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When King David pupil Noa Nerwich wrote a poem about a maroon handkerchief given by a father to his daughter before they were torn apart by...
Growing up in Johannesburg, Ivan Kadey could sense the injustices of apartheid, even as a child. So it made sense that as a student in the...
Johannesburg executive producer and the founder and chief executive of The Star Film Company, Adam Thal, is still in shock after a documentary he co-produced, Rise:...
Prominent South African businessman, industrialist, and philanthropist Harry Frederick Oppenheimer – or “HFO” as he was known in the corporate empire of Anglo American and De...
A Cape Town landlord who told his Jewish tenant that “Hitler should have roasted you mother-f**kers” has apologised to his victim, and agreed to a tour...
Many people have stood up to presidential hopeful Mehmet Vefa Dag’s radical homophobia, but few have called out his rabid antisemitism. However, one young Jewish woman...
The African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), apparently desperate to deflect attention from their support of Russia and gain votes, have chosen to...
In his last public engagement in South Africa, Lithuanian Ambassador Dainius Junevičius focused on the devastating and irreversible destruction of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, especially...
A clock that has Hebrew letters instead of numbers and which used to hang in the Springs Shul continues to have an impact 90 years after...
The story of Shaka Zulu has been told many times, but never in the way that it will now appear on South African screens. The series...
Jews may not be the first association people have with the Blues, but “there are many Jewish practitioners of the Blues, mostly in the area of...
The Lubner name is synonymous with upliftment in South Africa, and the family is now pursuing that legacy in the United Kingdom (UK). South African-born Gary...
When King David Schools’ parents received a letter from the South African Board of Jewish Education (SABJE) recently telling them that they needed to pay a...
The South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has finally struck down a draconian piece of apartheid-era legislation that resulted in thousands of South Africans –...
An obscure South African politician, who has become known for his homophobia, recently added classic antisemitism to his repertoire with tweets that could easily fit into...
It’s exactly 20 years since Cape Town teenager Ashley Kaimowitz picked up a camera to make a film that would reverberate to this day. At the...
South Africa, along with its BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) counterparts, has made a commitment to combat terrorism, but experts are unconvinced this...
She may be the sister of the world’s most famous filmmaker, but Nancy Spielberg is a force in her own right. And just like her brother,...
Jewish children who grew up in the tiny farming town of Leslie, Mpumalanga, had an idyllic childhood and enjoyed a thriving communal life. They remember running...
“It was a crazy thing to do,” says Gilad Stern, reflecting on the decision he made three decades ago, to smuggle a Torah out of Zimbabwe....
Gavin Mofsowitz has been competing in triathlons for almost two decades, yet when he swam, cycled, and ran the Ironman Hamburg European Championship on 4 June...
The cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, in recent weeks, has resulted in the deaths of more than 20 people from an entirely preventable illness....
It took an undercover operation in Israel to rescue a lion cub that had been illegally trafficked and kept in an apartment with a rope around...
The leader of South African political party Al Jama-ah has called on the South African Police Service (SAPS) to “arrest Zionist bodies in Cape Town”, claiming...
Johannesburg entrepreneur Cody Gordon dreamed of becoming a professional cricketer, but a family tragedy led him in an entirely new direction, ultimately landing him on the...
The United States government was behind the restoration of the “oldest physical representation of Jewish life in South Africa”, known as the “Old Shul’” which forms...
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has had enough of anti-Israel protests that are now clearly threatening Jewish life in the Mother City....
In March 2022, Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela blamed Israel for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, referring to “the apartheid Israel dogs of war” and saying that the...
A swastika spraypainted onto an electricity box near Stellenbosch was available for all to see, but it was a Cape Town rabbi who stepped up to...
After Eli Kay was brutally murdered at the hands of a terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem in November 2021, his brother, Kasriel, made stickers...
Chayela Rosenthal started out as an actress and singing star in the Vilna Ghetto Theatre in Lithuania, and after enduring unfathomable tragedy, she rebuilt her life...
Brett Morris may be one of the country’s leading creative minds, having worked with brands from Coca Cola to Nando’s, but it’s been his lifelong dream...
When Marcelle Pincus (née Rubin) was growing up, her parents’ great hope for her was that she would leave school after Grade 7, and work at...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has once again allowed the flags of terrorist organisations to be draped on its campus and a recognised antisemite and...
South African communal leaders have called on the country’s political leaders to stop their “unique discrimination and hostility against the Jewish state” as they tore into...
“It’s the end of an era,” says Judge Dennis Davis, on the passing of his friend of 45 years, Benjamin Rabinowitz. Fondly known as “Ben” or...
Pianist Amit Yahav is only 35, but he has already won multiple awards and is in demand worldwide as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist....
In the early 2000s, two small, round, cement-like disks, with numbers written on them, were donated to the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC). Many...
What does six million actually look like? And what would it be like to contemplate each life extinguished in the Holocaust, marking their loss in some...
When Dani Bergman connected with Shaun Civin on the new Netflix show Jewish Matchmaking, they already had one important thing in common: both their families came...
