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As the single biggest donor to political parties in South Africa, Durban-born billionaire Martin Moshal is deeply motivated to helping the country fulfil its potential and...
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema visited Israel this week to strengthen relations with the country, and met Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Zambia...
When Kosher SA, the kashrut department of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues (UOS), announced on 28 July that Avron’s Place, an iconic kosher restaurant in Sea...
The incoming director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC), Jakub Nowakowski, may not be Jewish or South African, but he comes from Poland,...
South African olim are devastated and exhilarated by the passing of the Reasonableness Bill this week, but all feel that much more passionate in the fight...
When Brian Ndlovu turned up for his first day of work at SWVG Attorneys on Monday, 24 July, he could have been any other graduate making...
It’s not every day that an entrepreneur born and raised in South Africa meets a king and a president to launch a bold plan to combat...
Herzlia alumnus and Cape Town resident Romaney Pinnock has always been passionate about “creating spaces for girls and women in the world of football”, and now...
Amid a countrywide Day of Resistance on the streets of Israel on 18 July, protest organiser and leader Roee Neuman (39) told the SA Jewish Report...
When 13-year-old Joshua Le Roux sang, danced, and shone on stage as one of the brothers in King David Victory Park’s (KDVP’s) stage production of Joseph...
The story of the Zimbabwean Jewish community in recent decades has largely been one of exodus. However, 35-year-old entrepreneur Yaron Wiesenbacher is reversing that narrative. Last...
When Israeli musician Omer Goshen met Capetonian videographer Bella Russell while travelling in South Africa, the two women instantly formed a connection. Now, they have collaborated...
Two young brothers, aged nine and 11, shovel earth onto their mother’s grave, then stoically say kaddish. The rabbi leads the congregation in a rendition of...
Less than 50 people gathered for a “vigil for Jenin” in Cape Town on Sunday, 9 July, and though the crowd was tiny, the message was...
An elaborate samovar, otherwise known as a Russian tea urn, is being escorted from Cape Town to Lithuania by the outgoing Lithuanian ambassador to South Africa...
When Johannesburg student Yishai Basserabie’s single My Own Skin hit streaming platforms Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Spotify recently, it was a milestone for this talented...
National Police Commissioner General Sehlahle Fannie Masemola assured Jewish leadership that he would take any threat to the Jewish community seriously at a meeting with the...
A top-level delegation from Israel is heading to South Africa next week to engage with local authorities at the coalface of the country’s water challenges. It...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading international Jewish human rights organisation, has come out in support of local Jewry after the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) called...
Another South Africa government minister has just returned from visiting the Middle East without setting foot in Israel or engaging with Israelis in any way. This...
When Gabrielle Union’s character, Jenna, moves to New York City in the Netflix romcom The Perfect Find, her new apartment reflects the style of a woman...
Shaka Zulu was a formidable figure, but this didn’t deter Jewish explorer and traveller Nathaniel Isaacs from getting to know him and even fighting alongside him...
Independent political and economic analyst Dr Frans Cronje has warned South Africans “not to wish for the ANC’s [African National Congress’s] demise [in the next election]...
When King David pupil Noa Nerwich wrote a poem about a maroon handkerchief given by a father to his daughter before they were torn apart by...
Growing up in Johannesburg, Ivan Kadey could sense the injustices of apartheid, even as a child. So it made sense that as a student in the...
Johannesburg executive producer and the founder and chief executive of The Star Film Company, Adam Thal, is still in shock after a documentary he co-produced, Rise:...
Prominent South African businessman, industrialist, and philanthropist Harry Frederick Oppenheimer – or “HFO” as he was known in the corporate empire of Anglo American and De...
A Cape Town landlord who told his Jewish tenant that “Hitler should have roasted you mother-f**kers” has apologised to his victim, and agreed to a tour...
Many people have stood up to presidential hopeful Mehmet Vefa Dag’s radical homophobia, but few have called out his rabid antisemitism. However, one young Jewish woman...
The African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), apparently desperate to deflect attention from their support of Russia and gain votes, have chosen to...
In his last public engagement in South Africa, Lithuanian Ambassador Dainius Junevičius focused on the devastating and irreversible destruction of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, especially...
A clock that has Hebrew letters instead of numbers and which used to hang in the Springs Shul continues to have an impact 90 years after...
The story of Shaka Zulu has been told many times, but never in the way that it will now appear on South African screens. The series...
Jews may not be the first association people have with the Blues, but “there are many Jewish practitioners of the Blues, mostly in the area of...
The Lubner name is synonymous with upliftment in South Africa, and the family is now pursuing that legacy in the United Kingdom (UK). South African-born Gary...
When King David Schools’ parents received a letter from the South African Board of Jewish Education (SABJE) recently telling them that they needed to pay a...
The South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has finally struck down a draconian piece of apartheid-era legislation that resulted in thousands of South Africans –...
An obscure South African politician, who has become known for his homophobia, recently added classic antisemitism to his repertoire with tweets that could easily fit into...
It’s exactly 20 years since Cape Town teenager Ashley Kaimowitz picked up a camera to make a film that would reverberate to this day. At the...
South Africa, along with its BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) counterparts, has made a commitment to combat terrorism, but experts are unconvinced this...
