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For 505 days, getting married to his partner, Ziv Abud, was the dream that sustained Eliya Cohen in the rot of the Hamas tunnels. A future with her was uncertain. Even knowing whether the person you love was alive was a...
JTA – The remains of Yehuda Katz, the last Israeli soldier still missing from the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War, have...
JTA – The man accused of disrupting Shabbat services at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue last week now faces federal hate crimes charges in addition to the state...
JTA – Jürgen Stroop, the Nazi commander who led the killing of more than 50 000 Jews, was sitting in a cell in Warsaw awaiting his...
Antizionist agitator Megan Choritz argues that she has a right to denigrate Professor Adam Mendelsohn – the director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at...
Just days after making Commonwealth Games history, Chad le Clos returned to a very different kind of reality. His home at the Dorchester in Sea Point had been gutted...
After three years of living in their car in Cape Town, Jolene Erasmus and her Jewish husband and son were given more than just R20 when they crossed paths with Gary Meyers. They were...
As Rosh Hashanah approaches, the sharp daily blast of the shofar punctuates the month of Elul, serving as a spiritual wake-up call to prompt self-reflection. For Rabbi Motti...
The name Jeffrey Wolf will always be synonymous with King David Victory Park. Now, with the loss of this educational icon on 17 August, his legacy lives on in his...
For years, Israel’s argument over ultra-Orthodox military service has told a fairly simple story. On one side are Israelis who serve, whose children serve, and whose husbands and...
No one should have any moral or legal difficulty with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s intervention to secure the return of Captain Daniel Perez’s body. The president has done the right thing and should be unreservedly...
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, then...
For most of their lives, Batyah* and Gila* understood themselves to be Muslim. Yet, woven through generations of their family was a Jewish identity they did not fully understand. The...
For Israel, the battle is no longer only a military one. Dan Feferman told Limmud Cape Town that the information space is as strategic a battlefield, capable of shaping public opinion, political decisions,...
Investing can seem like something reserved for people with substantial savings, financial expertise, or a high tolerance for risk. A Limmud Cape Town session challenged all three...
Right-wing voters who no longer want Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to be in power could decide Israel’s election in October. It could also hinge on the cost of living, military service, and whether Netanyahu can...
For decades, the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor in Poland was deliberately hidden beneath trees, earth, and silence. Now, archaeological discoveries are revealing the physical traces of the people...
Seventy Jewish women artists and 100 artworks with one shared purpose: helping individuals and couples in the community who are facing infertility. This is the premise behind the Malka Ella Fertility Fund’s annual art exhibition...
For centuries Jews were forced out of Spain. Today, Jewish communities are once again holding services there, studying Torah, and building Jewish life across the country. Their story is one thread...
Cape Town dancer Gala Winkler is performing in the Darkroom Contemporary production of e.ID: A Fugue at the State Theatre in Pretoria. The SA Jewish Report spoke to her between performances. What is your...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) is a national body with a presence around the country. The majority of South African Jews live in Johannesburg and Cape Town,...
I sometimes wonder how my wife and I make it through the day. Given how little confidence our adult children have in us, it’s a wonder we manage to dress ourselves in the morning....
The passing of Jeffrey Wolf this week has highlighted the end of an era in Jewish education. It also reminds me of the extraordinary value our community places on education....
“You can listen to Jimi Hendrix, but you can’t hear him. There’s a difference.” I once came across this fascinating line in an article from the early 1990s during a discussion...
JTA – At a barbecue on a Netanya rooftop earlier this month, Member of the Knesset (MK) Yoav Segalovitz, a politician most people outside Israel have...
JTA – The West Bank settlement movement’s leadership joined with one of its most prominent defenders, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, in condemning an Israeli settler outpost...
JTA – Nearly four in 10 Jewish young adults say events affecting Jews in recent years have led them to pull back from Jewish spaces or...
JTA – Vandals broke into a Reform synagogue in Jerusalem over the weekend, damaging the building and artwork and tearing down Pride flags displayed by the...
JTA – A Jewish security watchdog is doubling down on safety measures in the wake of a Friday night attack against worshippers at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue,...
JTA – Apple has agreed to pay $150 000 (R2.42 million) to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that the company failed to accommodate a Jewish employee’s observance of Shabbat, and later fired him...
JTA – The plaza that became the centre of Israel’s campaign to bring home the 251 captives Hamas seized on 7 October is now formally called “Hostages Square”, establishing a...
JTA – When Iris Meiri-Snir moved from Israel to northern Italy last month, she gave up a job she loved, proximity to her children and grandchildren,...
JTA – A federal judge threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit that had accused Harvard University of having “turned a blind eye” to Jewish and Israeli...
JTA – About a month before the 7 October massacres, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), was unveiled at the G20 summit in New Delhi. Envisioned as a network of...
JTA – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was asked on Wednesday by City & State reporter Fariha Rahman whether the New York Police Department (NYPD) would continue with its...
JTA – Jewish businessmen Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner are purchasing the NBA’s storied Los Angeles Lakers, ESPN reported in Wednesday, in a stunning, record-setting $12.5 billion (R202.1 billion) deal. The sale comes barely...
President Cyril Ramaphosa became personally involved in efforts to bring home the remains of slain South African-born Israeli soldier Captain Daniel Perez from Gaza – an intervention the Perez...
“Shame on you Jews and Nazionists [Nazi Zionists]. You caused the most suffering than any other nation. Shame on you, killers and murderers.” This was a statement made by Muslim...
Snatched from their mothers while they were still suckling, two lion cubs endured the cruelty of the illegal wildlife trade, one found tied by a painfully short rope, and both...
When 11-day-old Angel needed an urgent heart procedure, an Israeli doctor kept a promise to a Rwandan cardiologist he had trained. Dr Sagi Assa flew more than 4 000km to Kigali to help Dr...
