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As the representative voice and human rights lobby of South African Jewry, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ core mission is proactive and, where necessary,...
On Monday, Yom Hashoah ceremonies were held under the auspices of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, and Durban....
For decades, Iran has waged a ceaseless war against Israel through its Hamas, Hezbollah, and most recently, Houthi proxies, funding, arming, and doubtlessly directing them behind...
Just seven weeks remain until the national and provincial elections, the sixth since the holding of the first all-inclusive elections that launched our non-racial democracy. Terms...
The loss of innocent lives has been especially heartbreaking during the seemingly endless war against Hamas in Gaza, and the deaths of the World Central Kitchen...
Shabbos at Sydenham Shul took on a very different flavour on Friday, 15 March, when 250 senior members of the Shembe Nazareth Baptist Church and a...
Given all that has happened over the past five months, there was always going to be an additional element of viciousness to this year’s round of...
At the time of going to print, I have just returned from New York, where I attended the Anti-Defamation League Conference and spoke on a panel...
It took nearly five months and continual pressure from women’s rights advocates, but the United Nations (UN) has finally acknowledged that both during and subsequent to...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) delivered a memorandum to the justice department in Pretoria on 12 February in response to Justice and Correctional...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has continued to be active on the media front in response to persistent denials by Justice Minister Ronald...
The last person in government one would expect to declare publicly that there’s “no antisemitism in South Africa” and that claims of antisemitic incidents in the...
For South African Jewry, 29 December, just like 7 October, was another seminal date where everything changed. The news that our own government had just instituted...
In times of stress for our community, there’s an additional need for people to be kept informed about what’s happening and in particular, what Jewish leadership...
The ongoing scandal over David Teeger being summarily removed as captain of the South African Under-19 cricket side has been the Board’s primary focus as the...
10 January 2024 President Ramaphosa Republic of South Africa PresidentRSA@presidency.gov.za President Ramaphosa – clarification of meeting 13 December 2023 Dear President Ramaphosa We met with...
Dear SA Jewish community World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said in his statement ahead of the International Court of Justice hearings this week, “Following these...
Had we been living in normal times, our 2023 national biennial conference would have taken the form of a celebratory gala dinner marking the South African...
At times like this, when it feels like global sentiment has once again turned against Jews, the world can seem like a dark and frightening place....
This past week, inflammatory rhetoric by pro-Hamas factions, particularly in Cape Town, reached even greater heights of virulence. Over the weekend, there were violent attacks on...
On 2 November, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) not only invited a representative of a designated terror organisation, Hamas, in Tehran, Dr Khaled Qaddumi, to...
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...
In Jewish tradition, Sukkot represents moving from a time of judgement and solemn introspection to one of celebration and togetherness. It’s also a time when Jews...
The first week of the Jewish new year – 5784 on the Jewish calendar – has been an exceptionally busy one for the Board, with high-level...
I participated in a moving series of events in Mauritius last week held to mark the 83rd anniversary of the deportation and detention of nearly 1...
On 31 August we woke up to the news that another deadly tragedy had occurred in Gauteng, when a building in the Johannesburg CBD, 80 Albert...
Last week, I wrote about the value that Limmud has added to the intellectual and cultural life of our community. I can now report back on...
At the time of writing, we were looking ahead with much anticipation to this coming weekend’s annual Limmud festival in Johannesburg. Each year, Limmud offers our...
In my previous column, I expanded on the various ways in which the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) works to ensure that Jewish religious...
Last Friday, a school in the far north-eastern part of the Vhemba district of Limpopo was brought into the 21st century by the University of Johannesburg...
“You are the super Jews of the world” was how demographer Barry Kosmin summed up the results of the 1998 survey on the South African Jewish...
The purpose of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) is to act as “the representative voice of the South Africa Jewish community” but what...
Standing to sing This Little Light of Mine, children welcomed visitors to the Eco Blessings Preparatory School on the Brakpan Shul premises on Mandela Day (Tuesday,...
National Police Commissioner General Sehlahle Fannie Masemola assured Jewish leadership that he would take any threat to the Jewish community seriously at a meeting with the...
There have been a string of verbal attacks and demonstrations harassing, threatening, and villifying Cape Town Jewish institutions and leaders this year. Certain opposition political parties...
The past week has provided yet more evidence of how overtly antisemitic modes of thought and the heavily conspiratorial worldview that invariably goes with it has...
When I was growing up, I felt like I was living in a post-antisemitism world. In the wake of the Holocaust, people understood the horrific consequences...
Over the past two months, the Cape Town Jewish community has been targeted by a series of threatening, inflammatory, and not infrequently overtly antisemitic demonstrations, both...
This year, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) marks 120 years of serving the South African Jewish community. The history of the Board is...
The coronation over the weekend of King Charles III was a leading news story even in countries with little or no affiliation to Great Britain. The...
