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(JTA) An attack in the West African nation of Mali that left 10 Chadian United Nations (UN) peacekeepers dead was in reaction to the recent visit...
A high-ranking security official for El Al airline and a former Shin Bet officer are among several people arrested for their suspected roles in an international...
While many believe corruption to be an unsolvable problem in our country, prominent South African Jews are among those leading the charge against it.
Humble and exuding a sense of positivity. This is how rugby legend Dr Wilf Rosenberg’s family remembers him.
When South African broadcast journalist Nausheena Mahomed covered a Christian solidarity march for Israel last year in Pretoria, she was not prepared for the pelting she...
Three weeks into the year, and that holiday feeling seems to have faded fast. The year’s stresses and tensions are building. School has begun, and universities...
Israeli soldiers went onto high alert this week along the country’s northern border with Syria.
The 2019 national and provincial elections will be yet another milestone event in the history of our country.
Election analysts are calling on the community to vote in the 2019 election as “turnout is everything”.
When 39 graves were vandalised in the small town of Wellington in the Western Cape at the end of last year, it sent shockwaves around the...
I am a journalist. I make my living telling stories. But I’ve always known the most important story to tell is my own.
Jews are not the only people who observe Shabbat on Saturday, stress the centrality of Israel, and maintain the tradition of speaking Hebrew.
Be warned! Once you pick up, Train in the Distance: A journalist’s search for truth, freedom and revenge by Larry Butchins, it will be hard to...
It’s not every day that someone calls to tell you that they’ve found an antique military medal which belonged to your ancestor. Bill Bergman received such...
(JTA) My dad, who grew up in a time and place where his Judaism only marked him as an outsider, never really got my professional fascination...
The talent of Shmuli Brill was recognised by a veteran cantor and singer while he was preparing for his Barmitzvah. It was almost four years ago,...
In the portion we read this week called Yitro, the most significant historical event of all time takes place: G-d’s revelation at Sinai; the giving of...
Misinformation about Israel abounds, and the only way to curtail the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement in South Africa is to educate people about the Jewish...
For South Africa Jews, the dominant narrative has long been that we arrived in this country – popularly referred to as the Goldene Medine (Golden Land)...
There is no doubting the financial pressures that South Africans are experiencing across the country. Years of slow economic growth, a weakening currency, and the looting...
When a bold man raises his head too far above the parapet, he risks having his head chopped off. By either side.
As reported last week, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies has been conducting a nationwide voter-registration drive to encourage Jewish community members to make sure...
Your front-page headline in the first edition of the paper for 2019 states, “Soccer-goalpost tragedy far from over”. It will never be over, because the pain...
Caleb Levitan, 8, became the youngest chess player to be named Junior Chess Player of the Year by Chess South Africa in December last year. While...
When the father of Hugo Paluch – the Yeshiva College boy who died after soccer goalposts fell on him – heard that another boy had died...
In much the same way that there is an app for everything, there is a psalm for every requirement as well. So says Chabad House Director...
Jason Spindler, the Jewish American man who was one of 15 victims of a terrorist attack in Kenya on Tuesday, had previously survived the 11 September...
“Mayhem and chaos reign supreme here,” said a Jewish Zimbabwe resident this week. “It is so scary to be cut off without accurate information or contact....
BDS South Africa (BDS-SA) is forever denying that its anti-Israel stance is anti-Semitic. However, a post the organisation put out on its own social media account...
As we do our best to get back into the swing of things and drag our brains back kicking and screaming from our relaxing holidays, it...
Israeli elections are still three months away, which is a lifetime in Israel. So much can happen between now and then that when election day arrives...
A photograph of the entrance to Friends Restaurant near Glenhazel with a sign saying, “Friends Restaurant has closed down” went viral on Jewish social media during...
Comedian and satirist Deep Fried Man, aka Daniel Friedman, has left social media following a tirade of hateful anti-Semitic abuse and threats to his and his...
A baby boy born in Cape Town is critically ill with haemophilia, which came to light when he did not stop bleeding after his Brit Milah.
“If this is the generation of the future,” says Yeshiva College Principal Rob Long, “then our future is in good hands.” He was talking about the...
What curriculum is best for our children’s future? Is it the National Senior Certificate, the Cambridge A-levels, or the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) curriculum, or a...
Matric is a consistently stressful year. No matter what you do, you feel the pressure to achieve those distinctions as the year progresses.
Excelling in drama at Torah Academy Girls High is not run of the mill, but then neither is Chani Zlotnick, who did just that in her...
For many students, matric means endless hours behind closed doors, with heads engrossed in books studying. Redhill School 2018 matriculant Gabriel Fine ran a recycling initiative...
Torah Academy Boys High School matriculant Ellie Joffe applied the principles of karate learnt over many years to his matric year.
