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Doctors are experiencing a dramatic drop in appointments, follow-ups, and surgery during the lockdown, and some are urging patients not to avoid getting treatment if circumstances...
More than a year ago, former members of the Habonim Dror Southern Africa youth movement began to plan for the organisation’s 90th birthday event. Titled HABO2020,...
A small social-media campaign to assist the hungry in South Africa started by a woman living in Sweden has resulted in R54 000 being raised in...
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was the driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era. His great-great grandson, Gil Hovav, talked to South African...
Hit Israeli television series Fauda has taken the world by storm, its depiction of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict gripping millions of viewers around the world. Beyond the...
If the left wing in Israel wants to revive itself, it will need to decide what it stands for and include the groups it has hitherto...
In your editorial, “Hasty decisions could endanger lives”, in the 29 May edition of the SA Jewish Report, you ask why President Cyril Ramaphosa ignored sensible...
Two articles in your 22 May edition of the SA Jewish Report refer, the front-page article, “SA woman’s antisemitic outburst shocks SA Jewry”, and the editorial,...
The online publication of the SA Jewish Report (29 May 2020) is a flop.
Most Jewish schools opened their doors this week to Grade 7s and 12s, but it appears to be a completely new chapter.
Maish and Lorraine Reznik celebrated their 60th anniversary on the first day of lockdown. Ironically, 60 years ago in March, following the Sharpeville Massacre, South Africa...
“Celebrating 140 years of one of the largest global educational nongovernmental organisations is a significant milestone, especially in light of the COVID-19 crisis,” said Ariellah Rosenberg,...
As much as the country’s move to level-three lockdown is to be welcomed, it’s critical to understand that returning to work doesn’t mean going back to...
Every now and then we need to feel blind rage. Every now and then we need to set aside political affiliation, religious adherence, and historical context...
It’s not only medicine that doctors practise, apparently some also try their hand at singing. General practitioners from across South Africa raised their voices in a...
As limiting as laws and rules may seem, they are integral to liberty. Although the Torah establishes a system of rules which govern our lives, its...
Places of worship have been given the green light to resume services across South Africa next week, but medical experts and the South African Jewish Board...
For two months, scores of South Africans stuck under lockdown in Israel and Israelis unable to leave South Africa have been waiting to hear when they...
Jewish schools across the country are dealing with a multitude of practical, ethical, legal, and emotional challenges as they start the process of reopening on Monday,...
There are no easy answers for parents afraid to send their children back to school in June, a panel of experts told a webinar hosted by...
Fear and anger are holding us hostage. These two emotions are running high in our community and the country at large. They can lead us to...
As of 20 May, paediatric cases comprise 2% of the total worldwide corona cases. This number is small, yet still significant. As we grapple with the...
As I knot my favourite leopard-print headwrap behind my neck and check the shape of my pencilled brows in the mirror one last time, I’m steeling...
Philip K Dick, an American science-fiction author, once offered some much needed advice: “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” For...
Hundreds of Kliptown residents are being fed on a regular basis because suburban folk in Waverley and Melrose North have created a feeding plan.
When anti-apartheid documentary filmmaker Laurence Dworkin passed away from COVID-19 in Cape Town on 17 May, he was on the brink of sharing his knowledge with...
Doctors’ rooms in Johannesburg are eerily quiet, and while this would be a good thing in normal circumstances, it’s making practitioners anxious. Patients with chronic conditions...
Teagan Noach, a Grade 11 pupil at Redhill School, believes that people are desperate for hope and has taken it upon herself to provide messages to...
The Sydney Jewish community has re-imagined and re-invented itself. One of the centres of Australian Jewry, it has responded to government-imposed restrictions in the context of...
Chief executive and founder of the Capital Hotel Group, Marc Wachsberger, came up with the concept of sanitised sanctuaries in his hotels to keep operating under...
Jerusalem is much more than the spiritual capital of the Jewish people, it’s a city that unites opposites. Secular and religious, Arab and Israeli, Jew and...
Yeshiva College English teacher Sue Chalom asked Grade 9 students to write short stories about their experience under lockdown. She was so overwhelmed by their honesty...
After the festival of our liberation, Pesach, comes Shavuot, the festival of the receiving of our Torah. The days of Sefirah (the counting of the Omer),...
Who makes your favourite cheesecake? This question reminds us of baking competitions and communal Shavuot dinner desserts. It’s popular custom to partake of dairy products and...
(JTA) Earlier this year, Dani Rotstein was earning a living doing something he’s passionate about: promoting the forgotten Jewish heritage of Mallorca.
I don’t think I’m the only one going into Shavuos with a gulp in my throat, knowing that if, G-d forbid, Moshiach doesn’t come in the...
Lauren Boolkin is a maestro at making delectable food. She has made a real effort to bring us something special for this Shavuot under lockdown. Get...
We have been successful in laying down the tracks to steer our country away from COVID-19 ruin. This has been an extremely challenging time, but in...
While the fog caused by COVID-19 is still far too deep to unravel, and no one can possibly know when or how the virus will eventually...
During the five-week lockdown, many of us became reticent to criticise or complain, fearing that it could come across as insensitive or tone deaf at a...
