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I refer to a column which appeared on page 19 of your 1-8 February edition, written by Shaun Zagnoev.
When local artist Beezy Bailey evacuated his Cape Town house on Sunday night, it brought back memories of his holiday home in Plettenberg Bay, which burned...
(JTA) At a conference on Jewish life in Africa held in New York at the end of January, Magda Haroun spoke of being only one of...
South African academic and columnist Oscar van Heerden has defended the blatantly anti-Israel opinion piece he penned on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The piece, which appeared in...
British television presenter Rachel Riley speaks at the Holocaust Education Trust Reception in Westminster on Sunday about standing up to anti-Semitism. This is an edited version...
A website containing an international register of more than 770 alleged Jewish orthodox sex offenders is claimed to be the world’s largest database of its kind.
David Akinin is carefully watching the crisis in his birth country, Venezuela, from his adopted home in Namibia, feeling deep concern for the South American community.
What does it mean not to be Jewish enough? Surely, you are either Jewish or you aren’t. And if somebody thinks that another person is not...
American President Donald Trump’s much touted “ultimate deal” to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is on hold. But only until “immediately” after the Israeli elections (slated for...
When we send our teenagers and young adults on study and leadership programmes in Israel, we assume they are in the safest of hands. But an...
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the north-central African nation of Chad. The roundtrip took 23 hours. He met Chadian President Idriss Déby...
Chabad House has come to the rescue of Jewish children at Crossroads School who were about to lose their weekly Jewish Studies lessons.
While countries across the world observed international Holocaust memorial day on Sunday, the Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies held its commemorative ceremony in the...
Amid talk about the fourth industrial revolution and the jobs of the future, there has been a resurgence of the debate about whether Bachelor of Arts...
The number of South Africans making aliya may be higher than ever, but what of the many Israelis who call South Africa home? Whether here for...
“The rise of anti-Semitism is an international – not French – phenomenon,” said Professor Renee Poznanski, a Jewish French-born Israeli historian.
A group of 60 men and women in the Warsaw Ghetto risked their lives to create an archive of documents that they then hid in the...
New research shows that the majority of deaths during the single largest murder campaign of the Holocaust, Operation Reinhard, occurred over just a single three-month period...
(JTA) In the despair of the Soviet Union’s fierce World War II battles against the Nazis, a 42-year-old Jewish man from Odessa wrote a song in...
(JTA) Former Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz said he is “seriously thinking of running for president”.
When Asher Marcus attended shacharit services in Linksfield Shul as a King David Linksfield High School pupil, he couldn’t help looking around him and thinking that...
It was a chance phone call to Lael Bethlehem – then Chief Executive of the Johannesburg Development Agency – that brought about the creation of the...
“A nice Jewish girl like you doesn’t become a boxer.” That’s what ground breaking Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter and psychiatrist Dr Danella Eliasov was told...
I am no stranger to hate mail. I have been photoshopped into gas chambers because I am Jewish. I have been called a baby murderer sympathiser...
I was most interested to read Jordan Moshe’s article about the discovery of an Anglo-Boer War medal awarded to Jacob Bergman.
Where are the youth protestors, the “trouble-makers” who keep all societies alive? What on earth will it take for South Africans to become so riled up...
South Africa today is home to a Jewish community that is by far the largest in Africa, but up until comparatively recently, this was not the...
Cyberspace, outer space, inner space. Smart cards, smart bombs, stem cells, and cell phones. There is no denying it. We live in a new age. Science...
I totally disagree with Yvonne Kaplan’s letter in last week’s SA Jewish Report. From the outset, our hearts reach out to the Paluch family over the...
Who decides whether something is an accident or obvious negligence? Should a devastated family who have buried a child accept the argument of an “accidental”, albeit...
The South African SuperSport Football Academy Under-9 team won the Silver Playoffs in the recently held IberCup in Brazil, and eight-year-old Dylan Friedland of King David...
Table tennis fans were given a unique opportunity to watch the game played at an extremely high level last Sunday at the Maccabi Top 16 Table...
Instead of giving Christmas presents, the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) in Port Elizabeth opted to fund lay-byes for school uniforms instead. In this, they followed...
Helen Keller said, “Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much.” When we work together on a common goal, we can achieve...
Most of us are aware of the huge Bnei Akiva, Habonim and not quite as large Netzer end of year Jewish youth movement camps, but few...
“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery, and I promise you something great...
The King David High School Victory Park (KDVP) Grade 8 orientation camp is an opportunity for new pupils to bond with each other, the staff, and...
Sandton Sinai Primary School has appointed Lara Salkinder as the new principal of the school. In announcing the appointment, the school said Salkinder had the passion...
The right-wing anti-Semitism understood to be entrenched in many parts of the world is now on the rise in South Africa, say experts in the field.
Israel – commonly dubbed the “Start-up Nation” – has jumped to fifth place in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index, skipping five places since last year. It...
