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“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...
JTA – London’s Wireless Festival has been cancelled after the British government denied entry to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, following mounting pressure...
JTA – Jewish groups were among those criticising United States President Donald Trump and accusing him of using genocidal rhetoric on Tuesday after Trump posted online...
JTA – Iranian state media claimed on Tuesday that a synagogue in Tehran was “completely destroyed” by a United States-Israel strike. The claim was impossible to...
JTA – A new group opposing AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is backing anti-Israel candidates across party lines. Some of its endorsees have blamed Israel and...
JTA – The Jewish leader of the United Kingdom’s Green Party has called on the government to sever trade and diplomatic ties with Israel in response...
JTA – One attacker was killed and two others wounded in a gunfight with police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday morning. The consulate...
As the Democratic Alliance (DA) prepares to elect new leadership at its Federal Congress this weekend, on 11 and 12 April, candidate Nicholas Nyati has positioned himself as one of...
Why this year is different from all other years to make aliya In the early hours of 30 March, just before Pesach, the Knesset passed the...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies is undertaking a significant archival project in partnership with the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel. Its...
JTA – Four people – including a couple in their 80s – were killed when an Iranian missile crashed into their home in Haifa on Sunday,...
JTA – German authorities have shut down a planned pro-Palestinian vigil at the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial after a fierce outcry. The rally was slated...
JTA – Argentina announced on Tuesday, 31 March that it had designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, a move that was quickly praised by Israeli Foreign...
JTA – A major London music festival is facing a wave of cancelled sponsorships as well as criticism from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after announcing...
JTA – Israeli and Serbian officials are denouncing antisemitic comments made by demonstrators during a clash between Serbian students and police at a protest last week. ...
JTA – French police detained Rima Hassan, a member of the European Parliament from France, on suspicion of “advocating for terrorism” after she quoted one of...
JTA -Three more men have been arrested in London in connection with a series of fires on ambulances owned by the Jewish emergency service corps Hatzola,...
JTA – As World War II raged in Europe, Friedrich Torberg, an Austrian Jew who fled for the United States in 1940, imagined what was befalling the...
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