UCT) allowed members of terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to address students on...
