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Like many people, I am deeply distressed and surprised by the growth of anti-Semitism in left-wing circles. Labour under Jeremy Corbyn is typical of a wider...
Last week, a 19-year-old school pupil fatally stabbed a 16-year-old pupil at a southern suburbs Johannesburg school. While this kind of tragic incident is unheard of...
No jokes. Last month, Ukraine inaugurated Volodymyr Zelensky, a 41-year-old Jewish comic actor, as its new president.
Absa executives and the board of the SA Jewish Report met on Wednesday to re-cement their partnership for the SA Jewish Achiever Awards.
While the South African youth of 1976 had a clear-cut fight on their hands against apartheid, today’s young people are tackling issues like gender-based violence, climate...
(JTA) Amir Ohana was appointed Israel’s justice minister last Wednesday. He is Israel’s first openly gay government minister.
It was 90 years ago that Chai Sora lay in the delivery room of the Queen Victoria hospital near Hillbrow in Johannesburg. Much to the surprise...
Tanya Cohen this week announced that she was stepping down as chief executive of Business Unity South Africa (Busa) at a critical juncture in South Africa.
Jewish life in Lithuania dates back to 1340, when Grand Duke Gediminas invited merchants and craftsmen from Western Europe to settle in his domain. Over time,...
The Jewish National Fund of South Africa (JNF-SA) is poised to reissue its Blue Box, perhaps the best-known symbol of diaspora Zionism. Throughout the last century,...
Epstein and Klein are surnames which you would probably associate with Houghton or Sandton, but they are names that will go down in the history of...
If you visit Soweto, you might well hear residents chatting about their kibbutz or referring to the gan yeladim (playschool).
The fact that Soweto has electricity today is down to Dr Selma Browde, a Jewish woman from Houghton, who was a radiation oncologist, health activist, academic,...
Mapule Ndhlovu – billed as South Africa’s fitness queen – has just returned from a trip to Israel, where she explored the country’s fitness lifestyle. “Fitness...
On 16 June 2006, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) led a Jewish community delegation to Soweto to take part in events commemorating the...
I have never really loved being in shul. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy what the community has to offer, and I don’t appreciate...
The heartrending picture of the lifeless body of a young Syrian boy on a Greek beach, one of 12 Syrians who drowned in 2015 attempting to...
Imagine being under attack from enemy fire.
On Sunday, Maurice “Maish” Rosen competed his 36th Comrades Marathon, sneaking under the cut-off time with five minutes to spare. A couple of hours after his...
Hardly a day passes that we don’t read disparaging articles condemning, criticising, and demeaning Israel. There is no end to what her detractors will dig up...
The Torah Academy Primary School sports stars were recently awarded at the school’s annual awards ceremony.
Shavuot offered a perfect learning opportunity for Sydenham Preschool children.
King David Victory Park Grade 7 pupil Zachary Valkin has been selected for the Johannesburg Primary Schools boys soccer squad. The Johannesburg team is selected from...
Jewish Food Fund Yad Aharon & Michael has invited top chief executives to visit the organisation’s Johannesburg soup kitchen to raise awareness and funds for Jewish...
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions South Africa (BDS-SA) appears to have aligned itself with Hezbollah, allowing the terror organisation’s flags to fly and people to chant for the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on governments to sever ties and cut off aid to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) because of their continued...
The vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Adam Habib, says South African top-end universities are comparable with any in the world.
Eighteen-month-old Palestinian toddler Shams Ismail was rushed to the Sheba Medical Center in Israel recently with extensive burns to more than half of her body. Her...
Professor Jonathan Jansen had a huge smile on his face as he spoke at the recent Ramadan Shabbat at the Cape Town Progressive Hebrew Congregation (also...
As BDS (the Boycott Divestment, Sanctions movement) was preparing for its protest outside the Johannesburg City Council last Friday to demand that Sandton Drive be renamed...
Israelis are going to the polls again over an issue that is as divisive as it is seemingly unsolvable. Should ultra-Orthodox (haredi) men serve in the...
The year was 1935, and the Spanish government was making elaborate plans to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Rambam’s birth, seemingly a great honour and...
“Every fifth child is going through some kind of sexual harassment, and we don’t know about it,” says Dr Ayelet Giladi, a world-renowned sociologist and expert...
For Lorian Phillips, it seems like a lifetime since she felt like she was on permanent speed dial with her boys’ primary school.
Grade 12 students often find themselves in a dilemma about their options after matric. The pressure to begin university studies and get on with life is...
Mandla Mpofu, a beloved member of the King David Linksfield campus, expressed his gratitude to the community earlier this month after graduating from college.
Harriet Gavshon, a stalwart in the film and television industry in South Africa, wanted to create a series based on a girls boarding school because she...
Cameron Blumenow is only 16 years old, but he holds the South African and African records for the fastest completion of the Rubik’s Cube, being able...
(JTA) As in all life matters, when it comes to abortion, Judaism doesn’t speak of rights, but responsibilities and obligations. Seeing things through that lens can...
Shavuot, 49 days after Passover, marks the jubilant end to the exodus. On Passover, the people of Israel left Egypt, but it is only on Shavuot...
