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Facing the challenges and choices of the Jewish community and greater South Africa is vital, so we can put them into perspective in a post-COVID-19 world....
The president of Malawi has said that his country would open an embassy in Jerusalem, making it the first African country to take this step, either...
Most of us are viscerally offended at the thought of Holocaust jokes, but the reality is that such jokes, humour, and satire have existed during and...
For many Cape Town Jewish couples, United Herzlia Schools (UHS) was not only where they got their primary education, but the place they met their bashert...
United Herzlia Schools (UHS) is a formidable institution as it celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, but when community leaders came together in 1940 with a...
When tennis champion Angela Buxton died last week at the age of 85, she was lauded as a “pioneer against prejudice” on and off the court....
Shireen Sapiro was water-skiing with her family shortly before representing South Africa in swimming at the junior nationals at the age of 13, when she fell...
The building that used to be the ohel of the Jewish cemetery in Springs, Gauteng, is reported to be in a dire state, with vagrants occupying...
The Cape Town Jewish community lost out on a property in a case in which they were a casualty in a much bigger war. This week...
Thirty-three gravestones have been vandalised in the Jewish cemetery of the town that was once called “the Jerusalem of South Africa”, demonstrating the uphill struggle to...
As Women’s Month draws to a close in South Africa, it’s clear there is much work to be done in this country to protect the lives...
A new non-fiction book, described as a detective story and a thriller, explores the life and motivation of a low-ranking SS Nazi officer, whose name would...
South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, has openly acknowledged Israel’s right to exist in peace and security as a Jewish state, and...
When Rabbi Menachem Bombach turned 20, he had no knowledge of the Hebrew or English alphabet, couldn’t do basic maths, and only spoke Yiddish. This was...
A hundred South Africans have made aliyah since lockdown began in March, as South Africa’s economic and political future remain a strong “push factor” for Jews...
Emigration is expected to increase in the months and years ahead as South Africans struggle to survive in a battered economy and volatile political climate exacerbated...
Following the police raid in Kliprivier two weeks ago that may have uncovered a Gauteng-based terrorist cell linked to ISIS (Islamic State), the question remains if...
Aimee Chiat, Herzlia Constantia’s foundation phase head of department, has taken a step that some might say is risky, but has been met by relief by...
In a heart-wrenching post on the Joburg Jewish Mommies Facebook group last week, Tracy-Lee Langlois shared the tragedy of having passed COVID-19 on to her mother,...
As the epicentre of COVID-19 moves to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), five people have died from the virus in the tiny Durban Jewish community of 1 800, all...
The South African Jewish community has had an unprecedented number of COVID-19-related deaths, with a fatality rate higher than that of the United States and the...
Members of the tourism and hospitality industries protesting harsh lockdown measures were dispersed with water cannons and stun grenades by police in Cape Town on 24...
South African cyclist Daryl Impey has signed on to join Israeli cycling team Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN) in 2021, with plans to help the team win...
A Jewish man from the South African Jewish community gave a heart-wrenching, anonymous account of how victimisation by Jewish females from a young age had a...
All Jewish people fought to survive and care for their families as their world was ripped asunder when the Nazis rose to power, but Jewish women...
Coronavirus was just a blip on the horizon, confined to Wuhan in China, when Michael Bagraim, the shadow minister of employment and labour began checking if...
As 103-year-old Bertha Meltzer left Cape Town Mediclinic hospital on Monday, she waved to staff lining the corridors, as they cheered in celebration of her miraculous...
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape Board) is heading towards a groundbreaking election after it instituted reforms that were recommended by the Seligson...
A raid on a property in the south of Johannesburg on Friday, 24 July, may have uncovered a cell of South Africans sympathetic to terror organisation...
Amidst the doom and gloom of the past few months, an exciting phenomenon has emerged, with people around the world recording themselves dancing to the smash...
When community members saw the former Robertson shul in the Western Cape advertised for sale as a one-bedroom cottage this week, many were shocked. But the...
Tony Ehrenreich, the former Western Cape provincial secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has finally apologised, six years after his Facebook post...
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng hit back at Africa4Palestine in a 19-page affidavit this week, describing underhand tactics of twisting the truth and targeting him individually after...
It’s been more than a hundred days since some children last went to school. Some briefly attended classes before returning to online learning, and others are...
A host of politicians, celebrities, high-profile figures, and other social-media users took part in a two-day boycott of Twitter from Monday morning to protest antisemitic hate...
The lockdown has left many of us financially insecure and worrying about basics like how to feed our families, pay school fees, or service a bond....
Only 800m from the Gaza Strip, 15 year old Sara* lives on Kibbutz Nachal Oz, the same place where four-year-old Daniel Tregerman was killed by mortar...