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It was never going to be an innocent Friday funeral procession in Jerusalem. And, from the moment the news broke last Wednesday that Shireen Abu Akleh,...
At the beginning of October 2021, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was forced to rerun its April 2021 Constitutional Court (Concourt) interviews after the Council for...
When Advocate Christiaan Bester took on the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC’s) hate-speech case against the Congress of South African Trade Union’s (Cosatu’s) Bongani Masuku...
It’s not easy to let go. But if we have learned anything from planning a wedding in another country, during a pandemic, with a Yemenite future...
Two years ago, this would have been unimaginable. On 27 and 28 March, the foreign ministers of six states – Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the United...
The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra concluded its Summer Symphony Season 2022 last week at the Linder Auditorium at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). The season combined...
The return to campus in 2022 for most students meant the resumption of the annual occurence that we hoped had been forgotten – Israel Apartheid Week...
This has turned out to be one of those articles for which more people declined to be interviewed than agreed. The Russian Jewish community numbers about...
Russian soldiers have continued to bombard and destroy Ukrainian towns and cities relentlessly in this terrible war. To date, close to three million Ukrainians – mostly...
It goes without saying that the primary outcomes of a Jewish education are Jewish knowledge, Jewish identity and connection to the Jewish community. Parents who make...
With the unfolding human tragedy in Ukraine worsening every day and the civilian situation in some Ukrainian cities approaching absolute crisis status, it’s worth taking a...
I know I’m sticking my neck out by writing this and I know a lot of readers will disagree. So let me be quite clear at...
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is playing out every day on our televisions and cellphones. This war is being fought as much in cyberspace, social...
Almost a million Israelis are former citizens of the Soviet Union, most of whom arrived in the 1990s. However, in Israel, they are still considered olim...
As the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolds, Western countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union bloc have imposed sanctions on...
The pictures coming out of Ukraine are devastating, heartbreaking, and beyond justification. No-one supports war. At least I don’t. I’ve seen it up-close and in the...
The Odessa opera house was full of the great and the good on 24 August last year, when the Black Sea port, Ukraine’s third largest city,...
Large numbers of South Africans continue to seek greener pastures abroad. According to research from RMB, more than 100 000 South Africans emigrated over the past...
(JTA) If I have learned anything over the past month, it’s that racist tropes aren’t harmless words. They must be actively and consistently challenged. You know...
The Constitutional Court recently handed down its much-anticipated judgment in the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on behalf of the South African Jewish Board of...
With 2022 well underway, many expected to see the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, we find ourselves rather bewildered by the information at hand. On...
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana balanced austerity and relief in his maiden Budget speech to parliament on Wednesday, 23 February. Earlier this week, predictions were that tax...
“We all know that government doesn’t create jobs. Business creates jobs.” With these words, President Cyril Ramaphosa became the first South African president to give an...
The long-awaited and much hyped State of the Nation Address (SONA) – delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa from the Cape Town City Hall after Parliament was...
Of late, our attention has been drawn to the scourge of sexual abuse within our communities both here and abroad, often with catastrophic outcomes. As a...
My fellow South Africans, I once wrote a speech for President Thabo Mbeki, but when he delivered the address, the only words I recognised were “good...
Last week, by a two-to-one majority decision, the Judicial Conduct Appeals Committee (JCAC) found former Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in contravention of the judicial code, specifically...
The man who took a rabbi and three congregants hostage in Colleyville, Texas, on 15 January believed that Jews control the United States (US). He told...
(JTA) Art Spiegelman once complained that Maus, his classic memoir about his father’s experiences in the Holocaust, was assumed to be intended for young adults because...
In 2005, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly passed a resolution designating 27 January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is the day the Soviet Union’s...
I was born five years after World War II ended, the son of a German Jewish refugee, grandson of two people who barely escaped the Holocaust....
(JTA) My entire adult life I have espoused and jettisoned multiple theologies and philosophies after subjecting them to the ultimate test: would they survive Auschwitz? Sometimes...
The woman I thought I was prior to beginning my research for The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal no longer...
Matric results. Words that conjure up a plethora of emotions within the Jewish community – the students, their families, teachers, and many excited onlookers. It’s these...
The dream was simple: Israel’s victory in the 1967 war would lead to victory over war itself. Many back then believed that the trajectory of the...
As the devastating testimony of victims in the Chaim Walder case emerged a few weeks ago, I felt strongly that, as a community, we need to...
This week, another full plane of South African olim touched down at Ben Gurion Airport. It follows more than 550 people who made aliyah last year,...
On 2 January this year at approximately 06:00, a fire broke out in Parliament. This tragic fire follows hot on the heels of a fire that...
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Israel chose to prevent the entry of foreigners including our brothers and sisters, the members of Jewish communities, into...
When the fires swept through the Houses of Parliament on 2 January, I had many thoughts, both historical and personal. First, I thought back on other...
