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Little more than two weeks after the terrorist attack on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, the Australian Jewish community moves into the new year with heightened security, unresolved grief, and a growing insistence on government accountability. There...
As the dust begins to settle after the deadly Bondi Beach terrorist attack on Sunday, 14 December that shattered a community Chanukah celebration, Jews in Australia are trying to absorb the horror of what...
When the gunfire began at the Chanukah community event on Bondi Beach earlier today, 14 December, South African emigrant to Australia Wayne Miller’s instinct was immediate. He dived on top of his five-year-old...
For Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein, the rupture between South African Jewry and the then African National Congress (ANC) government happened one week after 7 October 2023. “On 7 October, as time unfolded,...
Cape Town-born Kevin Abel, who left South Africa as a child almost 50 years ago, is running for the Georgia State Senate in the United States (US), but says the country...
Acclaimed American-born British author, financier and activist Bill Browder has a house in Cape Town that he hasn’t seen in more than a decade. It sits...
Former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi Pandor has once again taken aim at Israel and the Jewish community, targeting South African academics who recently visited the country and those behind the trips. She...
A Palestinian mother who fled Gaza on the first of two charter flights to land in South Africa says she is living in fear as her...
Children across the South African Jewish community prepare for Barmitzvahs in their own way, each with a unique story. For three families, this journey began long before lessons or leyning. Their...
South African musician The Kiffness, whose real name is David Scott, is being targeted by the anti-Israel lobby in Cape Town as it attempts to coerce Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens to...
Being photographed doing something that is an honour gives the moment lifelong longevity. So, a new movement started at Marais Road Shul in Cape Town called...
New research into the life and work of Johnny Clegg reveals aspects of his musical and cultural journey that have seldom been documented, drawing on previously unheard...
Matthew Gruter, a South African civil engineer, was identified participating in a vehemently antisemitic neo-Nazi rally outside the New South Wales Parliament in Sydney on 9...
A young Palestinian mother who paid to get out of Gaza said that Muslim and Jewish people have been helping them since she, her husband, and...
The Israeli flags waving above thousands of Christian protesters marching to Parliament in Cape Town last Thursday, 13 November 2025, represented a shared commitment to a...
Mila Ben David, who grew up in South Africa, has become Israel’s newest world champion, having won the title of 2025 World Jiu-Jitsu Champion in Bangkok,...
Many South African Jewish emigrants to the United Kingdom have experienced or are fearful of experiencing antisemitism in the National Health Service (NHS), and they appear...
The number of Israeli visitors to South Africa has more than doubled since before the COVID-19 pandemic, with 2025 marking the highest level recorded in seven...
When Cape Town Jewish sociologist Deborah Posel began digging through her late father’s papers, she wasn’t looking for a book. She was simply sorting through “chaotically...
The sudden closure of the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town has ignited outrage across the South African arts community, with campaigners accusing the University of...
“The most revolutionary act is introducing people to one another,” Robert Bank, the president and chief executive of the American Jewish World Service, told more than...
When David Sussman appeared on the screen from Israel to accept the Investec Business Icon Award at this year’s Investec Jewish Achiever Awards, the audience erupted...
When Rob Katz took the stage to accept the Investec Business Leadership Award, he made a disarmingly simple statement: “In leadership, the three hardest words are...
There was laughter, then a hush. Grace Harding, the chief executive of Ocean Basket, didn’t deliver a packaged acceptance. She offered something far rarer, a glimpse...
When Terry Markman, the executive project manager of Khaya Lam, stepped forward to accept the 2025 Bertie Lubner Humanitarian Award in hour of Chief Rabbi Cyril...
When filmmaker and producer Adam Thal walked to the lectern to accept his Art, Sport, Science, and Culture Award at the Investec Jewish Achiever Awards on...
When Devorah Freedman, a young South African woman living in Israel, posted on Facebook that her wedding to her Israeli fiancé would be without family and...
When the Cape Town Marathon was cancelled less than an hour before the start, runners across the city refused to stay still. What followed was a...
When Michael* looks out of his living room window in Vredehoek, he sees Lion’s Head rising above Cape Town’s skyline. It’s an enviable view, but it...
Four Jewish sixth-year University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) medical students were excluded from the formal photograph of their graduating class on Tuesday, 30 November, because of...
About 100 000 people came together in the heart of London on Sunday, 26 November, in a March Against Antisemitism. Not even the cold and rain could...
