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“I really do worry about [Benjamin or Bibi] Netanyahu’s ability to control the tiger he has ridden in on. A challenge not to be underestimated,” tweeted...
COP27 (the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC) in Egypt from 6 to 18 November...
Brent Lindeque isn’t Jewish, but he has discovered he has a deep connection to the Jewish state. This South African writer, radio host, speaker, and founder...
It was just a momentary sense during lockdown in 2020 that led Michalya Schonwald Moss to finding a long lost cousin who had survived the Holocaust...
Chess South Africa’s excitement at being invited at the last minute to play at the 2022 World Team Chess Championship in Jerusalem was all too soon...
The United States (US) treasury department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is keeping a close watch on certain individuals in “ISIS’s [Islamic State’s] network” in South...
It’s been 18 months since Johannesburg Jewish pensioner Bernard “Bernie” Katz (83) was alleged to have been defrauded and murdered with rat poison in a private...
“The camp experience is part and parcel of growing up as part of South African Jewry. The growth, development, and inspiration that happens on machaneh is...
At the age of 100, Sir Sydney Kentridge KCMG KC has spent a lifetime in service of the law and has witnessed seminal events of the...
“Democracy is at stake,” says South African oleh Jonathan Schwartz, regarding the Israeli legislative elections that took place on 1 November to elect Israel’s 25th Knesset....
Speculation surrounds the death of a 40-year old Israeli Arab man, Abdel Fattah Nassar, shot dead in Cape Town at about 01:30 on Sunday, 30 October....
Erin Dodo has just faced the most intense period of her life, battling it out for one of 15 spots in the University of Cape Town’s...
Many people might remember growing up with the joy of a pen pal. They may have even become life-long friends. In today’s digital age, letters have...
Koleinu SA is making its voice against abuse and domestic violence even louder by expanding to Cape Town. Koleinu SA, which translates as “hear our voices”,...
“South Africa is ground zero for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions [BDS] movement, and has one of the most violent and antisemitic Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) campaigns...
If Dis-Chem Chief Executive Ivan Saltzman had the chance, he would “definitely” change the wording of the memorandum he wrote instituting a “moratorium on the appointment...
Local ice cream entrepreneur Paul Ballen felt the viciousness of the anti-Israel lobby when he posted enchanting photographs of his holiday in Israel on his personal...
South African Home Affairs Director General Livhuwani Tommy Makhode has reassured South African Jewry that our foreign rabbis have nothing to worry about in terms of...
Sixty-year-old Ra’anana book editor, Naomi Nathan, was on her way to visit a shiva house on 20 September when the unthinkable happened: a bus turned a...
When thinking about the Holocaust in Lithuania, some of us can only think about the horror from a distance or in small doses. But filmmaker Michael...
Debby Silver and Kashiefa Mohammed may come from different religious, social, and economic backgrounds and live in different parts of Cape Town, but when they work...
When local filmmaker Harriet Gavshon produced the eight-part television drama series Reyka through her production house, Quizzical Pictures, she never imagined that it would get International...
The South African Jewish community has often brought foreign rabbis to live and work in the country, adding diversity, expertise, and passion to the rabbinate. In...
“I would like you not to ask Sudesh Mooloo to come and play on our premises. Currently, he cannot be allowed to play because Sudesh has...
Though the Johannesburg Jewish community faces the perennial question of whether it’s time to “pack for Perth”, the Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape...
We live in a constitutional democracy that prizes freedom of religion, but South Africa’s labour law doesn’t regulate leave for religious holidays. Where does this leave...
“When I think of the word ‘mensch’, it’s you who comes to mind.” This was how Anthony ‘Tony’ Raphaely’s granddaughter described him, shortly before he passed...
When beloved South African musician Johnny Clegg passed away from cancer in July 2019, the world mourned with the Clegg family. Nobody knew that just three...
South African billionaire Rob Hersov may have no faith in the African National Congress (ANC) government, but he still has hope for South Africa’s future. That’s...
Grammy Award-winning South African artist Black Coffee left the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement out in the cold on 1 September, when he performed to a...
“What did Jews have to do with the development of modern Zambia? Everything!” That was the assessment of geophysicist Paul Bauman, who recently visited the Gateway...
When Lily Shifrin was laid on her mother’s chest after she was born in a Tel Aviv hospital, the doctor asked casually, “Did you see her...
Dr Adam Rosendorff, who describes himself as “a third-generation South African Ashkenazi Jew”, found himself at the centre of one of the greatest dramas to hit...
The Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape Board) described “terrible scenes at the Oudtshoorn Jewish Cemetery” in a Facebook post on Wednesday, 24 August, “where...
The Israeli government has changed its rules about foreign students coming to Israel to complete their medical degrees with a view to returning home. To do...
Back in 2014, Johannesburg Jewish community member Mike Said was visiting the cemetery when an idea came to him that was so simple yet so powerful...
A criminal mob boss who was arrested in Israel is suspected of trying to blackmail Jewish businessmen in South Africa who specialise in crypto-currency. According to...
The deputy minister of international relations and cooperation, Candith Mashego-Dlamini, and her entourage took a trip to the Middle East on 21 August 2022 but left...
South African-born Rebbetzin Rochi Levitansky has travelled between seven countries since she fled Ukraine six months ago. Like millions of others, she found herself on a...
When talking about the Holocaust, people often wonder if Jews held onto their faith during humanity’s darkest hour. But Yad Vashem educator Dr David Deutsch says...
