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First it was a zebra in Glenhazel, now it’s a caracal in Camps Bay. Natalie Barnett was enjoying her usual Sunday walk with her husband, daughter,...
In an extraordinary display of unity and co-operation, leaders of all Jewish communal and civic structures came together this week to find ways to prevent further...
This week Afrika Tikkun distributed hundreds of blankets to families who lost their homes and belongings in shack fires in Alexandra, Gauteng, last week.
Generous donations from the community have enabled the provision of winter essentials for elderly, indigent, and lonely members of the community through the Jewish Women’s Benevolent...
Kosher consumers are being ripped off at certain establishments in the Glenhazel/Fairmount area, not only in the price of meat products, but in terms of other...
Two articles in last week’s SA Jewish Report (19 June 2020) struck a chord that can’t be ignored, namely the proposed annexation of parts of the...
From the very outset of the COVID-19 crisis, Jewish communal leadership has worked exceptionally well together to help our community negotiate these difficult times.
We know this: it’s much easier to stand on the extreme side of any discussion than it is to contemplate the nuances of the conversation. Which...
For the first time in its 132-year history, the Chevrah Kadisha is calling for emergency financial support as it battles on all fronts in the “perfect...
A 52-year-old resident of the Glendale Home for Jewish people with intellectual disabilities in Cape Town who tested negative for COVID-19 died unexpectedly on 17 June.
Following extensive discussion and consideration, Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein has extended the moratorium on reopening shuls until 1 July.
Gauteng doctors at the coalface of coronavirus have pleaded with the community to stop making light of the pandemic following a precipitous rise in the number...
Good leadership isn’t about being in charge, but about taking care of those in your charge, Simon Sinek told South Africans at a SA Jewish Report...
Just how is COVID-19 changing our lives on a personal and geopolitical level?
“It's hard to believe it, but at this very moment there are families in our community who are hungry,” says Barry Levitt, the executive director of...
As a philanthropist rather than a psychologist, I know more about people helping each other than why they do it. At the moment, we’re seeing much...
We are in a precarious position. We are gatvol with lockdown, and want to get on with our lives as we knew them. We have just...
Israel has reached an historic junction. It’s now able to expand its legal borders and declare its sovereignty over parts of the occupied territories it has...
As a young boy growing up in South Africa in the 1980s, I was acutely aware of the stigma attached to being South African. I remember...
When Canadian lay leader Joel Reitman’s uncle passed away as a result of COVID-19, Pesach was only three days away.
Nicholas Ngoma was an orphan and living on the streets before he fought his way to dignity through a talent for tennis. He has been coaching...
“I was out fighting the deadly bushfires for weeks on end during the summer months, and now my wife, Kate, is on the frontline in the...
Former South Africans Shmuel Shantall and Avigdor Book, who both live in Modi’in in Israel, had planned to take part in the 2020 Comrades Ultra Marathon,...
Since October 2017, young armed Islamist fighters have been carrying out vicious attacks on civilians in the north-eastern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. Victims have been...
Political activist Ahmed Kathrada’s staunch opposition to the racist policies of the apartheid government was inspired by his exposure to the tyranny of Nazi Germany against...
Former University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) lecturer Dr Ittamar Avin retired from the university’s English department after 30 years of teaching in 2002, so few expected him...
When multi award-winning South African author Jonny Steinberg set out to write a story about a man wrongly accused of a heinous crime, he believed he...
The prestigious Jerusalem Unity Prize was this month awarded to Hakhel, the world’s largest Jewish intentional community incubator project, which has ties to South Africa.
Two centuries ago, Polish noblemen would do anything to avoid giving business to a Jew. Ivan the poretz was willing to make an exception. He needed...
When societies are under stress, there is heightened risk of racist conspiracy theories and scapegoating. This is particularly true in societies where historically speaking, the population...
It has become my routine each Shabbat morning during level 3 lockdown to go for a walk with my family.
In the midst of the current economic crisis, many Jewish families would have succumbed to pangs of hunger had it not been for the uninterrupted food...
The phenomenon of COVID-19 minyanim gives rise to, at least, the following material considerations: the well-known principle that all Jews are responsible for each other; and...
I write this letter unafraid to reveal my identity.
Having been a photojournalist in the Middle East who has covered many conflicts, I find that the COVID-19 pandemic has given conflict photograph a new, surreal...
Most people will have noticed that the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in South Africa (and Gauteng) has been rising fast. Unfortunately this goes hand...
Private minyanim are taking place in the homes of South African Jews in spite of Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein’s decision not to open shuls yet...
Solly Krok was named after his grandfather who died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918/1919. Now, just over a century later, Krok is living through...
Joggers in Glenhazel were greeted by the sight of a zebra grazing the grass when they set out for a morning run on Tuesday and Wednesday...
“I was in a deep, dark place, and couldn’t see a way out of the despair,” says a Johannesburg mother who was shunned and bullied online...
