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When thugs threatened a security guard at gunpoint on the night of 6 November before pulling down a Johannesburg billboard showing hostage Kfir Bibas, it wasn’t...
Students writing their matric National Senior Certificate (NSC) mathematical literacy exam last week were shocked to see a question reading, “Timothy will fly from the United...
“Since Shabbat morning, Simchat Torah, on 7 October, our hearts have been bleeding. The destruction and terror will be with all of us forever. The loss...
The war in Israel has made Osher Favel strangely more convinced to make aliya from South Africa than she was before it started. Favel is one...
Rabbi Dovid Hazdan; Rabbi Menachem Mendel Popack; Hannah Ben Moshe; Isla Feldman; Darren Bass; Mazal Sacks; and Sheila Sklaar are some of the gold award winners...
As Afghanistan takes on South Africa in the ICC Cricket World Cup, one person integrally involved with the team is likely to have mixed emotions, namely...
Thousands of unionists and one Jewish mommy took to the streets of central Johannesburg in 1999 in a protest march. In fact, the Jewish mommy was...
I contemplated going to watch the unedited footage of the massacre that was taken from the Hamas terrorists’ bodycams because I believed it was my duty...
The first shidduch in history occurs in this week’s parsha. Abraham sends his faithful servant, Eliezer, to find a bride for his son, Isaac. He hands...
After the moving and impactful demonstration in solidarity with the hostages in Gaza on Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg two weeks ago, the South African Jewish...
Two decades ago, former British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks astutely compared antisemitism to a constantly evolving virus. One that, in the modern era, specifically targets...
It has been almost four excruciating weeks since South African born grandmother and nursery school teacher Aviva Siegel and her American-born husband, Keith, were kidnapped by...
Shoam Ben Harush, 20, had the world at his feet. He had one more year left of his compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces...
As Israel’s war on Hamas intensified this week, so too did the one-sidedness of the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) against Israel...
Hundreds of thousands have been displaced in Israel, many are dead and injured, and South Africans wonder how we can help. The SA Jewish Report has...
Johannesburg woke up last Friday, 27 October, to big red balloons waving across the Nelson Mandela Bridge, which links Braamfontein to Newtown, but it wasn’t a...
Few things could hit home the horror of the 240 hostages – mostly children, women, and the elderly – being held by Hamas in Gaza since...
I’ve attempted to refrain from commenting on the Hamas-Israeli conflict, and failed. As an older academic, I’ve learned to withhold my comments on fast-paced, ongoing developments...
In the relentless, grim news we’ve been following every waking moment since 7 October, the only respite we’ve had, the only true moment of stillness, is...
As South Africa gears up for this week’s Shabbat Project, with challah bakes in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, and a raft of programming at shuls...
Though Israel’s leadership is focused on winning a war and ensuring that Hamas isn’t able to threaten Israel again, it’s important to start considering what Israel’s...
In the battle for public opinion, us Jews do so much better when we are dead or dying, slaughtered, mutilated, beheaded, kidnapped, and humiliated. So, with...
“Abby,” I said as patiently as I was able to, “Maybe you should think about coming home?” “Why?” was her immediate and impatient response, “There’s nothing...
I arrived in Israel in March, exhilarated to be in a country that not only was home to my children, but home to my heart. Realistically,...
We are a family of five who moved from Johannesburg to Israel in December 2020 due to uncertainty about the COVID-19 pandemic and the high crime...
When my husband and I moved down south to the young dati-leumi community of Carmei Gat, 20 minutes from Ashkelon, we were told repeatedly that there...
How do you put into words the atrocities we’ve witnessed as a nation, a people, a country over the past three weeks? There simply are no...
Right now, we are without doubt in the most fortunate position of anyone in the country, and certainly the broader region. Our relatively small coastal town...
We were winding down after a week’s vacation in Berlin over Sukkot, returning on Friday, 6 October, starting to get back into the work frame of...
Major Moran Etedgi and her two young children woke up in her home in Ofakim, a city in southern Israel, on Saturday, 7 October, to the...
The Springboks were crowned world champions at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, but the team’s fans are also the best in the world, says South African...
In Europe, people are painting blue Magen Davids on the walls of Jewish homes as a form or antisemitism. A mob of hundreds in Dagestan, Russia,...
Revolutionary ideas are exciting. Those who act in accordance with these ideas are motivated and enthused, but when they lose their lustre, adherents fall away to...
On Shabbat on 28 October, anti-Israel protesters descended on Jewish residential areas, waving Hamas flags and chanting inflammatory slogans. That they chose Shabbat for this demonstration...
