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Mandla Mandela, the grandson of late President Nelson Mandela, promised to “bring Israel to its knees” at the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla Mission 2026 at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg last week. ...
Prominent humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers (GOTG) has targeted Jews and Christians in a TikTok video posted on its social media platforms on 4 February. This...
In central Uganda, a Jewish community is confronting a problem that shapes daily life more than theology. Observing Shabbat, keeping kosher, and marking Jewish festivals often...
Most of us like to believe we are careful, discerning consumers of information. We read widely. We follow people we trust. We check sources. We tell...
Johannesburg has been here before. Hopeful moments. Promising candidates. Talk of change. And then coalition chaos, institutional sabotage, and a slow slide back into dysfunction. So, when...
To borrow the opening line of Charles Dickens’ historical novel A Tale of Two Cities, this week has been both the best of times and the worst of times for Australia’s...
What connects a former judge in Johannesburg; a business leader in Latin America; and an artist in Israel, all in their 80s? According to Lithuanian filmmaker Kęstas Pikūnas, the answer lies in a shared heritage...
What began as an engineering experiment for two young chemical engineers has grown into one of Johannesburg’s most distinctive craft distilleries that is now officially producing the only locally...
Many people wouldn’t think that being at the wrong licensing department or on the wrong flight was the ideal location for an operatic performance. However, for Johannesburg chazan (cantor) and singer Adam...
He was the first winner of Idols SA and became a local star, but today Pastor Heinz Winckler is outspoken about his commitment to the state of Israel...
With films like Nuremberg explicitly tackling the Holocaust and the trial that followed, and Oscar contender Marty Supreme reflecting on post-Holocaust Jewish pride, it’s clear that it remains a compelling topic for filmmakers. But in a post-7 October 2023 world characterised by a...
For decades after World War II, Europe tried to move on. Collaboration was minimised, silence became habitual, and questions about stolen Jewish property were postponed or...
Local Jewish duo Breindy and Matt Klawansky were honoured with two awards at the World Entertainment Awards in Los Angeles on 31 January, taking home Best Duo and...
Over the past 30 years, I’ve interviewed Adam Bacher at least five or six times. Since leaving his playing days behind, he’s relaxed, becoming more thoughtful, which means I seldom depart without an insight or some human nugget, whether...
The furore around the King David versus Roedean girls’ tennis match revealed so much about the nature of modern antisemitism, our experience of it, and our responsibilities as community members,...
The receiving of the Torah at Mount Sinai is the most significant event in human history. Unique among all claims of divine revelation, it wasn’t the experience of a single...
Unless I’m reading the transcript at a Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa hearing, I can barely remember what I said on air this morning. And yet, today, 35 years to...
Sorry seems to be the hardest word, as Elton John sang in the song of that name. It’s so true, because saying sorry requires humility, vulnerability, and a willingness to accept...
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....
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