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Israel’s relationship with Jewish communities around the world is now “more of a two-way street”, says Sam Grundwerg, the world chairperson of Keren Hayesod United Israel...
It’s almost six months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February. Israel has opened its doors and heart to 32 000 Ukrainian and...
Jewish welfare organisations are under pressure around the world, facing ageing populations, the socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and diminishing assistance from local governments. Their...
He’s the great-grandson of the reviver of modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. He’s descended from a long line of writers and journalists. But Gil Hovav is very...
While South Africa continues to shun and slate Israel at every turn and has discouraged high-level political visits to the Jewish State, US President Joe Biden...
Clive Lawton has packed enough into one lifetime for a minyan of people. The affable white-bearded Englishman has been a teacher, a theatre director, an author,...
Rhoda Kadalie, a passionate human-rights supporter, strident critic of the corruption of the South African government, and lover of Israel, was remembered at a service at...
The latest Israel-bashing session at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has commenced in Geneva. Meanwhile, more than 10 000 people have signed a petition...
On 31 May 2022, Paris hosted a high-level meeting highlighting and promoting Israel’s growing relations with African countries. Israel has much to offer the African continent,...
“There are a lot of attempts to spread disinformation about Israel,” said Eli Belotsercovsky, Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. “Some is out of ignorance, but a...
Sergio Bergman, a qualified scientist, became the first rabbi appointed as a government minister in Argentina. He is a close friend of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better...
As the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on to its third month, Russia and Israel have been embroiled in a war of words. Russian President...
Twenty-eight years ago, on 27 April 1994, South Africans headed to polling stations in their millions. We were voting in the country’s first democratic, non-racial elections...
Israel has been gripped by a wave of deadly terrorist attacks over the past fortnight. Fourteen people were killed and scores injured in four separate incidents...
In South Africa, April is Freedom Month, celebrating the election on 27 April 1994 that ushered in democracy. This year, Pesach, Easter, and Ramadan all occur...
Two years ago, this would have been unimaginable. On 27 and 28 March, the foreign ministers of six states – Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the United...
Russian soldiers have continued to bombard and destroy Ukrainian towns and cities relentlessly in this terrible war. To date, close to three million Ukrainians – mostly...
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is playing out every day on our televisions and cellphones. This war is being fought as much in cyberspace, social...
As the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolds, Western countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union bloc have imposed sanctions on...
In 1907, Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completed a striking gilded portrait of Jewish socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer in Vienna. Commissioned by her husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a banker...
How does a yarmulke-wearing boy born in Yeoville become speech writer for the leader of the opposition and senior editor-at-large for the third most viewed news...
In 2005, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly passed a resolution designating 27 January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is the day the Soviet Union’s...
Understanding, confronting, and reporting sexual abuse is difficult and painful for any community. Leaders tend to want to close ranks and cover up any impropriety. Survivors...
Every year on the anniversary of its founding in 1912, the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) issues its “January 8th Statement”. In...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit South Africa in March 2020, everyone thought that the year of lockdowns, masks, and sanitisers would be like no other. We...
It’s that time of the year to read the tea leaves and see what 2022 holds in store for us. The United Nations has declared 2022...
On Sunday, the government announced that it had withdrawn its support for Miss South Africa to compete in the Miss Universe competition. The competition is due...
Low turnout was the biggest feature of South Africa’s fifth local government elections since the country’s democratic transition. Some blamed COVID-19, the weather, the inefficiency of...
South Africans go to the polls on 1 November in “elections that no parties really want”, according to political journalist Stephen Grootes. In the midst of...
Between 1945 and 1948, up to 300 000 Holocaust survivors and Jewish partisans were rescued across war-ravaged Europe in preparation to enter British-occupied eretz Yisrael before...
The rapid assumption of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan as the United States (US) withdrew its forces will have ramifications far beyond Central Asia, not...
Much as we’d hoped that the year 5781 would see the end of it, the pandemic is still here. Many who normally worked from an office...
One of the quintessential customs at Rosh Hashanah is to eat apples dipped in honey for a sweet, well-rounded new year. How did what my high...
As the Hebrew year 5781 concludes, here’s a look back at the major events that shaped Israel, South Africa, and beyond in the past 12 months....
The modern Olympic Games have been cancelled only three times since their introduction in 1896. The Games of Berlin in 1916, 1940 in Helsinki (originally awarded...
The Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv’s oldest shopping mall, sits in the heart of the bustling central business district. Surrounded by skyscrapers, it’s the last place you’d...
By 2050, the world’s population is expected to be close to 10 billion people. Innovative technology must be harnessed to feed them all, and tiny Israel...
If cybercrime were a country, it would have the third largest GDP (gross domestic product) in the world after the United States and China, said Andre...
Losing a child to violence devastates the parents left behind. It creates an unspeakable emptiness, a void of loss, pain, and anger. Two bereaved Israeli and...
“Living on the Gaza border is 95% heaven, and 5% hell,” said Adele Raemer. She’s made it her mission to tell the world what life is...
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