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The recent controversy surrounding The New York Times column alleging widespread sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israelis should alarm anyone who still believes journalism has a duty to...
In the Moreh Nevuchim (3:45), the Rambam addresses the striking absence of Yerushalayim from the Torah. Though Tanach later overflows with references to the city, the Torah itself...
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s recent letter to Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero was, by the standards of South African intergovernmental relations, extraordinary. It stated plainly that the City owes...
I know I speak for thousands of Australians when I say we desperately hope that the Royal Commission on Antisemitism, which is currently under way in Sydney, will be...
WARNING: SENSITIVE CONTENT On 7 October Hamas committed the most evil of crimes and their victims and survivors will no longer be silenced by those who deny,...
Gaza was and remains a humanitarian tragedy of enormous, perhaps incalculable dimensions. Thousands of Palestinian civilians, women, children, infants, and the elderly, were killed there alongside thousands more Hamas terrorists and their accomplices in the two-year war that was sparked by Hamas’s savagery...
We’ve seen this moment before in Israeli politics. Two former prime ministers, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, are once again trying to redraw the map, this time...
On 16 April, far from Tehran but bound to it in heart, nearly 700 people gathered outside the US consulate in Johannesburg. Iranians stood alongside South Africans of every background ‒ Christians,...
Forty days. That’s how long Moses was up on Sinai. It’s also how long I’ve been living in a Jerusalem bomb shelter with my wife and two kids, who haven’t seen a classroom in more...
The phenomenon of fellow Jews misunderstanding the essence of our unique Jewish mission is, unfortunately, not new. It is nonetheless deeply disturbing. To fit in with...
I am writing this as my first birthday ever without my mother is drawing to a close. It’s been just more than two months and I have been settling into the ebb and...
The question of why it’s necessary for a Jew to move to Israel is puzzling to me. I’m not saying that everyone should drop everything and move to Israel. I believe in...
Freedom is a central theme of Pesach. From generation to generation and even through some of the most horrific circumstances, Jews have gathered at the seder table to...
In December 2023, South Africa filed a petition at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for allegedly violating the Convention on the Prevention and...
South Africans should be outraged that a hosted foreign embassy thinks it prudent to turn mass deaths into a meme. The Iranian embassy in Pretoria posted...
“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.” As we mark Tu B’Shvat this year, these ancient words from Kohelet feel especially resonant....
As I left Poland on 28 December 2025, I realised that this week-long trip to Poland as part of a Chabad on Campus educational journey wasn’t just about history, it was a journey into my Jewish identity and...
