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It didn’t take long for South African Jews to be made scapegoats. The progress of the United States (US)-South Africa Bilateral Relations Review Bill of 2025...
In Jewish communities across South Africa, families are encountering a familiar question: why are the people of Gaza hungry? Too often, the accusation follows quickly. It...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has drawn sharp criticism after using the 2025 Liberation Movements Summit, hosted by the African National Congress (ANC) last weekend, to launch an...
Dr Brian Jude’s dream was to save lives and serve the community with compassion and excellence. He fulfilled it by creating Hatzolah Johannesburg in the late...
Israeli-American actor Dan Shaked, who makes a point of reaching out to connect and collaborate, was devastated when South African director, writer, and actor Gabe Gabriel...
Finding out that a second building is being built over your family’s graves is devastating, but there isn’t much the South African Litvak community can do...
South Africa now has a new minister of higher education: Buti Manamela. That name is familiar, because in March 2015, during Israeli Apartheid Week, he authored...
On the morning of Sunday, 27 July, South African olah Debbie Chitiz swam the 20 Bridges Swim in Manhattan, New York, in memory of her son,...
The annual Jewish calendar is filled with days of joy and celebration alongside other occasions marked by loss, bereavement, and recognition of national and personal tragedies....
Although the “wandering Jew” may be a stereotype, there are a few around the world who have taken it to a new level by choosing to...
It was the badger that sent me down a rabbit hole. Why a Woolworths strawberry yoghurt bar would proudly proclaim that it was “badger friendly” was...
Mia Theron was just 10 years old when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in August last year, and her family went from enjoying life...
It is true. There are people in Gaza who are starving. Many of the photographs that are going around the world showing the malnourished state of...
With Tisha B’Av approaching, and this year, falling on Shabbat, the fast is postponed to Sunday. Traditionally, Tisha B’Av has been associated with destruction and exile....
Combating antisemitism, particularly in spaces where it flourishes unchecked, including in the media, is central to the mission of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies...
JTA -Two months ago, on 27 May, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began distributing food in the Gaza Strip. From the outset, the group was mired...
JTA – Israel says its army is pausing military operations in some parts of Gaza for 10 hours a day to facilitate the distribution of aid...
JTA -Saying that he believes there is “real starvation” in Gaza, President Donald Trump said the United States would set up barrier-free food centres in the...
JTA – Japan’s far-right Sanseito party emerged triumphant in the country’s latest parliamentary election this week, signalling the rise of a nationalist, anti-immigrant movement with a...
JTA -Jewish singer-songwriter Regina Spektor shot back at a pro-Palestinian protester who interrupted her concert on Saturday night, 26 July, telling the protester, “You’re just yelling...
JTA -Standing inside a mass protest in Habima Square to demand an end to the war in Gaza, Roy Rieck said the atmosphere felt more charged...
JTA – Seven major United States Jewish organisations say they have rejected a meeting with a French minister out of protest over French President Emmanuel Macron’s...
What do you get when you mix more than 100 outstanding presenters; the largest Shabbat dinner in Africa; a gorgeous country hotel in Fourways; and a...
By a concerned Jewish South African In the early 1890s, many Jewish families began arriving in South Africa from Eastern Europe. They came with little but...
It’s a question I’ve pondered for more than two decades, and one that feels more urgent than ever since 7 October 2023. That date is seared...
I recently returned from a Holocaust and genocide study trip to Poland, where one of the most profound lessons was the complexity of historical truth. In...
There’s an old story about the man in the boarding house. He drags himself upstairs late at night, kicks off one heavy shoe – bang! –...
The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) has made it clear that it sees Christian Zionism as a “problem”, and it is running a competition for individuals and...
Terrorist organisation Hamas praised the effort of anti-Israel bloc, The Hague Group, which includes the South African government, for its decision last week to isolate and...
A father in the community, who is devastated by the death of his son who took his life after he found himself in dire straits due...
Survivors of Hamas captivity – Doron Steinbrecher; Liri Albag; Naama Levy; Moran Stella Yanai; and Ilana Gritzewsky – met Israeli actress Gal Gadot for a private...
The South African government’s warm relations with Iran risks costing the country thousands of jobs, exacerbating already fraught relations with Washington, and exposing the country to...
Israel’s military strikes against Ahmed al-Sharaa – also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani’s – Syrian regime, hitting the defence ministry headquarters and presidential palace in Damascus,...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is the oldest university in this country, and has a proud and honourable history. Countless Jews attending UCT have gone...
This year, Mandela Day, on 18 July, arrived at a difficult moment for the South African Jewish community. The community was still reeling from President Cyril...
Despite progress made in deepening relations between Israel and African countries, the war in Gaza has put these efforts on the back burner. Not enough academic...
Sexual abuse is one of the most prevalent threats to children’s safety in South Africa, with one in five children becoming victims of some form of...
In July of 1979, I took out a Beatrix Potter book from the Yeoville Library in Johannesburg. I was 10 years old, had just discovered the...
I had a brother, once. For the first twenty-one years of my life, I had a brother, and then he was gone. That was 44 years...
With a friendly, yet threatening demeanour, Duo, the Duolingo owl congratulates you while also threatening to make you feel guilty, and somehow you know the Hebrew...
