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Artists Danit Gordon and Treatwell Mnisi felt drawn to creating an artwork for Yeshiva College to commemorate 7 October, but each for personal reasons. “Being so...
An Israeli and a Palestinian content creator walk into a room in San Francisco. War doesn’t break out, rather they engage in dialogue on how better...
Eastern Europe once had one of the world’s largest Jewish populations, but it now ranks among the smallest. Throughout its history, people from various communities left...
Making aliya amidst a war is sometimes seen as stepping from the frying pan into the fire, or perhaps true Zionism. But, since 7 October, 23...
The old understanding of Jews as being passive during the Holocaust has become obsolete with new research, says Wolf Gruner, the Shappel-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies...
After Gary Meyers, a South African architect living in Australia, helped raise enough money for a new prosthetic arm for Kerry-Lee Brandt Salamon, he set his...
Hatzolah Medical Rescue has an excellent track record in emergency care, but last week, it was internationally recognised for its treatment of strokes. The World Stroke...
Thirty years after the violence of the genocide in Rwanda, Carl Wilkens, a humanitarian aid worker who lived in the country at the time of the...
“How are you meant to be a woman involved in Jewish life when you are left out of the central elements of Jewish life?” This is...
While 40% to 60% of Israeli Jews identify as secular, it’s not the kind of secular most people imagine it to be, said American-Canadian-Israeli queer Jewish...
Ofir Dayan grew up in the community of Ma’ale Shomron in the West Bank, where, she said, “Jews and Palestinians coexisted”. Though people have fixed ideas...
As many as 24% of Americans are antisemitic, Steven Windmueller, emeritus professor of Jewish communal studies at the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles and specialist...
When the Jews of Port Elizabeth, now Gqeberha, started Theodor Herzl School, they had no idea that it would still be going 65 years later. However,...
South Africans making aliya in the first part of 2024 were even more resolute, and not deterred by concerns about emigrating to a country at war....
When artist Shani Judes saw the empty spaces on the Milton Road ablution blocks on the Sea Point promenade, she knew she had to fill them...
At a time of mourning like Tisha B’Av, it’s difficult to face the trauma of the Jewish community since Hamas attacked the south of Israel on...
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...
