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As we remember what was lost on 7 October 2023, Jewish people around the world are still feeling the pain of that day two years later,...
The Cape southeaster may have blown the Cape Town Marathon off course, but it couldn’t keep the Jewish community away from the 7 October commemoration “A...
For South Africans, being in Israel when the hostages were released on Monday, 13 October, and on subsequent days has been nothing short of extraordinary –...
“This is a morning of historic and momentous news,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog posted on X on the morning of 9 October 2025 in response to...
The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) has welcomed with deep relief and hope the news that an agreement has been reached for Hamas to release all...
The Jewish world is holding its breath at the news that Israel and Hamas have finally signed a peace deal, brokered by the United States and...
Finally, finally, finally, they are coming home!” Lisa Hack, the chairperson of the South African Union for Progressive Judaism, said in response to news of the...
After two long and painful years, Israel stands at the threshold of a new chapter. The Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement offers a moment that many feared would...
“The descriptions of mothers silencing babies so they wouldn’t cry and give away their hiding place; of children torn from their parents; and of abominable murderers,...
There’s no doubt that the events of 7 October 2023 have had an impact on Jewish communities around the world, whether in Israel, Europe, the United...
Two years have passed since the horrors of 7 October 2023, a day that scarred the Jewish people and the world forever. On that dark day,...
In November 2023, I was a guest speaker in the small town of Spokane, Washington, on the far western side of the United States. The rabbi...
As we mark the second anniversary of the tragic events of 7 October 2023, the South African Union for Progressive Judaism pauses to remember and honour...
Not one Jew has been left untouched by the events of 7 October 2023. We think first of our Israeli brothers and sisters: of families who...
It’s almost unfathomable that we now mark two years since the brutal Hamas massacre of 7 October 2023, a day etched into Jewish memory forever. Even...
JTA -Hundreds of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Sunday, 17 August, at the end of a day of demonstrations around the country to...
I had a brother, once. For the first twenty-one years of my life, I had a brother, and then he was gone. That was 44 years...
Brought to you by the SA Jewish Report in association with the SA Zionist Federation Together with a team of more than 1 000 lawyers, Brooke...
Attempts to convey a balanced picture of the unfolding events in Israel’s war with Iran and its proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, seem doomed to...
Israel’s intensified military counterattacks since neutralising about 3 000 Hezbollah terrorists in September 2024 have rendered it the Middle East’s “strong horse”, but it has far...
It’s an obvious conclusion for any military strategist, particularly within the Israel Defense Forces. If a radical, violence-driven Islamic group possesses the means, it will relentlessly...
Israel is caught in a brutal bind, and it’s tearing the country apart. The war with Hamas, sparked by the group’s monstrous 7 October 2023, attack,...
JTA – Hamas has released Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli citizen, back to Israel under a deal reached with the United States. The release, conducted on Monday...
The events of 7 October 2023 shocked the world. That day revealed not only the savagery of the Arab enemies of the Jewish people, but also...
In a shift in strategy, anti-Israel protesters here and abroad have begun targeting Egypt in their ongoing campaign to demonise the Jewish state, staging demonstrations outside...
At 06:45 on 7 October, when Rami Davidian left his Moshav Patish home, about 15 minutes from the site of the now infamous Nova festival, he...
When Agam Berger finally boarded an Israel Defense Forces helicopter to her freedom after 482 days of Hamas hell, the first words she wrote on the...
Filmmaker Wayne Kopping created the documentary Tragic Awakening – A New Look at the Oldest Hatred which tackles antisemitism since 7 October. The SA Jewish Report...
For the 505 days that Eliya Cohen was in Hamas captivity in Gaza, he believed that his fiancée, Ziv Abud, had been murdered at the Nova...
“On the news, you hear a lot of stories of sadness, but when we reread the stories of 7 October, we understand that these aren’t just...
You’re in the safe room on Kibbutz Be’eri where then 19-year-old Ofir Engel, his girlfriend Yuval Sharabi, and her whole family including the dog were huddled...
Nobody wanted this. Nobody wanted a return to war. War isn’t abstract, it takes a very human toll. This war, the longest and most brutal in...
Two weeks after its release, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF’s) internal probe into the catastrophic failures of 7 October 2023 continues to send shockwaves through Jewish...
Direct negotiation between the United States (US) and Hamas is a good thing. Direct negotiations are almost always better than negotiations through third parties that have...
There are two types of war being fought in the Middle East – a physical and a psychological war – but only one side is fighting...
When 22-year-old Kayla Lowenstein saw her Israeli host brother, Omer Shem Tov, being released from Hamas captivity on 22 February, she broke down in tears due...
I’m not writing this text for my people – the people of Israel, the Jewish people. I’m writing it for those who have chosen to ignore...
Five hundred days have passed since 7 October, and despite the passage of time, the changing of days into weeks and into months and then years,...
Half a year after Israeli soldier Staff Sergeant Nitai Metodi (23) fell in battle in Gaza, his legacy continues in South Africa, where his mother and...
“The past 500 days have been a time of grief, defiance, and resolve for the Jewish community in South Africa,” says South African Zionist Federation National...
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