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On 11 October, a letter purporting to be from Hamas to South Africa, started spreading like wildfire on WhatsApp, four days after the murderous Hamas attack...
It was a wedding ceremony like no other, at a time like never before. For a moment, all pain and anguish were set aside as a...
Criticising the South African government and ruling African National Congress (ANC), a deeply betrayed head of the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) cried out last Sunday,...
If my parents were alive today, I would be in serious trouble. It wouldn’t be for a phone call, but they would ask me when a...
If you’re in an Orthodox shul on Shabbat morning, you may notice that the prayer for South Africa sounds different. It has been rewritten by Chief...
On Monday evening, 16 October, Ponte was illuminated in blue and white with the Israeli flag. It was short lived, not much more than 10 minutes,...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has allowed the UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (UCT PSF) to express its support openly for terrorist organisations Hamas, Palestinian Islamic...
Many Capetonian Jews woke up on the morning of Saturday, 14 October, grieving the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists exactly a week earlier. On Shabbat, and...
South African olah Lili Kovler, who lives in Jerusalem, felt paralysed with fear and sadness when in the wake of the 7 October massacre, her Israeli...
South Africa urgently needs to re-examine its response to the Hamas atrocities against Israelis, said panellists in the SA Jewish Report webinar, “Slaughter of the Innocents:...
South African olim and their families are taking refuge in South Africa amid the turmoil of war. It’s a difficult choice as they’re grateful to have...
Soon after touching down at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on 15 October, 73-year-old South African olah Andrea Goldblatt experienced a traumatic moment when a siren...
Esteemed lawyers David Bilchitz and Matthew Chaskalson have been appointed acting judges in the Constitutional Court in 2024. Bilchitz is professor of fundamental rights and constitutional...
Former Proteas cricketer Adam Bacher has “a strong feeling about our Proteas” at the ongoing Cricket World Cup in India. South Africa started the tournament with...
JTA – United States President Joe Biden arrived in Israel with a message of solidarity, saying that he accepted the Israeli assessment that a blast at...
“Don’t take me, I’m too young!” This desperate plea keeps playing in my head. I went cold on hearing the mother of two children, aged 12...
To say that we Jews aren’t popular is an understatement. All too often, we’re downright unpopular. And far worse. Why is this? What is it about...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has frequently criticised the South African government for its palpable anti-Israel bias, but the recent shocking response, not just...
Reports from the frontline of the war! Join survivors of the massacre telling their harrowing stories of survival. Hear from Avi Mayer, the editor-in-chief of the...
Grandmother Marcelle Talia, 65, who was born and raised in the Free State, was mercilessly gunned down last Saturday by Hamas terrorists as she made her...
“We’re in a war that we didn’t choose to be in,” Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Eli Cohen told foreign media on Monday, 9 October. “We’ll continue...
More than 2 500 Jews descended on Yeshiva Mizrachi in Johannesburg on Monday, 9 October, at 18:00 to pray for the state of Israel after the...
The head of World Mizrachi, Rabbi Doron Perez, and his wife, Shelley, have endured agonising uncertainty this week, waiting endlessly for news of their son, believed...
On Tuesday night, 10 October, I went out to visit the home of an Israeli colleague in South Africa. Usually I don’t visit colleagues on a...
Many South Africans want to know how they can help Israel. Here’s what the SA Jewish Report has found. The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) has...
At this time of harrowing danger, let’s harness the spiritual power of lighting Shabbat candles to pray for Israel. For generations, Jewish women have prayed for...
I’m still reeling in shock, disbelief, and anger at the brutal, well-coordinated Hamas attack on Israel from Gaza that began on 7 October. Numbers are hard...
On early Friday afternoon, 6 October, I was sitting on the beach in Poleg, and took a photo of my kids swimming in the Mediterranean, paragliders...
I’m not the same person I was when I went to sleep last Friday night. Our country isn’t the same as it was. We’ll never be...
One is tempted to quote the old cliché about the fact that those who forget their history are condemned to relive it. The latest troubles in...
The news was slow to reach me. Whereas I don’t switch my phone off on Shabbat, I also don’t check it or use it. Which is...
For South African Jewry, it has felt like a week of shiva. We are mourning, yet only a few outside our community have come to offer...
Most South Africans are appalled at the massacre of, at the time of writing, more than 1 200 Jews in Israel at the hands of Hamas...
The mayor of the Shar HaNegev regional council, Ofir Liebstein (50), and Canadian olah Vivian Silver (75) have spent their lives dedicated to peace and improving...
South African oleh Gidon Boolkin is grateful to be alive after a Hamas rocket hit his building on the corner of Ben Yehuda and Mendele streets...
When Ma’ayan Jowell and Sigalit Levin were growing up in Port Elizabeth, their Israeli cousin, Avi Zakuto, came to stay with them for a few months....
JTA – When Hamas terrorists broke into her home early on Saturday, 7 October, Rachel Adari didn’t have any guns. But she had another kind of...
From horrifying newscasts to disturbing videos and images online, the stories out of Israel over the past few days have been nothing short of devastating. Whether...
From disbelief to shock to panic, the parents of South African kids on Masa Israel Journey Programmes have been through a gamut of emotions since the...
“I don’t want to talk about the horrors, the videos, and heartbreaking photographs,” said Adi Cohen Hazanov, deputy ambassador of Israel to South Africa, who was...
