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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...
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...
