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Forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal has just brought out a new book titled Risking Life for Death – Lessons for the Living from the Autopsy Table. The...
Spectators went crazy cheering the Banyana Banyana players during their lap of honour after their 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Round of 16 match against the...
Team Maccabi South Africa’s girls’ soccer coach Darryn Edinburg is counting on his squad to have a special kind of gees at the JCC (Jewish Community...
Three famous names: Hermann Kallenbach, Mahatma Gandhi, and Count Leo Tolstoy all came together at a blue plaque ceremony at Tolstoy Farm near Lenasia on Sunday...
What did you see when you opened your eyes this morning? Well, if you were like me, not much as it was that 04:00 to 06:30...
Truth is inevitably stranger than fiction, and sometimes it’s so bizarre that it’s almost too difficult to believe. This week, when we were looking for stories,...
Last Friday, a school in the far north-eastern part of the Vhemba district of Limpopo was brought into the 21st century by the University of Johannesburg...
Looking for scapegoats in troubled times is intrinsic to the conspiratorial world view, and since Jews feature so prominently in such thinking, it’s common for them...
Winning a Bafta Award – the British Oscars – wasn’t enough for South African director Leslee Udwin. Leslee says that if we are to alter how...
As the single biggest donor to political parties in South Africa, Durban-born billionaire Martin Moshal is deeply motivated to helping the country fulfil its potential and...
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema visited Israel this week to strengthen relations with the country, and met Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Zambia...
When Kosher SA, the kashrut department of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues (UOS), announced on 28 July that Avron’s Place, an iconic kosher restaurant in Sea...
Retired Judge Siraj Desai has formally lodged an appeal against a June ruling by the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) that found he was guilty of unbecoming...
It’s a balmy night in Tel Aviv. At 21:00, the temperature hovers above 30 degrees and the humidity clings to you like nylon. Hundreds of thousands...
Patriotic Alliance (PA) President Gayton McKenzie is unfazed by criticism from Israel haters over his party’s fact-finding visit to Israel last month, calling members of the...
“The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” So proposed Dick the Butcher in William Shakespeare’s Henry VI. United States Supreme Court Justice...
JTA – Over the course of Irish pop singer Sinead O’Connor’s career, she made her fair share of enemies, most notably the Catholic Church, after ripping...
Political unrest. Protests. Polarisation. Terror attacks. Security threats. Diplomatic difficulties. The news coming out of Israel isn’t positive, to say the least. Many are speaking of...
As we step into Women’s Month and the very last chance to nominate for the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, we celebrate the power and bravery of...
Although in the real world I might have done nothing wrong, the fact that my wife had had a dream that I did makes it immaterial....
“The solution exists, it’s time to act,” says Israeli-born social entrepreneur Sivan Yaari, the chief executive and founder of Innovation: Africa, an organisation addressing Africa’s crippling...
The incoming director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC), Jakub Nowakowski, may not be Jewish or South African, but he comes from Poland,...
Johannesburg octogenarian Roz Bernstein and her younger bridge partner, Sharon Lang, are heading to Morocco next month in the hope of becoming the first South Africans...
When 15-year-old Owethu, a pupil at Hope School for the physically disabled, was for the first time about to hold something with the 3D printed prosthetic...
Post-traumatic stress counsellor Debbi Rozowsky has just released a book, Having to Step Up, that focuses on dealing with trauma. The SA Jewish Report caught up...
When do we think of G-d most? At which moments in our lives are we most cognisant of the creator? And does Hashem ever seem to...
We all have our own way of doing good. You don’t have to be a multi-millionaire to help someone. You just need to be on the...
“You are the super Jews of the world” was how demographer Barry Kosmin summed up the results of the 1998 survey on the South African Jewish...
