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A planeload of Gazans who arrived in South Africa on Thursday, 13 November, triggered hours of chaos at OR Tambo International Airport, exposing a government blindsided...
JTA – United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said violence in the West Bank, which is surging, could undercut the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, which...
JTA – Adolf Hitler had a sexual disorder that made it more likely for him to have a micro-penis, according to the first-ever analysis of his...
JTA – In the most intensely covered mayoral election in generations, the well-being of Jewish New Yorkers became a major flashpoint. And yet, no candidate took...
JTA – President Donald Trump has made official a suggestion that he first issued on the floor of Israel’s parliament: that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should...
Many South African Jewish emigrants to the United Kingdom have experienced or are fearful of experiencing antisemitism in the National Health Service (NHS), and they appear...
Just as Jewish Australians dared to hope that the unprecedented epidemic of antisemitism which has rocked their country since 7 October 2023 might dissipate, neo-Nazis were...
While South Africa frames itself as the southern African country that should play a role in bringing peace to the Middle East, it was in Zambia...
At least 80 Jewish doctors and healthcare professionals have resigned from the South African Medical Association (SAMA) after it suspended all ties with the Israel Medical...
“In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin famously observed. Yet for those contemplating aliya, taxes have now...
The number of Israeli visitors to South Africa has more than doubled since before the COVID-19 pandemic, with 2025 marking the highest level recorded in seven...
New York City’s Kampala-born mayor-elect, 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani, raises fears and hopes among its workers and business owners; property owners and tenants; American progressives and conservatives;...
When Israel Centre Director Dafi Forer Kremer went through with her decision to come to South Africa on shlichut two years ago following the 7 October...
“Where’s the milk? Where’s the honey?!” exclaimed Moshe Rabbeinu upon seeing eretz Yisrael for the first time. One might experience the same phenomenon when entering the...
It was Rabbi Yitzchak Wagner’s shul in Krefeld, Germany, that was one of the first buildings to be torched on Kristallnacht – the Nazi government-sponsored pogrom...
Actor Gal Gadot has won the Genesis Prize, sometimes called the “Jewish Nobel”, for supporting Israel even as backlash against the country’s actions in Gaza rocked...
It may sound like the plot of Netflix’s latest binge watch, but for Danny Edwards, finding out at the age of 48, that he had been...
During Dr Naledi Pandor’s tenure as South Africa’s foreign minister, the country faced a lack of trade and economic opportunities; neglected valuable and strategic alliances over...
Under the moonlight in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of Cats, when the Jellicle cats come out to dance, Tannah Levick will be among them. Cast in...
A group of Jewish Sandringham High School alumni have joined forces with former schoolmates in an ambitious project to rejuvenate their alma mater, breathing new life...
When Cape Town Jewish sociologist Deborah Posel began digging through her late father’s papers, she wasn’t looking for a book. She was simply sorting through “chaotically...
A friend showed me a short video this week, to see whether I found it amusing. I did initially, but it left a sense of lingering...
My relationship with my bean-to-cup coffee machine isn’t a particularly good one. And whereas I know that every partnership has its ups and downs, this time...
There are moments during the year when the vibrancy of our community is on display for all to see. Past weeks present such a moment. Starting...
How do you build a life where every day is worth remembering? This week’s parsha recounts the passing of Sarah and Avraham, the founding couple of...
When a conveyancing attorney advises that the transfer of a property has been lodged with the Deeds Office, it means that the necessary documents have been...
Revelations at the Madlanga Commission have shown us that South Africa teeters on the verge of a mafia state, controlled by criminal gangs and drug cartels....
JTA – The head of BBC and its top news executive have quit amid allegations that the network misled viewers in coverage of President Donald Trump...
JTA – A Jewish Iranian-American man has been sentenced to prison in Iran for travelling to Israel 13 years ago for his son’s Barmitzvah, his family...
JTA – Just hours after New York City’s mayor election was called for Zohran Mamdani, a top Israeli official issued an invitation. “New York will never...
A growing group of University of Cape Town (UCT) graduates is urging fellow alumni to register for next month’s Convocation Annual General Meeting (AGM), warning that...
JTA – Last year, Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall held its 10th anniversary of a Chanukah concert series that was rebooted 70 years after it was halted...
JTA – Cornell University will pay $60 million (R1 trillion) to the Trump administration to resolve ongoing antisemitism investigations and unfreeze $250 million in federal funds,...
JTA – Season 2 of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This has sparked plenty of debate, much of it centreing on how the show depicts Jewish women. Critics...
JTA – My family was never American; we were New Yorkers. My great-grandparents came from the old country to the Lower East Side as children; they...
Yeshiva College announced that Dov Ber Ress and Tzipora Suchard will represent the school on the Johannesburg Junior Council in 2026; while Moshe Dison and Sienna...
In bright sunshine, and with the prospect of viewing a magnificent private Westcliff garden, a crowd of more than 150 enthusiasts attended the annual WIZO (Women’s...
JTA- Kazakhstan announced on Thursday, 6 November, that it would join the Abraham Accords ahead of a White House meeting by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev with United...
JTA – In an unprecedented rebuke, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid announced on Wednesday, 5 November, that his centrist Yesh Atid party was withdrawing from the...
JTA – After years of virulent antisemitic comments, the American rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, told an Orthodox rabbi on Tuesday, 4 November, in...
