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Jewish resistance to Zionism is on the right side of history

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Sep 2019

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

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

Article Open Letter - 13 Sep 2019

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

Pupils punished for taking a knee during Israeli national anthem

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Nov 2018

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

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

Article Agency - 3 Oct 2018

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

Finding G-d in small things

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Mar 2018

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

Make the bat mitzvah more than ‘lite’

Article Adina Roth - 23 Mar 2016

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

Article Peter Beaumont - 13 Aug 2015

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

Into the afterlife

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Mar 2013

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

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

Article Amir Mizroch - 8 May 2012

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.

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Jerusalem engulfed as pilgrims mark Good Friday, Passover

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Apr 2012

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

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Apr 2012

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

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Feb 2009

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

A visible minority

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Jun 2008

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

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