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South African Jewry is outraged by the visit to the country of a senior Hamas delegation to participate in the Fifth Global Convention of Solidarity with...
One of the first things Channah Peri, 79, insisted on doing after her release from Hamas captivity was to visit her beloved son, Roi’s, grave. Peri,...
Jewish-born Ronnie Kasrils, former South African minister of intelligence and longtime champion of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) organisation has come under fire for celebrating Hamas’...
The South African National Assembly voted this week to suspend ties with Israel and shut the Israeli embassy, delivering a morale-shattering blow to the heart of...
The Mitzvah School, which has taught disadvantaged students in their final year of school for nearly four decades, is closing its doors at the end of...
The head of World Mizrachi, Johannesburg-born Rabbi Doron Perez, whose son, Daniel, is believed to be held hostage in Gaza, wants him, wherever he is, to...
There has been a chilling uptick in threatening, incendiary rhetoric at anti-Israel protests around the country which have veered towards threatening the community. “The Zionists in...
Ayelet Svatitzky is a romance novelist, but lately, she’s lost for words. Her elderly South African-born mother, Channah Peri, 79, and her brother, Nadav Popplewell, 51,...
It has been almost four excruciating weeks since South African born grandmother and nursery school teacher Aviva Siegel and her American-born husband, Keith, were kidnapped by...
Shoam Ben Harush, 20, had the world at his feet. He had one more year left of his compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces...
Saar Margolis, 37, was a hero who died doing what he was born to do – saving lives and protecting others. He’s one of two South...
“I feel like a refugee in my own country,” said ex-South African David Michalowsky, having fled for his life with his wife after spending more than...
It was a wedding ceremony like no other, at a time like never before. For a moment, all pain and anguish were set aside as a...
Criticising the South African government and ruling African National Congress (ANC), a deeply betrayed head of the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) cried out last Sunday,...
Grandmother Marcelle Talia, 65, who was born and raised in the Free State, was mercilessly gunned down last Saturday by Hamas terrorists as she made her...
The head of World Mizrachi, Rabbi Doron Perez, and his wife, Shelley, have endured agonising uncertainty this week, waiting endlessly for news of their son, believed...
For South African Jewry, it has felt like a week of shiva. We are mourning, yet only a few outside our community have come to offer...
The eagerly anticipated festival of Sukkot was thrown into crisis last week as Johannesburg Jewry grappled with a dire shortage of lulav and etrog sets. Hundreds...
Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi’s recent announcement of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC’s) decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the capital...
Suppliers of kosher chicken are concerned about the avian influenza or bird flu plaguing South Africa’s poultry industry, but insist that there’s “no cause for alarm”...
As taps ran dry at several Gauteng public hospitals, doctors and healthcare workers, many of them Jewish, have had to dig deep to push through the...
Former South African businessman turned wildlife philanthropist and conservationist, Larry Green, was recently honoured to be able to name a baby gorilla in Rwanda’s annual Kwita...
Patriotic Alliance (PA) Deputy President Kenny Kunene, as member of the mayoral committee (MMC) of the City of Johannesburg for roads and transport, has refused outright...
“It has been an absolute honour and privilege to have played a part in bringing to life the world premiere of the stage adaptation of Damon...
Sandringham High School matric student Matjantje Ntwampe had a life marred by hardship that was exacerbated by a brutal attack in the Glenhazel area two weeks...
Jewish property specialists say last week’s devastating Johannesburg inferno, which caused at least 77 deaths, sounded a final warning bell for the City of Johannesburg to...
A Johannesburg rabbi is behind a bold anti-corruption initiative for South African companies to root out all-pervasive rot of criminality threatening the future of the country....
Renowned German-born physicist Albert Einstein, arguably the scientific world’s most famous Jew, wrote two messages to the South African Jewish community expressing praise and encouragement for...
Shay Felber was holidaying in Cape Town when violent clashes intensified between the Ethiopian army and Fano militia in Ethiopia’s Amhara province two weeks ago, leaving...
The chief executive of Miss SA, Stephanie Weil, despises the “rehashed question” of whether beauty pageants hold relevance in today’s world. “It’s the first question I...
The growing affable relationship between South Africa and the Islamic Republic of Iran is distressing in the latter’s ongoing determination to destroy Israel. This reared its...
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has vowed to cut all ties with Israel should his party be voted into power after next year’s general...
Well-known alleged Israeli crime kingpin Yaniv Ben Simon, arrested in a high-profile international crime swoop in Johannesburg last year together with seven other Israelis, remains in...
Retired Judge Siraj Desai has formally lodged an appeal against a June ruling by the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) that found he was guilty of unbecoming...
Patriotic Alliance (PA) President Gayton McKenzie is unfazed by criticism from Israel haters over his party’s fact-finding visit to Israel last month, calling members of the...
The controversial head honchos of the Patriotic Alliance (PA), Gayton McKenzie and Kenny Kunene, are heading to the Holy Land next week. Political pundits have predicted...
On one of the coldest days in Tshwane’s recent history, a group of local matriculants from Mamelodi were captivated by two visiting Israeli water experts at...
It has been two calamitous years for the small and ageing KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Jewish community, which has been battered by a series of natural and man-made...
It’s kick off time for one of South Africa’s favourite soccer teams, Orlando Pirates, to take on Israel’s popular Maccabi Tel Aviv in a friendly pre-season...
The Old Pretoria Synagogue, a national heritage site with major historical significance, has been left to rack and ruin two years after a string of empty...