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If you’re still awake at the end of our broadcast, we would have done our job. So when last did you have a really good night’s...
Like Jews around the world, Cape Town business owner Aimee-Leigh Koff was horrified at the wave of misinformation online as Israel was subjected to a rain...
“They [Israel] have to wake up. Now!” shouted African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Jessie Duarte at an ANC picket at the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on...
Joburg’s multi-faith, multi-cultural Redhill School this week attempted to pick up the pieces after angry pro-Palestinian alumni and students attacked the principal for trying to calm...
Zionists must be kicked out of Johannesburg and South Africa like the Nazis were defeated, a speaker at a pro-Palestinian protest outside the offices of the...
In the first week of the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout, more than 117 000 people were vaccinated, with many of our senior citizens receiving their first...
I don’t recall there ever having been so much antisemitism and hatred towards Israel as there is now, and yes, it’s mostly on social media. I’m...
The origins of all wars are contested. Israel’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls” is no exception. Relying on the logic of cui bono – or he...
Frans Cronje, the chief executive of the Institute of Race Relations, wrote a penetrating critique – “Ramaphosa woefully misreading the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”, News24, 20 May –...
Everyone is relieved that the guns have fallen silent – for now – in the worst Palestinian-Israeli clashes since 2014. The South African government hasn’t minced...
I write this with an overwhelming sense of sadness. The past two weeks have been difficult for everyone. Quite a few people have messaged me in...
A volunteer firefighter who was born in South Africa has been at the forefront of the fight to protect Israel’s “Gaza envelope” – the area of...
Every single Chevrah Kadisha resident over 60, as well as most of Johannesburg’s Holocaust survivors, were vaccinated last week to their relief and that of their...
It sounds like something out of a horror movie, but it happened in a private Johannesburg care facility. Jewish pensioner Bernard “Bernie” Katz was admitted to...
(JTA) The ceasefire declared by Israel and Hamas after 11 days of fighting seems to be holding, but the after effects on Jews in Europe –...
The Jewish community must never kowtow in the face of online hate. It needs to reframe the discussion of Israel to counter allegations of colonialism and...
A YouTube channel detailing the facts behind the conflict in Israel is going viral for its assertive unpacking of the context behind the headlines. However, the...
Sandton Sinai Primary School held a special assembly to announce the Grade 7 monitors for 2021. It was a proud moment for the school as it...
Yom Yerushalayim celebrations at King David Linksfield Senior Primary began with a live walk to the Kotel with Israel-education organisation StandWithUs and a moving tekes (ceremony)...
The South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) headed by minister Naledi Pandor has called for sanctions against Israel resulting from the recent hostilities...
I have been reading about the present war in Gaza and watching the comments on TV. Mention has been made of the thousands of rockets launched...
How many times have you heard this sentence (and be honest): “He/she is lovely, smart … but he/she doesn’t look Jewish.” Our weekly portion, B’haalotecha, teaches...
Together with the rest of the Jewish world, we welcomed with relief the cessation last Friday, 21 May, of the latest deadly round of hostilities between...
Here’s an opinion I’m fairly certain won’t be a popular one. What if we looked at this whole protest thing from another angle? What if we...
A tribute to the pen of the late Russell Sadowsky, born 17 November 1936, died 26 February 2021 – my dad, my hero, my blood. You...
Over the years, whenever Israel has had to fight a defensive war against Hamas in particular, the world has condemned it. This time around, things have...
At Golden Acres, we have just received our vaccines against COVID-19. We would like to take this opportunity to express our deepest thanks and gratitude to...
The recent Israel-Palestine outburst of violence was in many ways a media and public-relations war: a battle for the global, regional, and local support which is...
Each day we drive home through the potholes of our cities, only to be greeted by no running water and power outages. There are solutions to...
The ongoing battle of the bulge has evolved where the goal is not just to lose weight, but to attain optimal health and nutrition. The methodology...
Many of us were told “Just say NO to drugs”, but science may now have a different view. Medical cannabis has become the new frontier of...
It’s just gone 03:00 in the morning on Wednesday, 12 May. I’m hunkering down in a bomb shelter which doubles up as my study in Tel...
As Israel faced a steady bombardment of deadly rockets fired by terrorist groups in Gaza this week, the South African government, politicians, and activists condemned the...
As rockets rained down on most of Israel from Monday to Wednesday this week, many South African olim hunkered down in safe rooms, bomb shelters, and...
South African Jews and their relatives in Israel are battling yet another travel ban implemented by Israel at the beginning of May, which forbids travel to...
The Community Security Organisation (CSO) has witnessed a marked increase in anti-Israel rhetoric as well as expressions of hate directed at Jews online following violence in...
As I sit here late on Tuesday night to write my editorial, I keep receiving news flashes about more and more missile attacks on central Israel....
The Golan is the true gatekeeper of Jerusalem, particularly in mitigating against the Iranian threat across the border, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Major (Res) Yaakov Selevan...
Late on Sunday night, a group of young Jewish women gathered on a hill overlooking the Temple Mount, singing “Im eshkachech Yerushalayim tishkach yemini” (If I...
Twenty years ago, the infamous United Nations (UN) World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (or the Durban Conference) descended into a hate-fest...
