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“They threw us into a cage that was three or four steps across. It was completely dark,” says Rudy Rochman. He is one of three filmmakers...
Sports and exercise-medicine expert Professor Wayne Derman has worked with elite athletes for his whole career, so when he was appointed chief medical officer to the...
Families, yeshiva bochurs (students), lone soldiers, and a nonagenarian will be among the 87 new arrivals at Ben Gurion in Israel this week in the largest...
The director of the Israel Centre South Africa, Liat Amar Arran, says the organisation received “100 enquiries” into aliyah over the past three weeks, and that...
“What do you do when the leadership of an organisation you’ve spent your whole working life serving adopts a policy or position that your conscience won’t...
Seventy-eight years ago, a Jewish man gave his 17-year-old daughter a maroon handkerchief as a way to remember him. She never saw him again – he...
All Rudy Rochman wanted to do was to shine a light on unknown, disconnected, and re-emerging Jewish communities around the world, but something went horribly wrong....
“Last week’s events ripped the plaster off of a big wound. They forced me to re-examine my life in South Africa – things I miss and...
As social media in South Africa last week became a minefield of fake news and incitement amidst civil unrest, one WhatsApp user attempted to draw the...
When Madeleine Hicklin recently viewed the dilapidated state of the Old Synagogue on Paul Kruger Street in the Tshwane city centre, she was moved to tears...
The economic devastation that COVID-19 has wrought on the Jewish community has been extensive and potentially devastating, but some have been rescued by the Gesher Fund,...
Giving a vaccine may take a second, but the administration that needs to happen for every jab takes a lot longer. Local doctor Menachem Hockman, who...
Sydenham resident Aidi Posner was spending the last few minutes before Shabbos saying tehillim when she asked her husband, Leon, to turn on their gas heater...
“What are your plants trying to say?” That’s the question that drives SupPlant, a company rooted in three generations of one Israeli family. Through cutting-edge technology,...
The Johannesburg Jewish community is reeling from unprecedented COVID-19 deaths during the third wave of the pandemic. But in spite of these tragic fatalities, the vaccine...
Luke Lange is 12 years old and supports Israel. He’s not Jewish, but believes the Jewish state is “a great country”, and was concerned about the...
A number of men connected to previous local terror incidents were arrested in Durban last week in what could be a win for local and international...
An Israeli start-up which aims to eliminate malaria using artificial intelligence (AI) has won first place in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition. Its work could...
“At this Jewish table, the murders of our families were planned,” says activist Grant Gochin, who has campaigned relentlessly for Lithuania to acknowledge its role in...
Yakie Ayalon is an Israeli filmmaker who grew up in Nigeria, and makes films based on humanitarian values. With a strong connection to the African continent,...
When South African expat Melissa Skuy moved to Miami from Johannesburg seven years ago, she never expected a scene of disaster and destruction on her doorstep....
“I’m constantly around people at school, and the spaces are crowded. I know I’m not really protected from COVID-19. I take that risk every day I...
When former East London Rabbi Chanoch Galperin was accused of forging the will of a community member, he took his case to the Beth Din. But...
Professor Karen Zwi may have left South Africa more than 20 years ago, but she has carried the ethics and ideals that she grew up with...
He was senselessly killed during the Soweto uprising of 1976, in the wrong place at the wrong time because of his dedication to the disenfranchised. And...
The sudden passing this week of renowned entertainment critic and journalist, Peter Feldman, brought to an end his 50-year career across print, TV, and radio. For...
What’s it like living a few streets away from the prime minister of Israel? According to Israeli media, the residents of Ra’anana are up in arms...
“I felt targeted because I’m Jewish. It’s antisemitic,” said a businessman affected by an alleged boycott of companies purported to support Israel. A group of 300...
The former director of the South African Board of Jewish Education, Rabbi Craig Kacev, has been selected as pedagogical director of a new project called the...
Amid a merciless third wave unlike anything the Johannesburg Jewish community has seen before, a number of Jewish schools have decided to close, and Chief Rabbi...
They have had a longstanding friendship and worked closely together, but when Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein saw Anglican Church Archbishop Dr Thabo Makgoba describe the...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Dr Naledi Pandor brought a sense of calm in the midst of the recent feverish anti-Israel rhetoric in South...
It’s the height of irony that South Africa’s minister of communications and digital technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, heartily endorsed an item of fake news about Israel last...
Early in the morning of 28 May 2021, Lisa Kowalsky warned the Johannesburg Jewish Mommies Facebook group that there weren’t enough COVID-19 beds in Gauteng. Her...
Anti-Israel incidents continued to occur around South Africa in spite of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with many turning antisemitic and targeting individuals and businesses....
Pretoria teacher Sudesh Mooloo’s family member says he fears for his safety and that of his family after he expressed support for Israel and took a...
Like most 16-year-olds, Mila Smith has a busy schedule, fitting in hobbies with schoolwork. But unlike most other teens her age, this Herzlia High School Grade...
Like Jews around the world, Cape Town business owner Aimee-Leigh Koff was horrified at the wave of misinformation online as Israel was subjected to a rain...
It sounds like something out of a horror movie, but it happened in a private Johannesburg care facility. Jewish pensioner Bernard “Bernie” Katz was admitted to...
Every single Chevrah Kadisha resident over 60, as well as most of Johannesburg’s Holocaust survivors, were vaccinated last week to their relief and that of their...
