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An incident that unfolded on a remote Eastern Cape road four years ago came full circle this week when a South African police officer reached out to an...
Videos showing Tel Aviv flattened into a wasteland of collapsed buildings and burning streets are spreading rapidly online. And in some corners of the internet, people...
South African olah Kim Bash was sitting in her miklat (bomb shelter) in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday, 17 March when she heard a massive explosion. She thought a missile had...
South Africa hasn’t experienced a large-scale terrorist attack in recent years, but that shouldn’t be mistaken for security, according to Professor Hussein Solomon, a senior professor at the University of...
The new US ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, had barely unpacked before he landed in hot water with the government of his host...
Experts are calling for legal scrutiny of the Al Quds march through the Cape Town city centre where many children carried imitation firearms and there were chants of...
In December 2023, South Africa filed a petition at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for allegedly violating the Convention on the Prevention and...
This wasn’t a week we braced for. It was a week we claimed. For years, Jewish students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have approached this time of year...
South Africans should be outraged that a hosted foreign embassy thinks it prudent to turn mass deaths into a meme. The Iranian embassy in Pretoria posted...
Just months after stepping off planes into new lives, hundreds of South African olim have found themselves running for shelter as sirens sound across Israel, forced to navigate...
As sirens interrupt life, young South Africans on programmes across Israel are having to navigate a reality few imagined when they arrived – and without their...
Many more Johannesburg youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds now have the opportunity to train for high-demand technology careers at the Maharishi NextUp Institute of Technology (MNIT). South African-born American entrepreneurs and...
There are lots of Naledi Theatre Awards nominations every year, but this year there are more than most that emanate from King David Schools. This year’s...
From period poverty to health and human rights crises, to water scarcity and much more, South Africa’s problems can seem overwhelming. Yet, as Human Rights Day...
“I don’t care how you get me there, but I have to be in Israel for Pesach,” the woman near me this week at the Norwood...
For 40 years, Moshe learned Torah from Hashem. Their lessons were always preceded by a call. Hashem would summon Moshe and then proceed to teach a particular subject. When one...
Context is everything, which is why you need to know this before hearing my side of the story. For the past nine months I have been...
This week, the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) hosted its once-vaunted Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). Historically, IAW has been a source of...
JTA – A string of recent synagogue attacks across North America and Europe has security officials sounding the alarm bells. “We are in the midst of...
JTA – An Israeli organisation headed by a right-wing activist quietly arranged a series of charter flights that evacuated Palestinians from Gaza last year, according to...
A powerful initiative inspired by the memory of two young Israeli children is capturing the imagination of Jewish high school pupils across South Africa. The Bibas...
JTA – The man who attacked a Michigan synagogue on Thursday was the brother of a Hezbollah commander who oversaw efforts to shoot rockets into Israel...
JTA – The US Department of Homeland Security has identified the man killed while attacking a suburban Detroit synagogue as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a United States citizen who...
JTA – A blast outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam late on Friday has Dutch police racing to safeguard Jewish institutions after two attacks in two...
In a time of growing polarisation, rising antisemitism, and increasing attempts to use sport as a platform for division, events that bring people together across lines...
JTA – As the executive director of a synagogue, I read the daily security briefs from Secure Community Network and engage in regular security updates with...
JTA – More than five months after a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, a highly contentious legal proceeding arising out of that military conflict remains a sword of...
JTA – A column in The Guardian that seemed to rationalise the targeting of a popular Israeli-founded bakery has ignited controversy in the British Jewish community. The 14 March piece in...
JTA – Dutch police arrested four teenagers on Friday in connection with an overnight fire at a synagogue in the port city of Rotterdam. The fire...
JTA – Israel has deported another Jewish-American young adult involved in solidarity efforts for West Bank Palestinians, adding to what critics say is an unjust crackdown...
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JTA – The suspected assailant, armed with rifles and smoke bombs, who rammed into Temple Israel on Thursday encountered a synagogue that was well prepared for just such...
JTA – Spain has permanently withdrawn its ambassador to Israel in a symbolic rebuke of the United States-Israeli strikes on Iran. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez...
JTA – When news broke that Israel might gradually reopen schools in areas considered safe enough, Yael Daniel, a mother in Bat Yam in the missile-hit...
JTA – As Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, visited several Jewish hotspots in New York City this week, a criminal complaint was filed in his home country against a...
JTA – On a Saturday in January I went to Shabbat services in the morning and the New York City Ballet in the evening. By which I mean, maybe...
JTA – Israel won’t advance to the single-elimination stage of the 2026 World Baseball Classic (WBC), but the team surpassed expectations by winning two games and finishing in third...
The US-Israeli military campaign against Iran – Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion – is now in its 14th day, having begun on 28 February with the assassination...
Scenes of exhaustion and relief unfolded at OR Tambo International Airport this week as more South Africans arrived home after gruelling 30-hour journeys from Israel amid...
The Iranian pilot never saw the missile that killed him. His Russian-built Yakovlev Yak-130, a jet trainer first flown in 1996 and introduced into service in...
