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The people who sell you beer and Nando’s are going to tell you “it’s not on top, it’s inside” you all along… Our creatives will BLOW...
The Community Security Organisation (CSO) is taking the United States government’s security alert about a possible terrorist attack in Joburg seriously, but has made it clear...
“I’m back!” said a relieved Dr Mpho Phalatse, a good friend of the community, who was this week reinstated as mayor of Johannesburg after high drama...
If Dis-Chem Chief Executive Ivan Saltzman had the chance, he would “definitely” change the wording of the memorandum he wrote instituting a “moratorium on the appointment...
Local ice cream entrepreneur Paul Ballen felt the viciousness of the anti-Israel lobby when he posted enchanting photographs of his holiday in Israel on his personal...
Machaneh Yehuda market in the heart of Jerusalem is one of the oldest authentic local “fortresses” of the Likud party. Whenever a right-wing candidate wants to...
Beyond their obviously Jewish surnames, there appears at first glance to be nothing to connect Dis-Chem Chief Executive Ivan Saltzman, Cape Town student activist Jack Markovitz,...
On the second day of Sukkot, members of Community Active Protection (CAP) were doggedly tracking the notorious Johannesburg arsonist after a vital breakthrough in the case...
South African Home Affairs Director General Livhuwani Tommy Makhode has reassured South African Jewry that our foreign rabbis have nothing to worry about in terms of...
Sixty-year-old Ra’anana book editor, Naomi Nathan, was on her way to visit a shiva house on 20 September when the unthinkable happened: a bus turned a...
Judge Sharise Weiner described her appointment earlier this month as a judge in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), the second highest court in the land,...
“I’m shocked at how much hatred and racism there is on social media in South Africa,” said Cristoph Plate, the director of the Media Programme Sub-Saharan...
Humanitarianism was a focus of late philanthropist and business leader Bertie Lubner’s life, so his children believe it’s fitting that the Jewish Achiever Humanitarian Award is...
When thinking about the Holocaust in Lithuania, some of us can only think about the horror from a distance or in small doses. But filmmaker Michael...
This is how it ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper. After five children, our youngest has just started to write her matric finals. And...
For Gauteng residents considering emigration, “semigration” to Cape Town can offer new hope within South Africa’s borders. So said Cape Town Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and...
Farm killings make up only half a percent of all homicides reported each year in South Africa, but they say a lot about society and go...
The legendary Sassoon and Kadoorie families not only achieved huge business success in India and China, but also dominated trade in Asia for 150 years, starting...
Debby Silver and Kashiefa Mohammed may come from different religious, social, and economic backgrounds and live in different parts of Cape Town, but when they work...
JTA – Athletic wear company Adidas is ending its relationship with Kanye West, days after the rapper boasted that he could “literally say antisemitic sh** and...
When local filmmaker Harriet Gavshon produced the eight-part television drama series Reyka through her production house, Quizzical Pictures, she never imagined that it would get International...
When 18-year-old Capetonian Naor Lombard surf skied across the finish line at the same time as New Zealander Jayden Murphy in the final of the youth...
“And we will build an altar, a spiritual altar, and a covenant between our two countries.” These were the words of former Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng...
As loadshedding continues unabated, we do our best to find ways to live with it. We also make a plan to survive those all-too-frequent times when...
Our Torah portion this week opens with the famous story of Noah, but I want to focus on the end of the parshah and the equally...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD’s) Gauteng Council held its last meeting on Monday, 24 October, before its biennial conference in November. I would...
The Sassoons and Kadoories were two of the greatest entrepreneurial families of their time. For 150 years, these two Jewish dynasties from Baghdad dominated trade in...
JTA – Three weeks after a prominent pro-Israel activist accused the University of California, Berkeley, of creating “Jew-free zones”, two trucks rolled into town to address...
JTA – Under a haze of early morning cigarette smoke, two Jewish men from Ukrainian cities in areas occupied by Russia were discussing how much they...
JTA – Just outside a remote village two hours’ drive east of Yerevan in a clearing reachable only by hiking down a steep embankment and crossing...
JTA – Ben Bernanke, the Jewish former chairperson of the federal reserve, shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with two other scholars for their work in...
JTA – It started with a shirt and ended in a conflagration over antisemitism and Republican politics. Such is the extended news cycle over multiple antisemitic...
JTA – Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, is having second thoughts about holding up a notorious hater of Jews as an exemplar...
JTA – Taking aim at claims made by Israel’s opposition leaders, including opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, America’s top diplomatic representative to Israel shot down claims that...
JTA – Fasting on Yom Kippur isn’t easy, nor is it for everyone. Some people cannot fast because they are pregnant, breastfeeding, or have a medical...
JTA – The success of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party in Italy’s national election last week means the country is poised to have its most...
