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Daniel Ackerman can be forgiven for thinking that he’d cornered the market on bad luck. On the eve of the Touch World Cup in Malaysia a...
The hall was full at the Yom Hazikaron ceremony at Yeshiva College last Tuesday (7 May), but attendance was poor in relation to the size of...
As South Africa went to the polls on Wednesday, the SA Jewish Report’s roving photographer, Ilan Ossendryver, captured the Jewish vote around Johannesburg.
As about 700 rockets were launched at Israel this past Shabbat, South Africans living in the south of the country raced to find their children, hid...
(JTA) Criminal goes to ‘federal Jewish heaven’ Michael Cohen, a former attorney and fixer for United States President Donald Trump, is reported to have started his...
Every day, twice a day, we emulate the angels on high and say kedusha (a prayer describing G-d’s holiness). We exclaim that Hashem is “kadosh, kadosh,...
“I thought I was going to die, and in a way I wished I would, not knowing what would happen,” says Stacey Urdang, who was hijacked...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) senate is to meet on 10 May to consider and clarify its proposal for an academic boycott of Israeli universities.
This week in South Africa, you could be excused for thinking nothing was happening other than our elections. Most news items have been about local politics...
The timing of the Gaza flareup this past weekend was not co-incidental.
Four Israelis were killed this week as about 700 rockets were fired from Gaza. These victims represent the mosaic of the different tribes of Israeli society...
Paul Trewhela, an important member of the Jewish left-wing during apartheid, believes South African politics is “dictatorial”. Visiting South Africa recently, he told the SA Jewish...
Amid a maelstrom of mobility scooters and walking sticks, residents of Sandringham Gardens converged upon the home’s auditorium in their numbers to vote on Monday this...
(JTA) One night years ago, when a Jewish man was driving to his parents’ house in Caracas, Venezuela, two cars blocked off the street he was...
Baron Kevin Shinkwin is not Jewish, but he dedicates his time to fight for the rights of the disabled, and to combat anti-Semitism, using his position...
Have you ever talked to a holographic image of a real person? It’s a strange thought, but one that is already being put into action –...
As Cape Town community members entered the Yom Hazikaron ceremony at Herzlia High School Hall on Tuesday evening, they walked through an exhibition that brought home...
“Were our sacrifices for ourselves alone, I’m not sure they would have been worthwhile. If our sacrifices are for the sake of the whole Jewish people,...
(JTA) Eva Heyman is an energetic 13-year-old Jewish girl with a bright smile. Go to her Instagram page, and you’ll see selfies of the brown-haired teen...
The recent attack at Chabad Poway in San Diego is, like all other anti-Semitic attacks, a warning to the rest of the world of the spread...
The hatred of Jews that fuelled the Holocaust, even slavery in Egypt, has taken new forms, Israeli Ambassador Lior Keinan warned at this year’s Yom HaShoah...
“When Auschwitz was liberated on 27 January 1945, I was on a death march from there to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. I was liberated only six...
The state of Israel might not have existed had it not been for the contribution of South African volunteers. Heeding the call to defend the fledgling...
I had the privilege of representing South Africa at the inaugural March of the Living Emerging Leaders Conference aimed at aiding and motivating young leaders to...
The fate awaiting Europe’s Jews was made public knowledge as early as 1933.
What has the power to shock us so deeply today that we sit up and take notice? Could it be the increase of right-wing demagoguery and...
At the time of writing, we are less than a day away from South Africa’s sixth national and provincial elections since the transition to democracy, which...
An accurate barometer of our collective mood is the communication that I receive. When we are in a more positive and less anxious space, I either...
I belong to a Facebook group called Children of Holocaust Survivors. This is quite a select group, but not one which I would have chosen to...
The 19 April edition of the SA Jewish Report contained an article on the island of Majorca and gave an overview of inhabitants who were of...
We often focus on the negative. Nevertheless, I would like to share two positive experiences that my mother, a white woman in her eighties, experienced over...
In the lead-up to Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Deputy Ambassador Ayellet Black visited Emmarentia Shul to talk about the latest Gaza rocket attacks on Israel.
Chabad of Greenstone managed to raise more than R1 million in 24 hours to renovate its new home.
In a moving ceremony, Klerksdorp community members commemorated Yom HaShoah on 1 May with readings about dehumanisation, and candle lighting in remembrance of the victims.
WIZO Johannesburg honoured Madeleine Heitner, who passed away recently at the age of 100, among other survivors and righteous individuals at its Yom HaShoah commemoration at...
Three Torah Academy Primary School pupils, Shmueli Goldschmit, Tanni Cohen and Kayla Kay, won medals for obtaining more than 90% in the annual Chabad Lubavitch Mitzvot...
Simon Dimant, a life-long “table-tennis addict” as he describes himself, speaks English with a quaint flourish. This is because he is of Latvian descent and English...
Aubrey Meyerowitz, originally from Johannesburg, was in the Chabad shul of Poway, California, on Saturday when he heard shots ring out. “It was the first aliyah...
Third record year for Canadian anti-Semitism Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose to a record high for the third consecutive year, according to an annual audit by...
The SA Jewish Report attempted to interview all the leaders of the main parties running for election.
