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JTA – The head of the Jewish Greens said she may leave the Green Party of England and Wales after it adopted a policy that defines...
JTA – Three years after paramedic Amit Mann, 22, was killed by Hamas while treating the wounded in Kibbutz Be’eri on 7 October, newly aired recordings...
JTA – Some 50 000 Israelis filled Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Wednesday night to mark three years since the 7 October attacks, at a bereaved...
JTA – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Thursday he was “proud to attend” the previous night’s 7 October vigil held by Israelis for...
JTA – Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters on Wednesday night overran a vigil marking 7 October attended by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The demonstrators swamped...
JTA – Naomi Ragen, the New York-born Israeli novelist and playwright known for her portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women in crisis, says the cancellation of a...
JTA – A year ago, after a screening at Baruch College of my documentary TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on New York City Streets, four different...
In a week in which the community is mourning the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, antizionist agitators chose to target South African Jews with...
A crop of new leaders has stepped forward, offering to help shape the future of Jewish life in Johannesburg. Several fresh faces are standing for election...
WASHINGTON – The United States antisemitism envoy linked South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to deteriorating relations between Pretoria and...
A routine stopover in Dubai quickly turned into uncertainty for South African travellers as flights to Tel Aviv were cancelled without warning. The move by flydubai...
Three years after 7 October, Doron Libshtein is still learning how to live with the loss of his brother Ofir, who died defending Kibbutz Kfar Aza....
Three Israeli women with South African roots were confronted with the unimaginable on 7 October. One lost her son in battle, one was taken hostage by...
Whenever a man is accused of sexual violence, someone inevitably worries about the accusation ruining his life. There’s often far less concern about the life of...
Three years after 7 October it still feels like it happened yesterday, or was just a nightmare we needed to wake up from and were never...
Three years ago this week, Simchat Torah, a day we set aside for dancing with the Torah, became the darkest day in Jewish life since the...
Three years ago, on Simchat Torah, my phone started buzzing before dawn. Not the ordinary morning noise. Messages from people in Israel, one after another, asking...
Before 7 October 2023, I opened social media without thinking much about it. A friend’s joke. Someone’s holiday photos. A bit of news before the day...
There is something about trauma that we often misunderstand. We think trauma is the terrible thing that happened. Sometimes it is. But often, the deeper psychological...
The smells and the images that I have encountered in the past three years, as I have covered 7 October and the ensuing war, are seared...
Three years ago, on 7 October, the Jewish world changed forever. We woke to news that seemed impossible to comprehend. Communities in southern Israel had been...
Israel Defense Forces reservist Major Nimrod Palmach defied orders from his commander on 7 October and drove south to save his ex-wife’s boyfriend and his children....
Three years after the Hamas attacks of 7 October, South African Jews remember where they were when they first started hearing about the massacre in Israel,...
With the recent controversy surrounding pop star Ed Sheeran’s United States concert tour, musicians are increasingly under pressure to express their opinions around the Israel Gaza...
You may have spoken Yiddish today without knowing it. Words such as klutz, schmooze, chutzpah, schlep, and bagel have travelled far beyond Jewish homes. In South...
A growing number of Johannesburg and Cape Town homeowners say they’ve discovered their private lives playing out on TikTok without their knowledge. Some videos have apparently...
Documentary filmmaker and photographer Joshua Rubin known on social media as ‘joshwideawake’, had been dreaming about travelling around South Africa for years. But it took the...
Steven Boykey Sidley has just launched his latest book, Checkmate: How Shoprite Checkers rewrote the rules and won. The SA Jewish Report caught up with him...
The nominations have been submitted, nominees have told their stories, and judging has taken place. Now, the community gets to have a say as voting opens...
This weekend, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) will hold its Great Mayoral Debates. These traditional pre-election events give our communities in Johannesburg and...
I can tell guests in our home that I’m done, I’m going to bed, and they’re welcome to stay. If my wife made the same announcement,...
It’s hard to believe that three years have passed since 7 October 2023. In some ways, it feels like yesterday. In others, it feels like something...
A fellow ordered a pair of pants to be custom-made by an expert tailor. When he came to collect the trousers, the tailor apologised and said...
Israeli photographer Sharon Gabay’s book Jerusalemites was selected on artistic merit for the Indian Photo Festival. Hours after his name and nationality were made public, it...
JTA – In the days following the 7 October Hamas attacks, the families of the hostages held in Gaza turned the plaza next to the Tel...
JTA – Britain’s Green Party on Sunday adopted a policy equating Zionism with racism, a move that immediately drew condemnation from the Israeli government and sparked...
JTA – A young girl steps out of the bathroom on a flight and glimpses a bloody scene unfolding in the cockpit: the co-pilot is attacking...
JTA – Israel’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of Arab parties to run in the 27 October election could make it more difficult for Prime...
JTA – Police in the Ontario town where a gunman charged the Sons of Jacob Synagogue on Yom Kippur are investigating antisemitic flyers distributed around the...
JTA – After an apparent attempt to crash a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv, the incident is raising fresh security concerns for Israelis and Jewish...
