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JTA – Natalie Silverlieb’s go-bag looks a little different from the last time she ran to the bomb shelter with Iranian missiles incoming. Since last summer, she has...
JTA – A book featuring testimony from Rabbi Eli Schlanger, the Chabad emissary who was killed in December 2025 in an antisemitic terror attack in Sydney, will be...
JTA – Sometime in the early 2010s, Jeffrey Epstein walked into Dr Steven Kaplan’s office for a root canal treatment. The procedure took some time and required multiple visits....
JTA – Stephen Woldenberg was in a meeting with his father last Friday, 20 February, refreshing the Supreme Court’s website, when the news finally came through that their company had...
JTA – Richard Roberts had a pretty good idea what kind of video Tyler Oliveira was planning to make about Lakewood, his heavily Orthodox town in New Jersey. ...
JTA – Jewish leaders and California elected officials have condemned an antisemitic chant that was audible during a protest on Wednesday, 25 February, against the repeal of a local...
South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) has thrown its weight behind United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, placing the country in opposition to several European nations...
Next week, Jews around the world will celebrate Purim. We’re all familiar with the timeless story of Mordechai and Esther, and how they saved the lives of Persian Jews from...
Many may consider it a snub when the credentials of the new ambassador of a world leader like the United States (US) is accepted by anyone but the country’s president. On Monday, 23 February, the new US ambassador...
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) last week reprimanded the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) for failing to include a Palestinian perspective in three Gaza flotilla interviews. This highlights...
The now publicly accessible sports field leased by United Herzlia Schools (UHS) may soon be closed to the public either partially or totally, with the outcome awaiting a decision by the City of...
JTA – Viktoria Maksimovich’s students at the Sha’alavim Jewish Day School no longer run for shelters when air raid sirens sound. “They don’t want to hear the alarms....
Though the nightmare of Australia’s Bondi Beach was over by nightfall on 14 December 2025, the cloud which preceded it and the massive trauma that it generated continue to...
Hello, dear reader. It has been a year since we last gathered beneath the vaulted ceilings of Queen Esther’s court, where velvet concealed daggers and smiles...
A man once wrote a long anniversary tribute to his wife. It was moving, poetic, full of gratitude and admiration. Friends commented with heart emojis. Someone described it as...
In the final chapter of Megillat Esther, the book itself is described as an iggeret, a letter. This is an unusual term for a work that ultimately became part of Tanach. Rather...
An aeronautical engineer turned humanitarian, South African-born Israeli Alice Miller has broken barriers all her life. From successfully suing the Israeli Air Force (IAF) in 1995 to allow female fighter pilots to overseeing medical and psychosocial health assistance in Gaza, she sees past divides to the humanity...
Rabbinical College of South Africa (RCSA) students are preparing for what has become one of the most ambitious outreach efforts of their year – Purim. They have already selected more...
When CAP Green upgraded Galliot Park in Glenhazel, Johannesburg, some residents assumed it was simply the adoption of a neglected public space. In a city long familiar with...
In much of the Jewish world, Purim means crisp, cookie-like hamantaschen, buttery triangles filled with poppy seed (mohn), jam, or chocolate. But in South Africa, the story is...
From exile and injury to the drafting of South Africa’s Constitution, South African activist, writer, and former Constitutional Court Judge Albie Sachs’ life reads like a chronicle of...
Monday night marks the beginning of Purim, one of our most iconic and joyous festivals. Like so many of our holidays, Purim carries multiple layers of...
Purim is a time of great celebration and fun for the whole family. Carnivals; hamantaschen; dress up; festival meals; and gifts of food to friends and family. Our sages, however, see the miracle...
When I walk into a room with other people in it, I do it with confidence. Sometimes I may not feel so self-assured, but those in the...
Although I swore I never would, I finally gave in and tried the whole “cold plunge” thing. I got behind a trend that chiselled people swear...
JTA – Instead of practicing with her acapella group or preparing to lead Shabbat services, University of Maryland senior Tekoa Sultan-Reisler spent her Friday afternoon testifying...
JTA – They stood outside Berlin’s Babylon theatre, bundled against the cold, laughing and dragging on cigarettes: the Cunio twins David and Eitan, and their younger...
JTA – An anti-Zionist group in Germany has drawn condemnation after it announced plans for a protest against the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in response to...
JTA – British actor Hugh Laurie pushed back against being labelled a “Zionist” after facing a wave of online criticism for posting a tribute to the...
JTA – The Israeli bobsled team’s historic journey to the 2026 Winter Olympics ended in anything but storybook fashion on Sunday, 22 February, as Israel’s own Olympic committee...
JTA – Jewish hockey star Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal on Sunday, 22 February, to clinch a gold medal for the United States men’s hockey team, its first since...
JTA – A newly opened chain of a popular London bakery was vandalised on Wednesday, 18 February, following a pro-Palestinian protest that accused the company of “funding...
JTA – An American soldier who is credited with saving the lives of 200 Jewish comrades in a prisoner of war camp in Germany during World...
JTA – Vanderbilt University has launched an inquiry into a mathematics lecturer whose classroom exercise about Palestinian territory drew criticism from the activist group StopAntisemitism. Tekin...
JTA – U2 frontman Bono delivered sharp criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and lavish praise for Jewish tradition in an interview released on Wednesday, 18 February, alongside the band’s new EP (extended...
JTA – The Board of Peace convened by United States President Donald Trump to administer Gaza’s reconstruction met for the first time in Washington DC on Thursday, 19 February. At the same...
JTA – Tucker Carlson had just barely wrapped up his interview with United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee before the two were already disagreeing on a basic fact. ...
JTA – Leslie Wexner, the Ohio retail billionaire whose association with Jeffrey Epstein has shadowed his philanthropic legacy, spent six hours on Wednesday, 18 February, answering questions in a...
JTA –Israel’s highest court has delivered a unanimous rebuke to state and municipal authorities over long-stalled plans to upgrade the Western Wall’s egalitarian prayer section, intensifying...
JTA – In playgrounds around Tel Aviv it’s no longer unusual to meet a child who splits time between two homes, not because their parents divorced, but because they...
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