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Bleeding profusely from her hands after being viciously attacked by an anti-Israel mob on Friday, 27 September, Cape Town academic and interfaith leader, Dr Azila Reisenberger...
As South African Jewry mourned the first anniversary since the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa changed the historical facts...
Born in Israel and raised in South Africa before returning to live in the Jewish state, clinical psychologist Lihie Gilhar says that in the wake of...
Cape Town Jewry, supported by allies and dignitaries, came out in numbers to attend a multifaceted memorial commemorating the lives lost and shattered on 7 October...
In what people are calling a miracle, a South African group that planned to hold a ceremony at the “South African Forest” in the north of...
When the editor of media giant News24 dismissed Jewish columnist Howard Feldman, it exposed what appears to be double standards at the widely read South African...
Over the high holy days, we do our utmost to ensure that we are inscribed in “The Book of Life.” While it may feel like an...
Local academic and activist Ivor Chipkin is appalled but undeterred by the “vicious” smear campaign launched in response to a conference he is convening that explores...
On his first official visit to the United States (US), South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Ronald Lamola, unashamedly reiterated, “We stand with the...
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape has confirmed its full support for Hamas, an internationally-designated terrorist organisation. In a statement on 5 September,...
It’s rare to encounter openly antisemitic sentiment in South Africa, but self-styled politician Mehmet Vefa Dag, who has Turkish roots, delves into anti-Jewish tropes on a...
On the morning of 1 September, shortly after Israeli soldiers found the bodies of six young Israeli hostages executed by Hamas in Gaza, the president of...
Professor Adam Mendelsohn, the head of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) historical studies department, is taking his university to court to set aside its recently...
When a heart-shaped stone that Staff Sergeant Nitai Metodi had given to his South African-born grandmother, Riva Hellman, fell and chipped last Friday morning, she knew...
The massive challenges facing the animal-welfare sector in South Africa were brought to light when dogs and cats had to be rescued from a Cape animal...
The South African Police Service has deployed heat-sensing drones, police tracker dogs, divers, and search and rescue teams to locate missing Capetonian Robert Schroder (58), but...
Ben-Gurion University (BGU) President Professor Daniel Chamovitz says University of Cape Town (UCT) students and staff who want to cut ties with Israeli universities would be...
At 22-years-old, Capetonian Atarah Katzeff had done more than most people do in a lifetime. She danced on the sea floor while diving; climbed the Drakensberg...
Twenty-five years ago Holocaust education didn’t exist in South Africa. Today, it’s an integral part of the national school curriculum, with thousands of pupils and educators...
As Israel braces itself for retaliation after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on 31 July, South Africa once again blames Israel and...
When a secret military training camp in Mpumalanga was discovered just days after the United States treasury sanctioned two South African individuals linked to Islamic State...
Jay Kaplan may now be studying at the University of Chicago (UChicago), but his strong Jewish identity emanating from growing up in Johannesburg led him to...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) have criticised the South African government’s deafening silence after Iranian proxy,...
South African Ronli Dorfman was sleeping peacefully in a Tel Aviv hotel in the early hours of Friday, 19 July, when she heard an explosion that...
Living just 400m from the Lebanese border, South African olah Adrienne Chonowitz thought she was leaving for only a few days at most when she, her...
In a significant moment for the South African Jewish community, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has laid a complaint against the African National...
In one of his first media interviews as South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola appeared to parrot the party line, but his...
Andile Mngxitama may be a controversial figure, but in his maiden speech as a uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) Member of Parliament, he spoke straight and true....
Anton Fagan, the WP Schreiner Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT), who set an exam question in May depicting a fictional terrorist...
Local non-governmental organisation Citizens For Integrity (CFI) has taken Cricket South Africa (CSA) to court over its decision to strip Jewish cricketer David Teeger of his...
Terrorist attacks like the 7 October massacre in Israel are committed every few days in Africa against innocent Christians and moderate Muslims, according to the African-Jewish...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Just days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa uttered the phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” at the African National Congress’s...
When educator Adina Roth was finally ordained as an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in New York on 3 June, she couldn’t quite find the words to describe...
The University of South Africa (Unisa) has blamed Israel for Hamas’s 7 October massacre, also claiming that “the Zionists” are “abusing” the concept of antisemitism and...
At the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) last rally before South Africa went to the polls on 29 May, President Cyril Ramaphosa made sure he would be...