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The story of Avigail Idan, who was orphaned and kidnapped on 7 October while her siblings survived by hiding in a cupboard, has captured the hearts...
The African National Congress (ANC) is unlikely to form a coalition government with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) after the 2024 national elections, but is likely...
At the height of a couple’s joy under the chuppah, the groom smashes the glass to remember the destruction of the Temple and that there’s pain,...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi Pandor has delivered an array of promises on Israel and Gaza, many of them in contradiction with each...
With his assault rifle and Hamas flag, former Johannesburg mayor and Al Jama-ah city councillor Thapelo Amad would have blended right in with those of the...
South Africa’s decision to recall its diplomats in Israel as a way of censuring the Jewish state means that the South African embassy in Ramat Gan,...
All that Clemence Felix Mtenga (22) and Joshua Loitu Mollel (21) wanted was to learn the art of agriculture in Israel, return to their home country...
One of the 239 Israelis taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October, Dr Shoshan Haran, was in Cape Town in June this year attending an international...
As the world marked 85 years since Kristallnacht, a pogrom in which Jewish businesses were viciously targeted by the Nazis in November 1938, anti-Israel extremists in...
More than 10 000 people filled the streets of Cape Town on Saturday, 11 November, seething with animosity towards Israel, the local Jewish community, and the...
A South African olah is mourning the loss of her dear friend, Rose Lubin (20), who was stabbed outside Jerusalem’s Old City while on duty as...
“We’re giving [Western Cape Premier] Alan Winde until the end of the year to close down [Herzlia] school, or the EFF [Economic Freedom Fighters] South Africa...
On 2 November, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) not only invited a representative of a designated terror organisation, Hamas, in Tehran, Dr Khaled Qaddumi, to...
A month after the massacre of 7 October, stories are still coming to light of the lives ended by Hamas. One such story is that of...
Protesting peacefully in front of Parliament is a South African tradition, yet anti-Israel extremists violently attacked a Christian pro-Israel vigil there on Friday, 3 November. The...
When thugs threatened a security guard at gunpoint on the night of 6 November before pulling down a Johannesburg billboard showing hostage Kfir Bibas, it wasn’t...
“The EFF [Economic Freedom Fighters], when it takes over next year, is going to arm Hamas and make sure Hamas has the necessary equipment to fight...
The South African Cabinet is calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Israel for the crime of “genocide” following the bombing of a hospital...
“I’m writing to you as a hurt, terrified, and angry Jewish student,” South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) Western Cape Chairperson Erin Dodo told the...
When Jewish donors supported Cyril Ramaphosa in his bid for the presidency in 2017 and South African Jewry celebrated the appointment of a president who seemed...
“Beware, South Africa,” warned the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) on 17 October, in one of the most stark statements it has ever made....
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has allowed the UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (UCT PSF) to express its support openly for terrorist organisations Hamas, Palestinian Islamic...
Many Capetonian Jews woke up on the morning of Saturday, 14 October, grieving the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists exactly a week earlier. On Shabbat, and...
South African olah Lili Kovler, who lives in Jerusalem, felt paralysed with fear and sadness when in the wake of the 7 October massacre, her Israeli...
The mayor of the Shar HaNegev regional council, Ofir Liebstein (50), and Canadian olah Vivian Silver (75) have spent their lives dedicated to peace and improving...
“I felt like we were suspended in time,” says Capetonian Sonja Woolf (29) of the moment she and her best friend swam in the calm Tel...
South African oleh Gidon Boolkin is grateful to be alive after a Hamas rocket hit his building on the corner of Ben Yehuda and Mendele streets...
When Ma’ayan Jowell and Sigalit Levin were growing up in Port Elizabeth, their Israeli cousin, Avi Zakuto, came to stay with them for a few months....
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) officially declared Israel an apartheid state last Thursday, 28 September. Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein says this has been...
The Union of Orthodox Synagogues (UOS) Beth Din hechsher is the kashrut certification consumers see on most kosher products in South Africa, but the market is...
When Etz Chaim Shul in Berea, Johannesburg, closed its doors several decades ago, Lily and Bernard Neuhaus bought various items from the congregation, including a beautiful...
Barry Gilder has seen many things in his time, and they form the basis of the riveting events in his new novel, At Fire Hour. Born...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has for the third time this year allowed flags of internationally-designated terrorist groups to be draped on its campus and...
A year after finishing matric, South African Barry Feldman found himself on Israel’s frontline, defending the Jewish state from Syrian forces, which were part of an...
Veteran South African journalist Benjamin Pogrund, who now lives in Israel, initially never wanted his own life story to be part of the narrative of the...
Anyone driving or walking along the Southern Cape Peninsula may do a double take when they notice that the St James Retirement Hotel now proudly flies...
Jewish academic Dr Alexander O’Riordan described the South African Jewish community as a producer of “settler terrorists” that go to Israel to commit violence. He also...
“Our father was multidimensional: a family man, a strong entrepreneur, and a statesman. They don’t make them like that anymore,” Suzanne Ackerman told the SA Jewish...
The tradition of Jews from larger South African Jewish communities visiting smaller country communities over the high holidays has been going on for decades. Now, as...
In an historic moment, Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein stood alongside other religious leaders at the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island on 5 September to...
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