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“I just wish the Iron Dome malfunctions,” wrote Cape Town businesswoman Mariam Jakoet-Harris on the social media platform Instagram on 9 December 2023. She is one...
After Israel captured senior Hezbollah naval operative Imad Amhaz in an unprecedented raid in the early hours of 1 November, Lebanese forces published photographs of 10...
Mark Lifman, 57, a notorious figure long embedded in Cape Town’s underworld, has met the same fate he once seemed to defy. Gunned down outside a...
In the Middle East, bluster can be an expression of fear, but it can also reflect the culture of honour and shame present in both political...
Professor Shabir Madhi, the dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), continues to share hateful anti-Israel material on social...
The South African government made a submission at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 28 October in its ongoing case accusing Israel of genocide. A...
Many admire the humanitarian work that the Gift of the Givers Foundation performs in the world’s disaster areas, providing relief from floods, earthquakes, and wars. It...
For many Jewish American citizens living in South Africa, the choice of who to vote for in the 5 November presidential elections was based on how...
South Africans living in the United States (US) described a mixture of exhaustion over the US’s divisive politics and concern about their presidential candidates’ support for...
“We have enough faith to survive in any situation that will come to us,” freed Israeli hostage Moran Stella Yanai told South Africans at a talk...
It started with glace cherries. Or more accurately, when our hosts thanked us for the cake that we didn’t send them. It was an old-fashioned chocolate...
After undergoing dialysis for a year and a half, South African born Israeli David Skolni knew a kidney transplant would be the only way to restore...
When you know you have a drink or drug problem, it’s probably difficult to admit it and seek help. To do that is to accept that...
A young South African woman, Laurain Cohen and an Australian man, Bill Atkinson, met and travelled in Europe together 57 years ago, and then went their...
While award-winning writer Gina Roitman was trying to help other daughters of Holocaust survivors to deal with their trauma, she found solace and understanding in meeting...
Many of our children grew up listening to Beautiful Creatures. Now, Gallo Records and Paul Choritz, Alan Glass, and Ed Jordan – the Beautiful Creatures team...
Richard Mendelsohn has recently launched his book, The Jews of Parow. The History of a South African Community as a part of a three-pronged project to...
Four Jewish dancers are part of the multicultural South African dance team that professional choreographer Debbie Rakusin is taking to the International Dance Organization (IDO) World...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, saying he no longer trusted him, a drastic step while Israel is fighting...
As Israel haters and antisemites rear their ugly heads more and more, we cannot sit back and ignore it. We must take them on in whatever...
Everyone deserves some peace and quiet. Right? A soldier going through intense rehabilitation in Tel Hashomer Hospital, explained to me on Sukkot why Israel is so...
In 2017, responding to pressure from anti-Israel advocates to cancel a concert in Israel, Radiohead’s frontman, Thom Yorke, expressed frustration that artists he respected had questioned...
