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Roedean School, a top Johannesburg private girls’ school, is facing allegations of antisemitism after its first-team tennis side refused to play scheduled tennis matches against players from King David Linksfield (KDL) because...
JTA – The financial services company Credit Suisse had hundreds more bank accounts with Nazi ties than it had previously revealed, a new investigation reported last week. The findings were...
JTA – It was close to 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32°C) back home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Friday, 6 February, but Chani Aziza said she was thrilled to...
JTA – When newly released audio recordings revealed former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak discussing mass conversion and selective immigration with Jeffrey Epstein, disgraced financier and...
JTA – The former executive director of Human Rights Watch is defending the group after two staffers quit over allegations that a report accusing Israel of...
JTA – A bank account named for an ancient god in Israel. A “synagogue of Satan”. References to “goyim” that hint at a Jewish-run global cabal....
JTA – Canadian Jewish groups are denouncing a government decision to replace the country’s antisemitism and Islamophobia envoys with a new “rights, equality and inclusion” council. The new...
JTA – A British jury has acquitted six activists from the British group Palestine Action who were charged with breaking into the United Kingdom (UK) site of an...
JTA – Menachem Rosensaft was pleasantly surprised this week to learn that a historical marker honouring a Nazi collaborator that has been a bane of his...
JTA – Since the end of World War II, Vienna has functioned as an Ellis Island for Jewish refugees from Europe and the Middle East, a...
JTA – Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson and Mike Huckabee, the United States ambassador to Israel, said they would conduct an interview after Carlson published a video from the Middle...
JTA – Only one-third of American Jews say they identify as Zionist, even as nearly nine in 10 say they support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish...
South Africa’s decision to expel Israel’s chargé d’affaires has escalated into a full-blown diplomatic crisis, drawing condemnation from the United States (US) State Department, sharp rebukes from multiple domestic political...
Posters depicting the man accused of carrying out the deadly Bondi Beach attack have been plastered across parts of Melbourne’s central business district, triggering widespread distress and...
“At the funeral, I promised that I would do everything so that the memory of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir wouldn’t be defined only by their tragic and painful end....
When Sammy Yahood arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in late January, his bags were packed, his itinerary confirmed, and his Australian visa approved. By the time boarding was...
The rule of thumb was simple – if the Vaal Dam was full, we were safe. Today, the Vaal and Sterkfontein dams are sitting with enough water theoretically to get us through...
“We are Christians, we’ve been quiet for too long, and we’ve made South Africa a new Palestine.” These words were shouted loud and clear on 30 January outside the...
The return of both living and deceased hostages to Israel marks a crucial turning point in the conflict that began on 7 October 2023, when Hamas invaded Israel...
This past Friday, 30 January, the South African government unceremoniously booted out the acting Israeli ambassador to Pretoria, Ariel Seidman and, in a tit-for-tat reprisal, Israel gave the South...
Now that the body of the last hostage in Gaza has been returned to Israel, there is a deep hope that the Jewish state can move on. Jewish and Muslim communities around the...
Leon Levy, the last surviving signatory of the Freedom Charter and a veteran of South Africa’s liberation struggle, died this week at the age of 96....
Anthony Harris is a former professional tennis player who has turned his love of the sport into creating South African tennis stars, particularly those for whom it would...
Israel’s leading non-governmental humanitarian aid agency welcomed former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel to Kakuma Refugee Camp and surrounding communities in Turkana County, Kenya, last week on...
When Rebbetzin Aviva Rabinowitz approached a group of street dancers on the corner of Oxford Road and Jan Smuts Avenue four years ago, she never imagined that she would help take them...
When second-generation Holocaust survivor Luc Albinski approached Bulgarian director Ilina Perianova to direct the play he wrote about his family’s experience, she jumped at the chance...
At just 21, South African-born powerlifter Avishai Eilim has already claimed national and African titles, broken multiple records, and placed among the world’s elite. Now, instead...
Last Friday morning started with a sense of calm, celebrating the warm reaction that our community got on the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg, when its members went back after...
The Ohr HaChaim, Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, teaches that Torah isn’t something a person simply inherits. It’s something one must be ready to receive. Remarkably, he derives three foundational...
This has been a difficult week for South African Jewry. On Friday, 30 January, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) announced via social media that Ariel...
There are Jewish festivals. And then there are Jewish Jewish festivals. And even at the risk of angering global-warming enthusiasts everywhere, I remain of the firm belief that Tu B’Shvat is the...
JTA – Legendary director Steven Spielberg has become the ninth Jew to secure “EGOT” status after winning a Grammy for producing a documentary about the music of John...
The fallout from South Africa’s decision to expel Israel’s chargé d’affaires continues to intensify, drawing sharp criticism from multiple opposition parties and raising concerns about economic and diplomatic...
“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.” As we mark Tu B’Shvat this year, these ancient words from Kohelet feel especially resonant....
JTA – The federal government’s top prosecutor in Minnesota is a prominent Jewish attorney who once sat on the board of a Jewish group now protesting...
JTA – British LGBTQ activist Peter Tatchell was arrested for holding a sign with the phrase “globalise the intifada” at a pro-Palestinian march in London on...
JTA – France has issued arrest warrants for two French-Israeli activists for “complicity in genocide”, a charge that stemmed from the pair allegedly blocking humanitarian aid from entering the...
JTA – Portland Trail Blazers star Deni Avdija’s meteoric rise has officially reached a new stratosphere as the 25-year-old forward has become the National Basketball Association...
JTA – All eyes might be on Israel’s unlikely bobsled squad making its first appearance at the Winter Olympics, but there are actually a slew of Jewish and Israeli...
South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) KwaZulu-Natal Council President Alana Pugh-Jones Baranov was invited to attend the 77th Republic Day of India on Tuesday, 27 January. The event, which...
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