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At age 60 something, Rabbi Dovid Hazdan grabbed a backpack, a Torah and his Tefillin, and decided to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. He may be the first...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein opened the inaugural Sandton Sinai Inter Jewish Day School Student Leadership Summit on 12 March with a powerful message about the...
How to build a world-class city! with Chris Pappas of uMngeni & Geordin Hill-Lewis of Cape Town Our cities are crumbling, money is missing, there’s no...
Junior Smith, aged five, of Noupoort in the Northern Cape, was recently donated an Israeli made wheelchair specifically designed for children thanks to WIZO Durban, generous...
Greg Blank was the most charismatic and high-flying golden boy of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange until he got sentenced to jail on 48 counts of fraud....
A new bakery was launched on 1 March on the grounds of Sacred Heart College, Observatory, as part of a local community upliftment initiative. Named Heart...
Twelve-year-old chess prodigy Caleb Levitan won the award for the most promising sportsperson of the year in Gauteng at the 11th annual Gauteng Sports Awards on...
Great Park Synagogue rabbi and Torah Academy Dean Rabbi Dovid Hazdan climbed to the top of the Roof of Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, in February, taking a...
It’s September 1939. War has just begun. The Nazis have begun an extermination programme – against their own children. Late summer. The first day of September,...
The centenary celebrations of the Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) Port Elizabeth took place on Sunday, 19 February, with an enthusiastic audience of more than 80...
Well-known Israeli cantor Shai Abramson held the community enthralled with an evening of music at the Yeshiva Mizrachi Shul in Glenhazel on 13 February. The Shai...
The frustration of trying to get something sorted out at the department of home affairs embodies the stress that South Africans live with. Actor Lawrence Joffe...
Acclaimed British fictionalised biography writer Louisa Treger recently released her fourth book, Madwoman, on the life of iconic investigative reporter Nellie Bly. The SA Jewish Report...
Hirsch Lyons Grade 6s brighten up school Pupils in Hirsch Lyons’ Grade 6 class received their monitor badges at an assembly on 10 February. Their first...
King David high schools recently hosted The Galilee Dreamers, a group of 20 Israeli school children representing Jewish and Arab communities, who visited the schools as...
A Torah was donated to the Chassidim Shul on Sunday, 29 January, by the Crouse and Lilian families in honour of their beloved husband, father, and...
Gary Player possibly the greatest Golfer of all time. Join Howard Sackstein, Selwyn Nathan and Barney Girnun on the couch with the golfing legend Gary will...
The 2022 matriculants had the worst of COVID-19 and they experienced extensive load shedding during their exams, but still they came up trumps. This is what...
Torah Academy launched Jewish children’s organisation Tzivos Hashem in the primary school on 18 January. Started by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1980, Tzivos Hashem is an...
After 40 years at the helm of Chabad Nursery School, Principal Rebetzin Raisy Hecht is handing over the reins to the much-loved and experienced teacher, Michelle...
Elchonon always stood out for his kindness, empathy, tolerance, and looking for the best in others. At high school, he wanted a diverse, accepting environment in...
How Lithuania celebrated the mass murderer of its Jewish Citizens by honoring their Nazi murderers. While searching for justice for the murder of his family, Grant...
Great Park Synagogue Rabbi Dovid Hazdan put reaching the Roof of Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, on his bucket list many years ago. But it took finding a...
South African-born Rabbi Ralph Genende recently launched his book, Living in an Upside Down World, which is a combination of columns he has written. We speak...
Gen Z, the Zoomer generation think they will change the world. But will they? Can they do more than just tweet about their angst? Join Ronen...
Acclaimed artist, director, and actress Sue Pam-Grant brings her seminal work, Curl Up and Dye back to the theatre in Cape Town from 7 to 24...
Most people who experience career disasters do their best to move on, but businessman Rael Levitt has chosen to come clean about his life story. The...
Each year the South African Jewish Report honours nine remarkable South Africans who are building the post Apartheid South Africa. This year the Absa Jewish Achiever...
A memorial park was inaugurated in Israel on Monday, 7 November, to commemorate the many South African Jews involved in the struggle against apartheid, as well...
Excitement is at fever pitch with just one week to go for the most unique Jewish event yet – the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards 2022. This...
Comedian Nik Rabinowitz has recently been in the news for evading terrorist threats, but he’s better known for being a phenomenal comedian and is currently performing...
People from all over the world are flocking to our website to vote for this year’s Absa Jewish Achiever Award winners in all nine categories. Though...
The people who sell you beer and Nando’s are going to tell you “it’s not on top, it’s inside” you all along… Our creatives will BLOW...
The Sassoons and Kadoories were two of the greatest entrepreneurial families of their time. For 150 years, these two Jewish dynasties from Baghdad dominated trade in...
The untold story of a journey from the Dolls House and King David High School to becoming the most successful weed and hash smuggler in American...
Ben Freeman is a young author, internationally renowned educator, and diversity, equity and inclusion specialist focusing on Jewish identity, combatting Jew-hatred, and raising awareness of the...
American attorney and expert on the cultural boycott against Israel, Lana Melman, has brought out a new book, Artists Under Fire: The BDS War against Celebrities,...
Good food is known to feed the body and soul. A new year requires both to be nourished. Join the culinary talents of Delores Fouche, Sharon...
This is the last week to nominate outstanding individuals for the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards 2022. You have until 16 September at 17:00. Nominate now. Don’t...
Vladimir Putin’s no 1 enemy, Bill Browder, is back with us, continuing the story of his ongoing fight with the Russian Government. Understand the links between...
