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Experts are calling for legal scrutiny of the Al Quds march through the Cape Town city centre where many children carried imitation firearms and there were chants of...
Just months after stepping off planes into new lives, hundreds of South African olim have found themselves running for shelter as sirens sound across Israel, forced to navigate...
Many more Johannesburg youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds now have the opportunity to train for high-demand technology careers at the Maharishi NextUp Institute of Technology (MNIT). South African-born American entrepreneurs and...
“I and my family members in Iran are so grateful to the governments of Israel and America for helping Iran,” says Sarah*, an Iranian Jew now...
Pro-Israel activists gathered outside Cape Union Mart at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town on Saturday, 7 March, in response to weekly pro-Palestinian protests that have...
“I actually started crying right there on the bike,” says Michelle Christian. “It wasn’t just about finishing a race.” Christian was among the Jewish South Africans...
When Tessa Barlin saw the title of her documentary on the South African Film and Television Awards (Safta) nominees’ list, her first feeling was not triumph,...
For South African olim, the war has been experienced not through headlines, but in reinforced rooms, hurried phone calls, and interrupted routines. In one central Israeli apartment...
An “emergency” meeting of The Hague Group, an anti-Israel coalition of states led partially by South Africa, that convened on Wednesday, 4 March, made an official statement that it aims to...
Johannesburg medical orthotist and prosthetist Roger Wolfson claims medical aid members aren’t always getting the Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) the schemes are required to give them by law. So strong...
Namibian-born Jessica Thorn, assistant professor in global food security and environmental change at Imperial College London and Namibia University researcher, was recently named a winner of...
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) last week reprimanded the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) for failing to include a Palestinian perspective in three Gaza flotilla interviews. This highlights...
The now publicly accessible sports field leased by United Herzlia Schools (UHS) may soon be closed to the public either partially or totally, with the outcome awaiting a decision by the City of...
Hundreds of people gathered outside the United States Consulate in Sandton on 14 February, appealing to Washington to help stop the destruction of the Iranian people...
A Johannesburg Jewish businessman was driving home from OR Tambo International Airport last Wednesday night, 11 February, when he was hijacked and kidnapped. He had stopped at a yield sign on an offramp...
By the time Johannesburg banker Ashley Benatar reached the beginning of the road race in the Open Masters Games in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last weekend, the start gun...
Mandla Mandela, the grandson of late President Nelson Mandela, promised to “bring Israel to its knees” at the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla Mission 2026 at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg last week. ...
In central Uganda, a Jewish community is confronting a problem that shapes daily life more than theology. Observing Shabbat, keeping kosher, and marking Jewish festivals often...
What connects a former judge in Johannesburg; a business leader in Latin America; and an artist in Israel, all in their 80s? According to Lithuanian filmmaker Kęstas Pikūnas, the answer lies in a shared heritage...
For decades after World War II, Europe tried to move on. Collaboration was minimised, silence became habitual, and questions about stolen Jewish property were postponed or...
Posters depicting the man accused of carrying out the deadly Bondi Beach attack have been plastered across parts of Melbourne’s central business district, triggering widespread distress and...
When Sammy Yahood arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in late January, his bags were packed, his itinerary confirmed, and his Australian visa approved. By the time boarding was...
Leon Levy, the last surviving signatory of the Freedom Charter and a veteran of South Africa’s liberation struggle, died this week at the age of 96....
Anthony Harris is a former professional tennis player who has turned his love of the sport into creating South African tennis stars, particularly those for whom it would...
Israel’s offer to assist the Eastern Cape with water, healthcare, and agriculture expertise on Friday, 23 January, was flatly condemned by provincial Premier Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane as soon as he heard about it. Rather than being grateful for an offer of unconditional...
As worshippers arrived for Friday night Shabbat services at Durban’s Beit David Shul, located in the Holocaust & Genocide Centre campus, they were met by chanting,...
Less than a year after former mayor of Johannesburg Thapelo Amad was ordered by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to apologise for glorifying Hamas...
A defence inquiry has been launched into whether Defence Minister Angie Motshekga and senior military officials defied a direct instruction from President Cyril Ramaphosa to exclude Iranian warships...
Police searches of bookshops, removals from shelves, and an escalating European debate over children’s publishing have placed a controversial colouring-in book at the centre of renewed...
Two South African Jewish artists whose work is internationally acclaimed found themselves briefly working side by side in a small studio in Roeland Street in Cape...
As angry protesters fill Iran’s streets, chanting against clerical rule, the shock waves have travelled far beyond Tehran. They have reached living rooms in South Africa, where Iranians and Jews of Iranian descent...
What began as a deeply unsettling experience for thousands of Discovery Health Medical Scheme (DHMS) members has ended with a clear commitment from Discovery Health, the...
By the time Chad Bacher reached matric at Redhill School, leadership had become less a title and more a way of thinking. Having moved through several...
As the youngest in her grade, Yasmin Weiner’s journey at Redhill could easily have been defined by difference. Instead, it became one of belonging, creativity, and quiet growth,...
When Yedidya Ziegler matriculated at Cape Town Torah High in 2025, he did so carrying responsibilities far greater than those typically borne by a teenager. As the eldest...
Having joined Cape Town Torah High (CTTH) in Grade 8 as part of his conversion journey alongside his mother and brother, few could have predicted just how remarkable Matteo Coscia’s school trajectory would be....
When Michael Minitzer matriculated at Herzlia High School in Cape Town in 2025, his journey to the finish line was anything but conventional, it was shaped by creativity, challenge, resilience, and ultimately discovery of the...
The surname opens doors and raises eyebrows in equal measure. For Jarren Bacher, it also anchors a quiet determination to be judged on his own spells,...
Many South African Christian leaders have rejected a call by a visiting Palestinian pastor urging Christians to abandon Zionism, arguing that his claims distort scripture, erase...
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...
