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(JTA) On Friday, in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina, eight-year-old Qais Abd Abu Ramileh drowned in a pit filled by last week’s torrential rains. Reading...
Anyone else feel as if they blinked and landed in 2020, with December holidays being a distant memory? Many people take a good few weeks to...
(JTA) Two new surveys show that about one in five Germans – and more than half of right-wing populists – think the Holocaust gets too much...
(JTA) Half of American adults are unaware of basic facts regarding Nazism and the Holocaust including the number of Jews who were killed and how Nazis...
(JTA) It’s a fact well-documented and well worth repeating: within 25 years, it’s likely that no survivors of the Holocaust will be alive.
This week, the university academic year commenced with the traditional orientation week, in which first-time students in particular were exposed to the rich and diverse range...
On Sunday, my son was scammed at an ATM. He was going to fill up his car, and I asked him, while at the garage, to...
In this country, we have become so obsessed with political correctness and the power of political factions that we face serious danger. One such area is...
Few have the stomach for sailing over the Langjökull glacier in Iceland at 1 250m above sea level, but Charles Werb loved every second of it.
The South African Jewish story is fascinating, but it hasn’t been captured in video format until now. Mark Wade has made it his mission to capture...
Islamic State threatens Israel The Islamic State says it will focus its new attacks on Israel.
Seventy five years ago this week, Elka Ganot, prisoner number 12750, was liberated from Auschwitz. Her grandson, Barak, a major in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF),...
South Africa has been ashamedly referred to as the “rape capital of the world”.
May I make some remarks in response to Ronel Klatzkin’s How to master anxiety about maths in the 17 January edition of the SA Jewish Report?...
It seems as though the whole English-speaking world is reeling from worldwide anti-Israel (or should I say anti-Semitic) behaviour. For a Jew, we should know better.
Five hundred teachers and children at King David Senior Primary Linksfield held #WeRemember posters at the school hall on Friday, 24 January,
King David High School Victory Park commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January.
Only minutes before I spoke to Adam Bacher on Monday afternoon, Rassie van der Dussen lost his wicket for 98 against England in the fourth Test...
(JTA) Jewish Argentine tennis star Diego Schwartzman is rolling at the Australian Open. After beating Serbian Dušan Lajović in straight sets on Friday, he has made...
The U14A King David Linksfield cricket team elected to wear black arm bands at its first high school cricket match this year – against Parktown Boys’...
A Johannesburg-born businessman living in Israel is part of a duo that has produced an augmented reality device which allows surgeons to see a patient’s anatomy...
“Stalin tried to kill me, he didn’t succeed; Hitler tried to kill me, he didn’t succeed; the Arabs tried to kill me, they didn’t succeed. But...
Sometimes an event that touches the very core of the Jewish community has no real connection to us. This week, most parents in this country –...
Israel hosted on Thursday its third-largest ever gathering of international leaders after the funerals of former leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. More than 45 world...
Many South African Jews are descended from an immigration wave from Lithuania in the 1920s. Our grandparents seldom explained the context; here it is.
Josef Bergmann was just six years old on the night, in 1938, that the Nazis raided the home of the Heimann family. The family of six...
Israel presents unprecedented opportunities for South Africans for investment in innovative high-tech companies destined to change the world. So says Shelly Hod Moyal, the founding partner...
More than 1 200 people gathered in a cavernous marquee at the Wanderers in Illovo last Wednesday evening, but this time to celebrate a victory in...
What do businessman Shaun Matisonn, lawyer Hugh Raichlin, and Shaun Zagnoev, the chairperson of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, have in common?
If you’re looking to join the world’s largest book club, you’re in luck. Membership is free, requires no paperwork, and anyone can sign up. Take note:...
Starting a roaming chef business. Becoming a teenage entrepreneur. Doing makeup on film sets. These young adults might not have university degrees, but they’re successfully charting...
Culture shock. That’s what many matriculants from Jewish schools experience when they enter the demographically-diverse world of university. Do they embrace the opportunities this offers or...
The Ethiopian church on Tudhope Avenue in Berea, located on the premises of the former Berea Shul in Johannesburg, last weekend celebrated the Ethiopian Timket (baptism)...
There are few doctors who understand the rigors of singing and how to save and protect the voice quite like Johannesburg ear, nose, and throat specialist...
When Sarit Keinan came back to South Africa, the country of her birth, as the wife of Israeli Ambassador Lior Keinan, she wanted to do something...
From being bullied as a child to healing children through music, Jon Samson’s creative journey is deeply personal. Now nominated for Best Children’s Music Album at...
French survey shows prevalence of anti-Semitism In a survey about anti-Semitism in France, nearly a quarter of 1 027 Jewish respondents said they had experienced a...
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Apart from reminding me of my high-school education, Malvolio’s lines in Shakespeare’s...
South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP) was pleased to see the SA Jewish Report’s retraction of its front-page report which falsely claimed that the...
Those schools which didn’t publish the number of distinctions lost an opportunity to recognise and congratulate students who achieved exceptional matric results. Students who are gifted...
