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The University of Cape Town’s (UCT’s) highest decision-making body has officially adopted resolutions to boycott Israeli academia and ensure that anti-Zionism cannot be not described as...
It has been a week since Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidential inauguration followed by days of high drama as the nation waits for him to reveal his Cabinet...
Walking towards the place in Tel Aviv that has become known as Hostage Square on Saturday night, 22 June, I had a sinking feeling. Throngs of...
On 5 October 2023, retired Israeli Colonel Miri Eisin appeared on the i24 TV channel reflecting on 50 years since the Yom Kippur War. When asked...
The prestigious Encounters International Documentary Film Festival (Encounters), which runs from 20 to 30 June across the country, claims to believe in the power of documentary...
As anyone who has travelled to Israel will know, one of the iconic features of Ben Gurion International Airport is the world’s largest kosher mezuza affixed...
“No war is inevitable until it breaks out,” wrote British historian and journalist, AJP Taylor. It can be argued that Israel has been at war with...
She wants her freedom; he wants his power, so he withholds a gett (a Jewish divorce) making her an agunah (chained woman). Dedicated to addressing this...
Do we have gett refusers in our community? You may think not, but unfortunately we do. Rebbetzin Kayla Goldstein from New Jersey, the founder of the...
It’s normal for sociopolitical issues to spill into our environment, but the tension caused by strongly held opposing beliefs over the war between Israel and Hamas...
It must be one of the more perplexing aspects of the 7 October war: how is it possible that the “woke” left and Hamas terrorists have...
Warning: Graphic content “The sexual abuse that occurred on 7 October wasn’t made up of isolated incidents or sporadic cases but was rather a clear operational...
The last direct flight between Johannesburg and Tel Aviv left the runway on 29 March 2024, surrounded by an emotional team of EL AL employees, some...
After seven weeks of practice, the Israel national cricket team set off for Rome on 7 June to participate in the ICC (International Cricket Council) Men’s...
It took grit and sacrifice for 12-year-old Herzlia student Rafael Palmer to rise through the tennis ranks to the point that he was finally selected for...
South African Michael Levitt opened the batting for the Netherlands in its four T20 Cricket World Cup games in June, and set social media abuzz with...
Dr Tracey Farber, a psychologist who specialises in working with trauma, was involved in the creation of the book Catastrophic Grief, Trauma, and Resilience in Child...
JTA – Israel must draft haredi Orthodox Jews into its army, the country’s Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision on Tuesday, 25 June. The ruling...
JTA – The charitable foundation that owns Wikipedia appears to have fobbed off a letter from a broad coalition of Jewish groups calling on the foundation...
JTA – More than 100 victims of Hamas’s massacres in Israel on 7 October are suing United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main relief...
Walking through the streets of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, you can be lulled into a false belief that Israel is going on as normal. It’s easy...
Perspective. What a difference it makes. How we look, where we look, and the way we look at things always colours our impressions. In this week’s...
This week at the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), we bid farewell to a consummate mensch and 30-year veteran, David Saks. David has been...
Driven by Iran, the Middle East is in flames. Few people understand the conflict as well as Col. Miri Eisin, managing director of the International Institute...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein wore a small yellow ribbon on his lapel to address the momentous inauguration on Wednesday, 19 June, of President Cyril Ramaphosa...
South African olah Shelley Liss Barkan is risking her life living in the northern Israel town of Shlomi long after it was evacuated because of Hezbollah...
I’ve dined out countless times on my story of attending an investment conference in California nearly 13 years ago and meeting Colombia’s former president, Alvaro Uribe...
South Africa’s future is far more promising today than it was a week, a month, or even a year ago. What we’ve just witnessed over the...
Eight months ago, a 21-year-old South African and her Israeli boyfriend were just two young lovers cherishing their time together in serene Be’eri, a co-operative kibbutz...
G-d created a perfect world. It’s called heaven, where we all go when we pass away from this imperfect world. Heaven is a place of no...
South Africa’s 29 May election produced a political earthquake. The great and assumed hegemon of our polity, the African National Congress (ANC) lost power by crashing...
South African-born Ralph Lewinsohn, his wife, Barbara, and their family survived the hell that befell their beloved home on Kfar Aza on 7 October 2023, when...
When 63-year-old Kyalami resident Penny Van A heard about the massacre in the south of Israel on 7 October, she felt compelled to go and help....
A stack of letters, perfectly preserved for more than 80 years since World War II, have finally made their way home after an extraordinary connection made...
It might not be the same as the story of Purim, but it’s worth celebrating. South Africa and her Jewish community have once again defied the...
Stuck in one of the worst storms the Drakensberg has ever seen, influencer and photographer Chad Nathan (31) said the Shema on a hike in early...
It’s not often that a Jewish South African boytjie is awarded an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by King Charles...
Brian, 47, describes himself as a “grateful alcoholic”. He has been sober for 18 months, and considers himself a frum Jew. “Mine was a steady decline...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) couldn’t order a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Hamas because it would be binding only on Israel, but Israel isn’t...
Daron Chatz’s four-part wildlife docuseries Wild Zambezi opened this month at Ster-Kinekor in celebration of World Wildlife Month. Chatz, who directed the series, gives us an...
