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JTA – Antisemitic offences in Spain rose 86% last year amid the country’s highest total hate incidents on record, according to a report from the Spanish...
JTA – British Jewish groups say they are alarmed about revelations that a fraternal society for Muslim police officers published a policy paper that described Zionism...
JTA – Earlier this year Nadav Lapid, the award-winning Israeli dissident filmmaker, travelled with his son to Marseille for a screening of his latest film. He...
JTA – When Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor was a young girl, her Jewish mother, during an argument, once called her “nigger”. “She never used the word with me...
South African oleh Jonathan Zausmer wasn’t planning on doing much to celebrate his birthday on Sunday, 7 June, but a higher power showed him that he still has a lot of living to do. He miraculously avoided a terrorist attack...
A strong South African delegation, including the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and the South African Union of Jewish Students, joined around 2 000 Jewish communal leaders, advocates, policymakers, students, and activists...
South African faith leaders expected a summit on antisemitism. Few expected their first lesson to begin on the airport tarmac. Minutes after landing at Ben Gurion...
South African medical graduates are some of the best in the world, but hundreds of them cannot find work. This generation of young South African doctors has done everything required of them. They spent years...
Congregants arriving at the Sydenham-Highlands North Hebrew Congregation in Johannesburg on Shabbat, 6 June, were met with an unexpected disruption after a burglary at the synagogue overnight. It prompted a police investigation and the...
Residents of Glenhazel, Johannesburg received a measure of reassurance this week after three suspects were arrested in connection with a violent home invasion that left one victim in hospital. ...
“It feels like I’m speaking to someone who knows me, says Shira Jacobs*, who frequently turns to AI-powered conversational chatbot ChatGPT when she’s feeling stressed or needs emotional support. “When you share...
Every morning, my father, Dr Melville Leonard Edelstein, drove into Soweto. Let that sit for a moment. The sprawling township southwest of Johannesburg was under the architecture of...
For Selwyn Margolis, 87, returning to his home on Kibbutz Kissufim near Gaza last week was not about unpacking boxes and rearranging furniture. It was a return to keeping the memory of his...
As more than 100 members of Mozambique’s Jewish community, past and present, gather on 11 June to celebrate the centenary of the Maputo Synagogue, they hope to highlight that their community is still alive. Community President Sam Levy says although most people assume it doesn’t exist, there...
More than 80 years after her death, Anne Frank remains one of the most recognised voices of the Holocaust. Yet many people know only part of her story....
For generations of South African families, Dr Cyril Karabus was more than a doctor; he was a lifeline. The pioneering paediatric oncologist, who later became the...
The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) has achieved a milestone that places it at the forefront of higher education on the continent and in the top 1% of universities worldwide. ...
For most people, spending a Saturday or Sunday running, rowing, sled-pushing, and lunging their way through a fitness competition seems daunting. Yet for a growing number of South...
Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, the SA Jewish Report asked Jewish youth what young people today are fighting for. Here are the responses from three King David High School...
Germany has emerged as the team best-poised to win the World Cup, which kicked off in Mexico this week, according to two esteemed local football personalities canvassed by the SA Jewish Report. It’s perhaps surprising, given...
Next week, South Africa marks the 50th anniversary of the 16 June Soweto Uprising, a day that is a defining part of the moral architecture of this country’s history. Few...
Nobody ever taught me not to stop at the top of an escalator. No wise elder sat me down and explained that when I reach the top, I...
One of the deepest human desires is the need to be recognised, respected, and honoured by others. While this craving may begin subtly, it often grows...
On Monday morning, waking up to news that Iran had fired missiles towards central Israel again sent shivers up my spine. Not again, was my first thought. The idea that the...
JTA – Iran says it has completed its attack on Israel after its missile barrage on Sunday night launched the first direct exchange of hostilities since...
JTA – As missiles flew towards Israel on Sunday night, beleaguered Israelis once again took to Facebook from their safe rooms. “Whoever is in charge of naming...
JTA – Dave Matthews, the frontman of the American rock band Dave Matthews Band, has pushed back on allegations that his vocal criticism of Israel in recent years had crossed...
JTA – The Tribeca Festival has denounced jokes alluding to allegations of rape against Israeli prison guards made on the red carpet by the comedian and...
JTA – A Jewish bakery owned by Polish and Israeli immigrants in Berlin has shut its doors, citing a combination of economic pressure and antisemitic harassment. Babka &...
JTA – The actor John Lithgow won his third Tony Award on Sunday for his depiction of the writer Roald Dahl as an antisemite. Lithgow stars...
JTA – Less than an hour after Slovenia’s newly elected Prime Minister, Janez Janša, was sworn into office by Parliament, he had the Palestinian flag lowered from a government...
JTA – Fireworks, parades, maybe a mixed martial arts smackdown on the White House lawn? Those are a few of the ways Americans will be marking the country’s...
JTA – Doctors and nurses in the United Kingdom could soon be banned from wearing pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel symbols at work following recommendations from the British government’s independent...
JTA – Hezbollah appears to have rejected a ceasefire that the United States (US) brokered between Israel and Lebanon, where the Iranian proxy is based. The deal reportedly would have...
JTA – When the Jewish Brigade appears today in Italian public debate, it is rarely about the British Army unit ‒ formed largely by volunteers from Mandatory Palestine ‒ that was sent...
JTA – The Pride march in Israel’s capital city changed its traditional route on Thursday to end near the Knesset, in a show of force ahead...
JTA – A New York University (NYU) student is facing hate crime charges for allegedly raising a flag depicting a Star of David, two swastikas ,and the letters “NYU” over a...
Holocaust survivors and members of the second and third generations gathered at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) on Thursday, 4 June, to mark International Holocaust Survivor...
A taste of South Africa came to Mill Hill, London, when Sharon Lurie, author of The Kosher Butcher’s Wife series, presented a cooking demonstration to a sold-out audience in...
South Africa’s “genocide” case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to drag on for at least another three years after Pretoria requested an...
