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When our community looks back on the time of COVID-19, it will remember being entertained, informed, and educated by SA Jewish Report-hosted webinars, or as they...
As our understanding of coronavirus develops, it has become clear that asymptomatic carriers could be the biggest threat to containing the virus, most notably in senior...
“I usually feel grateful for the dozens of dependents I’m able to ‘parent’ in life. Today, I’m wondering whether I should have just stuck to a...
Sitting in the spacious grounds and picturesque gardens of Jaffa, the Jewish retirement home in Pretoria, it’s hard to imagine the 75 residents doing anything more...
COVID-19 has irrevocably altered the face of education as we know it. Schools and universities will have to find ways to navigate a blended approach to...
South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP) is disappointed with the SA Jewish Report’s ill-informed and biased report on the South African BDS Coalition, titled,...
“Tzedakah defines who we are as Jews,” says advertising extraordinaire Mike Abel. His agency, M&C Saatchi Abel’s, Street Store initiative was recently selected as a finalist...
“Sometimes it takes just one of something to make a difference for just one person. The following quote by Mother Teresa carries weight for us: ‘If...
She’s tiny, and oh so cute, but Rebecca Symanowitz, aged nine, has managed to raise more than R25 000 in just four days to feed hungry...
Rabbi Andre Ungar was the first rabbi in South Africa to provoke the public wrath of senior National Party politicians, and the only rabbi to be...
The United Nations believes that coronavirus is the worst global crisis since World War II, its staggering toll on life and disruption of normality sure to...
Holocaust survivors had universal life lessons in endurance, bravery, and hope. In spite of the circumstances that ripped their lives apart, countless individuals strove to strengthen...
Once, most of us were all able to snigger (with no small feeling of relief), “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” But now, how...
Did you know that Joburg Jews have more financial challenges than Capetonian Jews, but they are also much more likely to employ domestic staff than their...
In the book of Leviticus (chapter 23), all of the Biblical festivals appear. Each festival has its own date, sacrifices, and a distinctive ritual. Rosh Hashanah...
“We had a magical and mystical Lag B’Omer this year,” says Rabbi Yossy Goldman of Sydenham Shul. Participants delved deeper into the insights of Rabbi Shimon...
What happens when your shul’s annual Lag B’Omer Kumzitz gathering can’t take place because of lockdown? Naturally, you arrange a Zoomzitz instead.
ORT Jet’s Business Rescue Initiative has helped 52 businesses to access government funding and other relief measures since the lockdown began.
However irrational you think that South Africa’s approach to COVID-19 might be, we aren’t alone. In spite of myriad global experts, there isn’t a country in...
There has been considerable activity on the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ (SAJBD’s) COVID-19 Jewish community platform over the past week. While the site continues...
One of the most devastating effects of the COVID-19 crisis is its financial impact. The Gesher Fund has been set up in our community to address...
An elderly resident of Jewish old aged home Highlands House in Cape Town died on Saturday after testing positive for COVID-19, and five more residents have...
The anti-Israel movement in South Africa, which went under the banner of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions South Africa (BDS-SA) movement, has broken down. The international BDS...
There was an eerie stillness at West Park Cemetery in Johannesburg last week as two sisters stood two metres apart from each other wearing gloves and...
As we end our first week of level-4 lockdown, I don’t believe we have greater freedom in spite of some of the bans being lifted. There...
My name, Hussein Solomon, captures my diverse identity. I’m a practicing Muslim who, on account of my paternal grandfather, has Jewish blood flowing through his veins....
Few could imagine African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Denis Goldberg, who lived most of his life as a communist and anti-Zionist, at a Bnei Akiva machaneh...
“It was Pesach 2.0 – being trapped in Mitzrayim [Egypt] during a plague, and waiting for the Red Sea to open the way home,” says Capetonian...
“The economy of South Africa is akin to a patient arriving at a hospital. We don’t know if it’s going into intensive care or serious monitoring....
They may be stuck at home, but that hasn’t stopped a group of teenagers from King David High School Linksfield (KDHSL) from helping the less fortunate.
When mother and dance teacher Romy Petersen sees injustice, she doesn’t simply express sympathy. She does something about it. She juggles her responsibilities as a mom...
As hundreds of exercise enthusiasts puffed and panted, world-renowned artist Conor Mccreedy stood at his canvas and painted. They were on the same online exercise panel.
South African Jews, particularly youngsters, have become far less tolerant of anti-Semitism, says Associate Professor Adam Mendelsohn, the director of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre...
I was setting up the tefillin (phylacteries) booth on the Venice Boardwalk in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. I was a teenager, hoping to capitalise...
(JTA) The new Labour Party leader in the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, still can’t quite get over the Corbyn hump.
Michael Sieff, the new national executive director at the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) donated cutting-edge Israeli medical-grade masks from Israel’s Sonovia Tech to Hatzolah on...
This coming Tuesday, we will celebrate Lag B’Omer. It’s a day that marks the passing of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a great Torah scholar and Kabbalist...
Adapting labour law to lockdown is no less daunting than finding one’s way up to the summit of Mount Everest. We are in unchartered territory, attempting...
(JTA) When Natan Sharansky learned in December that he would become the eighth Genesis Prize honoree, he decided he would use his $1 million (R18.7 million)...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) continues to engage in efforts to alleviate the impact, economic and otherwise, of COVID-19 on the Jewish community...
