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Thousands of Christians took to the streets in Pretoria on Wednesday in a solidarity prayer rally for the State of Israel.
Freedom Park received a bomb threat on Wednesday afternoon, around the time the South African Friends of Israel (SAFI) were meant to be holding a mass...
In what appears to be a tactical public relations coup for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions South Africa (BDS-SA), local celebrity Shashi Naidoo was refused entry to...
“So guys please don’t hate on them, they are sorry so let’s open them with big arms and let them say sorry [sic].” These are the...
The misinformation around the Arab-Israel conflict abounds, not least of all because we live in an age of social media where anyone can disseminate anything, irrespective...
In the hotbed of issues around affordable housing, spatial justice and gentrification in Cape Town, simmering tensions are nearing boiling point in the Bo-Kaap. In this...
It was heart-warming to witness a sea of South African faces as far as my eye could see, as I watched the South African Friends of...
Last Friday night, it looked as if another Gaza war was upon us. Israel launched a massive airstrike, hitting more than 60 Hamas targets, including three...
The late Nat Bregman was so much more than just former president Nelson Mandela’s first white friend – according to Madiba’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.
Rebbetzin Nechama Goldman Barash – who is winging her way to our shores for Limmud next weekend – has spent much of her adult life working...
Bradley Fried turned down his Absa Jewish Achiever Awards nomination this week. Not because he wasn’t totally honoured to be on the list, but because he...
The introduction of the Basic Law on Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People prompted widespread controversy for good reason.
Israel’s recent legislation of the Nation-State Law provided another relished opportunity by Israel’s adversaries and enemies to delegitimise the country’s Jewish-majority democracy’s character.
The BRICS group of countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – are meeting in Johannesburg this week for their annual summit. BRICS is...
No amount of downed Syrian jets on the northern border of Israel this week are any comfort to the family of Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Sergeant...
Pearl Selibowitz, who taught Jewish studies around the country for 50 years, was inspired to become a teacher through her contact with SHAWCO, the Students’ Health...
When the Indoni Dance, Arts & Leadership Academy won a Gold Impumelelo Social Innovations Award in November last year for its contribution to the development of...
I honestly had no idea how challenging it would be to choose a name for our new granddaughter to call us. We are certainly not the...
Furious protests currently going on in Israel, with people demanding LGBTI rights and the option to surrogacy, bring the spotlight home to what it was to...
I write in response to the article, Cross-racial adoptions in Jewish families (20 July), about Jewish families who have adopted black children (Page 10).
Last week, the Board sent a letter to the Jewish community and also issued a general press statement, reporting that a settlement had been reached in...
The Torah teaches that all people are created in the Creator’s image and deserve our respect, even if we believe they are different.
Boys and girls from various schools – including King David Linksfield and King David Sandton, and Alon Ashel (Weizmann) in Cape Town – took their football...
Mandela Week was one of love, giving and celebration at Yeshiva College.
Three King David School principals attended the first Global Education Summit in Jerusalem earlier this month. The summit was hosted by Israel’s ministry of diaspora affairs,...
A small group of Jewish women in Klerksdorp used a monetary donation to pay it forward in anticipation of Mandela Day on 18 July. They bought...
It was during the moments of silence, as Tiger Woods started his backswing for his tee shot on the 18th hole, that a fan shouted: “Free...
Chalking up another victory for Joburg-based boxing trainer Colin Nathan, Simphiwe Khonco successfully defended his IBO mini-flyweight title for the third time against a determined Toto...
Liel Levitan, a schoolgirl from Haifa, is unable to accept an invitation to play in the World Chess Championship because host nation Tunisia will not allow...
Suspended ANC Western Cape provincial chairperson Marius Fransman will soon learn his fate with the imminent release of a report into allegations of anti-Semitism arising from...
The Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom warned the Labour Party it would send an “unprecedented message of contempt” for British Jews by adopting a softened...
“He was a big guy with a big heart.” So say close friends of the late Dan Sevel, whose untimely death last week shocked the South...
South African celebrity Shashi Naidoo – who last month announced that she would go to “Palestine” on a BDS-hosted tour to “re-educate” herself – is scheduled...
Out of the eight bomb scares that hit Durban last week, four of them were at Woolworths stores, which begs these questions: Is the company being...
Seeing the faces of Ronald and Darren Bobroff, the fugitive father-and-son attorneys, plastered on “Wanted” posters circulated by Interpol is a startling reminder that they have...
“Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed towards the sun, one’s feet moving forward.” It seems so fitting to start my editorial with a...
It was less than three years ago that a wave of stabbings engulfed the streets of Israel – particularly Jerusalem and the West Bank – prompting...
Political commentators have been justifiably outraged by Julius Malema’s latest salvo against South African Indians. The Economic Freedom Fighters leader has essentialised a group of people...
Huddling together in the dark, a group of men sit on a traffic island waiting for the dawn. With hoods drawn closely to their faces against...
Optimism in the global economy has dropped worldwide, and South Africa is no exception, says Stephen Koseff, CEO of Investec Group South Africa. “Policy uncertainty, fluctuating...
