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JTA – Dolly Parton, who died on Tuesday at age 80 after a brief bout with cancer, has been mourned around the world as a stellar songwriter, consummate country hit maker,...
JTA – This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. When Endalkew Yemani Tesma fled Ethiopia in 2005, he didn’t know what awaited him on the way to...
JTA – Montréal has passed a motion of solidarity with Palestinians after stripping a clause that called for severing institutional and diplomatic ties with Israel. On...
JTA – Ilanit Ninay-Lion remembers as if it were yesterday the frantic call she received in November 2023 from the family of Yoni Asher. His wife and...
Who is left, right, or centre on the political spectrum is insignificant in the coming Israeli election, according to Haaretz reporter Linda Dayan, who spoke at Limmud Johannesburg. “When we talk about left and...
JTA – A window was broken at a Reform synagogue in the central Israeli city of Ramat Hasharon less than two weeks after a similar incident...
JTA – Deep in the trees and swampy thickets of Lithuania’s Rūdninkai Forest, a series of makeshift forts is sinking into the earth. These represent the remains of underground bunkers...
Education is often understood as a pathway to opportunity. But what happens when a child’s education is shaped almost entirely by the religious community into which they are...
Every time I find myself on a Ben Yehuda street in Israel, I think of how Eliezer Ben-Yehuda recreated the Hebrew language, a story I first...
The history of Pretoria Jewry, told in Jacaranda Jews: Voices from Pretoria 1865–2025, is a rich and fascinating one. The story of how that book came into being, told...
Walking into the Western Cape High Court on 25 August, political extremist Mehmet Vefa Dag shouted “Death to Israel” at Jewish community members gathered for his Equality Court hearing on...
I cannot for the life of me decide whether the individuals who thought it was a good idea to write numbers on the skin of detained Palestinians were...
South Africa appears to be on a path of significantly tightening laws around financing terrorism. This is because of significant international pressure for the country to stay off the grey list. ...
When Harel Iluz returned to an apartment destroyed by the recent Sea Point fire, he expected to find nothing intact. The roof had collapsed, the heat had destroyed most of the contents, and...
For Israel’s national cricket side, with its South African team manager and two South African players, competing in Finland from 14 to 21 August meant dealing with far...
For observant Johannesburg Jewish rugby fans, getting to Ellis Park for the Springboks’ clash with New Zealand on Saturday, 22 August, meant walking kilometres, joining friends and family along the...
I overheard a group of political science students last week discussing Israel’s coming 27 October election. In the middle of the conversation, one announced, “I’m a Bennettist.” Everyone around...
Just days after receiving a national lifetime achievement award, Selwyn Nathan is looking back on more than five decades in South African golf. Nathan was handed the Steve Tshwete Lifetime...
Errol Anstey has been awarded the title of Alderman after 16 years as a City of Cape Town councillor. It recognises a political career that began decades before...
People often ask me what justice looks like. At Limmud Johannesburg, an archaeologist and survivor of 7 October taught me something else. He taught me what justice sounds like. ...
The animated characters of Bart and Lisa Simpson are unlikely to be front of mind when considering the Talmud, but in one classic episode of The Simpsons, the siblings turn to Jewish texts to...
Long before Hollywood became Hollywood, a Jewish immigrant arrived in South Africa with no money and an extraordinary ability to see opportunity where others didn’t. Isidore William...
Who is left, right, or centre on the political spectrum is insignificant in the coming Israeli election, according to Haaretz reporter Linda Dayan, who spoke at Limmud Johannesburg. “When we talk about left and...
From a queer-centred yeshiva to an artist-driven synagogue and young adults turning their homes into Jewish gathering spaces, new models of Jewish life are challenging traditional...
Goldsteins weren’t necessarily in the gold business, Rosenbergs didn’t come from a mountain of roses, and Eisenfelds certainly weren’t growing iron in fields. Some of the surnames we immediately recognise as...
“We want to take the rabbis’ authority seriously because the rabbis spend their lives immersed in and devoted to this law, trying, putting what they perceive as...
Sharon Spiegel Wagner is once again in an Agatha Christie mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in Johannesburg. The SA Jewish Report caught up with her between rehearsals. We fell for you doing musical comedy,...
The smell of spices, the sound of piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poems and songs), tables crowded with couscous and tagines, and customs passed from one generation to the next...
I was in my happy place last weekend. Together with hundreds of fellow participants, I attended the annual Limmud event in Johannesburg, following on from the Cape Town gathering a...
I am convinced that the number of leftover-related deaths among the over-65s is dangerously underreported. I have no evidence for this. I haven’t conducted research and I don’t have access...
Spending a weekend absorbing information from so many exceptional and learned people, as we do at Limmud every year, is phenomenal. Every year, I come home at the end of...
I was privileged to be involved with organising the Avraham Fried concert this week, where nearly 2 000 people gathered for an evening of Jewish music, singing, and...
As Israel hurtles towards elections, the Netanyahu era may finally be over, but has Bibi used up all of his 9 lives after 19 years in...
JTA –The Dutch public broadcaster Avrotr os has pulled out of the next Eurovision Song Contest, saying that Israel’s participation undermined the event’s neutrality. Avrotros announced on...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday posted what he described as his personal phone number and invited Israelis to contact him with their questions...
JTA – The United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia jointly condemned Israel for declining to open a criminal probe into the April 2024 killing of seven World Central...
JTA – The United Kingdom (UK) threatened to sanction Israelis involved in West Bank settlement expansion after the Jewish State’s Lands Authority opened bids for 1 234 homes in the largely...
JTA – New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said she felt a “deeply personal” commitment to protect Jews in a speech at Central Synagogue, where...
JTA – An Argentinean federal judge has been removed from office for a series of antisemitic posts on his social media accounts that constituted misconduct incompatible with his role, an impeachment...
JTA – In September 1932, Israel Joshua Singer boarded a ship bound for New York, where he had been invited to report on the United States (US) for...
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