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The wonderful thing about a Shabbat morning walk from Glenhazel to Waverley, aside from the time to catch up with one’s wife, is the number of...
“She has to have blue eyes.” “He must daven three times a day.” Igniting discussion about dating idiosyncrasies, Netflix show Jewish Matchmaking also highlights what sets...
What began as the inconvenience of infrequent loadshedding in the early 2000s has become a crisis of daily power cuts, escalating demands on business and undermining...
“It’s the end of an era,” says Judge Dennis Davis, on the passing of his friend of 45 years, Benjamin Rabinowitz. Fondly known as “Ben” or...
Pianist Amit Yahav is only 35, but he has already won multiple awards and is in demand worldwide as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist....
Acclaimed opera singer Aviva Pelham has performed around the world, bridging many genres. The SA Jewish Report speaks to her as she releases her autobiography, My...
Restaurants advertise all the time, but few market three-course kosher meals for “up to R72 if you can, free if you can’t”. Such was a recent...
“Behind the mask of every soldier – German, South African, Jewish – lies a human being. We can never forget what real people went through fighting...
Acclaimed South African author, journalist, and academic, Professor Jonny Steinberg, recently launched his latest book, Winnie & Nelson – Portrait of a Marriage. The SA Jewish...
Steven Gruzd isn’t just a political analyst and contributor to the SA Jewish Report, he’s also the reigning Scrabble Masters and Collins Cup champion. This accomplished...
This week, we read the parsha of Bamidbar in which we learn about G-d commanding Moshe to take a census of the Jewish people in the...
It’s truly astonishing how easily history is rewritten to suit people’s personal rhetoric, and the impact of bias on the value of life. Israel is still...
This year, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) marks 120 years of serving the South African Jewish community. The history of the Board is...
Yom Yerushalayim, also known as Jerusalem Day, commemorates the reunification of east and west Jerusalem following the Six-Day War of 1967. Thursday, 19 May, marks 56...
Tzivos Hashem South Africa’s national Pirkei Avot Arts & Culture competition has taken off again this year, with Jewish kids being given the opportunity to share...
EL AL has launched EL AL Protect, a flexible addition to your ticket that enables ticket cancellations for any reason. EL AL Protect is launching at...
Power outages resulting from the effect of loadshedding on stressed and old infrastructure are causing mayhem in Johannesburg, and are unlikely to improve soon. Frail care...
The Lithuanian government is openly encouraging South African Litvaks (Jews of Lithuanian descent) to claim Lithuanian passports if they are eligible to do so, however the...
A year ago, sporty, fun-loving Johannesburg teenager Gavi Waksman remembers watching Formula 1 Grand Prix on television in the lounge after completing his homework. He recalls...
“We have our granddaughters here, three and five years old, so I have to act brave,” said South African olah Jolleen Hayon, from her home town...
At the beginning of the present century, a new movement calling itself BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) emerged on the international scene. Its core aim is to...
In recent months, the Cape Town Jewish community has been confronted by provocative anti-Israel protests, whereas Johannesburg, with a much larger Jewish community, hasn’t experienced the...
In the early 2000s, two small, round, cement-like disks, with numbers written on them, were donated to the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC). Many...
What does six million actually look like? And what would it be like to contemplate each life extinguished in the Holocaust, marking their loss in some...
Vivat Rex! A king has been crowned! Seventy years after the historic coronation of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles was crowned in Westminster...
JTA – Perhaps the strangest part was sitting through a Sunday service in the 1 000-year-old nave of St Albans Cathedral (the longest nave in England)...
Mother’s Day is the one day a year when I don’t miss my late mom. Not because we weren’t close, and not because I didn’t want...
“The most transformative type of education is ‘teaching without teaching’,” said Professor Thuli Madonsela. “It’s what we learn from our teachers without them consciously setting out...
We cannot control or predict what the future holds for our children, but by connecting with them and building loving relationships, we can give them the...
When Dani Bergman connected with Shaun Civin on the new Netflix show Jewish Matchmaking, they already had one important thing in common: both their families came...
“Part of the motivation of going to AfrikaBurn is to show my kids that you can keep Shabbat wherever you are,” says Karen Kallmann. “In a...
Photographic artist Caroline Suzman has an exhibition, I Declare I am Here, at the Wits Art Museum. The SA Jewish Report speaks to her about it....
For the first time since Israel’s establishment, the ministry of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism has decided that non-Israeli victims of antisemitic terror attacks in the...
No-one can fill the void of losing your mother, but having a special woman in your life who plays a similar role is priceless. This Mother’s...
The Parsha of Bechukotai contains the tragedies and punishments that G-d threatens to bring upon the Jewish people if they stray from the dictates of the...
Do you remember how in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, we got so used to living with masks on that we felt naked without one?...
The coronation over the weekend of King Charles III was a leading news story even in countries with little or no affiliation to Great Britain. The...
The senseless death of a Johannesburg doctor who was fatally knocked over by a truck while trying to warn motorists of a pothole last week has...
The story of Prime, an international range of sports drinks initially selling for upwards of R800, began in South Africa with King David High School Linksfield...
One of Lithuania’s most controversial plaques – for Litvaks (Jews descended from Lithuania) anyway – was overnight no longer in its pride of place in Vilnius,...
