Tali Feinberg

1 week ago | sajr.co.za | Tali Feinberg

When a young man from Israel bent down on his prosthetic knee to propose to his girlfriend on top of Table Mountain in March, it was the highest point of a gruelling journey that began when he was severely injured fighting Hamas in Gaza. It was the culmination of a romance that had its foundation when Moshe Adams*, 28, made aliya with his family from Ukraine when he was 12. It blossomed into a relationship when Ora Levin* visited him in hospital after he was injured in the Gaza war.

2 weeks ago | sajr.co.za | Tali Feinberg

The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape SAJBD) awaits a conclusive finding against local aspiring comedian Thomas Torr for depraved videos and utterances in its first antisemitism hate speech case at the Equality Court. The hate speech case is a significant milestone for South African Jewry as it’s the first case of its kind since the 7 October 2023 massacre in Israel. The Cape Board appeared at the Western Cape High Court in the Mother City on 23 April.

3 weeks ago | sajr.co.za | Tali Feinberg

Israeli-born pianist Yaron Kohlberg has performed in almost 100 countries, but he has never encountered such naked hatred as when he performed in Johannesburg on 13 April. He told the SA Jewish Report he has travelled the world, bringing people together through music, only to face the venom of a small group of anti-Israel extremists who disrupted his performance at the Linder Auditorium at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).

3 weeks ago | sajr.co.za | Tali Feinberg

When Pick n Pay took down its props indicating where the kosher-for-Pesach section was in the Norwood Mall before the festival, the Jewish community was shocked and angry, questioning how this could happen at a store with one of the biggest and most loyal kosher customer bases. The apparent knee-jerk reaction of the store in taking down the Pesach décor was in response to an outcry that started with a vitriolic post by a has-been celebrity with rabid antisemitic views.

1 month ago | sajr.co.za | Tali Feinberg

Local academic, Oscar van Heerden, has made it clear in his regular opinion pieces on News24 that he wants Israel and its population to be obliterated, he doesn’t want peace in the Middle East, and he supports terrorism. News24 is South Africa’s most popular online news source. South Africa, according to his most recent piece on 24 March, isn’t “fighting the Americans here [in South Africa’s declining relationship with the United States].