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For South African students, spending time with those from American universities “opened our eyes to the fact that campus leaders can play a pivotal role in...
You may not remember watching a local sports match, but you never forget being at an Olympic Games, especially when it’s held in Paris. Two million...
Jewish students at Stellenbosch University have more than tripled in number over the past five years, growing from 40 in 2019 to more than 150, creating...
Dr Benji Ozynski and his medical assistance platform, Engage MX, won the prized tech entrepreneur category in the 2024 South African Future Trust (SAFT) Awards on...
When searching for a Jewish South African competing in the Olympic Games, look no further than the United States women’s rugby team, which includes winger Sarah...
There’s huge satisfaction when your pupils go on to achieve, and so for 84-year-old retired ballet teacher Bernice Lloyd, having movie star Charlize Theron; Tanya Howard,...
Exactly 30 years ago, two Jewish men decided to launch an organisation to improve the lives of all South Africans. They were the great philanthropist Bertie...
Preparing for Barmitzvahs and Batmitzvahs is hard work, but much harder if you live in outlying towns or even countries where there are no Jewish communities....
“We still believe in a two-state solution, although right now, it doesn’t seem practical,” Yair Golan, the newly appointed leader of the Israeli Democrat Party –...
When South African-born Andrew Raphaely launched his lending business, 365 Finance, he would never have dreamed that 12 years later, King Charles would personally award him...
Being given a skill when life is tough is the biggest gift of all. Graduates of the Union of Jewish Women’s (UJW) Sewing School have a...
When Rabbi Ryan Goldstein left Johannesburg and moved to Muizenberg in April to take over the Muizenberg Hebrew Congregation, he was staying true to his belief...
Facebook’s former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, says she was determined to make it clear that “rape isn’t resistance” in her documentary Screams Before Silence. It’s...
Breindy Klawansky, a Johannesburg-based musician who sings songs she composes in biblical Hebrew, was inducted into the Recording Academy or Grammy’s class of 2024 at the...
Three Cape Town Jewish schools: Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School (PJJDS); Sinai Academy; and Cape Town Torah High (CTTH) have come together to create South Africa’s...
This is a mammoth year for the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards and the SA Jewish Report. We celebrate 25 years of the newspaper, the awards, and...
Mark Wade is happy but surprised to hear that his documentary series on the history of South African Jewry, Legends & Legacies: A Story of a...
Warning: Graphic content “The sexual abuse that occurred on 7 October wasn’t made up of isolated incidents or sporadic cases but was rather a clear operational...
After seven weeks of practice, the Israel national cricket team set off for Rome on 7 June to participate in the ICC (International Cricket Council) Men’s...
When 63-year-old Kyalami resident Penny Van A heard about the massacre in the south of Israel on 7 October, she felt compelled to go and help....
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) couldn’t order a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Hamas because it would be binding only on Israel, but Israel isn’t...
After two long days filled with Scrabble tiles on 17 and 18 June, political analyst and wordsmith Steven Gruzd came out on top at the South...
It was years of planning and hard work, but finally, on 1 June, Torah Academy opened its new Girls High School campus in Johannesburg. Sounds of...
South African visitors to Israel will be required to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation document (ETA-IL) as of 1 July 2024, according to a recent...
“Give Prayer a Chance”, a new initiative by Chabad House Johannesburg, is described by its director, Rabbi David Masinter, as a spiritual Iron Dome for the...
While the world changed for Jews on 7 October 2023, educational practices have also had to adjust, David Bryfman, the chief executive of the New York-based...
“Most of us – if not all – have been born into a tapestry of ancestral trauma as the Jewish people.” Peta Cline Feigin, local life...
First-time voters went out in their numbers in order to take a stand in their future South Africa in the country’s national elections on Wednesday, 29...
In a sometimes confusing teenagers’ world, there are few places one can express one’s feelings in a judgement-free zone. Often, it’s teens who best understand and...
Although they may be far from the country of their birth, South African expats around the globe went out in their thousands to vote on 18...
“The time has come for us to imagine. Let’s create a space of hope and how. To realise the dream that we all share in, here...
When news of the massacre at the hands of Hamas in Israel on 7 October filtered down to Omer Cohen*, who was living in Cyprus, he...
It may be difficult to get into a party mood for the 76th year of Israel’s independence in light of the war and global rise in...
“Remembering the systematic genocide of the European Jews, a crime against humanity on an unprecedented scale, and the horrors and atrocities perpetrated in Germany’s name under...
King David High School Linksfield matric student Jaime Freeman discovered a talent for wildlife photography during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 while on a trip to...
Miriam Lazarus is one of the few remaining Lithuanian Holocaust survivors in South Africa, but she wouldn’t have been born if the Nazis had their way....
On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of 44 000 Jews from Hungary and 1 900 Jews from Rhodes, this year’s Yom Hashoah ceremony in Cape Town...
When Nomakwazi Ndlovu left her job at Sorbet Drybar Bedfordview four years ago and wanted to start her own business, she had no clue where to...
Members of the Lithuanian government are calling on South Africans holding Lithuanian citizenship to vote in the upcoming election, saying its outcome could determine the future...
Internet Communications Technology expert Arthur Goldstuck, whose latest book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI was recently launched, says there’s no reason to panic about artificial intelligence...
