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I’m a Jewish teen in Johannesburg. I read your slow-lounge article (SA Jewish Report 6 March 2020), and don’t understand why the newspaper is mocking Jews.
No matter what explanations Mr Zagnoev tries to spin (Letters: SA Jewish Report, 6 March 2020), the facts can easily be determined by simply examining the...
I am the chairman of the concentration camp survivors of the Shoah in Johannesburg. Your article on the decline of anti-Semitism in South Africa (SA Jewish...
This month, the South African chapter of the “Zionism equals apartheid” gang is girding its loins to play its role in delegitimising Israel. Their crocodile tears...
I’m trying to locate any descendants of my great-uncle Nathan Klass, born in Zagare, Russia, in 1874. Nathan married Fanny Marks, and they emigrated to South...
One of my favourite components of Purim each year is the “Purim Shpiel”, a Purim tradition going back centuries, equivalent to the secular April Fool’s joke....
Liat Amar-Arran, the director of the Israel Centre and a Jewish Agency representative, spoke about the “women who influenced her life” at the 106th annual general...
The name “Sally Little” will be well-known to a generation of South African sports fans, but the name “Kathy Gorchoff”, Little’s former caddy and current manager,...
South African ex-pat Adam Wolov looks out the window of his tiny flat in Wuhan, China, to see barbed wire around the building in which he...
In a dramatic and shocking move, King David high schools around the country this week announced that they would be building business-class lounges at the premier...
Israel has two options, either incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is able to form a coalition government, or the country heads to an unprecedented fourth election.
The president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, has announced that he will appoint an ambassador to Israel for the first time...
Jewish communal leaders met political heavyweights last week to tell them that South Africa had bucked the rising global trend of anti-Semitism.
As countries around the world scramble to get Covid-19 under control, medical research teams across the globe are working around the clock to combat the feared...
When our health is challenged, everything else fades into the background. All worries, battles, and differences become secondary when our physical well-being is on the line.
The expat tax that many in our community have been dreading was officially implemented on Sunday, 1 March, just four days after Finance Minister Tito Mboweni...
(JTA) Joe Biden made an appearance via video and Mike Bloomberg turned up in person. So did Mike Pence. Even the coronavirus got a shoutout.
Israel is a world leader in counter terrorism, because, sadly, the country has had so much experience. Jews were the earliest victims of terror, experiencing it...
Public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which saw its Waterloo in South Africa after stirring up racial divisions for political gain, is now at the heart of...
(JTA) Ruben Golran had studied for a year and a half in anticipation of his Barmitzvah this week, when 600 of his relatives and friends were...
Science and religion may clash, but they share a unique relationship. In fact, science could provide compelling support for religious faith, and it could have its...
Seasoned former Cape Town journalist Elaine Durbach recently launched her newly published first novel, Roundabout, at the Gitlin Library back in the mother city.
There is so much to worry about. Mental-health statistics from international agencies reflect a dramatic rise in the incidence of anxiety, depression, even suicide. Spread across...
“Nobody really knew what the trouble was with Aunty Vi – all I knew, was that it was gran’s fault.”
The Sandton Gautrain station on a Sunday night is a fairly eerie place. There are few commuters, and signs all around to remind patrons to safeguard...
The Talmud states that “one who reads the Megillah backwards did not fulfil the mitzvah [commandment]”.
If you thought Purim was just about hamentashen, dress-up, mishloach manot (gifts of food and drink), and noisemakers, you would be wrong. All around the world,...
While we’re all accustomed to hearing our local rabbi recount the story of Esther in lilting Hebrew, did you know it can be read in any...
The Talmud teaches us that we are required to drink on Purim until we don’t not know the difference between “cursed be Haman” and “blessed be...
Purim is as much a story about gender persecution as it is about anti-Semitism. Some years ago, a rabbi gave a shiur suggesting that the oppression...
From kings to queens to treacherous villains, when it comes to Purim we can put on whatever mask we want and temporarily become that persona. But...
Thousands of young Jews thronged to the Ultra Music Festival this past weekend in Cape Town and Johannesburg, where some of the world’s greatest electronic dance...
It was a chance meeting that led Josh Rubin, Dean Joffe, and David-Phillip Dirks to create a video about Burundian refugee Mdalaga Mrisho, and raise more...
School groups visiting the Jewish Museum will this year receive the lauded children’s book, Fatima, and a box of crayons each. This is as a result...
Soloist Russel Lurie recently took an audience on a journey to commemorate the 75th year of remembrance and release of prisoners from Auschwitz.
Dr Anastacia Tomson, guest speaker at Temple Israel’s annual Pride Shabbat this year, called for the Jewish community to build “safe spaces” that are sacred to...
Following our attendance at the State of the Nation address (SONA), the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ (SAJBD’s) National Vice-President Zev Krengel and Parliamentary Liaison...
I remember the evening I chose my Grade 10 subjects very well. I was 15, hardly thinking about university and gap years, and yet there I...
In typical South African style, we are at the risk of peaking way too soon. The virus has hardly even visited the African continent, and already...
If anyone can give you a disease, everyone potentially becomes an enemy. Infectious disease is especially divisive socially, and Covid-19 tests not only medical technology, but...
