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Not many people would flee a war only when things were truly dire, then fly back into the humanitarian catastrophe to host a seder for refugees...
When the well-known Johannesburg businessman and philanthropist, Solly Krok, first heard that the iconic Johannesburg property, Summer Place, was going on auction in 1994, he didn’t...
For South African oleh Howard Sundy, moving to Israel was motivated by a feeling of coming home. But this week, that sense of security was rattled...
When Debbie Werner didn’t hear from her 25-year-old son, Doron, on the Shabbat morning of Saturday, 19 March, she knew something was wrong. He had left...
How did a Jewish South African come to be honoured by the Emperor of Japan? Though Rescue South Africa (Rescue SA) Chief Executive Ian Scher prefers...
Johannesburg Jewish life is multifaceted and diverse, but there’s always room to grow, especially when it comes to including women. This is why a group of...
Cape Town artist Claudia Gurwitz was motivated by the unprecedented hard lockdown in South Africa two years ago to take a “deep dive” into exploring nature...
Antisemitism experts say it’s a sad day for South Africa after Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela, spouted anti-Jewish tropes that could have come from...
South African oleh Gideon Kaufmann was at work on the afternoon of 22 March 2022 when sirens broke the peace of his hometown, Be’er Sheva. “When...
She’s a single mother of two young children with a brother in Ukraine and colleagues who have lost their homes to Russian bombings. A woman she...
When the African Union (AU) admitted Israel as an observer in 2021, a number of African countries were furious, with South Africa leading the charge. And...
The son of parents who survived the Holocaust, South African-born Solly Kaplinski is now helping Jews in Ukraine survive the war. Kaplinski, who grew up in...
They say that lightning never strikes the same place twice, but one Jewish family in Cape Town is enduring its worst nightmare for the second time....
Spending a night in a bus stuck in the snow in a remote area of Moldova is not the place you would normally find a South...
Most of Ukraine is fighting back against the Russian invasion, but some towns have fallen and have been occupied by Russian forces. One such city is...
As bewildered and distressed Ukrainian refugees land at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, olim – some of who are from South Africa – are there to...
Like many Italian youngsters, 19-year-old Viola Turone looked forward to travelling as a high school exchange student. But unlike many of her peers, she chose to...
A local Jewish-led production company will join Israel’s Keshet International (KI) to produce a murder mystery series based in South Africa. The show, titled Paradys, explores...
As an endless column of humanity streams across Ukraine’s border with Poland, there are countless aid agencies and Polish citizens waiting to meet them. Among them,...
Instead of taking her four kids to the park or the beach on Sunday, 6 March 2022, Alana Baranov and her husband, Gary, took them to...
As bombs fell around the orphanage, the girls screamed and cried. They had always felt safe in Tikva Children’s Home, but Putin’s invasion stole that from...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, Johannesburg interior architect Kim Kur decided to form a circle of support to get South Africans home. But in...
A man gets his wife and baby into their car at the crack of dawn while bombs fall around him. In a state of shock, he...
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in South Africa’s latest attempt to stifle freedom of expression has failed. The movement tried to stop Israeli artists from...
School uniforms are something our institutions inherited from this country’s British colonial past, but are they helping or hindering students and their parents? The SA Jewish...
The rate of suicide, divorce, addiction, and depression has accelerated in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and community members are in dire need of support....
Israel is cracking down on a phenomenon known as “passport aliya”, in which people make aliya just to gain the benefits of a passport. But while...
Aura Herzog, who died recently at the age of 97, was the wife of late Israeli President Chaim Herzog, and the mother of the current president,...
Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies member and local finance director David King is lucky to be alive after a freak accident while running that...
In a shocking turn of events, antisemitic posts written on a fake Facebook profile are believed to have been written by a member of the Cape...
When the Small Jewish Communities Association of South Africa’s Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft found a glass time capsule hidden behind the foundation stone of the Rustenburg Shul,...
What’s simple and complicated, addictive and once-off, free, and also owned by the New York Times, and something you can do alone or with others? It’s...
Child sexual abuse is a nightmare and it’s easy to think it will never happen to our kids and that it’s not something we need to...
South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, this week vowed to ensure that Israel was excluded from the African Union (AU) in...
If the United Nations (UN) is going to hold an inquiry into the clashes between Israel and Hamas last May, surely the person heading the inquiry...
A time capsule hidden behind the foundation stone of the Rustenburg Shul and discovered two weeks ago has unearthed documents written by people who founded that...
Just days before President Cyril Ramaphosa devoted a section of his State of the Nation Address (SONA) to the opening up of the cannabis industry in...
President Cyril Ramaphosa, top politicians, and civil society leaders joined the Coleman family on Wednesday at a memorial to honour the life and legacy of the...
The debate about Israel remaining an observer at the African Union (AU) has been suspended, with the organisation instead forming a committee to re-examine the issue....
On the night of 22 January 2022, tropical storm Ana hit Madagascar, Mozambique, and Malawi, bringing torrential rains and causing major flooding. Due to its poor...
