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Racist incidents in our country are still common. Seldom, however, do they take so repellent and demeaning a form as that which occurred at Stellenbosch University...
Tribute to Ann Harris Ann Harris’ recent move to Israel truly marked the end of an era for our community. Arriving with her esteemed husband, Rabbi...
It is unfortunately commonplace for ideologues of various persuasions to make baseless, misleading, and often deliberately offensive analogies between the Holocaust and Nazism in general when...
South Africa’s inaugural fully democratic, multiracial elections commenced on 27 April 1994, and since then, April has come to be regarded as Freedom Month in this...
Thirteen years of litigation and the innumerable meetings, communication, and general back and forthing that went into it is surely time enough to devote to any...
Long in the pipeline, the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill took a further step towards promulgation this week with public hearings...
Over the past week, we have all watched in dismay and horror at the events unfolding in Ukraine. The destruction, suffering, and loss of life has...
For the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), the handing down last week of the Constitutional Court judgment in the matter of Bongani Masuku marked...
The inherent danger of adhering to any cause, ideology, or faith system is that it can easily lead to those who don’t subscribe to such beliefs...
The African Union (AU) decided at its executive council meeting on 6 February to defer a debate on whether to withdraw Israel’s accreditation to the bloc...
On Sunday, I joined my colleagues in the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) in attending the official opening of the Union of Jewish Women...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, 27 January, was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in November 2005 to commemorate Jewish and other victims of...
In memoriam: George Szemere I start this week’s column with a tribute to Holocaust survivor George (Stern) Szemere, who passed away in Johannesburg last week. George...
The year began with South Africa in the middle of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, and unfortunately, is ending with a fourth wave now well...
The announcement of the new Omicron variant and its dire impact on overseas travel continues to dominate the news. With the sharp increase in infection numbers...
Our community was shocked and grief-stricken to learn over the weekend that one of its own young members, Eliyahu David Kay, had been fatally wounded in...
At the time of writing, we are hopeful that Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, will represent our country at the Miss Universe pageant in Eilat in...
Earlier this week, we were alerted to an incident involving several highly offensive posts belittling the Holocaust on a matric WhatsApp group. Unfortunately, the relative anonymity...
Along with several of my colleagues at the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), I had the pleasure of being part of the observer team...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) this week focused on final preparations for the multifaith election observer team that will be taking part in...
Let me introduce myself. My name is Karen Milner, and I’m the newly elected chairperson of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD). I look...
This week, we have been hard at work finalising the upcoming South African Jewish Board of Deputies national conference, to take place on Sunday, 17 October,...
This week, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) submitted written comments on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill after...
The Jewish festival season commences this coming Monday evening with the ushering in of the New Year. Rosh Hashanah – unlike its secular counterpart, which tends...
PowerFM broadcast a programme on 12 May in which several callers propagated various antisemitic conspiracy theories without being challenged by the host. The comments made were...
As Gauteng Council Chairperson Professor Karen Milner put it, it’s not every day that one gets to fight an out-and-out Nazi and beat him. Last week,...
There was a welcome return to shul and school this week, as well as the reopening of restaurants and other facilities. While infection rates remain high,...
In the early days of his presidency, when the United States was all but crippled by the effects of the Great Depression and a pall of...
Along with continued high levels of COVID-19 infection resulting in an extension of lockdown conditions, South Africans have been confronted over the past week with a...
Although apartheid was designed to entrench white power and privilege in the country, a substantial minority of those who fought the system were themselves white and...
When the so-called Equality Act (the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, or Pepuda) was passed back in 2000, it was a game-changer...
Gauteng has emerged as the epicentre of the much dreaded third wave of COVID-19 infection in South Africa, and the Western Cape has also been hard...
With the third wave of COVID-19 infections well and truly upon us, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) last week convened a national COVID-19...
One of the aspects of the recent Israel-Hamas conflict that should concern anyone committed to fundamental democratic values in South Africa was the disturbing extent to...
As expected, the Gaza conflict resulted in a sharp upsurge in antisemitic attacks the world over. The focus of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies...
Together with the rest of the Jewish world, we welcomed with relief the cessation last Friday, 21 May, of the latest deadly round of hostilities between...
This week, we officially welcomed on board our new South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) Cape Executive Director Daniel Bloch. Bloch comes from a background...
On Freedom Day, Wendy Kahn, the national director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), at the invitation of the MEC for sports, arts,...
Last week brought with it the disturbing news that armed robbers in Johannesburg had invaded a shul after a service and tied up and robbed those...
When the country went into lockdown in March last year, it was obvious that the traditional, countrywide Yom Hashoah ceremonies couldn’t be held, and that the...
