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If you are looking for some inspiration and the story of how the South African Jewish community has built the post apartheid South Africa this remarkable...
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIOLENT DESCRIPTIONS The footage is beyond what the human mind can comprehend. The levels of depravity, barbarity, and sheer glee at the wholesale slaughter...
When David Teeger, 18, accepted his award as the inaugural Rising Star of the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, he dedicated it to the young soldiers fighting...
“The EFF [Economic Freedom Fighters], when it takes over next year, is going to arm Hamas and make sure Hamas has the necessary equipment to fight...
The conflict between Hamas and Israel has spilled onto the streets of South Africa and around the world. Events thousands of kilometres away have brought out...
The South African Cabinet is calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Israel for the crime of “genocide” following the bombing of a hospital...
Understandably, the South African Jewish population is absorbing the horrifying events in Israel on 7 October and the unresolved and unfinished consequences with great shock. Not...
I woke up this morning, with friends of mine sending photos they had taken of posters on the Sea Point promenade showing the faces of the...
“I’m writing to you as a hurt, terrified, and angry Jewish student,” South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) Western Cape Chairperson Erin Dodo told the...
Three days before Gabriella Farber-Cohen resigned from the African National Congress (ANC), she was still hoping the party would say something meaningful about the massacre of...
When Cyril Ramaphosa became president in February 2018, many South Africans were elated. We had survived the cesspool of corruption and state capture that characterised the...
According to an intersectional feminist on X, we shouldn’t be calling Gaza an “open-air prison”. No, says the she-pronoun person, because “prison” denotes criminality. And it’s...
War is hell. As a community, along with world Jewry, we’re in the eye of the storm between Israel and Hamas. It’s so difficult to navigate...
“I’ve made so many mistakes,” former Springbok coach and SuperSport analyst Nick Mallett told the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards Breakfast on 20 October, chief among which...
Navigating a complex mix of heartbreak and pride, the 2023 Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, held at the Sandton Convention Centre on 22 October, struck a bittersweet...
Nando’s co-founder Robbie Brozin, the recipient of this year’s Kirsh Family Lifetime Achievement Award in honour of Helen Suzman, has done much more than pioneer a...
“I’m so grateful and proud to be just one of many Jews in this country who have devoted so much of their lives and resources to...
Having been a “subsidy kid” herself, Mann Made Community Service Award winner Raelene Tradonsky, the executive director of the King David Schools Foundation, was able to...
From football to athletics, swimming, cycling, and even boxing, Raymond Hack has dedicated much of his life to the administration of multiple sporting disciplines. This year’s...
In an Absa Jewish Achiever Awards first, two deserving winners, Gia Whitehead and Mandy Wiener, took top honours in the Europcar Women in Leadership category. Accepting...
“Entrepreneurship is about taking an idea and a dream and converting it into something tangible,” said SA Jewish Report director Herschel Jawitz on presenting this year’s...
Hylton Kallner, who received this year’s Absa Business Leadership Award on 22 October, said that if he had to select a Springbok team of actuaries, doctors,...
Inasmuch as a pair of Cape Union Mart hiking shoes can get you to a mountain summit, the pinnacle of company chairperson Philip Krawitz’s life has...
Forensic pathologist Professor Ryan Blumenthal’s day job is in the cold world of the mortuary, not up in lights on a stage in front of 600...
In the realm of trauma psychology, I’ve often witnessed the capacity of the indomitable human spirit to weather even the darkest storms. Today, I write not...
How is it that there are people questioning whether 1 400 Jews were killed on 7 October in the south of Israel? How dare people challenge...
In this week’s parsha, there’s an interesting verse that makes us question whether according to halacha, one is allowed to accept presents. When Avraham and Sara...
We’re into our third week since the massacre of 7 October. Our grief and desolation hasn’t abated and our horror mounts as we continue to watch...
A growing number of South Africans are exploring the option of purchasing a property overseas to acquire permanent residency to leave a legacy for their family,...
Our hearts are bleeding. The gruesome Hamas attacks weren’t political or in support of a cause, they were a savage onslaught with the sole purpose of...
In February last year, the SA Jewish Report featured the success story of Future Forex, a local business founded by two Herzlia alumni who decided to...
Renowned former musician Benny Michel celebrated his 100th birthday surrounded by friends and family in Killarney, Johannesburg, on Sunday, 1 October. Michel was born in a...
Watch the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards 2023 Absa Business Icon 2023 – Philip Krawitz Absa Business Leadership Award 2023 – Hylton Kallner Absa Professional Excellence Award...
Saar Margolis, 37, was a hero who died doing what he was born to do – saving lives and protecting others. He’s one of two South...
“I feel like a refugee in my own country,” said ex-South African David Michalowsky, having fled for his life with his wife after spending more than...
When Jewish donors supported Cyril Ramaphosa in his bid for the presidency in 2017 and South African Jewry celebrated the appointment of a president who seemed...
In 2017, the African National Congress (ANC) infamously resolved to downgrade South Africa’s embassy in Israel to a “liaison office”. At the same time, Cyril Ramaphosa...
“Beware, South Africa,” warned the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) on 17 October, in one of the most stark statements it has ever made....
Hamas’ attack on Israel has prompted comparisons with past events, particularly with the 1973 Yom Kippur War. An equally compelling comparison could be made with a...
The prospect of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conquering and occupying the territory of Gaza is daunting. Urban warfare is a costly, messy business at best,...
