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Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane called for a reform of South Africa’s foreign policy, particularly in regard to Israel and the wider Middle East conflict.
It's a crop that has been a feature of Jewish life and culture since Biblical times, but are attitudes towards the now-legal use of marijuana shifting...
Considering the proliferation of the marijuana plant in our country of birth, it is no surprise that South African entrepreneurs are involved in medical cannabis in...
Twelve years ago, South African jeweller Kevin Friedman was asked by the Botswana government to make a brooch for a statesman. He was never told who...
With Pesach starting next week, the Johannesburg Jewish community is stocking up on Pesachdik goods, though the large variation in prices makes it worth shopping around....
Rebbetzin Shula Shifra Kazen was born in Stalinist Russia to a poor Jewish family that lived hand to mouth on the freezing streets, clinging to their...
A lavish breakfast fit for a king in the warmth of a magnificent Glenhazel home. A band of rumbling Harley Davidsons parked outside. Music and joy....
This Shabbat bears the title of being Shabbat Hagadol – the Great Shabbat. There are many reasons advanced as to why the Shabbat that precedes the...
Jewish students are at the coalface of defending Israel, particularly during the infamous Israel Apartheid Week (IAW).
It’s Tuesday, 9 April 2019, and as I write this, Israelis are casting their vote. They have from 07:00 this morning until 22:00 this evening to...
From the early 600s CE, Jews and Muslims have co-existed, at times peacefully and at other times contentiously. Historical perspective is important to understand what we...
The African National Congress (ANC)-led government does not kowtow to Jewish interests nearly as much as South African governments once did, particularly in relation to Israel.
The SA Jewish Report dated 29 March refers. Why give the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement and the sexual harassment charges hanging over the head of...
South Africa will not reinstate its ambassador to Israel, Lindiwe Sisulu, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation said on Friday.
Ori Abutbul is a rugby pioneer. The former Tel Aviv security guard and Israeli international is currently playing club rugby in Roodepoort on the West Rand...
Jewish schools King David Linksfield High School and Herzlia Middle and High School held mock Israeli elections on 4 and 8 April to educate pupils about...
Mina Lopato Nursery School in Greenside held its fun day.
The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) asked ChaiFM Chief Executive Kathy Kaler to plant a tree in one of the Jewish National Fund forests to honour...
With 36 teams and five sporting categories, the annual Bidvest Sports Quiz is a highly competitive event, but the greatest winner of the night was the...
Rabbi Shmuel Moffson cited the importance of Torah study at the Johannesburg Torah Institute’s (JTI’s) first gala dinner at its learning centre in Oaklands, Johannesburg, on...
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, members of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) assisted Meals on Wheels, which was being run by a church...
Yad Aharon & Michael held its annual community Pesach packing day on 7 April.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) intends holding an anti-Israel protest outside the Cape Town offices of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies...
The South African government this week went against United States President Donald Trump recognising Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Experts say this is unlikely to...
Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) in South Africa has been extraordinarily uneventful during the first half of this week. This is a fact on both the campuses...
The South African government is continuing with the downgrading of its relations with Israel, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Wednesday night.
In a strange twist of events, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) council decided not to go ahead with the decision of its senate to boycott...
When Grant Gochin took the Lithuanian government to court in March, he knew he might lose the battle. And he certainly lost this particular one, when...
In much the same way as University of Cape Town (UCT) academics took Karl Marx seriously in the 1970s and 1980s, so they have now heeded...
Every year for more than a decade, universities begin their countdown to Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) when the academic year begins. This week, it is the...
I remember my early years in the newsroom when we’d have some harmless fun thinking up some fake news story to broadcast on 1 April, also...
A graphic online video game, Rape Day Apocalypse, released online last week has sparked a widespread public outcry, with calls for the banning of violent video...
(JTA) Like many voters in democratic national elections, I almost always hope that whoever is elected will be able to serve out their full term –...
Comparing Israel with apartheid is “historically and morally false and anti-Semitic”, says visiting African American Professor Ansel Brown.
Until six years ago, student activist Justice Nkomo was a diehard member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, vehemently opposed to anything to do...
Michelle Makori, born in Haifa and raised and educated in Johannesburg, is the face and editor in chief of the New York-based i24News English language channel...
“It’s a garbage idea that we are a chosen people.” So said Gilad Stern, addressing the Union of Jewish Women adult education division on the topic,...
One third of food in South Africa goes to waste. Yet 12 million South Africans go to bed hungry each night. It’s the juxtaposition of those...
“There is no shallow end on the internet. Digital content is dangerous content,” says Emma Sadleir, founder of The Digital Law Company.
It was considered the Holocaust of its day – even a precursor to the Holocaust itself. Yet, the anti-Jewish pogroms which swept across Eastern Europe from...
