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She may be the sister of the world’s most famous filmmaker, but Nancy Spielberg is a force in her own right. And just like her brother,...
Jewish children who grew up in the tiny farming town of Leslie, Mpumalanga, had an idyllic childhood and enjoyed a thriving communal life. They remember running...
“It was a crazy thing to do,” says Gilad Stern, reflecting on the decision he made three decades ago, to smuggle a Torah out of Zimbabwe....
Gavin Mofsowitz has been competing in triathlons for almost two decades, yet when he swam, cycled, and ran the Ironman Hamburg European Championship on 4 June...
The cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, in recent weeks, has resulted in the deaths of more than 20 people from an entirely preventable illness....
It took an undercover operation in Israel to rescue a lion cub that had been illegally trafficked and kept in an apartment with a rope around...
The leader of South African political party Al Jama-ah has called on the South African Police Service (SAPS) to “arrest Zionist bodies in Cape Town”, claiming...
Johannesburg entrepreneur Cody Gordon dreamed of becoming a professional cricketer, but a family tragedy led him in an entirely new direction, ultimately landing him on the...
The United States government was behind the restoration of the “oldest physical representation of Jewish life in South Africa”, known as the “Old Shul’” which forms...
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has had enough of anti-Israel protests that are now clearly threatening Jewish life in the Mother City....
In March 2022, Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela blamed Israel for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, referring to “the apartheid Israel dogs of war” and saying that the...
A swastika spraypainted onto an electricity box near Stellenbosch was available for all to see, but it was a Cape Town rabbi who stepped up to...
After Eli Kay was brutally murdered at the hands of a terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem in November 2021, his brother, Kasriel, made stickers...
Chayela Rosenthal started out as an actress and singing star in the Vilna Ghetto Theatre in Lithuania, and after enduring unfathomable tragedy, she rebuilt her life...
Brett Morris may be one of the country’s leading creative minds, having worked with brands from Coca Cola to Nando’s, but it’s been his lifelong dream...
When Marcelle Pincus (née Rubin) was growing up, her parents’ great hope for her was that she would leave school after Grade 7, and work at...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has once again allowed the flags of terrorist organisations to be draped on its campus and a recognised antisemite and...
South African communal leaders have called on the country’s political leaders to stop their “unique discrimination and hostility against the Jewish state” as they tore into...
“It’s the end of an era,” says Judge Dennis Davis, on the passing of his friend of 45 years, Benjamin Rabinowitz. Fondly known as “Ben” or...
Pianist Amit Yahav is only 35, but he has already won multiple awards and is in demand worldwide as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist....
In the early 2000s, two small, round, cement-like disks, with numbers written on them, were donated to the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC). Many...
What does six million actually look like? And what would it be like to contemplate each life extinguished in the Holocaust, marking their loss in some...
When Dani Bergman connected with Shaun Civin on the new Netflix show Jewish Matchmaking, they already had one important thing in common: both their families came...
“Part of the motivation of going to AfrikaBurn is to show my kids that you can keep Shabbat wherever you are,” says Karen Kallmann. “In a...
For the first time since Israel’s establishment, the ministry of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism has decided that non-Israeli victims of antisemitic terror attacks in the...
Jewish writer, poet, and educator, Ruth Weiss (née Löwenthal), escaped Nazi Germany and grew up in South Africa, where her first-hand experience of fleeing persecution compelled...
When Keith Gottschalk heard he was to receive the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver on 28 April, “I was stunned! It was like a fairy tale....
A small group of Israel haters yelled slurs at Jews entering the Cape Town Jewish community’s Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration on Wednesday, 26 April. They also hoisted...
“The tenacity of antisemitism and its ability to mutate and survive cannot be underestimated,” writes prize-winning author and academic Professor Milton Shain in the final book...
When one speaks to Aurelie (8) and Samuel Licht (12), their confidence and zest for life shines through. This is probably one of the reasons they...
If you look at David and Nathan Sim’s paintings and drawings, you would be amazed to learn that the artists are 11-year-old twins. It’s clear that...
When Kevin Williams passed away from a hepatitis variant in 2015, his son, Samuel, and daughter, Madison, started rowing to keep his memory alive. Now, both...
A humanitarian crisis is brewing in Gauteng after the Gauteng Department of Social Development (DSD) made a unilateral decision to re-allocate millions of rands towards substance...
A Capetonian artist and a South African oleh have combined forces to create a unique series portraying 12 Israeli prime ministers as they’ve never been seen...
Before Israeli water-tech company BlueGreen Water Technologies intervened at Setumo Dam on the Molopo River in South Africa’s North West Province in 2020, the water had...
It’s hard to imagine a world without a Jewish state, but for most of Jewish history, this was the reality. Yet a small number of our...
A woman in Poland and a young Capetonian girl are unlikely to have anything in common. But Rachel Ancer and Magda Lewandowska are “a match made...
Sought-after Tel Aviv chef Danna-Lee Berman (32) is about to open her own restaurant in the heart of Tel Aviv, and is bringing her African heritage...
Jewish Advocate Glynnis Breytenbach is leading the way in uncovering the large-scale corruption and incompetence that allowed convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester to stage an...
It’s been a month since the University of Cape Town (UCT) allowed members of terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to address students on...
