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JTA – A rejuvenated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned home to Israel on Thursday from Washington, having crossed off everything on his diplomatic shopping list. Grinning photo op with...
JTA – A coalition of leading Jewish organisations from seven countries has released a report confirming that 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic violence in...
JTA – Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yair Lapid, the leader of his opposition, have been in Washington, ostensibly to attend the funeral of one of the staunchest...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s leadership to “the 1930s”, escalating a showdown between the two leaders as Netanyahu plans to...
JTA – Bret Stephens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist known as one of the paper’s most consistent defenders of Israel, used his Tuesday column to take...
JTA – It was one kippah versus a sea of keffiyehs, as London’s Hackney Council gave initial approval on Tuesday night to begin the process of ending its nearly six-decade twinning relationship...
JTA – In 2002, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, described a series of mostly anti-Israel actions on and beyond campus as “antisemitic in their effect...
JTA – When red hearts and pink chocolate boxes pop up in the middle of summer, it can take a moment to remember that you’re not somehow late...
JTA – An unpublished novel has paved the way for the birth of a new Jewish fiction imprint, in the leading edge of a flurry of...
Union of Jewish Women (UJW) president Sue Jacobson commended the Johannesburg branch on its commitment to education, community partnerships, and innovation, at the 94th annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday,...
South Africa is losing one of its closest international partners in its diplomatic campaign against Israel. This after Colombia’s newly elected president, Abelardo de la Espriella, announced the...
An anti-Israel organisation founded by Dr Imtiaz Sooliman is calling on South African retailers to publicly declare their businesses “apartheid-free zones”. While the organisation avoided using...
Today, we are less likely to rely on divine intervention for fertility problems. Reproductive medicine has developed an array of strategies for both men and women who...
The international nongovernmental organisation UN Watch has filed a formal complaint with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres over Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng’s acceptance of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) candidacy for the...
What do a Christian Lebanese-Israeli activist, an Arab-Israeli public diplomacy advocate, and a Jewish Ethiopian content creator have in common? They happen to be in South Africa this week to offer...
For years, people have been packing up their lives in Johannesburg and heading to the Western Cape, drawn by the promise of beaches, better municipal services, and a slower pace...
Imagine walking through the centre of almost any major city in the diaspora in 2026 wearing a T-shirt celebrating your Jewish identity. For many Jews, that would...
No matter how many times a mother or father explains that they were once a teenager, their child is still likely to believe that their parents won’t understand what they’re going through. This, according to a clinical psychologist, is perfectly...
Hubo Studio has put South African architecture on the global stage. Its design of the Klaff Family Sports Complex at King David High School has been shortlisted in the sport category of the...
For Martin Sweet, being named Best CEO at the CSI Legacy Awards isn’t a personal achievement. Rather, he sees it as recognition for thousands of young South Africans whose lives have been...
Almost every advanced economy is quietly trying to do the same thing right now. A pandemic cut their supply chains. A war turned energy into a weapon....
For years, small Orthodox Jewish communities across East Africa have practised their faith largely in isolation. They have struggled to access Jewish education, kosher food, religious items, and...
With just one week before nominations close for the 2026 Investec Jewish Achiever Awards, the response from the community has already exceeded expectations. More than 300...
For foreign nationals at the Lindela Repatriation Centre, the days are marked by uncertainty. But beyond the centre’s gates, a small network of mostly Jewish volunteers is determined to ensure those...
For most girls, a Batmitzvah ends when the party is over. For 30 Johannesburg girls, it marked the beginning of a year-long mission that has left a...
Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft has just brought out his second book, The Travelling Rabbi – Journeys Continued. The SA Jewish Report speaks to him about it. What drew you to becoming ‘The Travelling Rabbi’, and when and...
Every night before she goes to sleep, Ella Blumenthal leaves her curtains open. Having turned 105, she still wants to ensure she sees the sun rise. It’s a simple ritual, but one that...
On Sunday 26 July, more than a hundred members of our community pulled on shirts that proudly declared “Jews 4 Jozi” and joined the tens of thousands who took part...
There are two types of people in the world. Those who delete a document, unopened, when they realise it was sent to them by mistake. And those who...
On Sunday morning, as thousands walked through our beloved, battered but still beautiful Jozi, something happened that we can’t take for granted. Or perhaps it wasn’t extraordinary at all. Perhaps it was simply South Africa as it is. ...
There are few things we are better at than explaining our own success. We tell ourselves that we worked harder than everyone else, made wiser decisions,...
JTA – The British pop icon Boy George has gone to bat for Israel and its supporters multiple times in recent months, rejecting boycott calls and expressing solidarity...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, as the American leader is weighing whether to expand his bombing...
JTA – Every generation tells itself the same story: We have learned the lessons of history. We are wiser than those who came before us. That...
JTA – Oren Pesso, a Tel Aviv performance artist and the frontman of the avant-garde musical group Jilber and the Cats, opened his performance on Friday at HaTanacha Park in Tel Aviv...
JTA – On Thursday, on Tisha B’Av, violence came frighteningly close to home to Congregation Rodeph Sholom, the synagogue I lead on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. ...
JTA – MAGA firebrand Laura Loomer, who is warring with anti-Israel figures on the right, is invoking her Judaism as she pulls an about-face on a...
JTA – How do you stop neo-Nazis from meeting up at Adolf Hitler’s birthplace? Station officers there around the clock, of course. That is just what...
JTA – An assailant on Thursday stabbed two victims, one of whom was visibly Jewish, in an area of Manhattan’s Upper West Side known for its...
The Afrika Tikkun Group – which was the brainchild of late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris and philanthropy and business icon Bertie Lubner, created to uplift South Africa’s disadvantaged...
