click to dowload our latest edition
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER
JTA – When it attacked Israel on 7 October, killing 1 200 people and wounding thousands, Hamas also took an estimated 240 people hostage. Some of...
In one week, Israel recalled the Israel ambassador to South Africa and the South African government declared it was bringing home its diplomatic staff from Israel,...
In this week’s Torah portion, we read that Yaakov encountered three flocks of sheep, together with their shepherds, by the well. We read, further, that a...
Since the conflict began, members of the Board have been inundated by requests for interviews and comment. We have made every effort to accede to these...
“I’ve never experienced such vile violence and antisemitism in my life,” said Jonathan Cohen*, who was attacked on the Sea Point promenade last Sunday, 12 November....
The head of World Mizrachi, Johannesburg-born Rabbi Doron Perez, whose son, Daniel, is believed to be held hostage in Gaza, wants him, wherever he is, to...
As the world marked 85 years since Kristallnacht, a pogrom in which Jewish businesses were viciously targeted by the Nazis in November 1938, anti-Israel extremists in...
More than 10 000 people filled the streets of Cape Town on Saturday, 11 November, seething with animosity towards Israel, the local Jewish community, and the...
A South African olah is mourning the loss of her dear friend, Rose Lubin (20), who was stabbed outside Jerusalem’s Old City while on duty as...
On face value, it’s a perfect free market example of economic exchange. There are suppliers of electricity and water. There are consumers that receive this 24/7...
At times like this, when it feels like global sentiment has once again turned against Jews, the world can seem like a dark and frightening place....
The terror attacks I’ve witnessed in Israel since making aliya from South Africa more than 35 years ago will forever be embedded in my mind. Serving...
The SA Jewish Report asked Advocate Mark Oppenheimer, an expert in the boundary between hate speech and freedom of expression, to weigh in on the anti-Israel...
South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, signed a memorandum of understanding with Syria this week. Last month, she was in Tehran,...
The Friday night before 7 October is burned into my memory. It was the start of the final few days of Sukkot, and we spent the...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish global human rights organisation, on 9 November released a statement criticising the South African government’s decision to recall its diplomats...
Using your voice at a time of war and devastation can be a double-edged sword, say those who have paid the emotional price for engaging in...
“I want you to think of her like a little child who was taken from her bed still in her pyjamas on 7 October,” said Sasha...
Ralph Lewinsohn, his wife, Barbara, and their family survived their beloved home on Kfar Aza turning into hell on 7 October 2023 when it was attacked...
SA Jewish Report photographer Ilan Ossendryver flew to Israel to document the war. Here is a selection of his photographs taken this week showing Israel post...
Come home safe I watch your back, your purposeful stride Your broad, strong shoulders, and I’m filled with pride. I wait in silence, till you’re out...
No-one came when their communities were infiltrated by terrorists. No-one came when they were desperately trying to keep the doors to the safe rooms closed; while...
Professor Ronnie Schloss once had to run around the canteen at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) to find players for its senior team in the...
JTA – Hannah Kaplan, a senior at Tiffin University in northern Ohio, can identify exactly one other Jew in the school’s student body of about 3...
I just returned from New York for the annual Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim Conference. It’s our annual opportunity for continued development and growth, to hear each other’s...
It’s deeply shocking to watch as the world around us appears to be becoming progressively more antisemitic. Perhaps we were naïve all along and the sentiment...
This past week, inflammatory rhetoric by pro-Hamas factions, particularly in Cape Town, reached even greater heights of virulence. Over the weekend, there were violent attacks on...
There has been a chilling uptick in threatening, incendiary rhetoric at anti-Israel protests around the country which have veered towards threatening the community. “The Zionists in...
Ayelet Svatitzky is a romance novelist, but lately, she’s lost for words. Her elderly South African-born mother, Channah Peri, 79, and her brother, Nadav Popplewell, 51,...
The South African cabinet has taken the radical decision to bring back its diplomats in Israel, which will effectively shut down its embassy in Tel Aviv....
“We’re giving [Western Cape Premier] Alan Winde until the end of the year to close down [Herzlia] school, or the EFF [Economic Freedom Fighters] South Africa...
On 2 November, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) not only invited a representative of a designated terror organisation, Hamas, in Tehran, Dr Khaled Qaddumi, to...
A month after the massacre of 7 October, stories are still coming to light of the lives ended by Hamas. One such story is that of...
Protesting peacefully in front of Parliament is a South African tradition, yet anti-Israel extremists violently attacked a Christian pro-Israel vigil there on Friday, 3 November. The...
From death threats to photos of dead babies, our community’s social media personalities have been subject to online abuse that would shock even the most jaded...
Though they have yet to be called upon, more than 80 South African-based doctors, medics, and others with specialised skills have signed up to volunteer in...
I was raised to think that the greater the criticism, the greater the expression of love. Whereas I know that in theory, this isn’t healthy or...
We silently wandered down from the sleepy promenade onto the yellow sand dunes of North Beach, as if in reverence for the task that lay ahead....
She was sitting in a safe room in the middle of Ashkelon while rockets were fired overhead, but Debbie Gross remained calm as she advised South...
Merav Barel, part of the non-profit nongovernment organisation Israel Is and a former Shinshinit (Israeli youth who do service in the diaspora) was told by her...
