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One has to wonder why the Torah goes into such great detail to describe the construction of the Mishkan – the Tabernacle – which the Jews...
In combating antisemitism, the Board deals both with direct instances of abusive behaviour against Jewish individuals or institutions and offensive statements made in the public domain...
South Africa has once again designated itself world leader in targeting Israel, this time by making an urgent request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
Kibbutz Nir Oz resident and South African olah, Yael Marcus (34), is grieving for kibbutznik friends killed or abducted on 7 October, but she was saved...
American politicians are calling for the United States (US) to review its bilateral relations with South Africa, which may have dire economic and political consequences for...
Israel has responded to claims by Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi Pandor that the country is out to get her because of the...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) delivered a memorandum to the justice department in Pretoria on 12 February in response to Justice and Correctional...
The African National Congress (ANC) is facing its sternest challenge since the end of apartheid. For the first time in democratic South Africa, the party’s support...
We’re all acquainted with the concept of a leap year. Every four years, an additional day is added to the month of February as a necessary...
South African haters of Israel have resorted to intimidatory tactics to bully German institutions far removed from the conflict in the Middle East, demanding that the...
“October 7 marked the point of no return,” Rabbi Danny Mirvis, the acting chief executive of World Mizrachi, told a presentation organised by Mizrachi South Africa...
Three South African government ministers and the president joined in the controversial antisemitic Palestinian rallying cry, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!”;...
I don’t want to brag, but I do consider myself “gutsy”. Gutsy as in brave, not as in flabby in the region of the stomach. I...
I recall the embarrassment of being a South African when travelling abroad during the apartheid era, especially during the 1980s. Many of us would hide our...
“He insults his ex”; “She never shuts up”; “The date went terribly”; “We’re just not meant to be.” Though sometimes reservations about someone are well founded,...
“Lay on the ground, hands on your head!” These are the words heard by Supernova (Nova) Music Festival attendees who, at 06:30 as sirens sounded, had...
Three Herzlia High School water polo players dived into the pitch-black water of the water polo pool in Knysna harbour in the Western Cape recently to...
An intricately crafted gorilla looking lovingly at the baby in her arms not only reflects ceramicist Mandi Friedman’s love of primates, but also what it means...
The hills are alive to The Sound of Music at the Teatro at Montecasino, where two budding young actresses from King David Victory Park (KDVP) Primary...
JTA – Was the first antisemitism-themed advert to air at the Super Bowl tactful or tasteless? How much did it have to do with Israel? And...
JTA – Katie Silver had already mastered volunteering and racing to safe rooms when she hopped on another Israeli wartime trend. Silver, a Pilates instructor in...
JTA – Australian police are investigating threats against a five-year-old Jewish child amid an uproar over the publication online of a list of hundreds of Jewish...
On reading that our not-so beloved minister of international relations and cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, would be terminating her career in public office after the national...
It took much convincing from my kids, but finally I relented and accompanied them to a cricket game. Admittedly, I don’t have much personal interest in...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has continued to be active on the media front in response to persistent denials by Justice Minister Ronald...
The Chevrah Kadisha is adding the delivery of kosher meals to its comprehensive welfare programme. This is after the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) approached it...
Since the outcome of the South African government’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was announced, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Dr...
The head of World Mizrachi, South African-born Rabbi Doron Perez, whose son is believed held hostage in Gaza, is imploring top decisionmakers to ensure that no...
Rafael Elias Mosheyoff, one of the 21 soldiers tragically killed in Gaza on 23 January, had the world at his feet after a disadvantaged upbringing because...
Over the past four years, I have witnessed in my labour-law practice more and more interference from political forces in the business world and in particular...
“If they have a problem with Jewish religious symbols, let them say it outright,” Ward 72 Councillor Daniel Schay said in the first Johannesburg council meeting...
George Orwell, one of Britain’s greatest gifts to Western literature, warned his readers about the deceptive use of language, particularly in the realm of politics. Political...
The South African government’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has served us with a total inversion of international law. Though...
Jewish identity delicately balances two opposing attitudes toward the non-Jewish world. We’re a particularistic race, asserting an exclusive covenant with Hashem, which awards us His land...
Jews and crises go back longer than gefilte fish and chrain. One of our earliest was the Israelites versus the sea in 2448 (Jewish calendar). With...
Last week, two senior African National Congress (ANC) leaders declared that South Africa might be punished for its outspoken foreign policy positions. Facing blowback after taking...
There’s something alluring about extreme makeovers. Home renovations; a dramatic transformation of a homeless person into a potential employee; and hairstyle and make up before-and-after posts...
“Zionists have no moral claim to Palestine – certainly no more than the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] has to India, Afrikaner nationalists had to apartheid South...
Living in a country that has gone out of its way to oppose their birthplace has left many Israelis in South Africa uneasy. Yet though they...
“Justice is with us,” former Knesset member Ruth Wasserman Lande told South African olim who gathered in Ra’anana on Friday, 2 February, to protest against the...
