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When Chanti Martin (23) noticed tingling in her fingers in 2021, she didn’t think much of it. But this symptom would send her into a confusing,...
In the space of less than 24 hours on 2 February, there was a sea change in relations between Israel and two predominantly Muslim African states...
In spite of a possible backlash from the anti-Israel lobby, two South African artists have decided to share their genius with Israeli audiences in 2023. Former...
When Steven Feifke’s parents emigrated to the Unites States (US) from South Africa three years before he was born, they took their piano with them. It...
When Susan Clapper (nee Eichmann) was a little girl, she was sent away from her parents, never to see them again. That journey saved her life,...
Just more than 30 years ago, a Jewish couple got married in Cape Town. The bride was Mary Menell and the groom, Jeffrey (Jeff) Zients. Nelson...
The granddaughter of South African olim was stationed at an army base just 5m away from the senseless terror attack in Jerusalem on 27 January, International...
John Levin learnt to sail as a child growing up in Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape, and he hasn’t stopped since. This 81-year-old has just...
Fifty-five years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe sent a shaliach to Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia), long before emissaries were sent to most other countries. At the time,...
“It was my first demonstration since making aliya in 2021, and the atmosphere was electric,” says Samuel Hyde, who was amongst the 110 000 people that...
A senior South African government official is in “Palestine” on a working visit for the second time in six months, but has totally ignored Israel. In...
Mila Smith may have already established a successful career as a singer and songwriter, but that didn’t stop her from enjoying everything that her matric year...
Herzlia matriculant Nicholas Arelisky may have had an intense matric year, but it didn’t stop him from committing himself to sport including voluntarily coaching the school’s...
Catching COVID-19 and falling behind with work is something no one wants in their matric year, but Hannah Jantjies overcame this challenge in her final year...
Samuel Gawronsky didn’t allow being dyslexic to get in his way of finishing matric earlier than he was meant to. And he did it as well...
Small business may be the backbone of the South African economy, but it’s bearing the brunt of the energy crisis. Paying for generators, fuel, and inverters,...
In Israel’s fertile north, near the city of Haifa, lies a kibbutz that has an integral link to a South African statesman. But few know about...
Losing ten hours of electricity a day, businesses on their knees, service delivery affected, and people fleeing the country are some of the ramifications of South...
A grotesque image of a skeletal woman wearing a banner saying, “Miss Auschwitz 1943” looks like something out of a Neo-Nazi handbook, but it was shared...
Fatah (the political party behind the Palestinian Authority) leaders embraced South African President Cyril Ramaphosa when they attended the African National Congress’ (ANC’s) 55th national elective...
Edith Henderson (née Phillips) grew up in the southern suburbs of Cape Town never knowing that her great-grandparents were Jewish. Now living in London, she has...
South African-born Ricky Lee Gordon may have started painting murals at Habonim machaneh in Onrus many years ago, but in December 2022, at the invitation of...
Twenty-six-year-old Dr Kyle Winik was just 100m away from the gas tanker that exploded in Boksburg on the morning of 24 December, killing at least 37...
What started as a seaside picnic ended in tragedy for a Johannesburg family, when, on 14 December 2022, father of five Dovi Hochstadter (39) rushed into...
When Errol Mirvis was born in Johannesburg in September 1956, no one expected that he would one day become the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) Chief Rabbi Sir...
In accepting an award from the so-called “state of Palestine”, South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, paid minimal lip service to...
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is demanding the United Nations (UN) “starts isolating Israel” and that the world must “boycott everything that has to do with...
A new COVID-19 variant could cause worse illness than the current predominant Omicron strain, especially in immunosuppressed individuals, according to a new study done by Professor...
When Jews first arrive in a new place and hope to establish a congregation, the first thing they do is to get land for a cemetery....
The new Israeli government will strengthen the role of religious authorities in daily Israeli life, including over conversion, kashrut, marriage, and divorce, and have an impact...
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stretches to nine months, the country’s people face an even more harrowing challenge: the bitter winter months with a lack of...
Hopes of South Africa ever playing a role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process may have been dashed this week when the Palestinian Embassy in South Africa...
Online extremism including antisemitism in South Africa calls for urgent action, a new study by the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape...
The rise of hate speech including antisemitism on social media is overwhelming, partly because the platforms seem reluctant to stop it, experts say. On Twitter in...
South African olah and Jerusalem resident Ilanit Liberman and her husband usually catch a bus to work and university every day, but on the morning of...
“For the past two months, the Iranian government has violently suppressed protests calling for women’s rights. It’s morally repugnant that our government would welcome the Iranian...
When Gidon Novick took on the role of a director on the board of the Takatso Consortium at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many saw...
Born in Potchefstroom and growing up in Swaziland, Wendy Fisher never dreamed that she would one day be given an award at the United Nations (UN)....
Though some may have lost hope in the future of South Africa and the Jewish community, others are looking to the next 180 years and beyond....
Almost everyone who has visited Istanbul would recognise the busy pedestrian street near Taksim Square where a bomb exploded on 13 November, killing six and injuring...
