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When Douglas Murray confronted Joe Rogan about giving a platform to dangerous conspiracy theories, particularly those stemming from Darryl Cooper’s Holocaust-denial narratives rooted in David Irving’s...
In today’s world, warfare doesn’t always commence with the clamour of cannon fire. Rather, it reveals itself through signals, shadows, and silence, often relying on secret...
June 16 is a public holiday that celebrates the young people who stood up against apartheid. However, for the children of anti-apartheid activists, life was filled...
When his chair is empty, it leaves an inescapable void. Though fathers today are generally far more involved in their kids’ lives than they were in...
Victor Daitz, the man behind the second-largest private charitable organisation in South Africa, was a simple Jewish businessman from Durban who wanted to give back to...
With only 22 Holocaust survivors left in South Africa, it was all the more poignant to gather together to celebrate their lives and how far they...
Greta Thunberg, global climate scolder and part-time geopolitical commentator, has apparently survived the ordeal of all ordeals: a kidnapping. Not your usual kidnapping, mind you. There...
When world leaders paid tribute to Stanley Fischer, the former chief economist of the World Bank, former vice-chairperson of the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors,...
On 9 June 2025, the Zionist Supreme Court in Jerusalem delivered a landmark ruling that reaffirmed a fundamental principle: a Jewish diaspora community’s strength cannot be...
There’s little about the annual Comrades Marathon that’s particularly Jewish, however if participants want to have a Shabbos and Jewish experience, there are a people who...
Eighty-six-year-old Johannesburg bridge player Roz Bernstein will head to Denmark in August to compete in the 47th World Bridge Teams Championships after finishing second in the...
Turning the iconic children’s novel Alice in Wonderland into a Jewish musical by women for women is no mean feat. However, the Joburg Jewish Women’s Theatre...
Twice in this week’s parsha, Behaalotecha, we encounter groups of Jews complaining. In one instance, their request is granted; in the other, the response is less...
The image of the once international teen-environmental-activist darling with a silly grin on her face as she happily accepts what was said to be a pastrami...
Over Shavuot, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies was well represented at various Tikkun Leil events in Johannesburg. I was honoured to be part of...
JTA – Three days after six of his congregants were burned by a man who yelled, “Free Palestine!” as he threw Molotov cocktails, Rabbi Marc Soloway...
JTA – Swedish climate and human rights activist Greta Thunberg (22), who had set sail from Sicily to Gaza with 11 other activists, was flown out...
On Sunday, 9 June, Klaas Mokgomole crossed the finish line of the 97th Comrades Marathon in seven hours, 21 minutes. Averaging a remarkable pace of 4.55...
JTA – Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center (YBC) when he asked if the centre’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out...
JTA – In its landmark study of American Jewry in 2020, the Pew Research Center reported that there were an estimated 7.5 million Jews of all...
I cannot tell you how many people have reached out recently to say that their lives are “falling apart” or that their mental health is “at...
In decades on the frontline of advocacy work in Australia, including 17 years at the helm of the New South Wales (NSW) Jewish Board of Deputies,...
JTA – In 2018, Azealia Banks vowed never to visit Israel again, which she called “nuts”. But sometime between then and Tuesday, 3 June, she underwent...
One of Cape Town’s most iconic and beloved shuls recently completed the first phase of its remodelling project. The Marais Road Shul, formally the Green &...
Yeshiva College Girls High School’s netball teams had an exceptional season, with all four teams, U14A; U15A; U16A; and U17A, emerging victorious among 48 other schools,...
Wizo (Women’s International Zionist Organization) Johannesburg hosted Darren Basserabie, a clinical psychologist and executive coach, on Sunday, 8 June to talk about how to recognise and...
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