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As we count down to Pesach this weekend, many of us are furiously clearing out our homes of chometz to put in place this annual eight-day...
Do you believe you have heard enough or too many hostage stories? I’ve heard people say that it’s enough with the hostages in the SA Jewish...
I lost a friend this week. Not a close friend by any means, but someone I shared a connection with. Standing at his funeral, it was...
It is astonishing that it has been more than 30 years since South Africa became a democracy, and political leaders are still abusing each other because...
You may have noticed that, of late, we are allowing some people who write opinion pieces for us or are quoted in stories to change their...
Within the past week, I found myself in need of urgent help. I became a crime victim, but fortunately, nobody was physically harmed. The person who...
Oded Lifshitz was a journalist. He was a dedicated father and grandfather. He was a kibbutznik through and through, having helped to start Nir Oz 70...
We’re living through Jewish history. When my colleague, Tali Feinberg, messaged to say this in reference to the hostages returning, it rang true although we imagine...
Asking for money is an extraordinarily difficult thing for most of us to do. But the alternative, not asking for financial assistance to sustain the SA...
A colleague of mine this week told me of a Jewish family that had been planning to emigrate to Australia for years and were finally leaving...
A young man I know and respect who has recently come across antisemitism first hand, reiterated something that seems so clear to me. His views are...
Seeing those three young Israeli women hugging their mothers for the first time in almost 16 months was heartbreaking, but beautiful. I’m sure that we all...
There’s nothing better than downtime to reassess where we are at, how we see the world, and how the world sees us. And there’s no better...
In planning this week’s edition, our last of 2024, we had hoped to have an uplifting, lighthearted publication that would herald the beginning of our December...
Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire. It sounds like incredible news, but is it really? How do we ensure that Hezbollah stops its war with...
Am I the only person who gets incensed when the truth is twisted out of all proportion to fit a narrative specifically created to make Israel...
Attending the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards is undoubtedly the best medicine any one of us could ask for. How can you feel depressed and downhearted when...
When I think of the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, I picture beautiful canals, people cycling around safely, neat rows of tall narrow homes, and...
As Israel haters and antisemites rear their ugly heads more and more, we cannot sit back and ignore it. We must take them on in whatever...
After two weeks of chaggim and no newspaper, the SA Jewish Report is filled with depressing news on the home front. Reading this week’s newspaper certainly...
I totally understand that the president of South Africa has chosen a side in Israel’s war for its survival. I guess, somehow, that this is his...
Steering clear of trouble or challenges is much easier than facing problems head on with the clear intention of finding a solution. As we approach Rosh...
Thousands of pagers that had been handed out to Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon over the past few months exploded on Tuesday, 17 September, killing 12 people...
When the leadership of a community – especially the spiritual leadership – stands up in support of an internationally recognised terrorist organisation, we cannot ignore it....
Hersh Goldberg-Polin could have been any of our sons. In the past 11 months, as his parents, Rachel and Jon, have done all they could to...
Don’t you just love it when the antisemitic narrative of Israel being an apartheid state is once again proven to be so wrong? The international anti-Israel...
When you read about the anguish of a family whose brother or loved one has disappeared, you can’t help but feel their pain as well as...
As the sun set on Tisha B’Av, there was a silent sigh of relief around the Jewish world, not least of all in Israel. Somehow, getting...
I remember waking up on 7 October 2023, 307 days ago, to my phone pinging with messages about what was happening in Israel. My colleagues and...
On Wednesday morning, we woke up to the news that Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, been assassinated in Iran. I’m not one to revel in death,...
I love sweating the small stuff. It’s great when all our problems aren’t overwhelming and we can make huge issues out of things that aren’t really...
It’s 11 years since former President Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95. And this Thursday, 18 July, would have been his 106th birthday. Hence...
The fact that Cricket South Africa is being called to account about how and why it demoted David Teeger is great news. And it’s news we’re...
We’re all too quick to shrug our shoulders and say there’s nothing we can do when we’re unhappy about something. As South Africans, we even apologise...
Walking through the streets of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, you can be lulled into a false belief that Israel is going on as normal. It’s easy...
For the first time in ages, it’s difficult not to be hopeful about South Africa’s future. The rand is growing stronger, our experts are cautiously optimistic,...
There are bad people in this world, but there are far more good people around. There are also those who go off the deep end and...
In the run-up to this year’s election, so many of us were questioning how the African National Congress (ANC) – our governing party – went from...
Driving home on Monday, 13 May, after being at the Israeli embassy to commemorate the most distressing and heartbreaking Yom Hazikaron in my history, I heard...
As we head toward one of the most essential elections we’ve ever held in this country, it’s time for us to consider who to vote for....
