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Leo Brent Bozell III, nominated by United States (US) President Donald Trump as the next US Ambassador to South Africa, is a good friend of Israel...
NOT FOR SENSITIVE READERS “Jewish people murder, rape, and eat children,” claims aspiring South African comedian Thomas Torr in a recent YouTube video. He is one...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has challenged the African National Congress (ANC), its partner in the Government of National Unity (GNU), on its right to dictate international...
For nearly 20 years, IAW (Israeli Apartheid Week), held on university campuses around the world, has been a malicious attempt to delegitimise the Jewish state of...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared that national government will intervene to prevent the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) ongoing push in the Johannesburg City Council to name...
I’m lying at a beach resort, the kind of place where time stretches, where the biggest decision of the day is whether to order another coffee...
Nobody wanted this. Nobody wanted a return to war. War isn’t abstract, it takes a very human toll. This war, the longest and most brutal in...
When Israeli multi-gold medallist Ami Dadaon began swimming as part of his physical therapy for cerebral palsy, he didn’t imagine that it would lead him to...
The education of the lion cub cannot be outsourced to a lesser animal – the future king of the jungle can be taught only by the...
Kosher wine has been subject to much criticism over the years, but with the rising number of kosher wines produced in and exported from South Africa,...
One of my favourite Joan Rivers comedy sketches is when she tells the audience that although she is Jewish, she decided to erect a Christmas tree...
The Israel hatred on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus shocked a South African-born Israeli influencer who has used his five million TikTok followers to...
Do you remember when you weren’t allowed to leave your home except to buy essentials and you could do so only between certain hours? Do you...
Yiddish is a burgeoning language, according to New York Yiddish-language journalist Ari Weiser, who is visiting South Africa this week. “It is a language that is...
Capetonian Jacqui Boyd continued her unbeaten record in South African national tennis tournaments by winning the 2025 South African Masters Tennis Nationals earlier this month. Boyd,...
In parshas Pekudei, we learn about the final tally of all of the contributions to the Holy Temple. After all the hard work we have read...
I lost a friend this week. Not a close friend by any means, but someone I shared a connection with. Standing at his funeral, it was...
The past week’s long weekend was marked by a number of intercommunal engagements, each underscoring the strength of our ties across South Africa’s diverse landscape. The...
Joel Pollak isn’t sorry that he’s cost South Africa’s ambassador to the United States (US) his job. And Tony Leon, former Democratic Alliance leader and former...
Israel’s decision last month to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) now seems not only prudent, but prophetic. A newly released United Nations...
Against the backdrop of South Africa’s Budget crisis and its rapidly declining relationship with the United States (US), South Africa’s National Treasury designated a further R37.2...
The United Nations (UN) – an organisation founded to uphold peace that has been turned into a brutal weapon against Israel – is on its way...
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT’s) top decision-making body, its council, had the chance on 15 March to cancel its anti-Israel boycott motions adopted in 2024,...
The leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Johannesburg City Council this week demanded that the mayor secure an urgent public apology from a council...
South Africa stands at an unprecedented fiscal and political crossroads. The 2025 Budget, finally tabled by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on 12 March, has ignited a...
As March 2025 marches on, my mind takes me back to 2020, to those milestone dates that still bring back such vivid memories of the COVID-19...
Last week’s council resolution by the City of Johannesburg to vote against the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) motion to rescind the renaming of the monumental Sandton Drive...
On Human Rights Day, South Africans generally enjoy a day off with family to celebrate the human rights we are granted by our Constitution. “Well, all...
Last Friday evening, while enjoying what I thought was a quiet and civilised family dinner, I “allegedly” made an inappropriate comment. My family are well aware...
Elad Simchayoff, Israel’s Channel 12 European correspondent and the host of Israel’s highest rated podcast One a Day, has experienced his fair share of anti-Israel protests...
American Jewish rapper Noah Shufutinsky, also known as Westside Gravy, prioritises Judaism and love for Israel in his music because it’s a fundamental part of his...
Human Rights Day is one of those quintessentially “new South African” institutions. It was part of the list of post-1994 celebrations that attempted to give the...
It is astonishing that it has been more than 30 years since South Africa became a democracy, and political leaders are still abusing each other because...
Please be mindful of my Ps and Qs. I might still be a little pickled from my Purim partying! Last week, we celebrated the most joyous...
Myra Egdes, 90, has made history at Pretoria Jewish retirement home Jaffa by being the first resident to have written and published a novel there. The...
There has been some confusion surrounding last week’s vote in the Johannesburg City Council regarding the proposed renaming of Sandton Drive. The vote rejected a motion...
Terror funding and ISIS (Islamic State) cells are a growing concern in South Africa. This was highlighted this week by a kidnapping, subsequent arrests, and the...
Fringe anti-Israel political party Al Jama-ah accused the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) in Parliament on 4 March of curtailing freedom of speech. Al...
One of the most addictive substances in the world, the nicotine in cigarettes, makes quitting smoking particularly challenging, yet not impossible. However, though the gains that...
JTA – The case of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protester arrested by ICE (United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officers at Columbia University over the weekend,...
