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An attempt by anti-Israel activists to disrupt prayer for Israel didn’t dampen the spirit of Christians on Sunday, 25 February, as they gathered in multitudes at...
South African communal leaders flew to Israel to urge Israeli leadership not to give up on the local Jewish community and countless South Africans who support...
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT South African Jewish gender-based violence activists are calling for Hamas leadership to be held to a higher level of accountability for sexual violence...
“No-one imagined that the worst pogrom against the Jewish people since the Holocaust would happen in Israel, the place Jews are meant to come to feel...
In 2019, South Africa women faced a harsh reality. News surfaced of Uyinene Mrwetyana, a University of Cape Town student, who was raped and murdered at...
While Israel’s war is raging in Gaza, the psychological injuries inside the country are creating gaping wounds throughout society that will take a long time to...
“We choose to live,” Michal Uziyahu from the Eshkol Regional Council, told our group in the south of Israel witnessing the horrors of 7 October. I...
It’s one of those days when you’ll always remember where you were when it happened, like the release of Nelson Mandela or the day you heard...
While the South African government is fixated on Gaza and accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice, it’s largely indifferent to the murder...
How strange it is to feel safe on the streets of a country at war! How uncomfortable it is to feel ashamed of our government while...
It might sound like the start of a joke, but it’s not. What do red cars, front row seats, and lumberjacks have in common? The answer...
Four years ago, the world shifted. Beginning in March 2020, humanity suffered a worldwide pandemic which took close to seven million lives. The COVID-19 outbreak upended...
SA Jewish Report photojournalist Ilan Ossendryver was in Israel recently documenting the scars of a modern-day pogrom in the south. Here is a photo essay of...
Having a birthday or anniversary that comes around only every four years not only adds flavour to routine celebrations, it also impacts people in different ways....
Radio and media personality Gareth Cliff says the Jewish community needs to recognise that the African National Congress (ANC) is as “unimportant as a drugged-up meth-head...
The barbarity of the attack by Hamas in Israel may have been shocking to many observers, but it wasn’t a surprise to those familiar with the...
Johannesburg teacher Shireen Saacks will bear the flags of South Africa and Israel in the half marathon of the 13th Jerusalem Winner Marathon on 8 March...
Gina Shmukler, Johannesburg-based actress, director, and producer, will be taking the role of Donna in the international hit musical Mamma Mia first in Cape Town and...
Honour thy father and thy mother is one of the ten commandments, yet what a special neshoma it must take for a non-Jewish man to honour...
There are no winners in war, especially not a war that’s still being waged five months later with no end in sight. Though so many denigrate...
Our Talmudic sages instruct us to be careful not to embarrass bread. Why would anyone think of embarrassing bread? More puzzling is how does bread get...
This week featured a visit by eminent Israeli diplomat, lawyer, and writer Daniel Taub. An expert in international law with specialisations in counterterrorism and the laws...
Parliamentarians used the opportunity of the State of the Nation (SONA) debate on 14 February to descend into an anti-Israel and antisemitic free-for-all, without being hauled...
Through a widespread diplomatic initiative, Israel staved off a concerted attempt by the South African and Algerian governments last weekend to remove its observer status permanently...
South Africans living abroad are urged to register to vote before the official proclamation of the election date comes into effect – which could happen any...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) outright rejected on 16 February the South African government’s urgent request to stop a political offensive on Hamas fighters in...
A parev cholent would be the best way to describe the Budget speech made by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday afternoon, 21 February, but then...
A huge billboard emblazoned with “Israeled [verb]: taking something that isn’t yours, and then shamelessly pretending it belongs to you while playing the victim” in Johannesburg...
As the year begins, Jewish university students are bracing themselves for sight of the flags of terrorist organisations flown on campus. Kids at school are greeted...
I’m filled with mixed emotions as we head towards the seventh election since the dawn of democracy. I remember all the times in the past when...
A few weeks after the start of the war following the 7 October Hamas attack, I heard of a “solidarity” mission to Israel. My feelings were...
As many commentators predicted, the war in Gaza is reaching an inflection point, with the Israeli leadership having to make some difficult decisions, each of which...
The night is dark, but not too dark, so we can make out the silhouette of two men as they fight in the moonlight. They are...
Fourteen years ago, I walked into the memorial for the Treblinka death camp in Poland. The memorial has stones scattered around a massive field that was...
“My family is now in Israel, and the biggest injustice is that my son [who is six years old], is facing his second war in two...
Christian prayer for Israel in South Africa has become more fervent since the 7 October massacre, and participation is increasing on and offline. Some gather in...
Chabad makes a point of ensuring that Jews feel welcome around the world and encourages a Jewish way of life. Now, Rabbi Chezkin Yehudah Malka and...
When global equity specialist David Shapiro sits at his desk in Johannesburg, he relishes the fact that technology allows him to buy shares in companies anywhere...
When the top 10 women swimmers in the 14 to 30 age category crossed the finish line at the Midmar Mile in KwaZulu-Natal earlier this month,...
On Sunday, I happened to stumble on yellow ribbons on a fence in the James & Ethel Gray Park in Johannesburg, and I immediately recognised that...
