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JTA – Following tense high-level negotiations over the weekend, mediators in Switzerland announced on Monday morning that Washington and Tehran have agreed on a 60-day roadmap towards ending the...
JTA – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday defended his use of the word “monsters” to describe AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, at a...
JTA – Ben & Jerry’s Israel operation has come up with a flavour that doesn’t leave much to interpretation. Called Milk and Honey, a nod to the biblical description of...
King David High School Grade 12 pupil Noah Greenblatt will represent South Africa at the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad in China. He is one of only six pupils chosen to represent the country at the premier...
Fifty years ago, on 16 June 1976, thousands of young people in Soweto rose up against injustice, marching for their right to a better education and a better future. To...
Graduates of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) Sewing Empowerment School walked the red carpet last week in beautiful outfits they had designed, patterned, and stitched themselves. The graduation ceremony at Johannesburg’s Oxford Shul was the culmination of four...
The King David High School elective fair on 19 June was an explosion of collaboration and talent, allowing visiting Grade 7 pupils and parents to see how project-based group work facilitates learning that is fun and builds lifelong...
Around 15 Batmitzvah girls and their mothers joined Great Park Synagogue Rabbi Dovid Hazdan to hand out blankets and jackets at Uthando, the Afrika Tikkun centre in Johannesburg, last week. The B’not Mitzvah group was also involved...
Protests outside the Western Cape High Court on 17 and 18 June made clear why the executive chairperson of Cape Union Mart, Philip Krawitz, has taken legal action to halt defamation directed at him...
JTA – Israeli critics of the Iran deal should be wary of alienating President Donald Trump, particularly given their country’s dependency on US military aid, Vice-President...
JTA – Police in Toronto announced this week that they believe young adults are being hired and paid online to shoot at local synagogues. The announcement...
JTA – The number of annual antisemitic incidents in Germany remains at a high, with right-wing extremism surging, according to a report issued on Wednesday by the country’s leading antisemitism...
JTA – A growing number of Jewish groups are pushing back against the new memorandum of understanding (MOU) brokered between President Donald Trump and Iran. At...
Scrabble South Africa has renamed its prestigious Masters Tournament after the late political analyst and SA Jewish Report writer Steven Gruzd, recognising his role in elevating the local game on the international stage. ...
JTA – Suspects who planned to attack the White House over the weekend sought to target lawmakers who received money from pro-Israel groups, according to federal...
JTA – In July 2024, X suspended antisemitic influencer Lucas Gage for six months for making “repeated and clear calls for violence”. This month, Gage was...
Under heavy security in Budapest last weekend, the top leadership of the World Zionist Organization (WZO), along with heads of Zionist federations from around the world, gathered...
It is a special mitzvah for a Barmitzvah boy and his family to donate money to give wheelchairs to pupils at the Hope School in Johannesburg. Helping them...
All photography by Jude Kapeluschnik The watershed Cape Union Mart case, which may ultimately determine if South Africans can be defamed by false statements for being Zionists or...
A year after Israeli runners were harassed along the Comrades Marathon route, Jewish athletes returned to South Africa’s most prestigious ultramarathon in force, completing the gruelling...
JTA – The cofounders of the Israeli coexistence group Standing Together have launched a new Arab-Jewish political party in advance of the upcoming election, joining several other left-wing parties hoping...
JTA – Fourteen people were arrested following clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups on Sunday, 14 June, outside an event promoting Israeli real estate being held at...
JTA – In 2018, as United States President Barack Obama struck a deal with Iran to constrain its nuclear production, American Jewish groups were divided: Those on the...
JTA – Syria would be better at tackling Hezbollah in Lebanon, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, as Israel’s presence in Lebanon continued to be an Achilles’ heel in...
JTA – A British appeals court ruled on Monday that the government acted lawfully in banning a prominent pro-Palestinian group as a terrorist organisation. Jewish groups welcomed the...
JTA – In the almost three years since the 7 October Hamas invasion of Israel, Great Britain has seen “a relentless focus on everything to do with the Jewish...
JTA – I asked AI Sigmund Freud to interpret my dream this morning. All I got was some dancing dots, as if a) the great man...
A group of ordinary South Africans says it has reached a breaking point. Concerned by what they see as rising harassment, intimidation, and discrimination in public...
When hosts Mexico faced South Africa in the opening match of the Fifa World Cup, supporters in both countries, and as far away as Israel, were glued to...
All photographs by Harold Silber. Music echoed through the city, rainbow flags lined the streets and tayelet (promenade), and more than a hundred thousand people from Israel and abroad gathered...
JTA – Six months ago, Sheina Gutnick was a 31-year-old mother of three at the end of her maternity leave. She had degrees in social science and...
JTA –US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that a deal to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz is “now complete”. “Congratulations to all!...
Nearly two months after Hamas launched its deadly surprise attack on the State of Israel, the African National Congress (ANC)-led government brought a case before the United Nations...
JTA – In March 1968, Rachelle Halpern walked into her university in Szczecin, Poland, and found a group of her classmates gathered around a newspaper. She...
At every dinner table people are talking about Ozempic, Mounjaro, Retatrutide, and which peptides they are using for weight loss, brain fog, injury repair, and glowing...
More than eight years after British botanists Rodney (74) and Dr Rachel Saunders (63) were slaughtered in KwaZulu-Natal, three people have been found guilty of kidnapping, robbing, and murdering them. The couple were beaten, tortured, and stabbed in a 2018 attack likely inspired by Islamic...
JTA – Gwyneth Paltrow has drawn backlash after appearing in a new advertising campaign for 51 Park, a luxury residential development in the affluent Israeli coastal...
JTA – British actor Helen Mirren criticised Israel at a film festival in Italy, in her first public comments since security footage of a November incident...
JTA – Jerry Seinfeld offered a three-word response when asked to say “free Palestine” while leaving Madison Square Garden after the New York Knicks game on...
JTA – Six countries have imposed coordinated sanctions against Israeli groups over settler violence in the West Bank, with France barring Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from...
