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When I was in Grade 11, I was privileged to be selected for A-guard at Bnei Akiva Machaneh with 160 of my friends. I saw it as my mission...
One of the more familiar questions surrounding the holiday of Shavuot focuses on why we seem to celebrate the holiday on the “wrong day”. According to the tradition of Chazal,...
It is a trio of months and themes that link liberation to revelation, binding Pesach to Shavuot in one continuous movement of the soul. The journey isn’t merely...
An attempt by anti-Israel activists to silence dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was thwarted last week by the commitment of St Mary’s School, Waverley to have this conversation securely. The Johannesburg school invited Coordinator of...
Antizionist hate was on full display at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town on Saturday, 16 May, at a Nakba Day festival. At what was billed as...
What was meant to be a straightforward journey to Cape Town for this weekend’s marathon turned into a test of resilience for fitness coach and endurance...
“Sometimes, when things are chaotic here on earth, you have to turn to heaven. In heaven, there is clarity, there is vision, there is perspective.” That was the...
I came to learn about the Eurovision Song Contest only as a student living in Amsterdam in the mid-1990s. Initially, it seemed rather “naff” that Europe took a...
What begins as simple scrolling through social media easily spirals into hours upon hours of consuming distressing headlines, arguments, and negativity, otherwise known as doomscrolling. Talk show...
When eating cheesecake shifts from guilty pleasure to religious custom, many grab a free pass to indulge. Yet for some, being lactose intolerant means that whether it’s Shavuot, a special occasion, or an ordinary day, consuming dairy is never a simple prospect. “On Shavuot,...
While there are no Jews living in Krekenava, Lithuania today, it was a thriving Jewish community before the Holocaust. South African businessman Bernard Seeff, whose family originates from what was then called Krakenowa, left an indelible...
Last week brought concerning news from a place where young minds are meant to be nurtured and challenged. St Mary’s School in Johannesburg postponed an address by...
Someone who confused me with my late father had added me to a “40 years since school” WhatsApp group. “Shame,” was my first reaction. I should probably reply that he won’t be attending...
Parashat Naso contains one of the most beautiful sections in the Torah, Birkat Kohanim, the priestly blessing. We know its words from shul, from yomtov, and perhaps most tenderly from Friday night, when...
It was a real coup for us to get an interview with the new United States Ambassador to South Africa, L Brent Bozell III. The ambassador has hardly...
Mambo’s is Changing the Home Game Guess what? The Western Cape’s favourite home living secret has officially landed in Gauteng, and it’s a total gamechanger. Mambo’s...
Jewish groups are denouncing a fatal shooting at a mosque in San Diego in which three people, including a security guard, were killed. They are also...
JTA – An Iraqi man who was recently arrested in Turkey has been charged with plotting an array of attacks against Jewish targets, including on a synagogue in...
JTA – Spain’s government is defending soccer star Lamine Yamal after Israel’s defence minister accused him of inciting “hatred” against Israel by waving a Palestinian flag during celebrations following a...
JTA – Sixteen months after the fires that devastated the Pacific Palisades and uprooted hundreds of Jewish families, congregants of Kehillat Israel are returning to their...
Last week we lost our great friend Greg Blank. Greg lived a remarkable life. Not because it was perfect, but because it was deeply, unmistakably human. As...
JTA – A dangerous instinct is on the rise in the Jewish world right now: the belief that we must choose between defending Israel and defending...
JTA – Activists in Hamburg have commemorated the displacement of Palestinians in a park where Jews were deported during World War II, following a legal fight...
The best way to get to Rustenburg from Johannesburg is the long way. This means heading towards Pretoria on the N1 North, going around the city...
Painting and cheesecake-tasting sound like a good way to prepare for Shavuot. That’s exactly how the women of the Pretoria Jewish community spent Sunday, 17 May, at the Hebrew Congregation Shul. They created...
JTA – As alternative Eurovision events gathered momentum across Europe in protest of Israel’s participation in the famously schmaltzy singing contest, Israeli candidate Noam Bettan, fresh...
JTA – 6A sweeping new Israeli report on sexual violence committed during the Hamas-led 7 October attacks and against hostages in Gaza concludes that the crimes formed part of...
JTA – A week after a university commencement speaker was cancelled because of a tweet claiming that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners, the allegation...
JTA – A column in The New York Times by Nicholas Kristof on Monday detailed graphic allegations of sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners, amplifying claims that Israeli guards had used dogs to rape Palestinian detainees. ...
JTA – Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan accused Ireland’s public broadcaster of “disgraceful antisemitism” over its decision not to air this year’s Eurovision Song Contest because...
JTA – The European Union (EU) decided to sanction Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians in the West Bank on Monday, moving forward a measure that had been...
JTA – Far-right activists chanted “death to Arabs” and engaged in violent clashes ahead of the annual “Dance of the Flags” march through the Old City...
JTA – A Georgian neo-Nazi leader known as “Commander Butcher” was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for soliciting hate crimes tied to plots targeting Jews...
In the Moreh Nevuchim (3:45), the Rambam addresses the striking absence of Yerushalayim from the Torah. Though Tanach later overflows with references to the city, the Torah itself...
Striking up a friendship in the howling wind led to an outpouring of care that will change the life of a disabled, homeless man. This followed days of stormy weather, uprooted trees, and flooded...
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s recent letter to Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero was, by the standards of South African intergovernmental relations, extraordinary. It stated plainly that the City owes...
When the anti-Israel bloc of countries known as The Hague Group resolved to target the Jewish State with legal, economic, and diplomatic measures in July 2025, the terrorist group Hamas...
A Jewish mother at an under-12 netball game heard another parent allegedly shout that Jews “should all be eradicated”. A rabbi is being asked by his congregants whether they should...
I know I speak for thousands of Australians when I say we desperately hope that the Royal Commission on Antisemitism, which is currently under way in Sydney, will be...
WARNING: SENSITIVE CONTENT On 7 October Hamas committed the most evil of crimes and their victims and survivors will no longer be silenced by those who deny,...
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