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Many athletes in their late 40s have waved goodbye to their chances of representing their country at a World Cup. However, 46-year-old Hayley Landau will be...
Less than a fortnight after being awarded Western Cape provincial colours for canoeing, 12-year-old Capetonian canoeist Hanna Solomon won a gold medal at the South African...
After two long days filled with Scrabble tiles on 17 and 18 June, political analyst and wordsmith Steven Gruzd came out on top at the South...
It was years of planning and hard work, but finally, on 1 June, Torah Academy opened its new Girls High School campus in Johannesburg. Sounds of...
JTA – United States (US) Vice President Kamala Harris screened Screams Before Silence at the White House on Monday, 17 June, in part to refute denialism...
JTA – Taylor Swift’s detachment from contentious global conflicts is a hallmark of her superstardom. For some fans in Israel, it’s also a selling point. Michal...
For the first time in ages, it’s difficult not to be hopeful about South Africa’s future. The rand is growing stronger, our experts are cautiously optimistic,...
Chabad Lubavitch shluchim (emissaries) to South Africa gathered for their annual national conference (kinus) recently in a lodge in the countryside. They came from all over...
Some say this weeks’ parsha, Beha’alotcha uniquely encompasses three books of the Torah. The Gemara (Shabbos116a) explains that the two pasuk portion in our sedra (10:35-36)...
International visits I’ve just returned from the United States, where I attended the conference of the American Jewish Committee and was honoured to speak on a...
How to stay safe from fire this winter Prevention Loadshedding Use battery-operated lights instead of candles during loadshedding; Avoid overloading electrical sockets, and ensure all appliances...
Jewish representatives have called on all leaders not to allow the murder of a Muslim mother and the attempted murder of her husband and son, allegedly...
Just days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa uttered the phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” at the African National Congress’s...
When educator Adina Roth was finally ordained as an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in New York on 3 June, she couldn’t quite find the words to describe...
South African visitors to Israel will be required to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation document (ETA-IL) as of 1 July 2024, according to a recent...
It took 30 firefighting crews hours to put out more than 4 000 dunams (1 000 acres) of fire in the north of Israel. That was...
The University of South Africa (Unisa) has blamed Israel for Hamas’s 7 October massacre, also claiming that “the Zionists” are “abusing” the concept of antisemitism and...
Never has the Chinese curse or cliché, “May you live in interesting times”, been more fitting for South Africa in the aftermath of the momentous 29...
At the South African Jewish Board of Deputies election debate a fortnight before the polls, the Patriotic Alliance’s Kenny Kunene, deadpan, told the audience that he...
Last week wasn’t a good week for the African National Congress (ANC). Not only was it decimated in South Africa’s general election, dropping 17% in the...
Running sensation Beatie Deutsch is a Haredi Orthodox mom of five, the fastest woman in Israel, and a four-time Israeli marathon champion. She’s frum and fearless...
“Give Prayer a Chance”, a new initiative by Chabad House Johannesburg, is described by its director, Rabbi David Masinter, as a spiritual Iron Dome for the...
Arguably one of the most annoying phrases known to man must be, “I told you so.” For generations, wives have reminded husbands of their unheeded warnings,...
Our relationship with the city of Jerusalem begins close to the beginning of the recorded history of the Jewish people. Our forefather, Avraham, is described in...
It’s election season this year around the world, with the people of more than 50 countries going to cast their ballots. Fresh from the Lithuanian presidential...
While the world changed for Jews on 7 October 2023, educational practices have also had to adjust, David Bryfman, the chief executive of the New York-based...
“Most of us – if not all – have been born into a tapestry of ancestral trauma as the Jewish people.” Peta Cline Feigin, local life...
While all eyes are on what the United States (US) says and does in the Middle East, another great power is flexing its diplomatic muscles in...
The elections are over. And now? Is there new hope, or will it be more of the same? Though there may not be an overnight transformation,...
It was the sixth of Sivan in the year 2448. Seven weeks earlier, a nation of survivors walked out of the clutches of their oppressors. After...
Sephardi Shavuot here we come! Rifca Sommer is a caterer and cooking teacher who runs Rifca’s Kitchen in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. She’s a proud Sephardic Jew, with...
From abuse to teenage pregnancy to observant Judaism, convert Batsheva Phillips hasn’t had an easy journey, but today she knows she’s where she’s meant to be....
For more than 2 000 years, humanity lived in darkness and confusion. The human imagination couldn’t imagine one G-d responsible for all creation, who scrutinised human...
I’ve been part of Habonim Dror South Africa since they let me start going to camp. I joined Habonim because my family has been involved with...
Bnei Akiva’s slogan, “Am Yisrael be eretz Yisrael el pi Torat Yisrael” (the Jewish people living in Israel according to the Torah) is the slogan of...
A bayit is a place where imagination expands, connections form, opinions develop, and family calls home. Bnei Akiva has recently been blessed to open its renovated...
Dr Vic Boston, set to run his 46th consecutive Comrades Marathon this Sunday, 9 June, hasn’t yet reached a diagnosis for why he has run this...
The one player sticking out like a sore thumb in the Senior Cape Town Table Tennis league is 11-year-old Milo Katz. Katz is ranked in second...
The memories of many South Africans from 27 April 1994 are filled with emotions like hope, excitement, and relief. While for some other South Africans, that...
Joburg author and lawyer, Gail Schimmel’s, new novel, The Finish Line, is hot off the press. The SA Jewish Report spoke to her. Just as soon...
