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South Africa and Israel this week shattered their relationship in a tit-for-tat expulsion of senior diplomatic representatives, marking one of the most serious escalations in bilateral tensions to date. On Friday, 30 January, the...
As the early morning traffic crossed the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Braamfontein on 29 January, commuters saw hundreds of blue balloons and posters of former Israeli hostages in...
JTA – A senior Israel Defence Forces (IDF) official told Israeli media outlets on Thursday, 29 January, that the military estimates a death toll in Gaza...
JTA – Spooked by the deal finalised last week to sell part of TikTok to a United States investor group, some users have sought alternatives to the...
JTA – Yeshiva University has announced that prominent British conservative author and pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray will teach a class at the school this spring. Murray, who isn’t Jewish,...
JTA – Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of a former Israeli hostage, has been appointed to join Columbia University as a professor of history with a course...
JTA – Roberta Tarnove was horrified last week when she learned that a man protesting ICE (United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement) was shot and killed in Minneapolis....
JTA – Italian rapper Ghali’s slated performance at the opening ceremony for this year’s Winter Olympics in Milan has drawn criticism from Italian leaders over his...
JTA – A man rammed his car multiple times into Chabad’s world headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Wednesday night, 28 January, igniting fear and drawing...
Israel’s offer to assist the Eastern Cape with water, healthcare, and agriculture expertise on Friday, 23 January, was flatly condemned by provincial Premier Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane as soon as he heard about it. Rather than being grateful for an offer of unconditional...
South Africans in Cape Town have once again defied the local hate movement that wants to exclude Jews from society. A music event went ahead at the Castle of Good Hope (the Castle) on Saturday, 24 January,...
As worshippers arrived for Friday night Shabbat services at Durban’s Beit David Shul, located in the Holocaust & Genocide Centre campus, they were met by chanting,...
Less than a year after former mayor of Johannesburg Thapelo Amad was ordered by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to apologise for glorifying Hamas...
Two members of a criminal gang linked to more than 50 business robberies across Johannesburg were arrested and a crime in progress interrupted in the early hours of 18 January, following...
Neither South African President Cyril Ramaphosa nor Israeli Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu made it to Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) pow wow. Nevertheless, both countries featured in the discussions, and the gathering in the Swiss Alps influenced the increasingly complex web of interconnections between...
In 2024, just a couple of months after becoming minister of sport, arts, and culture, Gayton McKenzie, who is also the leader of Government of National Unity aligned party, the Patriotic Alliance, took to X (previously Twitter) to condemn...
“Blessed are You, L-rd our G‑d, king of the universe, who has granted us life, sustained us, and enabled us to reach this occasion.” There were times when we wondered if...
This week, for the first time in more than two years, the relentless count of days ended. The last Israeli hostage – the last body held in Gaza – was brought back...
In 1941, Lithuanian Jews were taken from their homes, marched out of their towns or villages mostly by Lithuanians themselves into the forests, forced to dig...
Walking through Beneath the Skin, an exhibition at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC), part of its week of international Holocaust remembrance, visitors are confronted with history and the lingering echoes of lives lost. Artist Mike Fisher, whose...
“I have been controlled by my parents for most of my life,” Brooklyn Beckham recently wrote in his now infamous Instagram post addressing his well-publicised feud with his celebrity parents....
An Israeli entrepreneur saved the life of his former Zimbabwean employee, Chance Chitima’s, baby son, Takudzwa, by connecting the family with Save a Child’s Heart, an Israeli humanitarian organisation specialising in paediatric cardiac care. When all other options to...
I found myself alone in Naryshkin Park, in Žagarė, a tiny village in Lithuania on a misty October morning, carrying a backpack heavy with stones and candles. ...
At just 16, Cape Town-born Padel player Max Bendel is making huge waves on the international Padel circuit, having achieved a double title win in the Under-16 and Under-18 categories at the FIP...
We stand poised at a unique moment in history. We are at the cusp of the final redemption of which the prophets of Israel spoke so voluminously. We...
We had just finished dinner, when my wife asked if I wanted her to make me a chicken salad to take for lunch the next day. It...
Like everyone else this week, we at the SA Jewish Report had the cathartic experience of removing our yellow ribbons and took off our “Bring them home” dog tags. The SA Jewish Report team has also finally removed the yellow ribbon we...
For the first time since 2014, there are no Israeli hostages in Gaza. This is a momentous inflection point, marked by emotions as complex as they...
JTA – The remains of the final Israeli hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili, have been retrieved and returned to Israel for burial. The announcement by the Israeli military marks...
JTA – A proposal by officials at Deutsche Bahn, the German federal railway system, is serving up a potential train wreck of gargantuan proportions when it...
As I left Poland on 28 December 2025, I realised that this week-long trip to Poland as part of a Chabad on Campus educational journey wasn’t just about history, it was a journey into my Jewish identity and...
JTA – A disagreement over how to define the sources of rising antisemitism in Europe escalated into a public clash this week between two prominent Jewish...
JTA – After Alex Pretti was shot and killed on Saturday, 24 January, by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jewish voices were among the...
JTA – After publishing two books in 2023 and 2024 for young readers in our Upstander Stories – Brave People Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust series, my granddaughter, Lilly,...
JTA – Ye has again issued a formal apology for his recent years of antisemitic tirades, taking out a full-page advert in the Wall Street Journal in which he...
JTA – I’ve never read a Holocaust chronicle quite like Lore Segal’s autobiographical 1964 novel, Other People’s Houses. Mordant, unsentimental, and sometimes painfully honest, it’s the story of an Austrian girl...
More than 70 congregants of Edenvale Shul recently met at the shul’s premises to commit to doing what they could to raise funds in an effort to ensure the shul’s sustainability after being given...
JTA – Jared Kushner presented a phased vision for the future of Gaza at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, 22 January, saying...
JTA – Half of Irish adults don’t know that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, a new survey from the Conference on Jewish Material...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has joined United States President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” less than a day after telling Israel’s Parliament about...
