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I’m tired of negativity, not least my own. It gets me and everyone around me nowhere. It helps nobody, and all it does is make a...
It’s truly astonishing how easily history is rewritten to suit people’s personal rhetoric, and the impact of bias on the value of life. Israel is still...
Do you remember how in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, we got so used to living with masks on that we felt naked without one?...
An esteemed medical expert was killed last week trying to ensure that nobody was hurt driving into a pothole in Sandringham that had been there almost...
I read on social media this week that on Yom Hashoah, we’re reminded of what happened when we didn’t have a Jewish state and Yom Hazikaron...
I have never witnessed as many people squirm as I did over the past week in Lithuania. They were reacting to talk of the Holocaust in...
Where in the world do people drop everything they are doing on a school or work night and spontaneously go out in their hundreds of thousands...
When something happens on your watch or on your property, can you refuse to accept responsibility for it because you weren’t intrinsically involved in it? That’s...
This week, we lost a giant in our community. Ann Harris was the tiniest giant I have ever come across. In her latter days, she looked...
The community was sucker punched this week with the government voting to downgrade the South African embassy in Israel to a mere liaison office. It’s true...
I love Israel deeply. More than anything, I want it to succeed as a country, a people, and, above all else, to be a light unto...
There’s a frightening split among Israelis right now that’s deepening and growing. Former allies are becoming enemies. While one group of people are celebrating as the...
When I heard that ZAKA South Africa was heading to Turkey on a search and rescue mission, I was overcome with pride. I had a sense...
When I heard news of the earthquake that hit Turkey earlier this week, my first thought was whether there were any Jews living there. Antakya –...
Setting aside my phone on Sunday night, I felt a chill run down my spine. I had just heard that a restaurant that my Israeli cousin...
As an adult, have you ever been asked how many distinctions you got for matric and what your marks were? I certainly haven’t, not since I...
We’re certainly living in interesting times, but for some, it could be a curse. What I find fascinating, other than just trying to make sense of...
Hearing Israelis discussing applying for foreign passports as a security blanket in case they want to leave the Jewish state was a shock for me while...
It’s that time of year – a time of miracles! I don’t know about you, but there’s something magical about December. It’s the month when we...
Seeing images of black, military-style vehicles driving through a deathly still Norwood on Sunday morning was disconcerting, to say the least. The Norwood strip is a...
Do you feel the heaviness, which has weighed us down for much of this year, lifting? Are you still feeling the darkness brought on by loadshedding?...
Having someone like international antisemitism expert Professor Deborah Lipstadt in our midst is eye-opening. Not only do we have access to the wealth of her expertise,...
When news broke last week that the United States government had warned of a planned terrorist attack scheduled to take place last weekend in Sandton, we...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
