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Attending the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards is undoubtedly the best medicine any one of us could ask for. How can you feel depressed and downhearted when...
When I think of the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, I picture beautiful canals, people cycling around safely, neat rows of tall narrow homes, and...
As Israel haters and antisemites rear their ugly heads more and more, we cannot sit back and ignore it. We must take them on in whatever...
After two weeks of chaggim and no newspaper, the SA Jewish Report is filled with depressing news on the home front. Reading this week’s newspaper certainly...
I totally understand that the president of South Africa has chosen a side in Israel’s war for its survival. I guess, somehow, that this is his...
Steering clear of trouble or challenges is much easier than facing problems head on with the clear intention of finding a solution. As we approach Rosh...
Thousands of pagers that had been handed out to Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon over the past few months exploded on Tuesday, 17 September, killing 12 people...
When the leadership of a community – especially the spiritual leadership – stands up in support of an internationally recognised terrorist organisation, we cannot ignore it....
Hersh Goldberg-Polin could have been any of our sons. In the past 11 months, as his parents, Rachel and Jon, have done all they could to...
Israel has a moral obligation to bring the hostages home now, says Yaron Deckel, a senior Israeli journalist who is now the head of the Jewish...
Don’t you just love it when the antisemitic narrative of Israel being an apartheid state is once again proven to be so wrong? The international anti-Israel...
When you read about the anguish of a family whose brother or loved one has disappeared, you can’t help but feel their pain as well as...
As the sun set on Tisha B’Av, there was a silent sigh of relief around the Jewish world, not least of all in Israel. Somehow, getting...
Countless successful South African performers attribute much of their nurture and growth to one woman: Daphne Kuhn. In fact, some of them were given their big...
I remember waking up on 7 October 2023, 307 days ago, to my phone pinging with messages about what was happening in Israel. My colleagues and...
On Wednesday morning, we woke up to the news that Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, been assassinated in Iran. I’m not one to revel in death,...
I love sweating the small stuff. It’s great when all our problems aren’t overwhelming and we can make huge issues out of things that aren’t really...
It’s 11 years since former President Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95. And this Thursday, 18 July, would have been his 106th birthday. Hence...
When Discovery chief executive and founder, Adrian Gore, accepted the Absa Jewish Achiever Business Icon award in 2019, he made it clear that winning an award...
The fact that Cricket South Africa is being called to account about how and why it demoted David Teeger is great news. And it’s news we’re...
Being at the site of the Nova festival is nothing short of heartbreaking. Every step you take, you are walking on land on which young people...
“Many people compare 7 October to the Holocaust, but in fact, that day launched Israel’s second War of Independence, and so much is riding on what...
We’re all too quick to shrug our shoulders and say there’s nothing we can do when we’re unhappy about something. As South Africans, we even apologise...
Walking towards the place in Tel Aviv that has become known as Hostage Square on Saturday night, 22 June, I had a sinking feeling. Throngs of...
Walking through the streets of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, you can be lulled into a false belief that Israel is going on as normal. It’s easy...
For the first time in ages, it’s difficult not to be hopeful about South Africa’s future. The rand is growing stronger, our experts are cautiously optimistic,...
There are bad people in this world, but there are far more good people around. There are also those who go off the deep end and...
Throughout the election campaign, the ANC made it clear that its love and care for Palestinians far outweighed its love and care for its own people....
In the run-up to this year’s election, so many of us were questioning how the African National Congress (ANC) – our governing party – went from...
The post-7 October Yom Hazikaron ceremony at the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on Monday morning, 13 May, was particularly poignant, not least of all as the...
Grade 10s routinely go on programmes to Israel for a few weeks every year, but with Israel at war and parents concerned about their children’s safety,...
Driving home on Monday, 13 May, after being at the Israeli embassy to commemorate the most distressing and heartbreaking Yom Hazikaron in my history, I heard...
As we head toward one of the most essential elections we’ve ever held in this country, it’s time for us to consider who to vote for....
Watching Just Now Jeffrey, the soon to be launched South African movie, was like a trip down memory lane, watching my youth through the eyes of...
Pesach is a time when we look back on our past as slaves and how we broke free of our shackles, but this year is almost...
I woke up in the early hours of the morning before this newspaper was put to bed wracking my brain for an inspiring front-page story with...
The last EL AL Airlines flight from South Africa left last weekend, leaving the South African Jewish community feeling emotional. “But the airline industry isn’t about...
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.” This phrase, of disputed origin, is so apt in relation to Israel, Gaza, and Jews....
The South African government is throwing away its post-apartheid moral capital because “it’s up for hire”, British journalist and author Douglas Murray said on a visit...
On the night of 6 October last year, more than 3 000 young, vibrant partygoers in Israel went down south to dance, hang out with friends,...
