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The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is playing out every day on our televisions and cellphones. This war is being fought as much in cyberspace, social...
As the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolds, Western countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union bloc have imposed sanctions on...
In 1907, Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completed a striking gilded portrait of Jewish socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer in Vienna. Commissioned by her husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a banker...
How does a yarmulke-wearing boy born in Yeoville become speech writer for the leader of the opposition and senior editor-at-large for the third most viewed news...
In 2005, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly passed a resolution designating 27 January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is the day the Soviet Union’s...
Understanding, confronting, and reporting sexual abuse is difficult and painful for any community. Leaders tend to want to close ranks and cover up any impropriety. Survivors...
Every year on the anniversary of its founding in 1912, the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) issues its “January 8th Statement”. In...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit South Africa in March 2020, everyone thought that the year of lockdowns, masks, and sanitisers would be like no other. We...
It’s that time of the year to read the tea leaves and see what 2022 holds in store for us. The United Nations has declared 2022...
On Sunday, the government announced that it had withdrawn its support for Miss South Africa to compete in the Miss Universe competition. The competition is due...
Low turnout was the biggest feature of South Africa’s fifth local government elections since the country’s democratic transition. Some blamed COVID-19, the weather, the inefficiency of...
South Africans go to the polls on 1 November in “elections that no parties really want”, according to political journalist Stephen Grootes. In the midst of...
Between 1945 and 1948, up to 300 000 Holocaust survivors and Jewish partisans were rescued across war-ravaged Europe in preparation to enter British-occupied eretz Yisrael before...
The rapid assumption of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan as the United States (US) withdrew its forces will have ramifications far beyond Central Asia, not...
Much as we’d hoped that the year 5781 would see the end of it, the pandemic is still here. Many who normally worked from an office...
One of the quintessential customs at Rosh Hashanah is to eat apples dipped in honey for a sweet, well-rounded new year. How did what my high...
As the Hebrew year 5781 concludes, here’s a look back at the major events that shaped Israel, South Africa, and beyond in the past 12 months....
The modern Olympic Games have been cancelled only three times since their introduction in 1896. The Games of Berlin in 1916, 1940 in Helsinki (originally awarded...
The Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv’s oldest shopping mall, sits in the heart of the bustling central business district. Surrounded by skyscrapers, it’s the last place you’d...
By 2050, the world’s population is expected to be close to 10 billion people. Innovative technology must be harnessed to feed them all, and tiny Israel...
If cybercrime were a country, it would have the third largest GDP (gross domestic product) in the world after the United States and China, said Andre...
Losing a child to violence devastates the parents left behind. It creates an unspeakable emptiness, a void of loss, pain, and anger. Two bereaved Israeli and...
“Living on the Gaza border is 95% heaven, and 5% hell,” said Adele Raemer. She’s made it her mission to tell the world what life is...
Everyone is relieved that the guns have fallen silent – for now – in the worst Palestinian-Israeli clashes since 2014. The South African government hasn’t minced...
Toxic politics doesn’t always torpedo good ideas. In spite of the well-known tension between the South African and Israeli governments over the Palestinian conflict, Israel’s world-leading...
“We are becoming George Orwell’s Animal Farm in South Africa, where some animals are more equal than others. People think they are above the law. We...
Stretching from Libya in the north to Mozambique in the south, from Mali in the west to Somalia in the east, over the past two decades,...
Albert Einstein said, “If you don’t believe in miracles, you are simply unrealistic.” This was a motto of late Israeli President Shimon Peres and is a...
Pesach is a time of miracles, matzah, and memories. It’s also a time for families to come together, and the seder is one of the most-observed...
“Don’t be scared of the virtual. When our ancestors tried to recreate the exodus every Pesach, they struggled with how to make the virtual real,” said...
Like a partially-digested falafel ball, elections are repeating on the Israeli public, which, on 23 March, heads to the polls for the fourth time in two...
“Who would have thought this webinar would be possible a year ago?” asked Amit Deri, the co-founder and director of Sharaka (“partnership” in Arabic). This organisation...
For 17 years, Rabbi Craig Kacev deftly steered the South African Board of Jewish Education (SABJE) to financial sustainability, talent development, and academic excellence. And then...
It’s that time of the year when we gaze into crystal balls to see what 2021 has in store for us. The United Nations (UN) has...
In an age when Israeli tertiary institutions are frequently targets for boycotts, the universities of Haifa and the Free State have bucked the trend and cemented...
Will Israel’s normalisation of relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain and warming ties with African states counter extremist Muslim ideology in the Middle...
Bahrain, Kuwait, Mauretania, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia… will these be the next Arab or Muslim states to establish full diplomatic and economic ties with Israel? They...
Historians use the term BCE (Before the Common Era) for events preceding the birth of Jesus, and CE (the Common Era) for the last 2020 years....
“In a big crisis, the world turns to social science,” said Dan Ariely, the renowned Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University. “We...
Sylvia Raphael’s story isn’t well known in South Africa. This remarkable, vivacious woman, born in Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo in 1937, became a Mossad superspy. Raphael’s...
