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“The Jewish community has always played an invaluable part in making Cape Town a city of hope,” said Cape Town Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, speaking at...
“As Jews, we don’t feel safe in Amsterdam and Europe. We already hide our Jewish symbols, and many of us are thinking about moving somewhere safer...
“Jews have been trying to take over the world for thousands of years. This is why they have been kicked out of 109 countries over 1...
Capetonian and King David Linksfield alumnus Elisa Galgut had always felt welcome in the poetry scene in Cape Town as one of the few Jewish poets...
“I just wish the Iron Dome malfunctions,” wrote Cape Town businesswoman Mariam Jakoet-Harris on the social media platform Instagram on 9 December 2023. She is one...
After Israel captured senior Hezbollah naval operative Imad Amhaz in an unprecedented raid in the early hours of 1 November, Lebanese forces published photographs of 10...
An African National Congress (ANC) branch has imported Hamas and Hezbollah’s jihadist “martyrdom” culture to South African shores by inviting the public to honour “their martyrs”,...
Jewish communal leaders have called on the government to replace its new spokesperson for the department of international relations and cooperation (DIRCO), Chrispin Phiri, after he...
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT’s) highest decision-making body, its council, is taking on its own head of its historical studies department and director of the...
Bleeding profusely from her hands after being viciously attacked by an anti-Israel mob on Friday, 27 September, Cape Town academic and interfaith leader, Dr Azila Reisenberger...
As South African Jewry mourned the first anniversary since the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa changed the historical facts...
Born in Israel and raised in South Africa before returning to live in the Jewish state, clinical psychologist Lihie Gilhar says that in the wake of...
Cape Town Jewry, supported by allies and dignitaries, came out in numbers to attend a multifaceted memorial commemorating the lives lost and shattered on 7 October...
In what people are calling a miracle, a South African group that planned to hold a ceremony at the “South African Forest” in the north of...
When the editor of media giant News24 dismissed Jewish columnist Howard Feldman, it exposed what appears to be double standards at the widely read South African...
Over the high holy days, we do our utmost to ensure that we are inscribed in “The Book of Life.” While it may feel like an...
Local academic and activist Ivor Chipkin is appalled but undeterred by the “vicious” smear campaign launched in response to a conference he is convening that explores...
On his first official visit to the United States (US), South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Ronald Lamola, unashamedly reiterated, “We stand with the...
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape has confirmed its full support for Hamas, an internationally-designated terrorist organisation. In a statement on 5 September,...
It’s rare to encounter openly antisemitic sentiment in South Africa, but self-styled politician Mehmet Vefa Dag, who has Turkish roots, delves into anti-Jewish tropes on a...
On the morning of 1 September, shortly after Israeli soldiers found the bodies of six young Israeli hostages executed by Hamas in Gaza, the president of...
Professor Adam Mendelsohn, the head of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) historical studies department, is taking his university to court to set aside its recently...
When a heart-shaped stone that Staff Sergeant Nitai Metodi had given to his South African-born grandmother, Riva Hellman, fell and chipped last Friday morning, she knew...
The massive challenges facing the animal-welfare sector in South Africa were brought to light when dogs and cats had to be rescued from a Cape animal...
The South African Police Service has deployed heat-sensing drones, police tracker dogs, divers, and search and rescue teams to locate missing Capetonian Robert Schroder (58), but...
Ben-Gurion University (BGU) President Professor Daniel Chamovitz says University of Cape Town (UCT) students and staff who want to cut ties with Israeli universities would be...
At 22-years-old, Capetonian Atarah Katzeff had done more than most people do in a lifetime. She danced on the sea floor while diving; climbed the Drakensberg...
Twenty-five years ago Holocaust education didn’t exist in South Africa. Today, it’s an integral part of the national school curriculum, with thousands of pupils and educators...
As Israel braces itself for retaliation after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on 31 July, South Africa once again blames Israel and...
When a secret military training camp in Mpumalanga was discovered just days after the United States treasury sanctioned two South African individuals linked to Islamic State...
Jay Kaplan may now be studying at the University of Chicago (UChicago), but his strong Jewish identity emanating from growing up in Johannesburg led him to...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) have criticised the South African government’s deafening silence after Iranian proxy,...
South African Ronli Dorfman was sleeping peacefully in a Tel Aviv hotel in the early hours of Friday, 19 July, when she heard an explosion that...
Living just 400m from the Lebanese border, South African olah Adrienne Chonowitz thought she was leaving for only a few days at most when she, her...
In a significant moment for the South African Jewish community, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has laid a complaint against the African National...
In one of his first media interviews as South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola appeared to parrot the party line, but his...
Andile Mngxitama may be a controversial figure, but in his maiden speech as a uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) Member of Parliament, he spoke straight and true....
Anton Fagan, the WP Schreiner Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT), who set an exam question in May depicting a fictional terrorist...
Local non-governmental organisation Citizens For Integrity (CFI) has taken Cricket South Africa (CSA) to court over its decision to strip Jewish cricketer David Teeger of his...
Terrorist attacks like the 7 October massacre in Israel are committed every few days in Africa against innocent Christians and moderate Muslims, according to the African-Jewish...
