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President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed in a pre-election interview with the SA Jewish Report that the decision to downgrade South Africa’s embassy in Tel Aviv had “not...
“The reason the Jewish community should vote for the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is the same reason any South African should vote for the IFP: we...
Everyone is welcome to support the EFF unless they support Israel, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) election spokesperson Veronica Mente told the SA Jewish Report this week.
Congress of the People (COPE) National Spokesman Dennis Bloem used a Jewish anti-apartheid icon to explain the impact small parties could have in driving big changes.
“Besides the ACDP, there is no political party that supports Israel as a state, its right to self-defence, and its right to live within secure borders....
A vote for the United Democratic Movement (UDM) would be a sign of support for the fight against corruption and in favour of the party’s call...
(JTA) Here’s what we know about the shooter who took the life of a worshipper at a San Diego area Chabad and wounded three others: he...
Blending a religious message with a political one, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) recently suggested that Jesus was a Palestinian. Wishing South Africans well over Easter,...
This coming Wednesday is election day, and the run up to this momentous day is confusing and frustrating for many of us. Just who do we...
On 18 October 2011, after 1 941 days in Hamas captivity, missing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was returned to Israel. The moment the first pictures of...
By now, you have most likely read about the cartoon that the New York Times published last week. It depicted a Dachshund with the face of...
(JTA) The Israeli ambassador to the United States has linked the New York Times to the “Jew-hatred of growing parts of the intellectual class”.
“The youth are feeling excited about the experience of voting, possibly for the first time, but I think few are invested in this country. The majority...
Among the numerous Afrikaans names which appear on the Freedom Front Plus (FFP) list of election candidates, the lone Jewish name of Sidney Anolik stands out...
“Israel is the only country in the world that welcomes us, wants us, and offers so many opportunities,” says Sally Leibowitz, who plans to make aliyah...
Who better to understand the real significance of the story of Pesach than modern-day refugees and asylum seekers?
We think of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust in terms of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising or acts of sabotage in the camps, or even the Oneg...
“Survivors need to have their pain witnessed. There are those who are too traumatised to speak. When they are prepared to give testimony, their stories need...
Protect the constitution. That was Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron’s overriding message to a captivated audience at the Union of Jewish Women’s Houghton headquarters. They were...
The South African Consulate in Southern California was waiting last Saturday night at 23:00 for Paul Wayburne to come and cast his vote in the national...
(JTA) On a warm summer day in Oslo last year, Kaveh Kholardi heartily greeted spectators at a city-organised concert celebrating diversity.
Clinical psychologist Dorianne Weil (known to many as “Dr D”) was inducted into the Southern African Educators Hall of Fame (SAEHoF) by The Professional Speakers Association...
“I became a journalist and wanted to change the world.” So said veteran journalist and author Benjamin Pogrund on being awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in...
If anyone was bent on convincing us that Torah was old-fashioned, this would be a good Parsha to prove it. Leviticus, Chapter 18, contains the Bible’s...
(JTA) It’s a new, African version of the old adage about teaching a man to fish so you can feed him for a lifetime.
Three talented South African Jewish authors stumbled onto the fact that their books had made it onto the Sunday Times Literary Awards list while they were...
Don Albert, one of South Africa’s most prominent jazz journalists, musicians, and jazz historians, has passed away after a short illness at the age of 88...
When Sydney Brenner set out to research the tiny nematode, little did he know that his discoveries would have an enormous impact on the field of...
The Galilee Dreamers, a group of eight Grade 11 Arab and Jewish school children from Israel, recently visited King David schools in Johannesburg. They brought with...
Once again we are confronted with the false accusation that Israel is an apartheid state.
Freedom is intoxicating. When Freedom Day was established in 1994 as an annual holiday for post-apartheid South Africa, it was amidst the euphoria of the victory...
Last Shabbat, appropriately enough on Freedom Day, South Africans living abroad cast their votes at 121 South African foreign missions around the world. When the day...
Two of the 200-odd participants at the National Powerlifting Championships in Potchefstroom in March were the father-and-son duo of Ian and Justin Furman. Ian, now nudging...
The story goes that in a small town, some shrubbery in the garden caught alight from a discarded cigarette. The rabbi quickly called the fire department,...
An Israeli-led deal is going ahead to buy Clover Industries in spite of the ugly setback caused by intense pressure from the Boycott Divestment Sanctions South...
Lindiwe Sisulu, the minister of international relations and cooperation, stated last Friday night that she had recently discovered that the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) was...
While pro-Palestinian groups have welcomed Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu’s announcement that South Africa has begun downgrading its embassy in Israel, there has...
One of the founders of the newly formed Capitalist Party of South Africa (ZACP) has been criticised for engaging and sharing a platform with alternative-right wing...
(JTA) Pulitzer for Pittsburgh newspaper The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting for its coverage of the Tree of Life...
As expected, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has named incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the best person to put together the next Israeli government.
