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JTA – The US civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia is contingent on normalisation with Israel and would not allow for the production of atomic weapons, President Donald...
JTA – A United States (US) civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia announced by the Trump administration on Wednesday is alarming some Israelis and Americans. Critics are concerned...
JTA – Tapped to become Britain’s new foreign secretary, Ed Miliband said he would strive to honour the memories of his Holocaust refugee parents. “My parents...
A delegation of South African educators and Jewish National Fund South Africa staff has returned from the annual KKL-JNF International Educators’ Seminar changed by what they saw and better equipped...
JTA – “To be a liberal Zionist, it’s quite a lonely place,” said Amir Tibon, the Israeli journalist whose memoir The Gates of Gaza is one of the...
JTA – The popular French Jewish DJ Barbara Butch is striking a defiant tone after pro-Palestinian activists disrupted her concert in Grenoble, France, vowing not to...
JTA – From Mount Scopus, Rabbi Akiva, with three other sages, gazes down at the destroyed Second Temple. A fox, fulfilling Jeremiah’s dismal prophecy, pokes its...
JTA – Jerusalem’s premier soccer team made an unusual announcement last week. It would give a new café free advertising on players’ uniforms for the coming season. Café Basimta was...
A routine morning coffee turned into tragedy when a balcony crashed onto a popular Jerusalem café, killing South African-born oleh Barry Levitt and leaving his wife, Janet, and two teenagers...
Colombia’s decision to withdraw from South Africa’s “genocide” case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has reignited debate over the future of Pretoria’s legal challenge, with...
An Israeli anti-terrorism organisation has confirmed that the attempted attack on the Cape Town Jewish community office building in December 2024 was undoubtedly an act of terror conducted by “Islamic extremists”. ...
South Africa is the world’s biggest exporter of coal to Israel, and it may now allow a large Israeli company, Navitas Petroleum, to become an operator of oil and gas exploration in the Orange Basin, off the country’s West Coast. This...
Justine Isaacson-Connelly is hellbent on finding out how her older brother, Marc Isaacson, died suddenly in Johannesburg in February. She is convinced that crucial forensic evidence will give answers, but...
The beauty of Mandela Day is that it gives every generation the opportunity to claim Nelson Mandela. However, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s keynote address at the Nelson Mandela...
Many patients and medical practitioners in Australia are hiding their Jewish identity amid an increasing number of reports of widespread antisemitism in the healthcare system. The publication of an investigation...
The Knesset is poised to pass a law permitting gender segregation in Israeli academic institutions. At the same time, it was announced that the city of Bnei Brak...
Authoritarian leaders are no longer united by ideology but by a shared determination to protect their power, wealth, and influence, warns Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Anne Applebaum. She spoke with Centre for...
Jewish food is far more than nourishment. Every recipe tells a story, every spice hints at a different homeland, and every family table preserves traditions passed...
Rather than waiting for a matchmaker to make you a match, you can match with a matchmaker to help you find your perfect match. With more than 100...
There are few things more awkward than a first date. Unless that first date is interrupted by your mother’s best friend, your cousin, and three family...
When you’re married or in a long-term relationship, your social life often revolves around gatherings such as couples’ dinners and Shabbat get-togethers. Should you and your partner split up, these dynamics can shift quite suddenly, changing existing friendships or necessitating the development of new singles’ circles. “Before my...
For most teenagers, gaming is a hobby. For a small group of Herzlia High School pupils, it’s become a serious competitive pursuit. And the organisation behind the ACG School Showdown last weekend made...
For decades Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph has composed music that has been performed in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls. She helped shape South Africa’s national anthem, represented Africa at a...
A baby boy filled with love and laughter, Sacha Ariel Bass, now 15 months, has Niemann-Pick disease type A, a rare, genetic disorder with a life expectancy of between one and three to four years. To ensure other families avoid...
When cricketer Gavin Kaplan made the difficult decision to leave Western Province for Boland two years ago, he was searching for one thing: opportunity. On the night of Thursday 16...
For Adam Lipschitz, one of the fastest marathon runners in South African history, organising road races isn’t just about getting runners across a finish line. It’s about making the sport faster,...
Last Friday, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) had a rare and important opportunity. We sat down with the heads and commissioners of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC),...
Around a week before I got married, my father decided it was time for an intervention. Not the “Sit down, son, let’s talk about your obsession with Holocaust literature” kind. More...
For me, commemorating Mandela Day this year was a wakeup call, an “aha moment”, when I came face to face with some of the most serious crises...
Many of us breathe a communal sigh of relief as we emerge from the gloom of the Three Weeks of Mourning. The restrictions are lifted, we begin the...
JTA – Andy Burnham officially became Britain’s new Labour prime minister on Monday, replacing Keir Starmer, who resigned following the party’s disastrous showing in local elections in...
JTA – Mayor Zohran Mamdani says he’s still thinking about whether he should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu the next time the Israeli prime minister is in New York City....
On Mandela Day, more than 5 000 people from Johannesburg’s inner city gathered to break bread in Education Town. For many, it was a warm meal. For...
JTA – “Mouaz, what do you think, should I go?” The day after Henry Hamra learned that Islamist rebels had ousted Bashar Assad from power ‒ ending more...
JTA – If the phrase Argentina’s Jewish community has adopted to mark the 32nd anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history sounds familiar...
JTA – Sunday’s World Cup final saw Argentina face off against Spain, a showdown between two countries that recently took sharply opposing views on Israel. Their stars, too, symbolised the...
JTA – The Jewish chess legend Judit Polgár has declined an invitation to become Hungary’s president, a largely ceremonial position that would have increased the visibility...
JTA – Colombia, the world’s second most populous Spanish-speaking nation after Mexico, has little in common with landlocked Slovenia, the second smallest of the six republics that...
JTA – Shorty, the aptly named 4-foot-8-inch medical clown, stood between two young patients riding coin-operated toy cars in the lobby of Tel Aviv’s children’s hospital,...
JTA – It’s no secret that JD Vance has lost the confidence of many Jewish Republicans, who have taken issue with the US vice-president’s reprimanding of Israeli officials,...
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