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“Beware, South Africa,” warned the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) on 17 October, in one of the most stark statements it has ever made....
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has allowed the UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (UCT PSF) to express its support openly for terrorist organisations Hamas, Palestinian Islamic...
Many Capetonian Jews woke up on the morning of Saturday, 14 October, grieving the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists exactly a week earlier. On Shabbat, and...
South African olah Lili Kovler, who lives in Jerusalem, felt paralysed with fear and sadness when in the wake of the 7 October massacre, her Israeli...
The mayor of the Shar HaNegev regional council, Ofir Liebstein (50), and Canadian olah Vivian Silver (75) have spent their lives dedicated to peace and improving...
South African oleh Gidon Boolkin is grateful to be alive after a Hamas rocket hit his building on the corner of Ben Yehuda and Mendele streets...
When Ma’ayan Jowell and Sigalit Levin were growing up in Port Elizabeth, their Israeli cousin, Avi Zakuto, came to stay with them for a few months....
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) officially declared Israel an apartheid state last Thursday, 28 September. Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein says this has been...
The Union of Orthodox Synagogues (UOS) Beth Din hechsher is the kashrut certification consumers see on most kosher products in South Africa, but the market is...
When Etz Chaim Shul in Berea, Johannesburg, closed its doors several decades ago, Lily and Bernard Neuhaus bought various items from the congregation, including a beautiful...
Barry Gilder has seen many things in his time, and they form the basis of the riveting events in his new novel, At Fire Hour. Born...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has for the third time this year allowed flags of internationally-designated terrorist groups to be draped on its campus and...
A year after finishing matric, South African Barry Feldman found himself on Israel’s frontline, defending the Jewish state from Syrian forces, which were part of an...
Veteran South African journalist Benjamin Pogrund, who now lives in Israel, initially never wanted his own life story to be part of the narrative of the...
Anyone driving or walking along the Southern Cape Peninsula may do a double take when they notice that the St James Retirement Hotel now proudly flies...
Jewish academic Dr Alexander O’Riordan described the South African Jewish community as a producer of “settler terrorists” that go to Israel to commit violence. He also...
“Our father was multidimensional: a family man, a strong entrepreneur, and a statesman. They don’t make them like that anymore,” Suzanne Ackerman told the SA Jewish...
The tradition of Jews from larger South African Jewish communities visiting smaller country communities over the high holidays has been going on for decades. Now, as...
In an historic moment, Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein stood alongside other religious leaders at the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island on 5 September to...
Swimming South Africa (SA), the governing body of aquatic sports in South Africa, has ignored the local Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) coalition’s call for it to...
Nhlakanipho Chiliza grew up in a rural village in KwaZulu-Natal, raised alongside many siblings by his grandmother. When he finished high school, he worked as a...
Israel’s counter-terrorism division issued a travel warning on 31 August to Israelis travelling over the high holidays cautioning them of Iran’s global terrorist threat which includes...
Though the title of the new book by Dr Max Price is Statues and Storms: Leading through Change, one of the alternate titles he thought of...
Johannesburg business owner Craig Nerwich described that second he was about to dive into the ocean in Dover and swim to France as a “crazy whirlwind...
The Singing Kettle Cookery Book, the International Goodwill Recipe Book, The Toni Saphra Cookbook, and many other recipe books published by South African Jewish women’s organisations...
Growing up, filmmaker Gabriella Blumberg was aware that her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother had the BRCA1 gene and that they had all developed breast cancer. This...
When Maxine Nerwich watched from Cape Town as her son, Craig Nerwich (44), swam into French waters during his English Channel crossing on 23 August, she...
“I don’t know why, but I have a sinking feeling that there’s going to be some sort of uproar if the results don’t go as planned,”...
Dr Irwin Krombein (72) had worked in underprivileged Cape Town communities for decades, but that meant nothing to the mob of angry young men who stoned...
Wikipedia is such a part of our lives that we rarely take time to think about how it works and what role it plays in shaping...
As one of the few female comedy writers in Israel today, Michal Zoran has succeeded to the point where she now writes for satirical Israeli TV...
Seasoned Israeli journalist Allison Kaplan Sommer says the November 2022 election campaigns of Likud and other right-wing Israeli political parties didn’t allude to judicial reform, and...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an international organisation that combats antisemitism and other forms of racism, has criticised Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) after...
For most of his adult life, Stephen “Sugar” Segerman believed that his musical idol, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, was dead. The tale of how Segerman and others...
From a place to buy meat to a meeting place for South African olim, Ra’anana’s iconic Meatland has been a beloved institution for South African olim...
The holidays of two Israeli families visiting Cape Town turned into living nightmares when their vehicles were stoned in the chaos of the taxi strike that...
After successfully leading the campaign for the official downgrade of the South African embassy in Israel, National Freedom Party (NFP) MP Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam still...
The taxi strike that brought Cape Town to a standstill this week, interrupting the economy, service delivery, healthcare, education, and even the food supply chain, has...
For almost 40 years, Zimbabwean Brian Brom has wondered what happened to the Torah his father leined from as head of the tiny Gwelo (now Gwero)...
When Capetonian David Nivison (23) decided to give up his studies and try his hand at filmmaking, it was a huge risk. Never did he imagine...
