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Twenty-six-year-old Dr Kyle Winik was just 100m away from the gas tanker that exploded in Boksburg on the morning of 24 December, killing at least 37...
What started as a seaside picnic ended in tragedy for a Johannesburg family, when, on 14 December 2022, father of five Dovi Hochstadter (39) rushed into...
When Errol Mirvis was born in Johannesburg in September 1956, no one expected that he would one day become the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) Chief Rabbi Sir...
In accepting an award from the so-called “state of Palestine”, South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, paid minimal lip service to...
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is demanding the United Nations (UN) “starts isolating Israel” and that the world must “boycott everything that has to do with...
A new COVID-19 variant could cause worse illness than the current predominant Omicron strain, especially in immunosuppressed individuals, according to a new study done by Professor...
When Jews first arrive in a new place and hope to establish a congregation, the first thing they do is to get land for a cemetery....
The new Israeli government will strengthen the role of religious authorities in daily Israeli life, including over conversion, kashrut, marriage, and divorce, and have an impact...
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stretches to nine months, the country’s people face an even more harrowing challenge: the bitter winter months with a lack of...
Hopes of South Africa ever playing a role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process may have been dashed this week when the Palestinian Embassy in South Africa...
Online extremism including antisemitism in South Africa calls for urgent action, a new study by the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape...
The rise of hate speech including antisemitism on social media is overwhelming, partly because the platforms seem reluctant to stop it, experts say. On Twitter in...
South African olah and Jerusalem resident Ilanit Liberman and her husband usually catch a bus to work and university every day, but on the morning of...
“For the past two months, the Iranian government has violently suppressed protests calling for women’s rights. It’s morally repugnant that our government would welcome the Iranian...
When Gidon Novick took on the role of a director on the board of the Takatso Consortium at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many saw...
Born in Potchefstroom and growing up in Swaziland, Wendy Fisher never dreamed that she would one day be given an award at the United Nations (UN)....
Though some may have lost hope in the future of South Africa and the Jewish community, others are looking to the next 180 years and beyond....
Almost everyone who has visited Istanbul would recognise the busy pedestrian street near Taksim Square where a bomb exploded on 13 November, killing six and injuring...
“I really do worry about [Benjamin or Bibi] Netanyahu’s ability to control the tiger he has ridden in on. A challenge not to be underestimated,” tweeted...
COP27 (the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC) in Egypt from 6 to 18 November...
Brent Lindeque isn’t Jewish, but he has discovered he has a deep connection to the Jewish state. This South African writer, radio host, speaker, and founder...
It was just a momentary sense during lockdown in 2020 that led Michalya Schonwald Moss to finding a long lost cousin who had survived the Holocaust...
Chess South Africa’s excitement at being invited at the last minute to play at the 2022 World Team Chess Championship in Jerusalem was all too soon...
The United States (US) treasury department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is keeping a close watch on certain individuals in “ISIS’s [Islamic State’s] network” in South...
It’s been 18 months since Johannesburg Jewish pensioner Bernard “Bernie” Katz (83) was alleged to have been defrauded and murdered with rat poison in a private...
“The camp experience is part and parcel of growing up as part of South African Jewry. The growth, development, and inspiration that happens on machaneh is...
At the age of 100, Sir Sydney Kentridge KCMG KC has spent a lifetime in service of the law and has witnessed seminal events of the...
“Democracy is at stake,” says South African oleh Jonathan Schwartz, regarding the Israeli legislative elections that took place on 1 November to elect Israel’s 25th Knesset....
Speculation surrounds the death of a 40-year old Israeli Arab man, Abdel Fattah Nassar, shot dead in Cape Town at about 01:30 on Sunday, 30 October....
Erin Dodo has just faced the most intense period of her life, battling it out for one of 15 spots in the University of Cape Town’s...
Many people might remember growing up with the joy of a pen pal. They may have even become life-long friends. In today’s digital age, letters have...
Koleinu SA is making its voice against abuse and domestic violence even louder by expanding to Cape Town. Koleinu SA, which translates as “hear our voices”,...
“South Africa is ground zero for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions [BDS] movement, and has one of the most violent and antisemitic Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) campaigns...
If Dis-Chem Chief Executive Ivan Saltzman had the chance, he would “definitely” change the wording of the memorandum he wrote instituting a “moratorium on the appointment...
Local ice cream entrepreneur Paul Ballen felt the viciousness of the anti-Israel lobby when he posted enchanting photographs of his holiday in Israel on his personal...
South African Home Affairs Director General Livhuwani Tommy Makhode has reassured South African Jewry that our foreign rabbis have nothing to worry about in terms of...
Sixty-year-old Ra’anana book editor, Naomi Nathan, was on her way to visit a shiva house on 20 September when the unthinkable happened: a bus turned a...
When thinking about the Holocaust in Lithuania, some of us can only think about the horror from a distance or in small doses. But filmmaker Michael...
Debby Silver and Kashiefa Mohammed may come from different religious, social, and economic backgrounds and live in different parts of Cape Town, but when they work...
When local filmmaker Harriet Gavshon produced the eight-part television drama series Reyka through her production house, Quizzical Pictures, she never imagined that it would get International...
