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My recent flights to the United States to visit our family over Pesach was via the United Kingdom – let’s put those Discovery Miles to work...
In the run-up to this year’s election, so many of us were questioning how the African National Congress (ANC) – our governing party – went from...
As the representative voice and human rights lobby of South African Jewry, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ core mission is proactive and, where necessary,...
Elections are upon us. Should we be heading to the airport in anticipation of an ANC/EFF coalition or buying houses in Sandton before a DA victory?...
An international who’s who of anti-Israel activists, including Hamas leaders, gathered in Sandton at the weekend calling for the complete isolation, dismantling, and eradication of the...
Peaceful Jewish protesters were harassed and forcibly removed from outside the Sandton Convention Centre on 10 May, as they criticised Minister of International Relations and Cooperation...
Johannesburg drivers have been confronted by multiple billboards calling for Israel to be banned from the Paris Olympic Games, which begins on 26 July this year....
As we commemorated Yom Hazikaron this week, a song in honour of a 22-year-old Johannesburg-born soldier murdered by Hamas touched hearts across the globe. The memory...
South African born grandmother and former Hamas hostage Channah Peri clings to hope that her son, Nadav Popplewell, is still alive, in spite of Hamas declaring...
South Africans in Israel aren’t able to vote in the South African national election, with less than two weeks to go until 29 May. “There are...
Seven months have passed since that fateful day of 7 October, a day that will forever be etched in our collective memory as the darkest chapter...
The post-7 October Yom Hazikaron ceremony at the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on Monday morning, 13 May, was particularly poignant, not least of all as the...
When news of the massacre at the hands of Hamas in Israel on 7 October filtered down to Omer Cohen*, who was living in Cyprus, he...
It may be difficult to get into a party mood for the 76th year of Israel’s independence in light of the war and global rise in...
It might have taken me some time, but I’ve made the decision to support the call for a ceasefire. As a Jew, I cannot ignore the...
You may be familiar with a famous Hebrew song which speaks of “all these things, the honey – and the sting”. It’s the perfect explanation of...
Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, is a time to celebrate the birth and resilience of the state of Israel. This year, marking the 76th anniversary, is...
The state of Israel, born on 14 May 1948 from the ashes of World War II, was soon attacked from all sides by surrounding hostile Arab...
Many South African Jews have felt violated, isolated, and vilified since the savage Hamas terror attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the hatred spawned...
Grade 10s routinely go on programmes to Israel for a few weeks every year, but with Israel at war and parents concerned about their children’s safety,...
With a government that has launched genocide accusations against Israel at the ICJ (International Court of Justice), repeatedly welcomed Hamas representatives, and threatened to arrest South...
“Remembering the systematic genocide of the European Jews, a crime against humanity on an unprecedented scale, and the horrors and atrocities perpetrated in Germany’s name under...
Although close to 200 Litvaks – Jews of Lithuanian descent – voted in the Lithuanian presidential elections on 12 May at Beyachad in Johannesburg, the result...
King David High School Linksfield matric student Jaime Freeman discovered a talent for wildlife photography during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 while on a trip to...
Driving home on Monday, 13 May, after being at the Israeli embassy to commemorate the most distressing and heartbreaking Yom Hazikaron in my history, I heard...
Rabbi Akiva is the hero of the Omer, read at this time of year between Pesach and Shavuot. After suffering hardships and setbacks, he kept on...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has had pre-election initiatives at every national and municipal election since 2009. They are part of our engagement...
Freed hostage Aviva Siegel has chosen not to watch the Hamas propaganda video of her beloved husband, Keith, whom she was forced to leave behind in...
While thousands of University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) students in residences in Braamfontein have no water or electricity, a hoard of anti-Israel protesters made written demands...
The anti-Israel lobby at the University of Cape Town (UCT) threatened to create its own pro-Palestinian encampment on campus from Monday night, 6 May, but it...
Judge Joan Donoghue, who has just retired as president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has made it clear that the ICJ didn’t find that...
Iran launched a major missile attack on Israel on 13 April, which included more than 300 suicide drones, cruise, as well as ballistic missiles. This was...
Since the days of Moshe and Aharon, the kohanim have recited Birkat Kohanim, the holy priestly blessing conferred by the Temple priests on the Jewish people....
To fellow Jewish students in the United States, As a South African student navigating the complexities of maintaining a proud Jewish identity in a landscape so...
As we approach 29 May, it’s hard to not feel a sense of anticipation and excitement for possible change lurking around the corner. Is 2024 our...
South African olim can breathe a sigh of relief as the Knesset has agreed to maintain the generous Israeli tax incentives available for aliya. Speculation had...
Miriam Lazarus is one of the few remaining Lithuanian Holocaust survivors in South Africa, but she wouldn’t have been born if the Nazis had their way....
On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of 44 000 Jews from Hungary and 1 900 Jews from Rhodes, this year’s Yom Hashoah ceremony in Cape Town...
As six lamps were lit by the heads of Pretoria’s Jewish community on Monday evening, 6 May, to remember the six million who died and commemorate...
The Israeli city of Karmiel is in mourning following the tragic death of Ido Aviv, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservist killed in an explosion while...
