In the Southern Hemisphere—from Australia to South Africa to Latin America—Jews celebrate the Festival of Lights in the middle of summer, so it can look a little different than it does up north. Fewer icicles, more sand between your toes.

A dispatch from the front lines of the racially charged, vocal, violent, identitarian, anti-Zionist, anti-oppression, anti-Semitic, cultural touchstone battles over Jews, Israel, and the future of ethno-nationalist states

Boysie Dikobe, a South African-born dancer with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, prepares for his conversion—when he’s not performing in drag

In South Africa, protests supposedly aimed at Israel target the country’s Jewish institutions

How a grueling 56-mile ultramarathon in South Africa became a stage for racial reconciliation—and national belonging for immigrant Jews

The departure of Russia, South Africa, and others from the supra-national body could have serious implications for Israel and the world

More than 200 academics from South Africa have followed in the footsteps of hundreds of scholars from the U.K., who declared a similar boycott in October

Line between anti-Israel activism and anti-Semitism thins in Johannesburg

A South African goes home to Israel

It’s just the tip of the iceberg of the country’s bigoted BDS movement

Meet the koeksister, a South African cookie

And now their sons live in the shadow of the great South African leader, who died one year ago today

The NYC restaurant will be serving honey and red wine-braised short ribs

Two neighboring wineries share more than family roots and lines of kosher products. They’re also both carbon-neutral.

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist critiqued the apartheid regime in her work