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JTA – Chaim Topol won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of an immigrant to Israel, stepped off the stage in London to fight for his...
JTA – With seven nominations for his most personal film ever, this could have been Steven Spielberg’s biggest year at the Academy Awards. But the hot-dog...
Ignoring the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement’s call for artists to boycott the Jewish state, 2023 Grammy Award winner Zakes Bantwini (born Zakhele Madida) played at...
“I wouldn’t be who I am if I hadn’t beat cancer,” says Hannah Katz, now a happy, energetic, and healthy 17-year-old King David Linksfield (KDL) scholar....
Junior Smith, aged five, of Noupoort in the Northern Cape, was recently donated an Israeli made wheelchair specifically designed for children thanks to WIZO Durban, generous...
Yawn! Not another Torah portion describing the building of the Mishkan (Tabernacle)! Really? Didn’t we cover this in great detail already? If you’re reading this week’s...
This week, we lost a giant in our community. Ann Harris was the tiniest giant I have ever come across. In her latter days, she looked...
At the time of going to print, a “peaceful protest against the presence of Zionism on university campuses” has just taken place at the University of...
Greg Blank was the most charismatic and high-flying golden boy of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange until he got sentenced to jail on 48 counts of fraud....
The Israel ministry of foreign affairs has lashed out at the South African government for its vote on Tuesday, 7 March, to downgrade its embassy in...
The fact that downgrading of the South African embassy in Israel was even debated in parliament is something that Member of Parliament (MP) Michael Bagraim says...
A little-known Holocaust-era story of rescue, survival, and finding refuge in South Africa will now be remembered in a quiet corner of Africa. On 6 March,...
Political analyst Dr Frans Cronje believes there’s a strong likelihood that the African National Congress (ANC) will lose its majority in the National Assembly in 2024,...
Andrew Tate is a British born American kickboxer who was launched into the public eye by being expelled from Big Brother in 2016 after video footage...
I have great empathy for Israeli demonstrators protesting against legal reform. The feeling that democracy is being taken away from you and that the rules of...
The radical legal reforms introduced by Israel’s new government in January, a few days after taking office, and the accompanying legislative blitz the ruling coalition initiated...
Last year some time, in an attempt to show us, a group of eager, but unsure English honours students what a bad argument looks like, one...
She looked like a perfectly lovely person. Wearing a long flowery dress with a wide-brimmed straw hat that had a matching pink band around it, she...
JTA – Many Jews around the world celebrate Purim in the same ways: by reading the story of the heroic Queen Esther, dressing in festive costumes,...
JTA – In a historic building in the most industrial part of Podil, the hipster district of Kyiv that once was the heart of the Jewish...
Shaun Tomson may have been an award-winning surfer, but when his son died suddenly in 2006, he felt like he was drowning. His Jewish identity became...
It all starts with a good idea and the determination to act. From making and selling beaded accessories, popcorn, and candyfloss to trading used clothes, capturing...
Denis Hirson had one of the most curious Barmitzvahs any Jewish boy could have had. It was probably one of a kind. However, it was writing...
An Israeli cycling team has proved to be as committed to improving lives around the globe as it is to cycling, most recently in Rwanda, where...
When a recently dumped wedding singer hits notes of misery at joyous celebrations, it’s the love of a waitress working at the same functions that brings...
Johannesburg-based Jewish music aficionado, Adam H. Golding, has a passion for music, but in particular what’s known as Early Music, which includes Renaissance and early Baroque...
A new bakery was launched on 1 March on the grounds of Sacred Heart College, Observatory, as part of a local community upliftment initiative. Named Heart...
The community was sucker punched this week with the government voting to downgrade the South African embassy in Israel to a mere liaison office. It’s true...
My grandfather, Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, had a dear friend, Yossel Hirsch. He and his brother ran a bakery in Brooklyn, New York, and were survivors...
Anti-Israel factions have long been pushing for South Africa to downgrade its embassy in Israel. A resolution to this effect was taken at the 2017 ANC...
Elan Ganeles, 26, was en route to a South African family wedding when he was murdered in a terrorist attack near the Dead Sea on Monday,...
A small faction of the South African Students Congress (SASCO) released an unofficial statement this week condemning an agreement between the South African Union of Jewish...
Democratic Alliance (DA) councillors in the City of Johannesburg have taken umbrage at the constant barrage of antisemitic and other discriminatory, offensive, and snide remarks allowed...
South Africa and Angola may share a close relationship, but they differ sharply in their approach to Israel. Though South Africa sends high-level delegations to the...
André de Ruyter turned from chief executive to official whistle blower the minute he sat down with broadcaster Annika Larsen and recorded that interview. He laid...
Hillel and Yagel Yaniv were two brothers from Har Bracha. On Sunday afternoon, they were in their car going somewhere, when they were ambushed by a...
A blatantly biased and anti-Israel resolution was passed almost unnoticed at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, just days after the forced removal...
It was an ordinary morning on 4 January 2023 when South African olah Sarah Cohen* received an email saying that the high-tech Israeli company she worked...
JTA – In spite of resounding condemnation from across the world and efforts by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to denounce the outbreak of Jewish violence...
As a rabbi, a large part of my role is ‘selling Judaism’ to Jews. Some might say that selling ice to Eskimos is easier… The truth...
