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When you’re starting life in a different country, friends with common backgrounds can help fill the void created by leaving beloved family members behind. In marking...
The story of Joseph and his brothers is fundamental to the biblical history of the Jewish people. Joseph was one of the 12 sons of Jacob,...
Those who dislike us can be quite absurd. Last week, we ran a really positive story about the South African Jewish community raising money to renovate...
Life is a journey filled with movement. At times, we are called to move away from a place, situation, or stage of life. But true spiritual...
Last week, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) called for the Constitutional Court to assume the patronage of the National Dialogue, an initiative intended...
JTA – At least 85 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, 20 July, marking the deadliest day for...
JTA – An amateur film critic named Evan gave the new Superman movie five out of five stars. Writing on the Letterboxd platform, they praised the...
JTA – An official commemoration of the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina) Jewish community centre bombing in Buenos Aires took place in the United States Congress...
Negligence is serious. Even an “innocent” mistake requires some atonement. Some years ago, I was driving down an empty and very wide road in Johannesburg, tempted...
JTA – The number of antisemitic assaults and acts of vandalism on college campuses fell sharply in the past school year, according to Hillel International. And...
JTA -A simmering dispute over Israel’s treatment of visa applications by Christian groups has boiled over into a diplomatic standoff. United States Ambassador Mike Huckabee to...
JTA – Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, an Israeli-American poker champion who has made a name for himself as one of the most prolific players in the...
We are about to blow your mind. With the explosion of artificial intelligence, you can no longer work out what’s real and what’s computer generated. From...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has called for the Constitutional Court to replace President Cyril Ramaphosa as the official patron of the National...
The South African Jewish community has raised enough money in the past few weeks to refurbish more than 30 urgently needed bomb shelters in Israel, according...
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has thrown out Durban businessman and alleged terror financier Farhad Hoomer’s bid to register a political party under the incendiary name...
Professor Adam Mendelsohn, who has taken the University of Cape Town (UCT) to court over its anti-Israel resolutions, has provided evidence that anti-Jewish bias was possibly...
When Sapir Cohen arrived in South Africa in May 2024, she carried with her the trauma of 55 days in Hamas captivity, along with a quiet...
Heading home after a peaceful walk on the beach near his home in Herzliya Pituach on Sunday, 6 July, South African expat David*(38) heard a small...
The African National Congress (ANC) is in deep trouble, embroiled in multiple crises of its own making, and since its founding in 1912, has never been...
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in myriad facets of daily life – from virtual assistants to automated systems – it prompts a profound question:...
This expensive National Dialogue is another meaningless talk shop. There’s a popular Tsonga saying, “Mintirho ya vulavula”, which means that actions speak louder than words. For...
Israeli Ambassador David Saranga’s visit to Soweto last week, where he met the sister of Hector Pieterson – the little boy shot and killed during the...
I apologise for stating the obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: it’s okay to be happy. In fact, I’ll go one step further; being miserable doesn’t...
Leadership in the Jewish world is rarely an easy road. It demands resilience in the face of pressure; an unshakeable moral compass; and the ability to...
Nearly 120 years after Alfred Dreyfus was exonerated by France’s highest court, the French government has officially etched his vindication into national memory. This past weekend,...
South African-Israeli triathlete Susan Shaff refused to be dissuaded from running the Cape Town Festival of Running on 13 July while wearing a T-shirt bearing “Bring...
We have a majority party in South Africa that took Israel to the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide, so we can be certain...
Women seldom feature in the Torah, less often by name. And rarer than both is when their words are recorded. When that happens, we need to...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) is on a journey to rehouse, revitalise, and reimagine our archives. An often unknown and overlooked entity, the...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shouldn’t take credit for the return of hostages murdered while in Gaza, the father of one of the most...
JTA – Earlier this week, Grok – the Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot owned by Elon Musk’s xAI – decided to go full Nazi. Posting on X,...
JTA – While the majority of Americans oppose antisemitism, a quarter believe that the recent string of attacks on Jews in the United States were “understandable,”...
JTA – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers from “big tech” after its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots did something unforgivable in his eyes: they...
JTA – When Israeli strikes hit Iran on 13 June, it wasn’t only nuclear sites and senior Iranian commanders that were taken out, a covert army...
JTA -At the climax of his one-man show, Out of Character, the actor, Ari’el Stachel, declares, “I am a Yemenite, Israeli, Ashkenazi, Jewish, American actor with...
JTA – When Jews gathered this week for the anniversary of a World War II massacre in the Polish town of Jedwabne, they saw a new...
JTA – Shai Davidai, the Israeli business-school professor who emerged as one of the sharpest antagonists against Columbia University over its response to antisemitism on campus,...
There are times in the life of a nation when it must pause from its labours, quarrels, and illusions to look upon itself with unflinching honesty....
I’ve spent the past few years in classrooms where teenagers argue about poetry, halacha, politics, G-d, TikTok, war, and Shakespeare, sometimes in the same hour. I’ve...
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