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Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein says the response by South African Jewish school students to his request to write letters to Israeli soldiers has been amazing...
Twenty-year-old Johannesburg swimmer Dani Furman pictures herself calmly awaiting her chance to dive into the Midmar Dam while a throng of other swimmers push and shove...
At the time of going to press, Bafana Bafana had reached the semi-finals of the 2024 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Ivory Coast, and the...
“One day, when true peace comes, they’ll write books about her, name streets after her, and make movies about her life. If Israelis knew what Sylvia...
It’s enough of all this talk of us being unsafe here and what a dreadful future we have. Do we all honestly believe that? I don’t....
This remarkable journey called life is made up of peaks and valleys, triumphs, and disappointments. King David writes in Psalm 92, “It’s good to thank Hashem;...
The last person in government one would expect to declare publicly that there’s “no antisemitism in South Africa” and that claims of antisemitic incidents in the...
The chief rabbi of South Africa, Dr Warren Goldstein, has come out guns blazing following recent international media reports revealing that leading South African banks may...
The South African Jewish community is calling on South African Justice Minister Ronald Lamola and the African National Congress government to stop dismissing antisemitism and to...
Arriving at a home in central Israel recently, South African expat Linda Friedland walked towards the covered patio where a little girl was playing. It was...
“The question of genocide is a tricky one,” said Jakub Nowakowski, the director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre. “In spite of horrible things...
An election manifesto launch is a vital moment in any party’s campaign, yet the African National Congress (ANC) appears to have handed over this pivotal event...
When South Africa recalled its diplomats in Israel as a way of censuring the Jewish state in November 2023, it effectively closed the South African embassy...
In his 2023 Christmas message, renowned English writer and raconteur Stephen Fry recalled the words of the politician, scholar, and journalist, Conor Cruise O’Brien. “Antisemitism,” warned...
When word got out last week that EL AL would be cancelling the only direct flight between Johannesburg and Tel Aviv from April 2024, it sent...
The mayor of Rishon LeZion, Raz Kinstlich, made a big show on Sunday, 28 January, of taking down the South African flag in the city’s Garden...
Hostile nations have surrounded Israel ever since 1948. Military scientists have coined a term to describe the condition in which nations or armies find themselves surrounded:...
I’m old enough to remember when men’s handshakes were silent. Originating sometime way back when people killed each other just because they could, the handshake was...
Amid reports of reinforcements being sent to the northern border, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Company Leader Roy Rizel, 31, who oversees three platoons in the Golani...
With the proliferation of jewellery featuring Jewish symbols, Hebrew slogans, and the words “Bring Them Home” in reference to the hostages, it’s clear that fashion accessories...
Capetonian Mark Blumenthal made aliya with his wife in January this year and in doing so, they wanted to show their support for Israel and show...
When Christian community leader Clive Mashishi, the founder of the Clive Mashishi Foundation and volunteer for the South African Friends of Israel, found out that he...
Tali Nates, the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC), received the United States State Department’s International Religious Freedom Award in Washington,...
JTA – Roughly twice as many people have viewed a single instance of Eylon Levy raising his eyebrows as there are citizens of the country he...
“Over our lifetime, we spend two years looking for lost objects,” says Rebekah Saltzman, who makes a living helping people declutter their homes. Professional declutterer Saltzman...
When Gina Dave started Grade 8 at King David Linksfield in 2020, she decided to follow in her older sister’s footsteps by participating in the Duke...
South African Donald Ramphadi and Israeli Guy Sasson almost achieved perfection without much practice at the prestigious Australian Open tennis tournament last week. They had barely...
The Israel national cricket team are going all out to make their mark in this year’s T20 World Cup, and the two South Africans behind the...
Sports psychologist Dr Bob Rotella in his book, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect, writes about how golf is inherently a game of mistakes. The...
While the war between Israel and Hamas continues unabated and there are more deaths of soldiers and civilians, the world hasn’t stopped debating, arguing, and discussing...
For South African Jewry, 29 December, just like 7 October, was another seminal date where everything changed. The news that our own government had just instituted...
