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For 505 days, getting married to his partner, Ziv Abud, was the dream that sustained Eliya Cohen in the rot of the Hamas tunnels. A future with her was uncertain. Even knowing whether the person you love was alive was a luxury neither of them had. This week, they stood together beneath a chuppah. It was a celebration of love, certainly. But surrounded by returned hostages, survivors, family, and…
JTA – The remains of Yehuda Katz, the last Israeli soldier still missing from the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War, have been recovered after 44 years, the Israeli military said on Tuesday, bringing to a close one of the country’s longest-running missing soldier cases. Katz, a 22-year-old tank gunner and yeshiva student […] The post Remains of last Israeli soldier missing…
JTA – The man accused of disrupting Shabbat services at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue last week now faces federal hate crimes charges in addition to the state ones levelled against him immediately after the attack. “These charges serve as notice that the Department of Justice will intervene to protect the public in the face of antisemitic and racially […] The post Manhattan Central Synagogue…
JTA – Jürgen Stroop, the Nazi commander who led the killing of more than 50 000 Jews, was sitting in a cell in Warsaw awaiting his own execution. Before he met the gallows, Stroop described in unrepentant detail his ascent as a Nazi, his destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and his daily prosecution of mass […] The post An influential book of a Nazi leader’s confessions is now available in English…
Antizionist agitator Megan Choritz argues that she has a right to denigrate Professor Adam Mendelsohn – the director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at UCT – because he is “a self-confessed Zionist” who supports the “apartheid settler colony in Israel”. She makes the claim in her defendant’s plea, submitted to the Western Cape High Court on 7 August. And she claims that Mendelsohn…
Just days after making Commonwealth Games history, Chad le Clos returned to a very different kind of reality. His home at the Dorchester in Sea Point had been gutted in a fire. And he’d lost a neighbour he was fond of. The fire tore through the building on High Level Road on 30 July, destroying several top-floor apartments, displacing dozens of residents, and claiming the […] The post ‘Homeless’…
After three years of living in their car in Cape Town, Jolene Erasmus and her Jewish husband and son were given more than just R20 when they crossed paths with Gary Meyers. They were given a lifeline. The family – Erasmus and Itzy Diamond and their son, Hymie Diamond – had survived a farm attack and were facing certain destitution when they met Meyers. […] The post Family living in car gets help…
As Rosh Hashanah approaches, the sharp daily blast of the shofar punctuates the month of Elul, serving as a spiritual wake-up call to prompt self-reflection. For Rabbi Motti Hadar of the Pine Street Shul, this preparation links biblical history with personal growth. “Historically, it recalls the shofar that sounded when Moshe ascended Mount Sinai,” he says. “The shofar […] The post Shofar a…
The name Jeffrey Wolf will always be synonymous with King David Victory Park. Now, with the loss of this educational icon on 17 August, his legacy lives on in his family, former colleagues, and all the pupils whose lives he touched. “Some teachers teach you a subject. A very few leave something of themselves in who you become. Mr Wolf was […] The post Wolf’s legacy reaches far beyond the classroom…
For years, Israel’s argument over ultra-Orthodox military service has told a fairly simple story. On one side are Israelis who serve, whose children serve, and whose husbands and wives spend months doing reserve duty. On the other are Haredi men who largely do not. Since 7 October, that divide has become increasingly difficult to ignore. Israelis have watched reservists return again and again to…
No one should have any moral or legal difficulty with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s intervention to secure the return of Captain Daniel Perez’s body. The president has done the right thing and should be unreservedly commended for it. There are humanitarian considerations that transcend conflicts. In Jewish tradition, the Teruah shofar blast is said to signify the sobbing of Sisera’s mother – Sisera…
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, then when?” Hillel’s words in Pirkei Avot have sat with me throughout my term as president of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) KwaZulu-Natal Council, not as a slogan, but as an instruction. A community […] The post What leading Jewish community of KZN taught me appeared first…
For most of their lives, Batyah* and Gila* understood themselves to be Muslim. Yet, woven through generations of their family was a Jewish identity they did not fully understand. The two sisters shared their story at Limmud Cape Town on Saturday in a session titled “Becoming Ourselves: Two Sisters and their Jewish Journey Home”. The talk drew such a large crowd […] The post The Muslim sisters who…
For Israel, the battle is no longer only a military one. Dan Feferman told Limmud Cape Town that the information space is as strategic a battlefield, capable of shaping public opinion, political decisions, and physical violence. Feferman, an Israel-based media entrepreneur focusing on the Middle East and an expert on military, intelligence, and diplomatic affairs, said the problem is bigger than…
