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The South African Jewish community stands as a beacon of hope in the face of the international rise of violent antisemitism over the past year, says...
If there is one thing that South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) chairperson Karen Milner says she knows as a Jew and a South African...
Turning 100 is a great innings, but South African-born Adele Samuelson turned 110 on 1 October this year, which is truly remarkable. Samuelson attributes her longevity...
It’s never easy for young Germans to confront their family’s World War II past, but German author Lorenz Völker decided 20 years after his grandfather had...
For many Jewish American citizens living in South Africa, the choice of who to vote for in the 5 November presidential elections was based on how...
A young South African woman, Laurain Cohen and an Australian man, Bill Atkinson, met and travelled in Europe together 57 years ago, and then went their...
While award-winning writer Gina Roitman was trying to help other daughters of Holocaust survivors to deal with their trauma, she found solace and understanding in meeting...
Jonah Lustig, 18, went for a quick surf in Camps Bay in Cape Town in an attempt to reduce his stress levels over his upcoming matric...
A large, powerful group of pro-Hamas editors is using Wikipedia as a tool to delegitimise and demonise Israel and the Jewish people by systematically changing and...
“In today’s world, shining a light on those who risked their lives to save others is important,” said Tali Nates, the director of the Johannesburg Holocaust...
“Our world is composed of broken things, with bruises, cracks, and missing parts, but we must learn to live with it.” These are the words of...
For Ivor Ichikowitz, the chairperson of the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, there’s no better time than now for young Jewish South Africans to be loud and proud...
The sight of Jews gathering in song while a large crowd of aggressive anti-Israel activists swore at them, tore down their posters, and threatened them is...
One year after the atrocities on 7 October, Grade 10 and 11 students at King David Linksfield and Victory Park joined forces to create an exhibition...
As a people, we’re still haunted by the images of what happened on 7 October, “when the gates of hell opened, and Hamas terrorists unleashed a...
“From across South Africa, they arrived with a message. Some chose to raise their voices, others to move their feet, there were those who sang in...
The Jewish community may feel alone in South Africa, especially since the start of the war in Gaza. However, South African Christians constantly show up to...
Zionism is largely irrelevant to the current situation in Israel and Gaza, insists Palestinian American activist and blogger Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib. He was speaking at the...
Numerous Middle East experts see South Africa’s involvement in Israel’s affairs – going so far as to accuse the Jewish state of genocide at the International...
At this time of year, the Jewish community around the globe is judged in the hope of being inscribed in the Book of Life, sealed on...
Before 7 October, American Israeli rap artist Rami Matan Even-Esh, otherwise known as Kosha Dillz, wrote and sang love songs, but that has all changed. Now,...
There was already a spike in antisemitism on 7 October, long before the Israeli military went into Gaza, said international antisemitism expert Dr David Hirsh at...
“For the first time since 1994, there’s a Cabinet that reflects the remarkable diversity of this country,” political analyst and director of the Africa Institute of...
Going back 10 years, one dollar bought R11 and today, that same dollar buys R18, which means South Africans are 60% poorer than we were 10...
Artists Danit Gordon and Treatwell Mnisi felt drawn to creating an artwork for Yeshiva College to commemorate 7 October, but each for personal reasons. “Being so...
An Israeli and a Palestinian content creator walk into a room in San Francisco. War doesn’t break out, rather they engage in dialogue on how better...
Eastern Europe once had one of the world’s largest Jewish populations, but it now ranks among the smallest. Throughout its history, people from various communities left...
Making aliya amidst a war is sometimes seen as stepping from the frying pan into the fire, or perhaps true Zionism. But, since 7 October, 23...
The old understanding of Jews as being passive during the Holocaust has become obsolete with new research, says Wolf Gruner, the Shappel-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies...
After Gary Meyers, a South African architect living in Australia, helped raise enough money for a new prosthetic arm for Kerry-Lee Brandt Salamon, he set his...
Hatzolah Medical Rescue has an excellent track record in emergency care, but last week, it was internationally recognised for its treatment of strokes. The World Stroke...
Thirty years after the violence of the genocide in Rwanda, Carl Wilkens, a humanitarian aid worker who lived in the country at the time of the...
“How are you meant to be a woman involved in Jewish life when you are left out of the central elements of Jewish life?” This is...
While 40% to 60% of Israeli Jews identify as secular, it’s not the kind of secular most people imagine it to be, said American-Canadian-Israeli queer Jewish...
Ofir Dayan grew up in the community of Ma’ale Shomron in the West Bank, where, she said, “Jews and Palestinians coexisted”. Though people have fixed ideas...
As many as 24% of Americans are antisemitic, Steven Windmueller, emeritus professor of Jewish communal studies at the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles and specialist...
When the Jews of Port Elizabeth, now Gqeberha, started Theodor Herzl School, they had no idea that it would still be going 65 years later. However,...
South Africans making aliya in the first part of 2024 were even more resolute, and not deterred by concerns about emigrating to a country at war....
When artist Shani Judes saw the empty spaces on the Milton Road ablution blocks on the Sea Point promenade, she knew she had to fill them...
At a time of mourning like Tisha B’Av, it’s difficult to face the trauma of the Jewish community since Hamas attacked the south of Israel on...
