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Ending wars is more challenging than initiating them. This is particularly true in the Middle East, where the fundamental reasons for the conflicts are often irreconcilable....
On 7 October 2023, Hamas launched a murderous attack in the vacuum an absent Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had left with the dismantling and disarming of...
If you want to see the best of Israel, go to the supermarket. In behaviour that some would say is out of character, it’s as Israeli...
In the spirit of the biblical Israelites, a small band of well-intentioned, khaki-clad South Africans and assorted internationals recently embarked on a symbolic walk to Gaza....
The international community’s response to conflicts and human rights violations reveals a troubling pattern of selective moral outrage, where actions by certain states, Israel in particular,...
The tiny East London Jewish community can finally breathe a sigh of relief as the rabbi it employed but then fell into a dispute with finally...
“Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty” to survive, says 10-year-old Yeshiva College student, Amira Nathan, who is playing the lead role of Matilda...
It seems like absolutely everyone is talking about the Let Them theory by Mel Robbins. As the lady in Freshfellas elbows you for the last horseradish...
South African golfer Judd Sundelson played some of the best golf of his life to win the prestigious European Order of Merit at St Andrews, Scotland,...
While people in Israel may have a sense of déjà vu to the COVID-19 pandemic when they were forced to stay in their homes, we in...
In this week’s Torah portion, Shelach, we encounter a subtle but powerful shift in the way G-d interacts with the Jewish people. When the people ask...
The past week has brought rapid and unsettling developments in the conflict in Israel, with Israel launching strikes against Iranian military and key strategic targets. We...
The Johannesburg Jewish community is steadily shrinking. When I matriculated at King David Linksfield, more than 200 students graduated alongside me. Last year, Linksfield’s matric class...
JTA – The booms from the night’s Iranian missile strike could be felt across the region, including in my home in Jaffa. In that moment, it...
The leadership of Maccabi World Union (MWU) and Maccabiah 2025, together with the Israeli minister of culture and sports and ministry staff, announced the postponement of...
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog was deeply distressed at what he saw when went to visit some of the sites of the deadly Iranian missile strikes in...
JTA – A decade ago, Israel’s government and the three major powers in Europe were diametrically opposed to Israel on how best to stop Iran from...
When Rabbi Levi Shmotkin speaks about the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s letters, he doesn’t just relay their content, he inhabits them. Sitting across from him, it’s clear that...
JTA – Miri Bar-Halpern and Jaclyn Wolfman don’t use the term “gaslighting” in their paper on Jewish trauma after 7 October, but they might as well...
JTA – Before Israel struck Iran’s nuclear programme, tensions were showing in United States legislators’ attitudes toward Israel. Democrats were increasingly critical of Israel’s war conduct...
JTA -The Israeli Ministry of Defense condemned a decision by French authorities to erect a black wall around some Israeli defence industry stands at the Paris...
JTA – Police in Brookline, Massachusetts, are investigating after a brick with “Free Palestine” written in red paint was thrown through the window of a kosher...
JTA – An Israeli professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who called for a halt to the COVID-19 vaccine is one of eight new people...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has elected Alana Pugh-Jones Baranov president of the SAJBD KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) council. Described as a dynamic leader with...
Ethan and Zoe Leibowitz’s My Family Story project won second place at the ANU Museum of the Jewish People on 9 June, among entries from English-speaking...
WE ARE LIVE FROM ISRAEL in real-time with Colonel Miri Eisin and Dr Michael Barak, bringing you all the latest on the war between Israel and...
Message from the South African Zionist Federation In the early hours of 13 June, Israel carried out a precise and targeted military operation against key elements...
Israel’s strike on Iran’s nuclear sites came as a result of clear information in resolutions published by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy...
Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, launched on Iran on Friday, 13 June, was a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s survival. For...
JTA – Israel’s strike on Iran starting early on Friday morning, 13 June, followed a dizzying 24 hours in which the international community rebuked Iran for...
As I stared out the window of the Ethiopian Airlines flight into Tel Aviv, I was praying that a missile wouldn’t be fired at Israel by...
As you are no doubt aware, over the past few hours, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion which included targeted strikes on various Iranian infrastructure and leaders....
Message from the JNF South Africa We have all woken up to the news of a pre-emptive defensive Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear and military programme....
Message from the SA Jewish Board of Deputies From the minute our leadership woke up on 13 June, we worked with all authorities, including holding a...
Thank G-d, we witnessed incredible miracles in the highly successful air strikes against Iran early this morning. Although it was a pre-emptive strike, Iran has been...
Waking up on Friday the 13th, many of us may have missed Israel’s pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear power, called Operation Rising Lion. Two open-source intelligence...
A traumatised Israeli runner who participated in the Comrades Marathon on Sunday, 8 June, says he has never experienced threats and intimidation like that before in...
Al Jama-ah party leader Ganief Hendricks has called on South Africans to “report to the police” Members of Parliament (MPs) who visited Israel as part of...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s global Jewish initiative, the Voice of the People, this week released a report based on the views of 10 000 Jews internationally...
Patriotic Alliance [PA] Members of Parliament travelled to Israel at the end of May to find out about the country despite the backlash its members faced...
