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The SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has appointed a new national treasurer: David Kuming.
A group of researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has developed a new molecule that they say inhibits the growth of cancer cells and...
As Meghan Markle made her grand entrance at Windsor chapel on Saturday, three young members of her bridal party were Jewish children.
Jewish students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) recently celebrated a successful semester of their newly established weekly morning minyan.
Visiting Israeli Progressive Rabbi Gilad Kariv has called on the progressive community to play a significant role in South Africa’s future, rather than play “victim”.
A top clarinettist rarely becomes a solo performing star because the instrument is usually part of a bigger orchestra – or so people assume. Indeed, it...
Doron Isaacs, a founding member and now the former treasurer of the social justice organisation, Equal Education (EE), is at the centre of a media storm...
In the opening section of the book of Numbers, the Israelites get organised for their journey to the Promised Land. Not only must they travel through...
Photojournalist Alon Skuy has seen a great deal over the years, but he recalls the time when he was really taken aback. It was one morning...
We so often get asked why we are not more involved in social media and told that we need to up our game. The people asking...
Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva voted to establish a Commission of Inquiry in order to examine possible war crimes committed by...
At 19:30 last Monday, the South African government announced the recall of its ambassador to Israel. This was in the wake of the violent clashes between...
Jewish-American author Philip Roth passed away on May 22. He was 85. His work both delighted and disgusted. Roth, oft regarded as one of the most...
When considering your career, in future you may apply for jobs such as an artificial skin therapist, a robot psychologist or a brains security officer, rather...
Star Wars fans are eagerly awaiting the franchise’s latest film, Solo: A Star Wars Story. As its title suggests, the flick focuses on Han Solo, the...
So it turns out Han Solo may have a lot in common with your grandparents.
Acclaimed Israeli author Orly Castel-Bloom was concerned about a negative reaction to the Israel-Gaza border violence when she arrived in the Western Cape this past weekend...
Visiting Mr Green is one of those plays that will remain with you long after you’ve left the theatre because it touches the soul.
Schools around South Africa celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day last Thursday. This is a global campaign to encourage outdoor learning and play. Thousands of schools worldwide take...
Generation Sinai is going beyond the classroom with a new and exciting tzedakah project called Little Givers.
The annual Partnership2Gether School Twinning Seminar was held in Beit Shemesh and the surrounding Mateh Yehuda area – the Israeli region that is twinned with the...
There are pop-up shops, restaurants and even hairdressers, but now there is also a pop-up shul in Glenhazel on Friday evenings. This makeshift shul is currently...
Much-needed calm has fallen on the Israel-Gaza border, despite Hamas having threatened to continue to fan the flames of violent confrontation well into next month.
Sam Nzima died on May 12, two days before last week’s killings along the Israel-Gaza border. He was the South African photojournalist for The World newspaper...
When I mentioned on social media that it has not been an easy week to be supportive of Israel in South Africa, the response that I...
By the time this letter is published, who knows what horrors the ANC, the SA Communist Party, BDS, the Muslim lobby and the kapos and mosers...
Whilst the ANC welcomed theIran nuclear deal, Iran has continued to threaten Israel on a daily basis with annihilation.
Tom Halter, a student at the Maria Theresia Gymnasium in Augsburg, Germany, is researching a “Nazi victim’s biography” of an Augsburg citizen, who fell victim to...
My letter concerns the following statement, issued on Monday night by the department of international relations and co-operation (DIRCO): “The South African government condemns in the...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has finally decided to take action against countries which won’t allow Israeli athletes to participate in IOC-backed events.
When top Israeli musical hitmaker Doron Medalie was a little boy, his South African bobba and zaida were his greatest fans and made a point of...
“Anyone who supports Zionism or who fraternises with Zionists is a racist and is complicit in illegal activity."
This week, the South African government called on the Jewish community to condemn Israel and turn its back on the Jewish homeland, following a week of...
A poster calling Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane a “Jew Boy” who “supports the massacre of people of colour” – and who is pictured with “Israeli...
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) of South Africa is appealing for urgent funds to support its campaign to provide bomb shelters for Israeli residents in the...
“South Africa should kick out the Israeli ambassador in Pretoria and shut down all trade with Israel. There is no place in South Africa for anyone...
“This is a terrorist crime. It is an attack on the sanctity of a place of worship and‚ furthermore‚ it is the indiscriminate killing of innocent...
I keep wishing this week had been a bad dream rather than reality for the South African Jewish community, and that we would wake up and...
The disconnect between what was happening inside the new American embassy – as it was being inaugurated on Monday afternoon in Jerusalem – and the scenes...
Despite racism, crime and the land issue, there is hope for a better future if South Africans unite and draw inspiration from biblical figures who confronted...
