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The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a unique global wave of antisemitism, according to a special report released by the Kantor Center at Tel Aviv University in...
Nothing could have prepared Johannesburg fitness trainer Lisa Gekis for the phone call she received early last Wednesday morning from her brother in London informing her...
COVID-19 is hitting hard at Jewish care facilities across the country. Three residents of the Jaffa Home for Jewish Aged in Pretoria who tested positive for...
“ICUs in PRIVATE [private hospitals] are FULL. In the past week, young [and I mean 30 to 40-year-old] patients who were intubated could not get a...
If the entire West Bank were annexed, “Israel would cease to be a Jewish democratic state. Or, we continue to have a special regime for Palestinians....
As we clamber toward the peak of this pandemic, and everyone in the country and community feels the pain of what the coronavirus can do to...
Every facet of a doctor’s world today is new. I sit here on a cold winter’s morning with my office windows open wide, and while I...
It was a dusty open field, with little around it, except for a few warehouses and some trees along the perimeter. But upon that hallowed ground...
Will our shuls be open by the high holy days in September?
The only person who really understands what you go through when you contract COVID-19 is someone who has already had it.
After months of confinement and online classes, most of our children really want to be back at school for face-to-face lessons with their classmates.
Muizenberg has a special place in the hearts, minds, and memories of South African Jews around the world. Now, for the first time in many years,...
United Herzlia School’s (UHS’s) sudden announcement on 19 June that it plans to close its primary and pre-primary school in Constantia, Cape Town, appears to be...
My wife, Rochel, and I arrived in South Africa in March 1976, three short months before the Soweto Uprising. The country was in turmoil.
We’re all struggling with the restrictions that the coronavirus is imposing on our lives, but most of us have families around us. What about those who...
My heart bleeds for the suffering, death, poverty, hunger, unemployment, and loss of business at this time. It’s devastating.
A 14-year-old boy from Cape Town with a drone, a passion for wildlife, and an incredible lockdown location has been thrust onto the world stage after...
When Johannesburg marketing consultant Jade Kirkel’s seven-year-old daughter asked her who George Floyd was, she was confronted with a dilemma: should she spare her child’s innocence,...
Probably the only member of the Pretoria Jewish community ever to have planned his third Barmitzvah, Jaffa Jewish Aged Home resident Wilfred (Willie) Pokroy (Ze’ev ben...
Sometime back in early March, when we were young, I had the idea of asking my friend, Dr Anton Meyberg, to record a podcast with me....
COVID-19 has hit our community hard. Too many have felt its impact, and are suffering. The effects of this pandemic aren’t only physiological, but also emotional,...
I wish to reply to Zvika Arran and Warren Lewis (SA Jewish Report, 19 June 2020).
Education is highly regarded in Jewish culture, and Jews invented the first school. (It can’t therefore be easy for those who suffer from learning disabilities. Fortunately...
ORT Jet’s monthly business induction is helping businesses to survive the lockdown. The induction, now held online, introduces businesses to ORT Jet’s COVID-19 rescue initiative, which...
For a about a week and half (maybe two-weeks maximum), I had a friend who was called Jacobus Johannes Hercules Fourie. He hailed from Potchefstroom, where...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ (SAJBD) community leadership meeting on Sunday, 28 June, contained sobering news of the increase in the COVID-19 infections in...
As the government slowly lifts lockdown, health experts have warned that we need to be extra-vigilant in preventing the virus spreading in the community and beyond.
Residents and staff at the Jaffa Home for the Jewish Aged in Pretoria are “anxious and fearful” following a coronavirus outbreak at the home over the...
The Cape Town Jewish community is reeling after an eleventh-hour email on the afternoon of Friday, 19 June, announcing the closure of United Herzlia Schools’ [UHS]...
“The fact that we are keeping our shuls closed should be the clearest statement about the dangers of the current increased infection rates,” said Chief Rabbi...
Suddenly, the number of people we know who have tested positive for COVID-19 is increasing daily. We have spoken ad nauseum about the upcoming spike in...
On a chilly Saturday night, we logged in to a Zoom panel discussion with 40 boys and 40 girls from two very well-known private schools in...
International audiences have been fed a heavy diet of misleading, factually false, and even propagandistic news and commentary on the United States administration’s Mid-East peace plan.
Amid general outrage over the antisemitic comments of Pretoria fitness enthusiast Simone Kriel on social media, a number of South Africans have expressed support for the...
There is a fundamental mitzvah that is alluded to in this week’s parsha. When Moshe addresses the Jewish people in the stand-off against the rebel faction...
A powerful photograph taken during the nationwide lockdown shows a shirtless, scantily clothed homeless man dragging his tattered blanket down a desolate stretch of Long Street...
When Johannesburg wellness coach Nikki Temkin tested positive for COVID-19, she felt as though her world had caved in.
As Bianca Rubenstein heads for the Sandton Clinic on Thursday evening to give birth to her fourth child the next day, she is anxious about doing...
We may not be able to travel in the near future, so the next best thing might be to explore the world through other people’s adventures,...
When American Rabbi Sholem Ber Hecht decided to visit the Jewish community of Tehran in 1978, he simply intended to strengthen ties with Jews there. Little...
