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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...
It took me a while to comprehend what he was telling me. Because it made no sense to me that anyone would choose to run 100km...
I hate honey. I might be a blasphemer of note for even thinking such a thing, but “living my truth” means being honest. And honestly, I...
It’s worth pondering how unpaid African National Congress (ANC) employees feel about the organisation allocating resources to massive billboards decrying Israel. ANC policy aside, it must...
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...
On 2 September at 20:00, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), in partnership with the SA Jewish Report, will be holding a webinar to...
There aren’t many positive things to be said about living through a pandemic. The loss, the fear, anxiety, and financial impact cannot be understated, nor the...
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...
The “good book” is quite specific. It tells us that we need to circumcise our sons, teach our children Torah, make sure that they understand what...
Whatever a post-COVID-19 world will look like, the changes the pandemic has imposed on how society operates are likely to become a permanent part of how...
I’ll just come out and say it. There should be a pause on all aliyah applications for six months. Like a cooling off period. Because whereas...
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 is something truly awful about being the only couple at a restaurant. Whereas after years of travel, I don’t have a problem dining alone, I...
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,...
This is an apology to my daughter, Abby, to animal lovers everywhere, and to the late Yorkshire Terrier called Fred. May his memory always be for...
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...
Fred died this morning. Not to speak ill of the dead or anything, it needs to be said that he was a bit of a narcissist....
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...
On Sunday, I had an article that would write itself. Those are my favourites, as the words flow from the heart and the pages are filled...
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...
My parents were married for 55 years, and I’m certain that not one of the 20 075 days that they were together was a day without...
School teachers are an exceptionally trustworthy source of information when it comes to the children in their charge, and a call recently made to me proves...
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...
I didn’t check how old Tjaard was turning last Monday, but the day that followed the move to level 4 lockdown was his birthday. It so...
As if we didn’t have enough to worry us, there’s genuine concern about diabetes amongst healthcare workers. And if there isn’t, there certainly should be. Because...
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 vivid memories that I have about the period in my life spent on planes was taking off from Zurich Airport on the way...
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...
So, there we were in the desert waiting to enter the land of Israel, when the spies returned from their reconnaissance mission. They had news which...
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...
I’m not a “Good Jew”. I know this because my name doesn’t appear on the ever-increasing list of “Good Jews” published in various forms. The list...
Here’s an opinion I’m fairly certain won’t be a popular one. What if we looked at this whole protest thing from another angle? What if we...
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...
As we count down the final days to Shavuot, we are also keeping an anxious eye on events in the Middle East, where after a long...
I keep trying to muster up notable outrage at the South African government for its one sided and biased approach to Israel. I keep trying to...
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...
I sometimes wish that I had the confidence that I see in others around me. I wish I had the clarity to say out loud why...
Being blessed with five children and not enough time in the day to give them all what they need, we have begun considering importing a few...
