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From Cape Town coffee shops to the world stage, South African Doron Claxton has stunned the backgammon world with his zero-to-hero accomplishment. Heading for the 2025...
Celebrating the fierce, gentle, wise, and resilient women shaping South Africa and Jewish life. As South Africa prepares to mark Women’s Day on 9 August, the...
In this week’s Torah portion, we read the first paragraph of the Shema. One of the mitzvot in the Shema is the mitzvah of mezuzah. Mezuzah...
Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa stood up at a Liberations Movement Summit to proclaim that he was “particularly horrified by the deliberate starvation” of Palestinians in...
It is difficult to keep our community strong, hopeful, and united in the face of a war which elicits such strong emotions. We are also trying...
JTA – Jason Epstein travels internationally as a public affairs consultant, and although he is a proud Jew, he does not announce it in countries where...
JTA – A haunting photo of an emaciated toddler cradled by his mother dominated the front page of The New York Times on Friday, 25 July,...
JTA – Holocaust survivors say the hostage videos published in recent days recall for them their own torture and deprivation under the Nazis eight decades ago....
JTA – On Monday, my son was inducted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He started thinking about joining as a hayal boded (lone soldier) –...
JTA – France is suspending its effort to evacuate some Gazans after a woman who came to the country through the programme was accused of making...
JTA -The saddest day hit me like a knife in my chest. The images of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski’s tortured and starved bodies, images that...
Ariella Levin Fine shared her life story of overcoming deafness with New Beginnings on Saturday, 27 July. At just 26 years old, Fine has already lived...
Twenty-one Jewish mothers from Cape Town recently joined nearly 280 women from 15 countries across the globe as part of Momentum’s Journey of Growth, an eight-day...
I’ve written before about the values that drew me away from South Africa to Israel, about longing for a society where crime doesn’t lock us inside...
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” an innocuous slogan; and the innocuous word, “Zionist/Zionism” have had a profound effect on the world...
In the early hours of 7 October 2023, the world shifted for Jews everywhere. As Hamas unleashed one of the most brutal terror attacks in Israel’s...
As an optimist, I’ve always believed that despite the complexity and unpredictability of life in South Africa, we must try, wherever possible, to make a difference....
