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As loadshedding continues unabated, we do our best to find ways to live with it. We also make a plan to survive those all-too-frequent times when...
As we wait for the lights to come on, it’s easy to contemplate our navels or, more seriously, consider where we’re at in our lives and...
Starting a youth movement in the heart of a pandemic may seem strange, but BBYO South Africa was launched in the darkest period of lockdown in...
If I had a dollar for every time someone prefaced whatever they were going to write or say this week by, “I’m not a royalist, but…”...
While many shrug their shoulders with a sense of helplessness at South Africa’s joblessness, the Moshal family, originally from Durban, have taken to educating and ensuring...
It’s such a strange situation that we’re relieved – almost grateful – that Grammy Award-winning South African DJ, Black Coffee, decided to perform in Israel. I...
Dehumanising people because they are somehow different to you is the scourge of the world and it’s at the core of the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide,...
Internationally acclaimed Jewish photographer Roger Ballen recently spoke at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre about his 40 years in the industry. The SA Jewish Report...
No matter how much the South African government wishes Israel away, it’s not going anywhere. If they all close their eyes and hope like mad, Israel...
Jewish youth movements in South Africa are finding new ways to deal with the needs of a post-pandemic youth but still figuring out how best to...
The Marikana massacre, which took place exactly 10 years ago on 16 August 2012, was a horrific watershed moment for post-apartheid South Africa. It was the...
The Absa Jewish Achiever Awards 2022 is going to be the party of the decade. In previous years, we have had delectable dining – if a...
We have a lot to be grumpy about, but if you think a little further than that superficial grumpiness, we have so much to be grateful...
If South Africa’s National Intelligence Agency confirmed that a dangerous and violent organisation, which was well known around the world for its terrorist activities, was planning...
What we have as a community in this country is unique. I have a good sense that those who know about us, especially ex-South Africans, long...
After three emigrations in less than two years, 12-year-old Doris “Dossy” Ehrenstein (who became Lurie) arrived in South Africa with her mother. They were destitute, but...
Polish-born Miriam (nee Teitelbaum) Lichterman would have been 100 in September had she not passed away on 18 July. With her long life, she graciously defied...
I take offence to the money I diligently hand over every month in taxes being spent on a foreign embassy when so many of our fellow...
As the SA Jewish Report opens nominations for Jewish Achiever Awards 2022, we recognise the incredible calibre of people who have won in the past and...
Out of the darkness always comes a light far brighter than if there had been no darkness. And so it is with the Jewish Achiever Awards...
I am astonished how the ANC, our incumbent ruling party, which I know includes many smart, educated people, cannot understand the connection between Jews, Judaism and...
Lorri Strauss and Sharon Spiegel are talented actresses and singers, but more importantly, they’re Jewish mommies. The SA Jewish Report has a heart-to-heart chat about their...
We live with certain realities, many not wonderful. How we see them is about our own perspective and attitude. The frustration of living with loadshedding three...
Our community may not be massive, but it certainly is diverse. And as a newspaper for our community, we do our best to include all aspects...
I cannot help thinking that we’ve been thrown back into the dark ages – literally – as I sit here in the dark, wondering when the...
LIFT airline co-founder Gidon Novick felt a deep sadness when it was announced that competitor Comair would be liquidated last week. It meant the death of...
Author Tamar Hodes recently published a book called Mixed, which looks at different types of Jewish people and their lives. The SA Jewish Report spoke to...
I find it astonishing that our government or minister of international affairs and cooperation is scoring points with Hamas, a vicious group known around the Western...
“The history of the Jewish people can be summarised in four words: ‘We are still here’,” Rowan Polovin, the chairperson of the South African Zionist Federation...
For decades, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) was known for raising money to develop Israel’s agriculture and environment, but its focus has grown to include helping...
Though Youth Day was inspired by the Soweto Uprising in 1976, our youth wasn’t around then. The SA Jewish Report asked pupils at Jewish schools what...
When word got out in the community last week that someone from our community had been kidnapped and was being held hostage, for many of us...
The anti-Israel hatred is getting louder and louder in South Africa, and it’s disconcerting to say the least. In most cases, when something goes on and...
The SA Jewish Report is in the news this week for supposedly having been “expelled” from the Press Council for not obeying an order it gave...
Jerusalem isn’t just another city. To commemorate Yom Yerushalayim, the SA Jewish Report asked a few South African olim who have made their way to this...
When we write a story that “names and shames” someone, we don’t do it lightly. The SA Jewish Report isn’t in the naming and shaming game,...
I remember being asked to speak to the “youngsters” at Our Parents Home many years ago, and I giggled at the imagery until I got there....
There’s so much happening in our world, but when tragedy strikes too close to home, the rest becomes a blur. There are a few people within...
Johannesburg military historian Major David Brock Katz recently penned a book on General Jan Smuts. The SA Jewish Report spoke to him about this mammoth task....
Laughter is medicine, especially when it accompanies some integral cultural, religious, and familial issues. We catch up with From Koe’siestes to Kneidlach – With Kids!’ director...
