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At the time of writing, we were looking ahead with much anticipation to this coming weekend’s annual Limmud festival in Johannesburg. Each year, Limmud offers our...
The growing affable relationship between South Africa and the Islamic Republic of Iran is distressing in the latter’s ongoing determination to destroy Israel. This reared its...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an international organisation that combats antisemitism and other forms of racism, has criticised Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) after...
For most of his adult life, Stephen “Sugar” Segerman believed that his musical idol, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, was dead. The tale of how Segerman and others...
“I was getting pretty irritated with being in South Africa and everyone complaining about the African National Congress government and, quite honestly, doing nothing about it,”...
Spoiler alert: If you still plan to watch this series, you may want to do so before reading this. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a Netflix...
Having witnessed and enjoyed the magnificence of Maui island in Hawaii, South African-born Rabbi Michoel Goldman was horrified to hear of the devastation wrought by wildfires...
The sad irony of last week’s taxi strike is that the only parties who benefited were those it was intended to punish and confront. The leadership...
The Santaco (the South African National Taxi Council) seven-day stayaway in the Western Cape last week following the City of Cape Town’s allegedly unfair impounding of...
Confronting disease, loss, and addiction, five women shared their inspiring stories of courage and determination at a Union of Jewish Women Women’s Day breakfast last week....
Jewish women faced a “double risk” in trying to survive the Holocaust, Dr Yaron Nir Freisager told the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, citing various testimonials....
I’m not qualified to write about cannabis. I have no experience with it, and have never even been tempted to give it a try. It might...
It’s not often people celebrating their 100th birthday do so with a speech and a commitment to providing a bursary for a young Jewish person to...
From a place to buy meat to a meeting place for South African olim, Ra’anana’s iconic Meatland has been a beloved institution for South African olim...
Oozing effortless rock-star charm, world-renowned blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Dan Patlansky says that for him, music is a calling. Named the fourth best guitarist in...
Soprano singer and storyteller Leigh Nudelman Sussman is showcasing the Yiddish songs of trailblazing female stars. The SA Jewish Report caught up with her. What drew...
Two Yeshiva College pupils, Reuven Crouse and Binyamin Sandler, have been selected to play volleyball for the South African Under-18 side. They were selected following their...
Team South Africa returned triumphant from the JCC Maccabi Games in Fort Lauderdale in August, with its dancers winning gold for their Israel dancing performance choreographed...
A chassid left his home shtetl for business purposes. Swiftly, he realised that his chassidic attire seemed entirely out of place amidst the bustling trade fairs...
Our minds are wired to avoid dwelling on the painful times in our past. It’s a relief on the one hand because it means we can...
In my previous column, I expanded on the various ways in which the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) works to ensure that Jewish religious...
Each year, Ann Nurock, one of the great gurus of South African advertising, attends the Cannes Lions Awards and brings back the coolest, trendiest, zaniest, and...
The holidays of two Israeli families visiting Cape Town turned into living nightmares when their vehicles were stoned in the chaos of the taxi strike that...
After successfully leading the campaign for the official downgrade of the South African embassy in Israel, National Freedom Party (NFP) MP Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam still...
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has vowed to cut all ties with Israel should his party be voted into power after next year’s general...
The taxi strike that brought Cape Town to a standstill this week, interrupting the economy, service delivery, healthcare, education, and even the food supply chain, has...
Well-known alleged Israeli crime kingpin Yaniv Ben Simon, arrested in a high-profile international crime swoop in Johannesburg last year together with seven other Israelis, remains in...
Last week, Robert Bowers (50) received a death sentence for murdering 11 people with an automatic rifle in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United...
D was 13 years old, a Barmitzvah boy, when his family had to leave South Africa, and they immigrated to Israel. Now, those voices and sights...
For almost 40 years, Zimbabwean Brian Brom has wondered what happened to the Torah his father leined from as head of the tiny Gwelo (now Gwero)...
As much as you try to understand the ways in which teens and children use technology and social media, the ever-growing disparity between yourselves and your...
It seems particularly fitting that Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, a film that tackles feminism in often surprising ways, has this week reached the $1 billion (R18.6 billion)...
There needs to be an Idiot’s Guide to Death and Mourning. Not for the mourners necessarily, but for those who insist on making the lives of...
A South African family’s determination to retrace its German ancestors’ steps before the Holocaust has unearthed valuable archival material and introduced never-before-seen family members. It all...
When Sydenham Shul’s Rabbi Yehuda Stern drove into the Shell Garage in Sandringham last week, he wasn’t expecting to be greeted with the words, “Shalom, boker...
Whether they live in places with minimal access to Jewish life or have a connection to a specific shul or teacher far away, some boys literally...
The COVID-19 pandemic and electricity crisis have pushed many creatives in our community – especially those who require an audience – to the limit, but for...
Corruption, crime, maladministration, economic woes, Eskom – there’s no escaping the negativity that pervades South Africa’s news headlines. Yet, there’s another South African story, one of...
When Capetonian David Nivison (23) decided to give up his studies and try his hand at filmmaking, it was a huge risk. Never did he imagine...
Israeli actor and director, Roy Horovitz, had just arrived in South Africa to perform Do I win, or do I lose? when the SA Jewish Report...
