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“We’ve all seen online hatred towards Jews, especially recently, but it’s a completely different thing to hear this hatred, when it’s directed at you personally, with...
For South African BCom Marketing student Kayla Lowenstein, the call for the return of the hostages is personal. One of the young men still being held...
Eleven-year-old King David Primary School pupil Caiden Distiller has no strings to hold him down, to make him fret and make him frown as he has...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein called on American Jewish leaders to recognise that “Israel’s war with Hamas – and by extension Iran – is against the...
As many as one in ten people who get COVID-19 in 2024 are likely to get “long COVID”, according to Professor Barry Schoub, the professor emeritus...
South African tertiary students took home more than just tools to combat antisemitism on campus and in their community at the international StandWithUs conference in Los...
What started off as a plan to create an online platform for the Jews of Kimberley has, with the help of South Africans around the world,...
It’s not unusual for a newborn to wear his dad’s tallis at his bris, but it is unique when it was one of the only things...
When 10-year-old Liam Meyersfeld wanted to find a way to help his favourite animal shelter, nothing was going to get in his way. So he raised...
Don Krausz, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, and the chairperson of the Johannesburg chapter of the South African Holocaust Survivors Association, has been made a pawn of...
Radio and media personality Gareth Cliff says the Jewish community needs to recognise that the African National Congress (ANC) is as “unimportant as a drugged-up meth-head...
Chabad makes a point of ensuring that Jews feel welcome around the world and encourages a Jewish way of life. Now, Rabbi Chezkin Yehudah Malka and...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) delivered a memorandum to the justice department in Pretoria on 12 February in response to Justice and Correctional...
“October 7 marked the point of no return,” Rabbi Danny Mirvis, the acting chief executive of World Mizrachi, told a presentation organised by Mizrachi South Africa...
The hills are alive to The Sound of Music at the Teatro at Montecasino, where two budding young actresses from King David Victory Park (KDVP) Primary...
“If they have a problem with Jewish religious symbols, let them say it outright,” Ward 72 Councillor Daniel Schay said in the first Johannesburg council meeting...
“One day, when true peace comes, they’ll write books about her, name streets after her, and make movies about her life. If Israelis knew what Sylvia...
The mayor of Rishon LeZion, Raz Kinstlich, made a big show on Sunday, 28 January, of taking down the South African flag in the city’s Garden...
When Christian community leader Clive Mashishi, the founder of the Clive Mashishi Foundation and volunteer for the South African Friends of Israel, found out that he...
“Over our lifetime, we spend two years looking for lost objects,” says Rebekah Saltzman, who makes a living helping people declutter their homes. Professional declutterer Saltzman...
When Gina Dave started Grade 8 at King David Linksfield in 2020, she decided to follow in her older sister’s footsteps by participating in the Duke...
The Israel national cricket team are going all out to make their mark in this year’s T20 World Cup, and the two South Africans behind the...
Hirsch Lyons matriculant Sara Fine almost spent more of her matric year ensuring that less-fortunate scholars achieved academic success than she did her own. Fine was...
“Hardly anyone can say that they weren’t impacted by missing the first month of matric, and were able to slot right back,” Brocha Lewis, a Cape...
When Ayala Cohen, a top academic student at Hirsch Lyons and a dedicated ballet dancer, tore a ligament in her foot in mid-April of matric in...
For many students, university is the first time that they have a true sense of independence. But for some, this freedom is a culture shock, especially...
When Josh Kahn, a Reddam House Bedfordview 2023 matriculant, was ranked tenth academically at the end of his first term of Grade 8, he told himself...
When the late Mike Krost and his best friend, Harry Sack, embarked on a six-month European trip together almost 70 years ago, the idea that their...
Ruth Rabinowitz is described as a testament to the power of dedication and hard work. As an academic, a doctor, and then a politician, and ultimately...
The SAFTA (South African Film and Television Awards) award for best online content 2023 was given to director Christopher Grant Harvey for his short film titled...
Jewish youth from around the country and a smattering of those from abroad who chose to go to Habonim Dror or Bnei Akiva camp in December...
The hospital where South African olah Dr Gila Nussbaum works in Israel was the first place emergency services brought the injured from the Supernova Music Festival...
“Every country in the world faced with a situation [like the 7 October attacks] would have done exactly what the Israelis did, except maybe not as...
Dr Brad Segal isn’t just one of the few Jewish people ever to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, but he’s off to Oxford University next...
Amid 16:00 traffic and loadshedding leaving traffic lights not operational, we stood on the corner of Atholl Oaklands and Corlett Drive in Johannesburg, calling on passersby...
While Israel is trying to recover from the horrific events of 7 October, a frightening war is being fought on the social media battlefield, says David...
South African olim have joined the many Israelis who haven’t been called up in volunteering to help the war effort. Here are the stories of just...
South African Jews aren’t cowering from the increased antisemitism following the war between Israel and Hamas, but displaying their Judaism in any way possible. The SA...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish global human rights organisation, on 9 November released a statement criticising the South African government’s decision to recall its diplomats...
“I want you to think of her like a little child who was taken from her bed still in her pyjamas on 7 October,” said Sasha...