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Julia Oduol hails from Nakuru, Kenya. She has been an asylum seeker in Cape Town since 2008. Her husband, a politician, was forced to flee from...
Exactly a year ago, on 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Well, it reinvaded. It had been conducting military operations in eastern Ukraine unabated since 2014....
In COVID-19 lockdown, while many were baking banana bread, sorting out their sock drawers, or playing Candy Crush, British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore wrote a history...
Israel’s supporters have long claimed that it’s “the only democracy in the Middle East”. But a new study by the United Kingdom-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)...
Who would have thought it possible to detect cancer with just a drop of blood? Or to make sense of the sequencing of the genome of...
While Israel still officially has observer status at the African Union (AU), it’s unlikely to be allowed to attend the organisation’s annual summit in Addis Ababa,...
The Holocaust evokes nightmarish imagery: depraved medical experiments, asphyxiation in gas chambers, emaciated walking skeletons. One subject that has been consistently difficult to discuss, however, is...
In spite of repeated claims that it’s neutral on the war in Ukraine, South Africa continues cozying up to Russia. The visit of Russia’s Foreign Minister...
There are just 12 known Holocaust survivors still alive in Johannesburg, a handful in Cape Town, and none left in Durban. Almost all were children during...
Dr Blade Nzimande, South Africa’s minister of higher education, science, and technology, publicly endorsed a new anti-Israel book via his personal Facebook account on 8 January....
The year 2023 is fast approaching, and it’s time to consider what the new year will bring. Just a week ago, Cyril Ramaphosa looked a virtual...
As most South Africans head for their holidays, from 16 to 20 December 2022, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) will gather for its 55th national...
The African National Congress (ANC) is heading towards a political showdown at its national elective conference in a few weeks. It seems the image of this...
“To me, there’s no other choice” said Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg about saving the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary from 1944 to 1945. Wallenberg...
The government has finally agreed to scrap the much-hated electronic tolling of Gauteng’s freeways (e-tolls) by 31 December 2022. After more than a decade of legal...
As the dust settles after Israel’s fifth general election in four years, voters have returned a resounding mandate to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Bibi” –...
Rivka Ravitz isn’t your typical Israeli. Maybe having 12 children – nine girls and three boys – isn’t so unusual for an ultra-Orthodox woman. But she...
An unemployed American architect in the 1930s spotted a gap in the games market. Though card, board games, and chess were popular, Alfred Mosher Butts realised...
“I’m shocked at how much hatred and racism there is on social media in South Africa,” said Cristoph Plate, the director of the Media Programme Sub-Saharan...
Two years after The Abraham Accords were inked on the White House South Lawn on 15 September 2020, have they heralded the “warm peace” touted at...
Studying Kabbalah, the 4 000-year-old system of Jewish mysticism, has exploded in popularity since the COVID-19 lockdowns. Both in-person and online, thousands around the world are...
The leafy north-eastern suburbs of Waverley and Savoy are soon to become a gated community in an effort to combat crime and take back the streets...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict essentially pits Jewish Zionism against Arab anti-Zionism, Israeli academic Dr Einat Wilf told a webinar hosted by the South African Board of Jewish...
Israel’s relationship with Jewish communities around the world is now “more of a two-way street”, says Sam Grundwerg, the world chairperson of Keren Hayesod United Israel...
It’s almost six months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February. Israel has opened its doors and heart to 32 000 Ukrainian and...
Jewish welfare organisations are under pressure around the world, facing ageing populations, the socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and diminishing assistance from local governments. Their...
He’s the great-grandson of the reviver of modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. He’s descended from a long line of writers and journalists. But Gil Hovav is very...
While South Africa continues to shun and slate Israel at every turn and has discouraged high-level political visits to the Jewish State, US President Joe Biden...
Clive Lawton has packed enough into one lifetime for a minyan of people. The affable white-bearded Englishman has been a teacher, a theatre director, an author,...
Rhoda Kadalie, a passionate human-rights supporter, strident critic of the corruption of the South African government, and lover of Israel, was remembered at a service at...
The latest Israel-bashing session at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has commenced in Geneva. Meanwhile, more than 10 000 people have signed a petition...
On 31 May 2022, Paris hosted a high-level meeting highlighting and promoting Israel’s growing relations with African countries. Israel has much to offer the African continent,...
“There are a lot of attempts to spread disinformation about Israel,” said Eli Belotsercovsky, Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. “Some is out of ignorance, but a...
Sergio Bergman, a qualified scientist, became the first rabbi appointed as a government minister in Argentina. He is a close friend of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better...
As the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on to its third month, Russia and Israel have been embroiled in a war of words. Russian President...
Twenty-eight years ago, on 27 April 1994, South Africans headed to polling stations in their millions. We were voting in the country’s first democratic, non-racial elections...
Israel has been gripped by a wave of deadly terrorist attacks over the past fortnight. Fourteen people were killed and scores injured in four separate incidents...
In South Africa, April is Freedom Month, celebrating the election on 27 April 1994 that ushered in democracy. This year, Pesach, Easter, and Ramadan all occur...
Two years ago, this would have been unimaginable. On 27 and 28 March, the foreign ministers of six states – Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the United...
Russian soldiers have continued to bombard and destroy Ukrainian towns and cities relentlessly in this terrible war. To date, close to three million Ukrainians – mostly...
