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Internet Communications Technology expert Arthur Goldstuck, whose latest book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI was recently launched, says there’s no reason to panic about artificial intelligence...
For decades, Iran has waged a ceaseless war against Israel through its Hamas, Hezbollah, and most recently, Houthi proxies, funding, arming, and doubtlessly directing them behind...
Pesach is a time when we look back on our past as slaves and how we broke free of our shackles, but this year is almost...
In what’s believed to be the first time in South Africa, the moral/mystical classic work Tanya was recently printed in Sydenham Shul, Johannesburg, and published by...
The number one Jewish question in South Africa furiously making the rounds in the Norwood Pick n Pay and Checkers in Cape Town is, “Where are...
Yad Aharon & Michael’s recent gala dinner fundraiser, Behind the Silhouettes, shone light on the 750 families who receive food assistance from the organisation. Guests experienced...
Finding an appropriate senior living community as one ages is an essential component of retirement planning beyond the necessities of shelter and healthcare. It’s about ensuring...
For the Jewish people, comfort has always been found in food. This Pesach we need it more than ever. Join our outstanding collection of culinary masters...
Local Israel-hating extremist groups have called on the South African justice ministry to probe “the activities of groups such as the Israel Centre, Jewish Agency for...
Seeing a little girl, about eight years old holding a placard saying, “One Zionist One Bullet” outside Beyachad in Johannesburg, where the annual Aliyah Expo was...
Israel’s foreign affairs ministry issued a travel warning for South Africa in early April, recommending that Israelis reconsider travel to South Africa against a backdrop of...
Almost 70% of Israelis living in the diaspora say that antisemitism in the country they now live in has increased to a greater or moderate extent...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog flew to Kigali in Rwanda this week to commemorate 30 years of the Rwandan genocide with President Paul Kagame. “Three decades after...
In an era where South Africa’s challenges often cast a long shadow over its narrative, moments that illuminate our collective spirit and resilience carry profound impact....
We live in challenging times. This week marks six months since the start of the Israel-Gaza war. The news is incessantly miserable and depressing, and each...
Walking into the Aliyah Expo in Johannesburg and Cape Town last week was like taking a trip into a real-life encyclopaedia for aliya, say participants, with...
My husband Ian and I are in our mid-sixties, and made aliya five years ago. I feel honoured to have been invited by the Jewish Agency...
The editor of the prestigious South African Medical Journal, Dr Bridget Farham, has lost her job for trying to ensure balanced coverage of Israel’s war against...
It’s difficult to imagine a world so devoid of challenge that I would be intrigued by a solar eclipse. It’s equally difficult to imagine a scenario...
Foreign Minister Dr Naledi Pandor recently threatened South African citizens serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), telling a Palestinian solidarity event, “I’ve already issued a...
The demand for property from people arriving in Israel has never been greater, said Marc Reiss, who heads up private and international banking activities in Israel,...
As the whistle blew signifying the start of the much anticipated friendly between football stars SuperSport United and the inmates of Kgoŝi Mampuru II correctional centre...
The author of The Only Jew in the Room, which chronicles his journey as the first and only Jew to study at Al-Qasemi, an Arab Islamic...
South African lawyer Jaden Cramer, 30, has made it his mission to help Jews persecuted at work in the United Kingdom (UK) since the 7 October...
Barry John Cohen is launching two books in Cape Town this week, one an autobiography and the other on the life of boxing legend Cedric Kushner....
I woke up in the early hours of the morning before this newspaper was put to bed wracking my brain for an inspiring front-page story with...
The month of Nissan has special significance in Jewish tradition and is emphasised in the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Nissan isn’t...
Just seven weeks remain until the national and provincial elections, the sixth since the holding of the first all-inclusive elections that launched our non-racial democracy. Terms...
South African Jews were horrified this week at the erection of a deeply offensive sculpture on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus on 2 April...
Beit Emanuel, one of the country’s largest and oldest Progressive synagogues, is reeling after its former rabbi was expelled over sexual harassment allegations. Israeli-born Rabbi Sa’ar...
It has been six months since 7 October, and life for olim evacuated from their homes is far from normal. There are 104 ex-South African families...
I cry every day, and I’m not the only one. The tears are for the trauma we’ve endured, for those we lost, for those who remain...
On 25 March, the United States (US) abstained from and declined to exercise its veto power against a United Nations Security Council Resolution which explicitly called...
South African Foreign Minister Dr Naledi Pandor has warned citizens fighting for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza that they face prosecution upon their return....
The movement behind protesting the judicial overhaul before 7 October has become a major source of support for Israelis who needed evacuation, clothes, food, shelter, or...
Over the past few years, Pam Cohen’s* expenses and those of her children far exceeded what she was making in her little business, and she got...
Dafi Forer Kremer, the new director of the Israel Centre in South Africa, is determined to assist Jewish educators to teach South Africans about Israel. Having...
JTA – Some worked with World Central Kitchen and mourned the loss of their partners. Others say they have been sounding the alarm bell about a...
Our “call-up papers” didn’t arrive by mail. They didn’t reach us in a phone call, or by way of a community announcement. Nor did we receive...
The last EL AL Airlines flight from South Africa left last weekend, leaving the South African Jewish community feeling emotional. “But the airline industry isn’t about...
