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Tribute to Veronica Phillips, o”h When Holocaust survivor Veronica Phillips, who sadly passed away earlier this week, was the guest speaker at the Johannesburg Yom Hashoah...
Last year’s COVID-19 lockdown rendered impossible the traditional Yom Hashoah commemorative gatherings. Instead, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), working with the South African...
Biz hundert un tsvantsig (may you live until 120), as Jews like to say when wishing each other a long life. The South African Jewish Board...
On 27 January last week we marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day – the first and hopefully the last to be held in pandemic conditions. The United...
Ever since coping with COVID-19 became part of our daily reality, it has been routine to conclude one’s correspondence by wishing the other person good health...
South African Jewry has long been regarded as a model diaspora community. We are famed for our excellent communal infrastructure, high level of identity and involvement,...
The closing weeks of 2020 brought with them the long-anticipated onset of a second wave of COVID-19 infections in South Africa. Over the December period, the...
At the beginning of 2020, no-one could have predicted the unprecedented set of challenges that South African Jewry would shortly be confronted with, both to the...
The annual Absa Jewish Achiever Awards held last Sunday showed once again how even in the most trying times, Jewish community members from across the age...
On Friday, starting at 12:10, 101.9 Chai FM will be broadcasting the third in a four-part radio series, titled Abraham’s Children that looks at similarities and...
Every so often, hackles are raised when those seeking to discredit their political or ideological opponents resort to making factually incorrect and insensitive analogies with Nazism...
Professor Karen Milner, the Gauteng chairperson of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), was shocked when she opened a threatening email at the end...
Last Friday, encouraging progress was made in the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ (SAJBD’s) ongoing fight against online antisemitism when the Randburg Magistrate Court issued...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD’s) case against Matome Letsoalo finally concluded last Friday with the Randburg Magistrates Court sentencing him to three years...
Last Friday, more than two years after posting series of tweets threatening and maligning the Jewish community, Matome Letsoalo was found guilty of crimen injuria in...
This week, South African Jewish Board of Deputies National Director Wendy Kahn participated in a World Jewish Congress (WJC) community directors discussion on antisemitism and Holocaust...
Earlier this week, a delegation from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) Gauteng Council, headed by Chairperson Professor Karen Milner, met Johannesburg Executive Mayor...
The passing last week of our much loved Rabbi Avraham Tanzer, z”tl marked the end of an era in the history of our community. It was...
The rhythms of Jewish life largely revolve around the synagogue. It’s where community members regularly come together for prayer, study, and to celebrate festival and life-cycle...
This week, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize announced that a Ministerial Advisory Committee has been created to focus on coronavirus vaccine development. This body will advise...
Facing the challenges and choices of the Jewish community and greater South Africa is vital, so we can put them into perspective in a post-COVID-19 world....
South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) National Director Wendy Kahn participated in the World Jewish Congress (WJC) National Community Directors’ Forum last Thursday, giving thanks...
In my National Chairman’s message delivered at last month’s South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) Gauteng Council conference, I applauded the outgoing council for providing...
At the first post-conference Gauteng Council meeting on 24 August, Professor Karen Milner was elected chairperson, and Harold Jacobs and Dani Mofsovitz vice-chairpersons. I congratulate them...
Menashe Selamolela wants to ensure that the Jewish community continues to fight antisemitism and contribute positively to South Africa. He is a member of the Lemba...
The first-ever online South African Jewish Board of Deputies regional conference went ahead without any serious hitches on Sunday, 16 August, with speaker Dr Edith Eger...
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape Board) is heading towards a groundbreaking election after it instituted reforms that were recommended by the Seligson...
Over the weekend, we were saddened to learn of the passing of our esteemed friend and colleague, Judge Ralph Zulman. Zulman combined a stellar career on...
Tony Ehrenreich, the former Western Cape provincial secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has finally apologised, six years after his Facebook post...
Some items appear to have been on the agenda of the council of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) forever, and one of these...
As South Africans, we are pretty famous for saying sorry. We say sorry if we want to get past someone, if we want to ask the...
10 Wits students guilty of misconduct for disruption or incitement at Yossi Reshef piano recital last March. By issuing 2-year suspended sentences & 80 hour community...
We stand “together with our fellow South Africans we mourn this loss,” says Board ‘s national director Wendy Kahn
