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JTA – A raucous crowd of football fans filled the narrow strip of grass between Tel Aviv’s music centre and Bloomfield Stadium, home to the Maccabi and...
JTA – Organisers of Rome’s annual Pride parade have barred Italy’s only Jewish LGBTQIA+ organisation from marching with a float at this year’s 20 June parade, although it’s still allowed...
JTA – The British Museum postponed a lecture titled “Ancient Israel and Judah” that was scheduled to take place on Thursday on its premises. The museum announced later that the...
JTA – For the first time in its 73-year history, Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum and archive, is establishing educational centres outside the Jewish state. The...
JTA – An American-born former Israeli soldier who was wounded in a West Bank attack has died by apparent suicide, according to Israeli media reports. Alex Miller, 23,...
JTA – A huge fire broke out on Wednesday morning at the Kosher Kingdom supermarket in Golders Green, London’s heavily Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood. Firefighters were still...
JTA – Security preparations for this weekend’s Israel Day Parade would be “the most extensive” that the New York Police Department (NYPD) has ever put together, NYPD Commissioner...
British fitness coach and endurance athlete Yoel Levy was all but consumed by fear as he prepared to run the Cape Town Marathon. Levy, known to his 267 000 Instagram followers...
Two men who say they faced almost daily sexual abuse while at the King David High School hostel in the 1980s have come forward to share their stories. Both buried their secret for decades. Now, they say they...
The unemployment crisis is no longer a distant national statistic for Jewish families. It is now being felt in homes, schools, and communal spaces across the country. ...
Across South Africa, baby savers, facilities where mothers can safely relinquish their babies, are at risk of closure and criminalisation. For desperate mothers who feel unable to...
I was born in Zimbabwe, grew up in South Africa, moved to New Zealand shortly after marrying, and migrated to Australia with my family in 1998. I...
When I was growing up, we had an old vinyl record that I used to play on repeat. Somewhere between the usual kids’ songs was “There’s a...
Countries, like individuals, have consciences. For those of us who reject the extremism, bigotry, and intolerance of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, Israelis and liberal Zionists around the world alike, President...
Growing up in South Africa, the Holocaust was always a subject just outside the door, waiting to step in. There were stories of survivors, books that slowly filled library shelves, horrific...
“There’s a new religion sweeping through the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. It’s not CrossFit, cold plunging, or intermittent fasting. It’s peptides. And if you’re not on at least three of them, are you...
Endless swiping, ghosting, and awkward small talk have left many Jewish singles exhausted. They are increasingly turning away from dating apps and searching for something more human. They...
How does a failed military mission become a national myth? And how do people who seem to have few military accomplishments become great national heroes? These are the...
Despite growing up in a Christian family, and being told to beware of Jews, Bellamy Bellucci has become one of the most prominent South African Jewish voices on social media, promoting Zionism and Judaism “STOP THE LIES! Israel isn’t at...
Melanie Phillips says Jews must stop “playing defence” and become proactive in fighting antisemitism. When Phillips, a British journalist, author, and commentator, travelled through Jewish communities in Britain, Australia, and the United States...
At just 10 years old, Emily Yakcobi is about to take part in the national acrobatic dance championships in Johannesburg. She has made it there in her very first year competing. Yakcobi,...
Sandton Shul recently opened its doors to a group of final-year Catholic seminary students eager to learn more about Judaism and the Jewish community. In partnership with the South...
Every so often, a community does more than simply show up. On Sunday, 24 May, in Cape Town, ours did exactly that. British fitness coach and marathon runner Yoel Levy...
Last week, as Jews around the world watched Israel stand proudly on the Eurovision stage despite boos, hostility, and protests, I couldn’t help but think of our South...
There comes a moment in every man’s life when he realises he’s no longer in the middle of the dance circle. I had this realisation over the weekend at the wedding of...
A young idealistic man travels the world, running marathons in memory of two little ginger-haired Israeli boys who were brutally murdered in Gaza after being taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on 7 October. The...
JTA – United States President Donald Trump announced in a post on Truth Social on Saturday afternoon that a deal with Iran had been “largely negotiated”, despite saying earlier in...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has joined a chorus of Israelis and Jews denouncing his National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, for posting a video that showed him taunting detained activists...
JTA – Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister and a minister in the Ministry of Defense, said on Tuesday 19 May that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking a warrant for his arrest...
JTA – The former prosecutor who led the investigation into a mysterious 2015 death that unnerved Argentina’s Jewish community has been charged with concealing evidence in...
JTA – Irish novelist Sally Rooney, who drew headlines in 2021 for refusing a Hebrew translation of one of her books, is now publishing her latest...
Communal leader and entrepreneur Reeva Forman described former South African president Jan Smuts as a visionary in his support of Israel. Forman represented the Jewish community at the annual General Jan C Smuts Memorial Parade, held on...
US Ambassador to South Africa L Brent Bozell III has warned that the government’s stance on Israel and Iran, and its broader foreign policy alignment has created an “impasse” with Washington. This,...
As King David Linksfield alumnus Geena Cohen and Nathanael Stanislas stood under the chuppah in Stellenbosch 18 months ago, Noam Bettan – the Israeli Eurovision 2026 superstar ‒ surprised guests with a moving rendition of Im Eshkachech Yerushalayim (If I forget...
Koleinu SA acknowledges the release of the Civil Commission’s report, Silenced No More, in which Hamas’s brutality on 7 October has been recognised as a previously downplayed form of torture, namely kinocide. ...
A former King David High School Linksfield hostel boarder – who claims two male teachers sexually abused him when he was just 14 years old – returned to South Africa more than four decades later to lay criminal charges against them. The case, which...
The recent controversy surrounding The New York Times column alleging widespread sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israelis should alarm anyone who still believes journalism has a duty to...
Over years working with seniors in our community, it has become increasingly clear that our elders are among our greatest treasures and yet often among the...
Our diversity is our great strength. Rather than pull to extremes, the Jewish people must amplify their centripetal force. For many years, I have spent Friday...
Har Sinai and Matan Torah stand at the seminal moment of Jewish faith. In a singular moment in history, Hashem spoke directly to three million people....
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