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Shared space of faith: The entrance to the Abrahamic Family House. Photo: Kibo Ngowi

The Abrahamic Family House and the fragility of coexistence

In Abu Dhabi, a space built for coexistence raises difficult questions about religion, power and the violence unfolding across the region

People attending a demonstration to show solidarity with Israel and against anti-semitism hold up photographs of hostages taken by Hamas on October 22, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. Thousands of people attended the event in front of the Brandenburg Gate as the conflict between Hamas and Israel continues to range following the deadly October 7 incursions by Hamas fighters from Gaza into Israel. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Listen carefully for the echoes of anti-Semitism

History has taught us that Jews can easily become potential targets of violent retaliation

Guided: Ultra-Orthodox men pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. Their Almighty tempers strict justice with mercy. Photo: Thomas Coex/AFP

G-d wags His finger a lot but still gives us hope

Judaism holds that people determine their own destinies but that G-d is ultimately in control and everything will come right in the end

The UCT senate’s call to cut ties, not with Israeli Jews, but with complicit Israeli universities that have already enshrined discrimination into their mode of being is nothing but a defence of academic freedom.

Jewish resistance to Zionism is on the right side of history

Confining people in effective Bantustans forces us to see Israel for what it is: a European project of domination

For Jews

For justice: SA Jews support the academic boycott of Israeli universities

As South African Jews, we cannot sit by idly while the Israeli government commits similar atrocities to the former South African apartheid regime

Major corporations in the mining and steel production industries, including Anglo American, Sibanye Stillwater, and ArcelorMittal South Africa, have reported reduced output and profitability because of higher operational costs and declining global demand for raw materials.(Madelene Cronje)

Pupils punished for taking a knee during Israeli national anthem

Herzlia School says the two students face “disciplinary and educational” consequences

Last October, a note that Einstein had given a courier in Tokyo briefly describing his theory on happy living sold at auction in Jerusalem for $1.56-million, Winner’s auction house said. (AFP)

Einstein’s ‘God letter’ to go on sale for $1-million

​A handwritten letter from Albert Einstein about his thoughts on God, religion and his search for meaning is to go on sale in New York

The Medupi power station should be up and running by year end.

Finding G-d in small things

Orthodox Judaism’s rituals can provide divine connection, even in a Highveld thunderstorm

Jewish studies teacher Adina Roth believes that modern values such as feminism may save religion from the very worst parts of itself.

Make the bat mitzvah more than ‘lite’

The very act of a girl reading from the Torah can shake Judaism out of its patriarchal stronghold and inspire her to become involved in the religion.

Row over messianic red heifer divides Jewish activists

Agriculture researchers, US exporters and Jewish activists clash over plans to breed a holy cow.

What’s next

Into the afterlife

To find out what’s next, after death Aneesa Fazel went soul searching, with the help of religious experts.

Amir Mizroch argues that Kevin Bloom’s idea that the mind-set of South Africa’s Jewry needs a messiah to lead them out of the darkness that is their “Israel right-or-wrong” mentality has been widely discredited.

Busting the ‘right-or-wrong’ mentality on Israel

Amir Mizroch takes on Kevin Bloom’s claim that SA’s Jewry needs a messiah to lead them out of the darkness of their mentality on Israel.

Jerusalem engulfed as pilgrims mark Good Friday

Jerusalem engulfed as pilgrims mark Good Friday, Passover

Christians and Jews in the Holy Land are set to begin marking their most important festivals as Good Friday and Jewish holiday of Passover coincide.

The rise of the Afrikaner Christian Jew

The rise of the Afrikaner Christian Jew

A growing number of South Africans have started exploring Christianity’s origins in Jewish scripture and ritual, under the term Messianic Judaism.

Moving heaven and earth

Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein: What will be the state of our nation in the future? What is our vision for South Africa?

Studying Jesus

John Crace meets the Jewish studies professor dubbed the greatest Jesus scholar of his generation

A visible minority

There are many genres of Jewish literature, including a secular library about Judaism that has grown concurrently with the saga of the people itself.