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JTA – United States President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, amid separate US efforts to sustain the...
JTA – A week into the ceasefire in the Iran war, Israelis have settled into their old normal ‒ sort of. “Is anyone else completely struggling with the...
With the US-Iran ceasefire surprisingly being agreed to at the last minute – just before the expiry of United States President Donald Trump’s deadline – and...
Forty days. That’s how long Moses was up on Sinai. It’s also how long I’ve been living in a Jerusalem bomb shelter with my wife and two kids, who haven’t seen a classroom in more...
Born after South Africa’s 1994 democratic breakthrough, many were thrust into a world alive with the fragrance of liberty. A world many of our fallen heroes...
JTA – Israeli Ambassador to France Joshua Zarka held a meeting on Wednesday with far-right French leader Marine Le Pen, marking the latest instance in a...
JTA – Until this week, Italian prime minister Giorgio Miloni was allies with her Israeli and American counterparts, and adversaries with Elly Schlein, Italy’s opposition leader. Now, Meloni is at...
JTA – A record number of United States Senate Democrats voted on Wednesday to block the sales of certain weapons to Israel, marking a sharp rise in the...
JTA – A far-right Polish lawmaker sparked outrage on Tuesday when, while speaking in Parliament, he displayed a modified Israeli flag with the Star of David replaced by a blue swastika...
JTA – The Trump administration official behind a controversial antisemitism probe at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) told an audience of Jewish leaders that her office’s demand for...
JTA – A growing number of Americans are injecting themselves with peptides they’ve ordered online, often with no idea what’s in the vial, hoping to cure ailments and reverse ageing....
In an unprecedented victory for the community, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) KwaZulu-Natal Chairperson, Mongezi Wellbeloved Twala, has apologised for antisemitic remarks he made outside the Durban Magistrate’s Court...
Ninety percent of the remaining Holocaust survivors globally will be gone within 15 years. While there are still almost 200 000 Holocaust survivors, nearly half of...
South African opera doyenne Aviva Pelham was called an “ugly Jewess” and a “wh*re” in the comments section of a post shared on the Gift of the Givers...
The call between oleh Kenny Struwig and the SA Jewish Report begins like any other interview. A greeting, a check on the sound, a polite apology. Then, in the background, a low...
South Africa has quietly passed one of the most far-reaching reforms of its democratic era, shifting power away from politicians and into the hands of administrators...
A few weeks ago, I bumped into former Minister of Constitutional Affairs and chief negotiator for the former National Party (NP), Roelf Meyer, at a US...
“Despite my great-grandfather being in hiding, both he and my great-grandmother showed incredible resilience and bravery to get through such a difficult time,” Benayahu Wesseloo told a packed...
Karen Tolman’s mother and grandmother were on the very last ship of Holocaust-surviving Jews allowed into South Africa in 1938. They were onboard the Duilio, which docked in...
Human trafficking isn’t confined to distant borders or shadowy international networks. It’s happening in South African cities, harbours, and in communities where most people would least expect it. Children are...
Rather than running away from disaster and devastation, first responders across Israel run towards the danger, wanting to help in any way they can. And when...
When his name was called at the Eat Out Woolworths Restaurant Awards, Aren Pollack didn’t move. He stayed seated, unsure if he had heard correctly, until those around...
Most Grade 8 boys spend their weekends gaming or watching sport. Fourteen-year-old King David scholar Jesse Abro, however, spends his in the skies above Johannesburg. Three...
In this week’s Torah reading we read all about the kohen examining people to determine whether they were afflicted by tzaraat, the leprous curse. It was a physical inspection that had spiritual implications....
This is a week of profound communal significance. On Tuesday evening, we gathered to mark Yom HaShoah and, in doing so, made history. For the first...
In a discussion about the education department’s plans to condense the hours school children spend learning about the Holocaust in history classes, I was told by...
We stood just off to the side of the post-Shabbat crowd, engaged in polite conversation. It was just after Passover. Kiddush had returned, along with the...
For a people long accustomed to persecution, patience had worn thin by 1940. The South African Jewish Board of Deputies had grown increasingly frustrated with the...
I had big plans for my father’s first yahrzeit on Taanit Esther, the fast of Esther, right before Purim. Recite the mourner’s kaddish at the 06:00 minyan at the Orthodox shul on Yael Street...
JTA – A growing number of leading progressives in the United States, including the leading liberal pro-Israel lobby, have come out against continued American funding for Israel’s...
JTA – As pro-Palestinian activists were shut out of the former Buchenwald concentration camp this weekend, a time-worn fight about the site’s history resurfaced. That dispute, which dates back...
JTA – The number of fatalities from antisemitic attacks reached their highest in more than three decades last year, with 20 people killed in four attacks on three continents, according...
JTA – United States-Iranian peace talks ended without a deal on Saturday and President Donald Trump announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, leaving...
Dor L’Dor, the new youth arm of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) Johannesburg, hosted its launch event, a fun quiz night, on 28 February. Dor L’Dor – a...
JTA – The formulaic question we should be adapting from the Passover seder and asking ourselves as we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust this year...
JTA – The National Concert Hall in Dublin has drawn condemnation from the head of Israel’s emergency medical service, Magen David Adom, after it cancelled a...
Peter Magyar has ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year tenure as Hungary’s prime minister, sending the closest ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu packing after a decisive...
JTA – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung drew condemnation from Israel’s Foreign Ministry after comparing Israeli military actions to the Holocaust in a social media...
JTA – It has been a month since 12 March and there is a story unfolding at Temple Israel in Michigan, United States, that most people...
JTA – United States (US) Vice-President JD Vance is headed to Pakistan on Friday for in-person talks to reach a permanent end to the US-Israeli war...
