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An African National Congress (ANC) branch has imported Hamas and Hezbollah’s jihadist “martyrdom” culture to South African shores by inviting the public to honour “their martyrs”,...
Jewish communal leaders have called on the government to replace its new spokesperson for the department of international relations and cooperation (DIRCO), Chrispin Phiri, after he...
Jonah Lustig, 18, went for a quick surf in Camps Bay in Cape Town in an attempt to reduce his stress levels over his upcoming matric...
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT’s) highest decision-making body, its council, is taking on its own head of its historical studies department and director of the...
The hotly contested proposed renaming of Sandton Drive to “Leila Khaled Drive” has become a national flashpoint, with the Democratic Alliance (DA) taking the matter to...
If the United States elected its president via a national popular vote, discussions of the impact and influence of racial, ethnic, and religious minority groups might...
In Kfar Aza, there are still sukkot that stand. A silent, mournful testimony to the families that will no longer occupy them or are alive to...
The Israeli government’s decision to ban UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) from operating in Israel is...
Dr Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter for the past 38 years, announced recently that he was stepping down from his position as director of the Simon...
As the world enters its second year since the murderous Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, the oldest hatred is alive and well in...
We had big dreams back then. We were filled with hope, glitter, love, and rainbows. It was the 1990s. The transition from the apartheid regime to...
Once the first few waves of shock and nausea had passed, I began receiving messages that read, “Thank G-d you weren’t there!” Though I’m far from...
Communication, problem-solving, flexibility, decision-making, trust. Ironically, when it comes to divorce or separation, the elements that most likely tore your relationship apart are the ones that...
When you think of gaming, the first image that might come to mind is a greasy-haired adolescent, slumped over in his oversized wingback chair, surrounded by...
A large, powerful group of pro-Hamas editors is using Wikipedia as a tool to delegitimise and demonise Israel and the Jewish people by systematically changing and...
“In today’s world, shining a light on those who risked their lives to save others is important,” said Tali Nates, the director of the Johannesburg Holocaust...
This is the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to write. There’s so much to say, and then there’s nothing really, except, “I love you.” My...
“Our world is composed of broken things, with bruises, cracks, and missing parts, but we must learn to live with it.” These are the words of...
Fourteen-year-old chess star Caleb Levitan kept his cool with all eyes on him for more than five hours in a high-pressured Olympiad match in Budapest in...
Two brothers and an old table tennis hack were among several Jewish table tennis stars who won medals at the South African Table Tennis Championships at...
For Ivor Ichikowitz, the chairperson of the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, there’s no better time than now for young Jewish South Africans to be loud and proud...
After two weeks of chaggim and no newspaper, the SA Jewish Report is filled with depressing news on the home front. Reading this week’s newspaper certainly...
Parshat Noach narrates the story of Noah, the great flood, and the subsequent covenant between G-d and humanity. The Lubavitcher Rebbe teaches that this parsha offers...
The first yahrzeit for more than 1 200 victims of the attacks on 7 October has just passed. It’s a moment that stands stark in our...
The sight of Jews gathering in song while a large crowd of aggressive anti-Israel activists swore at them, tore down their posters, and threatened them is...
Bleeding profusely from her hands after being viciously attacked by an anti-Israel mob on Friday, 27 September, Cape Town academic and interfaith leader, Dr Azila Reisenberger...
As Israelis and Jewish communities around the world mark the anniversary of the atrocities carried out by Hamas terrorists on 7 October, and while 101 hostages...
On 5 October 2024, a parade of moral degradation took place in the streets of Cape Town. Under the misleading banner of a “March for Palestine”,...
As South African Jewry mourned the first anniversary since the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa changed the historical facts...
One year after the 7 October massacre, the most horrific attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust, South Africa stands on the precipice of moral failure....
The verse “a time to be born and a time to die” in Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), which speaks of there being a time and season for everything,...
Born in Israel and raised in South Africa before returning to live in the Jewish state, clinical psychologist Lihie Gilhar says that in the wake of...
“It’s hard to think that in one devastating day, our lives were changed so dramatically,” says Lotus Lahav (22). Both she and her mother, Irit Lahav...
Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel’s first president, was once asked why Jews insisted on settling in Palestine when there were so many other countries...
One of the most annoying statements is, “Well, that’s 30 minutes we’ll never get back”, often said when reflecting on an experience that was a waste...
A year after the 7 October brutal Hamas attack on southern Israel, the conflict has expanded to six other arenas as Islamist militants have been attacking...
A beautiful bougainvillea is in full bloom. Its purple leaves bring a burst of colour. Behind the vibrant bush, a house has been decimated, scorch marks...
Rabbi Leo Dee, the survivor of a devastating terror attack during Pesach 2023, offers a brave solution to the question of how to celebrate Simchat Torah...
It’s uncanny how 7 October 2023 changed the world in much the same manner as 6 October 1973. The parallels and congruencies between these cataclysmic events...
More than 4 000 South Africans have had their Lithuanian citizenship restored to them, and with the benefits of citizenship comes the responsibility to elect strong,...
