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Using your voice at a time of war and devastation can be a double-edged sword, say those who have paid the emotional price for engaging in...
“I want you to think of her like a little child who was taken from her bed still in her pyjamas on 7 October,” said Sasha...
Ralph Lewinsohn, his wife, Barbara, and their family survived their beloved home on Kfar Aza turning into hell on 7 October 2023 when it was attacked...
Come home safe I watch your back, your purposeful stride Your broad, strong shoulders, and I’m filled with pride. I wait in silence, till you’re out...
No-one came when their communities were infiltrated by terrorists. No-one came when they were desperately trying to keep the doors to the safe rooms closed; while...
There has been a chilling uptick in threatening, incendiary rhetoric at anti-Israel protests around the country which have veered towards threatening the community. “The Zionists in...
Ayelet Svatitzky is a romance novelist, but lately, she’s lost for words. Her elderly South African-born mother, Channah Peri, 79, and her brother, Nadav Popplewell, 51,...
A month after the massacre of 7 October, stories are still coming to light of the lives ended by Hamas. One such story is that of...
Protesting peacefully in front of Parliament is a South African tradition, yet anti-Israel extremists violently attacked a Christian pro-Israel vigil there on Friday, 3 November. The...
From death threats to photos of dead babies, our community’s social media personalities have been subject to online abuse that would shock even the most jaded...
Though they have yet to be called upon, more than 80 South African-based doctors, medics, and others with specialised skills have signed up to volunteer in...
We silently wandered down from the sleepy promenade onto the yellow sand dunes of North Beach, as if in reverence for the task that lay ahead....
She was sitting in a safe room in the middle of Ashkelon while rockets were fired overhead, but Debbie Gross remained calm as she advised South...
Merav Barel, part of the non-profit nongovernment organisation Israel Is and a former Shinshinit (Israeli youth who do service in the diaspora) was told by her...
When thugs threatened a security guard at gunpoint on the night of 6 November before pulling down a Johannesburg billboard showing hostage Kfir Bibas, it wasn’t...
“Since Shabbat morning, Simchat Torah, on 7 October, our hearts have been bleeding. The destruction and terror will be with all of us forever. The loss...
Two decades ago, former British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks astutely compared antisemitism to a constantly evolving virus. One that, in the modern era, specifically targets...
It has been almost four excruciating weeks since South African born grandmother and nursery school teacher Aviva Siegel and her American-born husband, Keith, were kidnapped by...
Shoam Ben Harush, 20, had the world at his feet. He had one more year left of his compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces...
Hundreds of thousands have been displaced in Israel, many are dead and injured, and South Africans wonder how we can help. The SA Jewish Report has...
Johannesburg woke up last Friday, 27 October, to big red balloons waving across the Nelson Mandela Bridge, which links Braamfontein to Newtown, but it wasn’t a...
Few things could hit home the horror of the 240 hostages – mostly children, women, and the elderly – being held by Hamas in Gaza since...
I’ve attempted to refrain from commenting on the Hamas-Israeli conflict, and failed. As an older academic, I’ve learned to withhold my comments on fast-paced, ongoing developments...
Though Israel’s leadership is focused on winning a war and ensuring that Hamas isn’t able to threaten Israel again, it’s important to start considering what Israel’s...
In the battle for public opinion, us Jews do so much better when we are dead or dying, slaughtered, mutilated, beheaded, kidnapped, and humiliated. So, with...
I arrived in Israel in March, exhilarated to be in a country that not only was home to my children, but home to my heart. Realistically,...
We are a family of five who moved from Johannesburg to Israel in December 2020 due to uncertainty about the COVID-19 pandemic and the high crime...
When my husband and I moved down south to the young dati-leumi community of Carmei Gat, 20 minutes from Ashkelon, we were told repeatedly that there...
How do you put into words the atrocities we’ve witnessed as a nation, a people, a country over the past three weeks? There simply are no...
Right now, we are without doubt in the most fortunate position of anyone in the country, and certainly the broader region. Our relatively small coastal town...
We were winding down after a week’s vacation in Berlin over Sukkot, returning on Friday, 6 October, starting to get back into the work frame of...
Major Moran Etedgi and her two young children woke up in her home in Ofakim, a city in southern Israel, on Saturday, 7 October, to the...
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIOLENT DESCRIPTIONS The footage is beyond what the human mind can comprehend. The levels of depravity, barbarity, and sheer glee at the wholesale slaughter...
The conflict between Hamas and Israel has spilled onto the streets of South Africa and around the world. Events thousands of kilometres away have brought out...
The South African Cabinet is calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Israel for the crime of “genocide” following the bombing of a hospital...
Understandably, the South African Jewish population is absorbing the horrifying events in Israel on 7 October and the unresolved and unfinished consequences with great shock. Not...
War is hell. As a community, along with world Jewry, we’re in the eye of the storm between Israel and Hamas. It’s so difficult to navigate...
In the realm of trauma psychology, I’ve often witnessed the capacity of the indomitable human spirit to weather even the darkest storms. Today, I write not...
Saar Margolis, 37, was a hero who died doing what he was born to do – saving lives and protecting others. He’s one of two South...
“I feel like a refugee in my own country,” said ex-South African David Michalowsky, having fled for his life with his wife after spending more than...
