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The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has had enough of anti-Israel protests that are now clearly threatening Jewish life in the Mother City....
In March 2022, Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela blamed Israel for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, referring to “the apartheid Israel dogs of war” and saying that the...
A swastika spraypainted onto an electricity box near Stellenbosch was available for all to see, but it was a Cape Town rabbi who stepped up to...
I first met Professor Barry Dwolatsky in 2006, at the University of Cape Town, where we engaged around a national software strategy. The next time I...
JTA – Wikipedia has banned three editors from working on articles related to Jewish history in Poland during World War II in a bid to resolve...
On 5 May, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, formally terminated the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for...
Love him or loathe him, most people have a strong opinion about Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. Back on the Knesset’s opposition benches in mid-2021...
Few books are lauded by television stars, senior rabbis, an Israeli president, and United States senators, but Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein’s book on Shabbat has...
Not even futurists are able to predict the future of work accurately. Much of what universities are teaching will be redundant by the time today’s babies...
After Eli Kay was brutally murdered at the hands of a terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem in November 2021, his brother, Kasriel, made stickers...
Shavuot is proof that G-d doesn’t really like Ashkenazi Jews. Either that or He has a great sense of humour. Because any festival that involves feeding...
In our community, we love going on trips. They bring excitement, they give something to look forward to, but most importantly, they boost comradeship. However, the...
This was a wedding which would go down in history. The décor was divine. The lighting and sound was simply out of this world, with special...
I recently received the following message: “Dear Rabbi Fox, I perform free community concerts for the elderly. I do this to bring hope and joy to...
You know the drill: you bump into your friend at the mall, “How’s your day going?” “Eh, not so good. Could be better.” (Tilt your head,...
Shavuot, the day we were given the gift of the Torah, the day we Jews learnt how powerful giving really was, became personal on 12 November...
If you could go back in time to anywhere in history and just observe, where would you go? I’ve thought unusually long and hard about this...
Greek tzatziki salad This salad is a great accompaniment to any milk meal. It goes wonderfully with fish, but is filling enough to be a meal...
Banoffee pudding Shavuot is the perfect time to make this pudding as you can be assured that your guests will gobble every last crumb. Leftovers are...
With the myriad of practicalities that need to be addressed in the process of making aliya, many often neglect the psychological impact of such a life-changing...
Chayela Rosenthal started out as an actress and singing star in the Vilna Ghetto Theatre in Lithuania, and after enduring unfathomable tragedy, she rebuilt her life...
JTA – For much of the past week, Israel’s latest unlikely celebrity lounged on Jaffa beach, drawing throngs of onlookers, constant media attention, and round-the-clock protection...
Long considered an awkward but necessary discussion that parents stumble through with their kids, discussions about sex shouldn’t happen in isolation, say experts. By teaching our...
Brett Morris may be one of the country’s leading creative minds, having worked with brands from Coca Cola to Nando’s, but it’s been his lifelong dream...
When Marcelle Pincus (née Rubin) was growing up, her parents’ great hope for her was that she would leave school after Grade 7, and work at...
Johannesburg nonagenarian Joy Rothenberg is competing this week in an all-African bridge tournament, having recently received her South African colours to represent her country. On 22...
If you think about it for a second, why was the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai so momentous? It wasn’t as if no-one had...
I’m tired of negativity, not least my own. It gets me and everyone around me nowhere. It helps nobody, and all it does is make a...
Over the past two months, the Cape Town Jewish community has been targeted by a series of threatening, inflammatory, and not infrequently overtly antisemitic demonstrations, both...
ORT SA has announced the appointment of Roland Sassoon as its new president. Sassoon is a banking and finance veteran, and is former chief executive of...
As the weather cools in the south and Shavuot sits on the horizon, we invite you to indulge in delectable treats from across the globe. Join...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has once again allowed the flags of terrorist organisations to be draped on its campus and a recognised antisemite and...
Dis-Chem co-founder and business icon Ivan Saltzman says he may be stepping down as long-time chief executive (CEO) of the business empire, but it doesn’t mean...
South African communal leaders have called on the country’s political leaders to stop their “unique discrimination and hostility against the Jewish state” as they tore into...
The visible docking and loading of Lady R, a Russian-sanctioned ship, in the Cape Town naval port of Simon’s Town on the night of 6 December...
Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz reminded us that diplomacy was merely war by other means. Last week, a diplomatic war broke out in Pretoria. In...
On 28 Iyar, corresponding to 19 May this year, Israel and the diaspora will mark Yom Yerushalayim. This day commemorates the recapture of East Jerusalem from...
On Friday this week, we celebrate Yom Yerushalayim. We honour 56 years of a reunified Jerusalem, the eternal and undivided capital of the Jewish people, and...
Since the launch of the newly-elected Netanyahu-led coalition several months ago, Israel’s politics have been roiled by a profound internal debate over a series of judicial...
If the so-called “champions of democracy” succeed in obstructing the judicial reforms, democratic rule will be replaced by mob rule, and Israel will teeter on the...
