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Newly arrived South Africans listen to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar (right) deliver welcome statements in a hangar near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

South Africa’s chief rabbi supports Trump — but not his Afrikaner refugee program

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov May 14, 2025May 14, 2025

(JTA) — When Donald Trump entered his second term as president, he found a full-throated supporter in South Africa’s chief rabbi. Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein said in February that South […]

Walt Disney employees and demonstrators during a rally against the Florida "Don't Say Gay" bill at Griffith Park in Glendale, California, March 22, 2022. (Photo/Forward-Alisha Jucevic-Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I was gay and Jewish under apartheid. LGBTQ rights are slipping away in the U.S.

Robert Bank by Robert Bank and Forward June 2, 2022June 2, 2022
Klaas Mokgomole
Posted inOpinion

I’m South African. Calling Israel ‘apartheid’ puts the BS in BDS.

Klaas Mokgomole by Klaas Mokgomole April 22, 2022April 22, 2022
A sign and posts marking the white and "all races" areas of a beach in South Africa in 1982. (Photo/United Nations)
Posted inOpinion

As a South African Jew, I know Amnesty’s ‘apartheid’ label for Israel is absurd

Mervyn Danker by Mervyn Danker February 9, 2022February 15, 2022
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu attends a celebration for his 86th birthday on Oct. 7, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo/JTA-Gianluigi Guercia-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Desmond Tutu, who identified with Jews but criticized Israel, dies at 90

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 27, 2021
Members of the neo-Nazi South African group AWB.(Photo/JTA-David Turnley-Corbis-VCG via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I grew up a white Jew in South Africa. We cannot sit out today’s fight against institutionalized racism.

Robert Bank by Robert Bank June 22, 2020
Students praying at the Jewish Herzlia school in Cape Town in the 1960s (Photo/Courtesy South African Jewish Museum)
Posted inFirst Person

Reinvigorating my Jewish soul in Cape Town

Mervyn Danker by Mervyn Danker June 24, 2019
Abby Ginzberg with Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Cape Town premiere of her film “Soft Vengeance”
Posted inCulture

Q&A: This documentary filmmaker tells stories of social inequality

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller May 8, 2018
they stand outside with a banner that says "South Africans reject Apartheid Week"
Posted inBay Area, News

These South Africans are bringing a pro-Israel message to college campuses

by J. Staff April 28, 2017April 28, 2017
Jossel in an apron smiling in the kitchen
Posted inFood, Talking With ..., Jewish Life

Q&A: This acclaimed chef’s childhood was full of fast food

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller April 13, 2017April 14, 2017

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