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JTA – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met a group of rabbis on Monday, 10 August, for a conversation that centred on concerns about the impact of his rhetoric...
For people who’ve built careers, businesses, and reputations, time is a valuable commodity. Yet members of the judging panel for the Investec Jewish Achiever Awards continue to set aside time each year to...
After decades of one-party dominance, South Africa’s political map is rapidly being redrawn. But the latest poll numbers from the Social Research Foundation (SRF) should worry the Democratic Alliance almost as much...
“What’s happened since 7 October is that something we may have known before but which was latent and not so clearly revealed, has become very apparent: just how...
For generations, Jews have been associated with professions such as medicine, law, accounting and business. Yet, beyond these stereotypes are people whose working lives look very different. A game ranger tracking lions before sunrise, a...
Two young South African women advised to hide their Judaism during a group tour in Ireland; a United States-based rabbi and his family confronted by an aggressive flight attendant en route to Cape Town. With increasing reports of Israeli and Jewish tourists facing verbal and sometimes physical...
For more than a decade, Pastor Jenny Pillay has travelled across Africa and beyond with one goal: to get Christians to understand why they should stand with Israel and...
When South African-born Israeli reservist Eyal* returned home after weeks of fighting in Gaza, the war refused to leave him. His body was back in Modi‘in, but his mind remained...
About 30 years ago, shortly after leaving South Africa for Australasia, I wrote a poem titled Homelands. In it, I explored my simultaneous sense of belonging to Africa and...
Over the past three weeks I‘ve been fortunate to spend in Cape Town, conversations have repeatedly turned to what it means to be Jewish in Poland today: the legacy...
There’s something about Mina Lopato Nursery School that seems to stay with people. Mention the school to someone in Johannesburg and more often than not, a story follows. Perhaps...
Adrian Gore has spent more than three decades building Discovery into one of South Africa’s most prominent companies. But the question that has continued to interest...
Aimee Mica Komorowsky wrote and stars in Sarajevo, the theatrical production that won four Naledi Awards and is on show once again at Theatre on the Square....
When we left for the Union Buildings on the morning of Women’s Day, 9 August, we had no clue we were about to meet the youngest Nobel Prize laureate and...
A hole-in-one is rare enough, but for father and son, Mandy and Shaul Yachad, to have achieved this feat on the same hole at the same...
This weekend, we witnessed a momentous moment for our community. Rabbi Doron and Mrs Shelly Perez met President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings to express their appreciation...
It was never going to snow in Johannesburg. I knew this because nothing kills the possibility of snow quite like half the city staring out the...
I am feeling unusually positive about this country and our place in it this week. So often when we speak about South Africa, the government, the...
What truly defines a strong Jewish community? What is the ultimate measure of a successful society? How do we know if we’re investing where it matters most? This week’s parsha, Shoftim,...
JTA – An animal welfare group’s appeal to an Israeli court is delaying plans to surround a high security prison for Palestinians with Nile crocodiles. The...
JTA – By mid-morning on Saturday, 8 August, the alleys surrounding Cafe Basimta were filled with Haredi Orthodox demonstrators protesting against the cafe’s decision to open...
JTA – At the entrance to Nikšić, Montenegro’s second-largest city, a vintage fighter jet painted in the colours of the Israeli Air Force perches atop a...
JTA – Reykjavik in the autumn of 1935 was a small fishing port of corrugated-iron houses battered by high winds, cod trawlers idling in the harbour, and...
JTA – Losing our daughter Malki felt like a horror movie unfolding in real time. It all started on 9 August 2001 a school vacation morning in Jerusalem. I...
JTA – When World Zionist Organization (WZO) officials working with the Israeli Foreign Ministry opened the grave of Theodor Herzl’s grandfather on 29 July in Zemun, Serbia, they found it empty. ...
JTA – Archaeologists have uncovered the full floor of Lithuania’s historic Great Synagogue, revealing treasures nearly erased by Nazi and Soviet occupations – and exposing rifts...
JTA – Britain’s Community Service Trust (CST) says assaults, attacks on Jewish institutions, and online abuse increased as anti-Jewish hate remained well above pre-7 October levels. Britain’s antisemitism watchdog says it received...
JTA – Nearly all Jewish students surveyed on Canadian university campuses said they have experienced or witnessed antisemitism, according to a new government-commissioned report. The survey from the Department...
JTA – Anti-Jewish hate crimes have climbed 8.5% in New York City this year, even as shootings and murders across the city fell to historic lows,...
JTA – Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, 31 July into 1 August, someone crept into the Plaza de Tiberíades in the old Jewish quarter of Córdoba, Spain and sprayed a...
Before the walls are finished and the doors officially open, the prayers have already begun. On Sunday, 2 August, Pine Street Shul held its first service...
JTA – A former neo-Nazi whose selection as a Conservative candidate for next year’s local elections sparked outrage among Britain’s Jewish community has withdrawn from the race but...
JTA – For nearly three years, much of Jewish culture has been shaped by war, rising antisemitism, and questions of identity under pressure. Rachel Israel’s latest movies head in...
The national coordinator of PAGAD (People Against Gangsterism and Drugs) vowed to “unleash the party of Allah on the shores of Africa” when speaking to a crowd waving Hamas,...
When South African student Avi crossed the stage to collect his qualification at Ariel University last week, he wasn’t just celebrating three years of hard work. He was part...
Black smoke poured through the stairwells of the Dorchester as residents fled for their lives. Harel Iluz had just escaped the burning Sea Point apartment block when people outside shouted...
South African Al Jazeera presenter Redi Tlhabi targets the Jewish State in multiple tweets a day, but on 30 July she took this a step further, targeting all of Israel’s supporters. Commenting on a video in which Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz,...
Mark Regev, former Israeli ambassador and senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, offered a rare glimpse into diplomatic decision-making during war when he addressed a packed audience in...
The J7 Annual Report on Antisemitism reveals a harrowing story that is unfortunately no longer a surprise to any Jew in the diaspora. However, we feel a deep empathy...
In addition to fomenting and inciting violence against Jews, the anti-Israel agitators and demonstrators who demonise Israel as a state, Israelis, and supporters of Israel collectively with calls for...
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