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A respected international survey claiming a huge spike in anti-Semitic attitudes in South Africa has prompted shock and disbelief by experts in the local community who...
Internationally acclaimed actor Sacha Baron Cohen has called for greater regulation of social media to contain rising hatred, terrorism, and violence.
The senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) made a momentous decision on 22 November when two thirds of its members voted to cancel a...
The chairperson of the South African International Relations and Cooperation Portfolio Committee, Tandi Mahambehlala, went on a tirade against Israel in a briefing last week, demanding...
It’s not often that the chief rabbi says a prayer at FNB Stadium in front of more than 100 000 people, many of whom had been...
(JTA) In an unprecedented move, Britain’s chief rabbi has warned ahead of the country’s general elections that the Labour Party’s anti-Semitism problem means that the “very...
Any whiff of anti-Semitism in this country, and you are likely to read about it in this newspaper. In fact, some have criticised us for our...
For the first time ever, Israel is being led by a prime minister under indictment. Fighting the biggest political battle of his life, Benjamin Netanyahu is...
A dancing rabbi is by no means an uncommon sight, but the sight of three senior rabbis and an entire community tearing up the tar together...
This past Sunday, we celebrated an historic occasion: the extraordinary legacy of Rabbi Moshe Kurtstag, Rabbi Boruch Rapoport, and Rabbi Zadok Suchard. These three names are...
Israel crashed into unchartered waters last Thursday when Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced the indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud, and breach of...
Sir Donald (Donny) Gordon was “really extraordinary and a great role model”, businesswoman and philanthropist Wendy Appelbaum says of her father who died last Thursday at...
Rabbi David Masinter works around the clock strategising for one goal: reaching every Jew in Southern Africa and kindling the Torah light within.
As if emigrating to Israel physically isn’t daunting enough, financial emigration matters far more than we realise, and could ultimately determine the success of resettlement.
‘Social justice goes hand in hand with being Jewish.’
What does it mean to be born into a family of evil? Descendants of some of the most brutal and infamous Nazi officers have to extricate...
The questions about what happened to the Jews began in childhood. Sometimes they were inspired by grandparents; at other times by the empty buildings in the...
In 2013, at the age of seven, Rylie Maedler was diagnosed with aggressive bone tumours that disintegrated her facial bones.
The last thing any cancer survivor wants to hear is that their cancer has returned. Tragically, this is the reality for cancer-awareness campaigner Addi Lang, who...
When you send your child to a Jewish youth camp, you expect that they will be looked after by experienced madrichim (camp counsellors). However, there’s a...
Man is a being with many needs. Not only materially but in many other areas – emotional, mental, social, biological, and spiritual. We are told that...
The door was finally closed last week on long-running efforts by anti-Israel pressure groups to get the University of Cape Town to impose a boycott on...
One of my favourite anecdotes was recounted to me by an American friend who lives in Israel. She was talking about her ultra-Orthodox grandmother who had...
Legacy is important to anyone. What will you be remembered for? Too many heroes of the struggle against apartheid who gave their all for it and...
Pre-grade graduates at Torah Academy Nursery School paint pebbles for the school’s sensory garden with teacher Chana Rivka Lewin.
More than 150 teachers, parents, and alumni of King David Victory Park Primary attended the official opening on 21 November of “The Hub”, the school’s upgraded...
“I’m proud of my business, and I appreciate ORT Jet’s involvement in taking it from dream to reality,” said Orit Taback from Orit’s Bakery. Taback received...
South Africa was the first country to spearhead the Shabbos Project. Since then, it has spread to more than 100 countries and hundreds of cities across...
Between January and March this year, Zac Elkin, the former Western Province under-19 captain, played club cricket for Piet Retief Cricket Club in Mpumalanga. If you’re...
The United Nations (UN) has released its first comprehensive report on anti-Semitism, in which for the first time, it stipulates that the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)...
Internationally acclaimed South African cinematographer Lance Gewer was annoyed when his son and two friends didn’t arrive home early for Friday night supper last week. Little...
Yeshiva College, South Africa’s largest Torah school, has undergone a much-needed transformation in a bid to curb the downward drop in student numbers in recent times.
Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, known by his pen-name Zapiro, last week received France’s most prestigious cultural honour, the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight...
On an ordinary Tuesday morning last week, Amanda Porter’s daughter Natanya phoned her twice in succession from Israel. Her blood ran cold. “We have a rule...
In the run-up to the Shabbos Project last week, I heard numerous people say it was passé and had had its time. Some even said the...
Suddenly, it seems as if everyone is an expert in international law. After United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday this week that...
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has challenged business leaders to practice ethical leadership with sincerity and conviction.
South Africa’s former President, FW de Klerk, is “deeply concerned” about the country’s current prospects, but says he sees “light at the end of the tunnel”.
Growing new cells to replace damaged tissues or organs, cloning lifesaving organs, and miracle cures for debilitating diseases are closer than we think.
It’s difficult for a learned man to be able to guide young boys at school and give life-changing shiurim to elders in a community. Such a...
