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Behind the furore over my colleague, Rabbi Julia Margolis, being invited to lead the interfaith prayers at the DA’s recent electoral conference is the premise that...
The Jews of South Africa are known around the world for being a well organised and strongly Zionist community.
King David Linksfield is selling Israel@70 bracelets in honour of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of both Israel and King David Schools this year. The...
Jess Levitt, Habonim Dror SA mazkir klalit (secretary-general) I’ve had a complicated relationship with Israel over the years. I went to Herzlia High School in Cape...
Crawford College Sandton’s swimmers did exceptionally at the 2018 SA National Junior Age Group Championships last month at the Kings Park Aquatics Centre in Durban.
On Thursday, April 12, King David Victory Park High School held a Memorial Assembly to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
On Friday, April 13, residents from Our Parents’ Home were invited by Sandton Sinai school to come and read to the children. This was part of...
Sydenham Pre-school is proud to welcome PJ Library, a reading programme, to South Africa. To celebrate the launch of this global initiative, the school recently hosted...
I have not written to your paper of late, but from time to time, a Hillul Hashem takes place that compels me to take up my...
Geoff Sifrin certainly has a genius way of being offensive. His last column in SA Jewish Report, titled “Is this the Wild West or the Middle...
On the eve of its 70th anniversary, we, members of Save Israel – Stop the Occupation SA (SISO SA), recognise and celebrate Israel’s many achievements. We...
The SA Jewish Report apologises unreservedly to Rabbi Moshe Kurtstag and the Beth Din for publishing a letter last week in which they were referred to...
Jed Kagan has achieved his goal in raising awareness of the rare disease he had – and recovered from – by donating 365 unique handmade Jedi...
Rebecca “Bucka” Jankes turns 100 this week.
Durban figure skaters Tamarah and Chelsea Jacobs’ dream came true when they were torch-bearers in the 23rd Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea...
ANC veteran Dr Zola Skweyiya, who died this week at age 75, put great effort into finding a lasting solution to the Middle East conflict.
A Johannesburg mother has finally found insight into her tortured childhood, after reading a Holocaust survivor’s recently published memoir.
This Yom Hashoah, there are fewer survivors left. I am stating the obvious as the Holocaust began 85 years ago and ended 73 years ago. So,...
A customer and friend of Rachel and Rodney Saunders, the botanist couple who were kidnapped in KwaZulu-Natal in February and presumed killed by followers of the...
Bernadette Lifshitz, the owner of a high-end boutique at Cape Town’s Canal Walk, has allegedly disappeared with her stock in tow – leaving loyal staff, customers...
The dusty dorp of Brandfort in the Free State is well known because the late struggle stalwart, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was banished there by the apartheid regime...
Internationally acclaimed South African deejay and producer Black Coffee is keeping mum following his controversial performance in Israel, which resulted in the ANC calling for a...
The DA has unreservedly apologised for a faux pas in calling on Progressive Rabbi Julia Margolis to say a prayer at its electoral conference last weekend,...
Discredited Stan & Pete owner Jeff Shull this week said “life goes on” after he was forced to shut down his kosher catering business under a...
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, known as the Mother of the Nation, died at the Netcare Milpark Hospital at the age of 81 last week. The struggle stalwart, affectionately...
“And sitting here today at my typewriter in the warm sunshine…”
Within hours of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making a deal with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on April 2 not to send 40...
What happens when the living witnesses to the Holocaust are no more?
I finished reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris more than a month ago, but I am still ruminating on it. It is one of...
The last Jew in Eritrea standing alone in a colourful shul. Two Ethiopian boys wrapped in talleisim, praying. Jewish cemeteries around Africa. These images form part...
Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg are well known for having saved Jews during the Holocaust, but few know of the valiant efforts by President Manuel Quezon...
English is a global and porous language. It has been sucking up words from other languages, like a hungry sponge, for centuries.
Although Lithuanian Antanas Zabulis is not Jewish, he is chair of the board of Litvakworld, a non-governmental organisation that preserves and commemorates Jewish history in Lithuania....
With a rich history dating back to the late 1800s, the Jewish community of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, has faltered, but never fallen. The recent rededication...
Russell Fransman is highly charged and enjoying the good life as a “bionic man”.
“You can teach ethics, but you can’t teach people to be ethical.” This was one of the take-home messages of Professor Solly Benatar, who delivered a...
Judy Moritz, a 70-year-old Houghton grandmother, found a way to ease her arthritis in her hands – she took up Lego. This opened up a whole...
Few can match Steven Adler’s commitment to the community. His dedication stretches from the tender age of five, as a member of Bnei Akiva, and spans...
The past fortnight has seen a flurry of biased media coverage against Israel in certain sectors of the mainstream media, much of it relating to the...
One thing that puzzles Diaspora Jews seeing images of Israeli soldiers facing masses of mostly unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in the March of Return at the Gaza...
