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“Our women have been betrayed,” said Wendy Kahn, the national director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, who led an International Women’s Day march...
As Miriam Gvaram was marching towards the Women’s Prison on Constitution Hill, she couldn’t believe that she had come to South Africa to help Jewish women...
I’ve been on countless protest marches in my life, but there was something about marching alongside other Jewish women that was so empowering, emotive, and heartwarming....
International Women’s Day on 8 March is a farce! How can we celebrate women while the world hasn’t acknowledged the violent sexual crimes perpetrated against Jewish...
While Israel’s war is raging in Gaza, the psychological injuries inside the country are creating gaping wounds throughout society that will take a long time to...
There are no winners in war, especially not a war that’s still being waged five months later with no end in sight. Though so many denigrate...
On Sunday, I happened to stumble on yellow ribbons on a fence in the James & Ethel Gray Park in Johannesburg, and I immediately recognised that...
On reading that our not-so beloved minister of international relations and cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, would be terminating her career in public office after the national...
It’s enough of all this talk of us being unsafe here and what a dreadful future we have. Do we all honestly believe that? I don’t....
While the war between Israel and Hamas continues unabated and there are more deaths of soldiers and civilians, the world hasn’t stopped debating, arguing, and discussing...
Last Wednesday and Thursday night, all the issues in the world were set aside for 2023 matriculants and their parents, as they waited for that SMS...
David Teeger has just matriculated and yet this young man, no more than 19 years old, has become a symbol of what’s happening to South African...
Many say that everything they know about business they learned from the old-school business icon Eric Ellerine. But early on Monday morning, when for so many...
As we move into Chanukah, the festival of miracles and victory, it’s not easy to find the joy to celebrate. Generally, at this time of year,...
I’m incensed by the revolting abuse that the winner of our inaugural Absa Jewish Achiever Rising Star Award, David Teeger, has been subjected to in the...
In one week, Israel recalled the Israel ambassador to South Africa and the South African government declared it was bringing home its diplomatic staff from Israel,...
Ralph Lewinsohn, his wife, Barbara, and their family survived their beloved home on Kfar Aza turning into hell on 7 October 2023 when it was attacked...
It’s deeply shocking to watch as the world around us appears to be becoming progressively more antisemitic. Perhaps we were naïve all along and the sentiment...
I contemplated going to watch the unedited footage of the massacre that was taken from the Hamas terrorists’ bodycams because I believed it was my duty...
In Europe, people are painting blue Magen Davids on the walls of Jewish homes as a form or antisemitism. A mob of hundreds in Dagestan, Russia,...
How is it that there are people questioning whether 1 400 Jews were killed on 7 October in the south of Israel? How dare people challenge...
“Don’t take me, I’m too young!” This desperate plea keeps playing in my head. I went cold on hearing the mother of two children, aged 12...
“We’re in a war that we didn’t choose to be in,” Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Eli Cohen told foreign media on Monday, 9 October. “We’ll continue...
How does one fully understand the horrific violence and degradation that our Israeli brothers and sisters endured last weekend? How do you forget the image of...
It’s a new year, the flowers are blossoming, and summer is well on its way. Then, why oh why do we all seem so exhausted and...
As we count down to Yom Kippur this weekend, I cannot help wondering why the University of Cape Town (UCT) doesn’t just apologise to the South...
As we are about to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, I have been marvelling at how fast the year has flown by, not necessarily happily as nobody wants...
It’s difficult to imagine the depth of devastation and horror of last week’s inner-city fire in Johannesburg, in which 77 people including women and children were...
Yael Sherer turned being a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her father into a lifelong battle to change the law in Israel to...
Golda, with Helen Mirren, is certainly worth going to see, especially if you have a penchant for Israel and history. I left the cinema having learnt...
When I hear that Jewish people outside of South Africa feel sorry for us as they believe we’re all miserable, negative, and our lives are awful,...
It’s not often people celebrating their 100th birthday do so with a speech and a commitment to providing a bursary for a young Jewish person to...
Our minds are wired to avoid dwelling on the painful times in our past. It’s a relief on the one hand because it means we can...
Truth is inevitably stranger than fiction, and sometimes it’s so bizarre that it’s almost too difficult to believe. This week, when we were looking for stories,...
We all have our own way of doing good. You don’t have to be a multi-millionaire to help someone. You just need to be on the...
On Tuesday this week, at least four Israeli newspapers were distributed with jet-black front pages under their banner heads. The only words on the page were,...
“United we stand, divided we fall” is a commonly used phrase that goes to the very core of who we are as a Jewish people. This...
There was something quite magical in watching snowflakes fall in Johannesburg. It wasn’t a blizzard, so we could see each individual snowflake falling. It felt like...
As Liat Amar Arran, who has run the Israel Centre in South Africa for the past four and a half years, packs to return to Israel,...
When visitors leave, they often comment on the incredible strength of our community and how we band together to deal with adversity. They always comment on...
