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The dreams of more than 100 South African Jewish teenagers have been dashed by the decision to pull them out of the 2026 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Maccabi...
Gaza was and remains a humanitarian tragedy of enormous, perhaps incalculable dimensions. Thousands of Palestinian civilians, women, children, infants, and the elderly, were killed there alongside thousands more Hamas terrorists and their accomplices in the two-year war that was sparked by Hamas’s savagery...
A 14-year-old Alexandra pupil fell into the fast-moving Jukskei River in Johannesburg during heavy rains on 5 May. Had Lesetja Mokonyama not learned to swim through...
“Mamash, a code popped up.” The warning, posted in a Jewish community group after a suspicious phone call allegedly linked to a pro-Israel organisation, is one...
For much of her adolescence, Gila Fine was fascinated by the Talmud. However, because she was a girl in a small right-wing Jewish community in London, she...
In the days after 7 October, many Jewish women turned to the feminist spaces they had long trusted to support them and to stand against the mass rapes...
Golden biscuit bases, smooth cream cheese fillings, and carefully placed toppings lined the judging table as five contestants battled it out in a Shavuot cheesecake competition hosted...
South African yacht captain Brett Sussman won the Voyagers Award at the World Superyacht Awards on 1 and 2 May after completing a global journey that lasted three and...
“Being Jewish is as compelling as it is complex and as beautiful as the people who embody it.” This idea is at the heart of Being Jewish with Jonah Platt,...
Rabbi Jonathan Fox, the group rabbi of the Chevrah Kadisha, has recently published The Bible Challenge. The SA Jewish Report chats to him about it. What inspired you to write this book? As the Bible is...
Apparently, the secret to living until you are 104 is eating yoghurt and scrambled eggs with thick toast every day. This is what Golden Acres resident Hadassah Kobrin, who turned 104 on 7...
A handcrafted collection of newspaper clippings offers a rare window into how Israel’s story was told, and why preserving it still matters. The book cover carries...
It is with profound sadness that we learnt this week of the passing of Abraham Foxman, former director of the Anti-Defamation League, tireless campaigner against antisemitism...
This week we start a new Book of the Torah, Bamidbar. Our Parsha – also called Bamidbar – tells us about the time before the Jewish people begin their journey through...
My wife wasn’t impressed. Not for the first time, she was concerned about something I was “putting out there”. To be fair, what I said was a little weird,...
There are some disastrous events that we cannot control, nor can we prevent them happening. There was nothing anyone could have done to prevent the severe storms that hit the Garden Route last week and then Cape...
Ilana Zelkin’s vanilla cinnamon phyllo cake Ingredients 1 packet phyllo pastry 500g butter 250g flaked almonds 2 tsp cinnamon and sugar 2 packets vanilla instant pudding ...
JNF helps launch One Billion Tree campaign The Jewish National Fund South Africa (JNF SA) has joined the campaign to plant a million trees across South Africa in a single day in September. It’s part...
JTA – As Israel’s Eurovision contestant Noam Bettan walked the “turquoise carpet” at the annual song competition’s opening ceremony on Sunday in Vienna, he was already being eclipsed...
JTA – In an appearance on US television on Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that Israel should continue fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon...
JTA – Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister, Amichai Chikli, confirmed on Monday that right-wing YouTube provocateur Tyler Oliveira had been barred from entering Israel, accusing him of aiming to come to...
JTA – Thousands of British Jews, as well as politicians from multiple parties, rallied in London outside the prime minister’s residence on Sunday to call for...
JTA – Police in Toronto have arrested a man they say shot at “visibly identifiable members of the Jewish community” on two occasions a week apart. ...
JTA – About halfway through Michael, the new blockbuster biopic of Michael Jackson, there’s a scene in which the singer – played by his nephew Jafaar – and his lawyer, John Branca (Miles Teller), are...
JTA – Jewish groups in the Bay Area are protesting a judge’s removal of a local Jewish district attorney from a case involving pro-Palestinian protesters accused...
🚨Municipal elections are proclaimed for 4 November. Can a 75 year old grandmother save Joburg? And what about the rest of the country? On Sunday 10...
JTA – A diplomatic spat erupted on Wednesday after Belgian prosecutors moved to charge two Jewish men tied to ritual circumcisions, prompting Israeli and United States officials...
JTA – London’s police force has created a new unit to protect Jews, in the latest effort to stem a wave of attacks and calm mounting...
JTA – Over the last two months, there have been more than a dozen attacks on Jewish institutions across Europe. Two of the highest-profile attacks were...
JTA – Britons heading to the polls in local elections on Thursday will deliver an answer to the question of whether their country’s legacy parties still hold wide...
JTA – Prominent Jewish groups in Canada have called on its government to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist entity after the activist group published a map identifying locations across...
JTA – An Israeli man was indicted on Thursday in connection with the violent assault on a Catholic nun in Jerusalem last month, after prosecutors said he targeted her...
JTA – Police have arrested a man in connection with two Toronto-area synagogue shootings that occurred on the same night in March. Nobody was injured in...
JTA – The man charged with carrying out a deadly firebombing attack on a march for Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, last year was sentenced to...
JTA – Seated at a desk, the girl smiles, then looks down and begins to write in a notebook. It’s unmistakably Anne Frank. But wait ‒ there is only one...
JTA – The Anti-Defamation League’s local leader decried a plea deal reached on Tuesday that is expected to spare the man charged with causing the 2023 death of...
The South African United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, has once again shown her Israel-hating colours by sticking her neck out on the anti-Israel flotilla...
The finding in the long-running litigation South African Human Rights Commission versus Agro Data CC and Another [2026] has confirmed that the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) doesn’t possess binding remedial powers. That is to...
When a stabbing attack unfolded on Golders Green Road last week, panic spread quickly through one of London’s best-known Jewish neighbourhoods. Police sealed off parts of the...
The same South African writers’ organisation that railed against “censorship” of the antizionist colouring book From the River to the Sea is now backing the boycott of an Israeli literary festival. The National Writers Association of...
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