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You can’t get a more war-hardened journalist than Paula Slier: Fired by the SABC for being Jewish War correspondent for Russia Today First-hand witness to every...
JTA – Smartphones have become as essential as shelters for Israelis riding out Iran’s missile attacks, with internet traffic up 25% since the war began on...
JTA – United States (US) President Donald Trump renewed his push on Thursday for the Israeli government to pardon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, labelling Israeli President Isaac...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies met with the new United States Ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, on Wednesday, 4 March, to...
JTA – The Senate late on Wednesday rejected a measure that would have required President Donald Trump to get congressional approval to continue fighting against Iran. ...
JTA – Some of US President Donald Trump’s one-time supporters on the right are increasingly angry over his decision to launch military strikes on Iran – perhaps none more so...
JTA – As the United States and Israel engage in a joint assault on Iran, accusations that Israel or Jewish influence drove America to war are resurfacing, reviving...
JTA – To get a sense of what life is like in Israel these days, consider the circumstances in which air-raid sirens have caught me over...
JTA – A Syrian man was convicted by a Berlin district court on Thursday for stabbing a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial in February 2025....
This Purim, Yad Aharon & Michael dressed up as “Where’s Wally” (an illustrated character in a series of children’s puzzle books featuring detailed chaotic illustrations where the reader must locate ‘Wally’). Yad...
South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) US-Israeli strikes escalated overnight into Thursday, with reports of flames and smoke across Tehran and areas like Sanandaj. Israeli forces targeted additional ballistic missile...
With the Middle East once again in flames, join us for an essential security briefing with two of Israel’s most respected defence experts: Colonel Miri Eisin...
As the Middle East conflict disrupts global travel, thousands of flights have been cancelled, creating the most significant aviation disruption since the COVID-19 pandemic. The airspace...
Three hundred South African families living in the city of Beit Shemesh narrowly escaped death and injury when a missile sent by the Islamic Republic of...
It has been 25 years since the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR), held in Durban, unleashed antisemitic vitriol as the aggressive...
Five years ago, South Africa’s fiscal outlook was bleak. Warning lights were flashing red: widening deficits, rising debt, and eroding confidence. In this year’s Budget, the...
For South African olim, the war has been experienced not through headlines, but in reinforced rooms, hurried phone calls, and interrupted routines. In one central Israeli apartment...
I knew something was up on Saturday morning. It wasn’t the warnings from US Ambassador Mike Huckabee for non-essential staff to fly out of Israel while they still...
An “emergency” meeting of The Hague Group, an anti-Israel coalition of states led partially by South Africa, that convened on Wednesday, 4 March, made an official statement that it aims to...
For years the confrontation between Iran and Israel played out in the shadows. Drones over Syria. Cyberattacks no-one claimed. Proxies doing the dirty work. That era is over. The direct...
While the International Space Station was over the United States last week, pupils at CityKidz, a school in the inner city of Johannesburg, were able to ask...
The more that avid traveller and global citizen Dan Brotman visits Jewish communities off the beaten path, the more he feels connected to his Jewish identity. ...
Johannesburg medical orthotist and prosthetist Roger Wolfson claims medical aid members aren’t always getting the Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) the schemes are required to give them by law. So strong...
From standing by Mahatma Gandhi’s side, to being one of the first female Members of Parliament (MPs), to bringing IBM personal computers (PCs) to the country, South African Jewish women have long...
A cohort of five new Jewish Studies teachers graduated from The Academy of Jewish Thought and Learning in February, bringing the total number of such graduates...
Namibian-born Jessica Thorn, assistant professor in global food security and environmental change at Imperial College London and Namibia University researcher, was recently named a winner of...
There is something surreal about Israel being under attack and seeing visuals of the horrific destruction in the Jewish State, knowing it is our people being bombarded...
How swiftly the world can shift. Just last week, as we prepared to welcome Purim, I reflected on the festival’s powerful examples of women’s leadership. I...
Standing at Mount Sinai, overwhelmed by the sounds and sights just experienced, awed by the voice of G-d; we have just been freed from Egypt, carried...
Ideas for a Purim shpiel on ChaiFM are debated weeks before the festival. What is too real? Too close to the bone? Too sensitive? Too dated? And most importantly,...
JTA – The US State Department urged American citizens on Monday afternoon to depart urgently from more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries amid the escalating conflict in Iran. The...
JTA – Hezbollah fired on Israel on Sunday for the first time since a 2024 ceasefire, opening a new front in the US-Israel war on Iran...
JTA – In Jewish time, history often has a way of rhyming with the calendar. So when Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an...
JTA – Six days after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khameini seized power in Iran on 11 February 1979, he hosted his first foreign dignitary: the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat. Arafat,...
JTA – Spirits ran high inside a large public bomb shelter in the Israeli coastal city of Jaffa, with loud chatter, singing, and greetings of “Happy...
JTA – Jews in Ireland reported more than 100 antisemitic incidents through a communal reporting system within six months after it launched, according to a new report. The...
JTA – I have spent much of my life living in, travelling to, and learning about Israel. Like many who care deeply about the Jewish State, I hold...
Issued by the South African Zionist Federation The Israel and US campaign against Iran, launched on 28 February 2026 (Tehran time, approximately 05:00 to 06:00 SAST), has entered its third...
Dear community, Over the past hours we have seen an escalation in the current war, with Hezbollah joining the conflict and an attack on a Saudi oilfield....
South Africa’s water crisis is a painful reminder of how a water expert, Professor Anthony Turton, was suspended by his former employer, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), for firing a warning...
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