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In these unfathomable times filled with devastation, Ukrainian Jewish and other refugees will make an appearance at every Pesach seder worldwide as their exodus from their...
Antisemitism experts are disgusted by a meme posted on social media last week by local anti-Israel lobby group Africa4Palestine which compared Israel to Nazi Germany. Africa4Palestine,...
The chief rabbi of Kyiv, Ukraine, has reached out to Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein in a plea for help for the city’s bereft Holocaust survivors...
Hate crime, hate speech, and bias-motivated violence in South Africa have grown in recent years, Alana Baranov of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD)...
Former Muslim beauty queen turned global interfaith activist, Sarah Idan, has left South African shores after a whirlwind trip as an ambassador for peace during the...
Former Miss Iraq, Sarah Idan, an Arab Muslim global peace activist, has challenged the Israel-bashing grandson of Nelson Mandela to a conversation on the conflict in...
A South African man met the love of his life on an online Jewish dating site, but has no idea when he’ll see his Russian fiancée...
It has been a week of chaos and anxiety for local travellers affected by the sudden shut down of Comair’s British Airways and Kulula. There is...
An unlikely yet beautiful friendship has formed after 40 years between a former schoolyard bully and his defenceless victim, which carries a message of reconciliation and...
Bongani Masuku, who was found guilty of hate speech by the Constitutional Court last month, has finally apologised to the Jewish community after many years of...
The South African government, the ruling party, and anti-Israel lobbyists have embarked on a campaign to keep the now upstaged pro-Palestinian narrative alive during one of...
Four men living in South Africa have been identified by the United States (US) as allegedly being involved in terrorist activities across the country and on...
The highest court in the land last week ruled that recently retired Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s so-called controversial Israel comments made during a webinar in 2020...
Jewish food fund Yad Aharon & Michael this week announced a new board of directors following the recent resignation of Managing Director Alice Friedman, the face...
South Africa’s highest court has ordered Bongani Masuku to apologise to the Jewish community for a series of hateful comments he made more than 13 years...
Communal leaders and Jewish students have been integrally involved in ensuring a protest-free start to the academic year at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), with...
It takes gumption, grit, global vision and good-old-fashioned chutzpah to turn the inner city of Johannesburg into something enticing and attractive for urbanites, hipsters, and trendsetters....
The Beth Din of South Africa this week issued a first-of-its-kind message urging survivors of child abuse not to be afraid to report cases which may...
Security experts have cautioned that South Africa faces a monumental battle against terrorism in spite of communal organisations this week hailing the successful conviction of the...
It was the flashy gold Rolex wristwatch encrusted with jewels that first caught the eye of Johannesburg businessman Jake Mendelow (not his real name) when he...
Shockwaves have ripped through the community following the allegation on social media last week of a popular Hebrew teacher in Johannesburg who has been implicated in...
The protracted Clover strike, which started as a local wage and retrenchment dispute in November, has grown into a full-blown anti-Israel hate fest. In its third...
A director of the recently formed new kosher hechsher resigned in the same week of its launch. Akiva Mallett of Kosher Certified South Africa (KCSA) resigned...
Thousands of Litvak Jews around the world stand a much better chance at getting Lithuanian citizenship based on ancestry since the law was amended last week....
Three disgruntled former mashgichim (kosher supervisors) this week launched their own kosher hechsher in a bid to compete with the Beth Din, the country’s foremost kosher...
Israel is being used as a political football by striking workers, unions, and the anti-Israel lobby in the protracted domestic labour dispute with Clover, which has...
Identical twin brothers Leonard and Jason Rom – inseparable in life and death – were laid to rest side by side on Sunday, 16 January, at...
The multi-party Democratic Alliance (DA)-led coalition in the City of Johannesburg hangs in the balance as the small Al Jama-ah party this week dramatically dropped out...
It’s not every day that you get a phone call from the office of the minister in the presidency informing you that you have been appointed...
Nothing was going to stop the executive mayor of Johannesburg, Dr Mpho Phalatse, last week from delivering her acceptance speech as the city’s first woman in...
It’s just days before the Miss Universe pageant in Eilat, and Miss SA Lalela Mswane has been soaking up the sights and sounds of Israel and...
To most people, he was Sir Antony Sher, one of Britain’s finest stage actors who was internationally renowned for tackling the toughest Shakespearean roles with successful...
Citizens for Integrity (CFI) has accused the government and the minister of sports, arts, and culture of acting unconstitutionally and irrationally in its “bullying” of Miss...
“My brother was like a boxer, he took many knocks and would always get up. In the end, there were just too many, and he gave...
Antisemitism experts have spoken out against racism following a despicable rant by a young man on TikTok last week. Charges have been laid against TikTok user...
“If she goes through with it, she’s definitely a hero.” So said former Miss Iraq, social activist Sarah Idan, who has repeatedly come out in support...
“I marvel at the miracle of modern medicine and unbelievable human kindness,” says advocate Gerald Farber, 73, who has a new lease on life after a...
It’s touch and go whether Miss South Africa will get on a plane to Israel to compete in the Miss Universe pageant next month, after a...
A few minutes before undergoing life altering surgery, two men laid eyes on each other for the very first time and burst into tears of hope...
Miss SA, Lalela Mswane, is headed for the Miss Universe pageant in Israel in spite of incessant harassment by anti-Israel activists on social media intent on...
