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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Idan Roll’s mission as Israel’s deputy foreign minister is to repair the country’s relationship with progressives, especially in the United States. His challenge...
(JTA) A massive survey conducted over the past year found that even as young Americans are rejecting traditional organised religion, they are still embracing faith and...
(JTA) Tens of thousands of leaders and activists from around the world, representing world governments, nongovernment and environmental organisations, gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, earlier this month...
(JTA) Days before a neo-Nazi drove his car into a crowd of protesters here at the site of the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, he...
(JTA) “Behind closed doors” is a phrase that crops up a lot in conversation with senior United States and Israeli officials these days. That’s the place...
(JTA) Fear of antisemitism spurred 40% of American Jews to change their behaviour over the past year, according to a new survey about antisemitism in America....
A 73-year-old Jewish woman with dementia in Johannesburg tested positive for COVID-19 this week, but after 48 hours of being a bit sleepy, she was back...
Nothing was going to stop the executive mayor of Johannesburg, Dr Mpho Phalatse, last week from delivering her acceptance speech as the city’s first woman in...
In a cruel twist of fate, the businesses that were to benefit most over the festive season have now had to bear the brunt of COVID-19...
It’s just days before the Miss Universe pageant in Eilat, and Miss SA Lalela Mswane has been soaking up the sights and sounds of Israel and...
With the doors of international travel slammed shut on an exhausted nation, and South Africans desperate to escape the monotony of nearly two years of lockdown...
Too many people I’m close to have COVID-19. My housekeeper, two close friends, my sister and her family, and my rabbi. Go figure! This is way...
Less than a month ago, the word “omicron” was meaningful only to the Greek community. It’s the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet, leaving only nine...
News reporter Lara Logan is known for her shocking statements, but she took it to new heights when she compared Dr Anthony Fauci to Dr Josef...
Although Miss SA Lalela Mswane is the latest high-profile South African to be targeted for visiting Israel, bullying of this kind isn’t new. For more than...
As the year meanders to a close and the Chanukah candles start to flicker out, I can hear Fleetwood Mac’s hit song, “Tell me lies, tell...
It may be “the season”, but there’s a crop of superb books with Jewish flavour hitting the bookshelves. The themes vary from the Holocaust to magic,...
It’s that time of the year to read the tea leaves and see what 2022 holds in store for us. The United Nations has declared 2022...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit South Africa in March 2020, everyone thought that the year of lockdowns, masks, and sanitisers would be like no other. We...
It’s why grocery shopping is a minefield. It’s why watching the cooking channel can be torturous. It’s why I stood in a queue for more than...
“So you have diabetes? Remember, diabetes isn’t a disease. It’s a condition that will make you live healthier.” These are the first words my traumatised parents...
In the time when Dr Nir Tsuk visited South Africa, the country went from barely any COVID-19 cases a day to a rapidly increasing fourth wave....
(JTA) This Chanukah, we’re celebrating Jewish sport miracles. We picked one for each of the holiday’s eight nights, plus one for the shamash. Our only criteria?...
Johannesburg Feed the ducks and take a boat out on Zoo Lake Rent a rowboat and take some seeds along to the Zoo Lake to feed...
“I never married and I never had my own children, but I’ve been blessed with thousands who, in return, provide me with so much pleasure and...
To most people, he was Sir Antony Sher, one of Britain’s finest stage actors who was internationally renowned for tackling the toughest Shakespearean roles with successful...
What’s the key to the blessings we need from Hashem? One such approach is hinted at in the opening words of this week’s portion, “Vayigash eilav...
I suspect that Debs has me on speed dial. As her one-phone-call-away COVID-19 reassurance go-to person, I suspect I’m just one in a series of contacts...
The year began with South Africa in the middle of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, and unfortunately, is ending with a fourth wave now well...
In spite of the challenges of 2021, WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organisation) South Africa, under the excellent leadership of President Shelley Trope-Friedman, enjoyed a productive and...
Yeshiva College Grade 6s came to the end of six years of primary school on Tuesday, 30 November, with a valedictory evening to recognise their achievement....
Workforce Staffing recently combined with Eye Worx to provide eye screening and prescription glasses to children in Alexandra township. Workforce Staffing, a division of Workforce Holdings,...
Two young South African women have been chosen to participate in the Zionist Leadership Academy programme run by the global resource development division of Keren Kayemet...
Jewish memory is the theme of Kaunas European Capital of Culture 2022, a project funded by municipalities and the national government. The Lithuanian city was named...
South Africa’s chief rabbi, Dr Warren Goldstein, has taken on the Israeli government over its sudden blanket travel ban in light of the new variant discovered...
The Omicron variant is hitting the Johannesburg and Cape Town Jewish communities, with numbers rising rapidly but very few hospitalisations. Those hospitalised – at this point...
Orthodox spiritual leaders in South Africa have expressed their shock and dismay over the treatment of South African travellers turned away from Ben Gurion Airport last...
Citizens for Integrity (CFI) has accused the government and the minister of sports, arts, and culture of acting unconstitutionally and irrationally in its “bullying” of Miss...
“My brother was like a boxer, he took many knocks and would always get up. In the end, there were just too many, and he gave...
Isn’t it amazing how we can plan things to perfection and then, in one fell swoop, it all falls apart. And we had nothing whatsoever to...
