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A presenter at Limmud last weekend, Gidi Grinstein - president of Israel’s respected leadership think-tank, the Reut Institute - called Jews the “ever-dying people”. Jews possessed,...
Girls in jeans and men in kippot; women rabbis and big frum families: the multicultural mix that characterised this year’s Limmud, demonstrated unequivocally that the project...
The Lubavitcher Rebbe was a marketing genius, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, the author of Rebbe, the Life and Teaching of Menachem M Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi...
Sorry, users, due to a technical hitch all comments posted between 4pm on Tuesday and 4pm on Wednesday have gone astray. We have found the problem...
A different take from Rabbi Shmuel Bloch who, with his family, lived through the entire seven weeks of Operation “Protective Edge”
A project that was initiated by Telfed – the association of expat South African Israelis - and Mega stores during Operation Protective Edge saw 1,000 soldiers...
I would like to address Prof Steven Friedman in an open letter.
The ordination of SA's new Progressive rabbi was held on an auspicious day. The 160th anniversary of the Jewish Theological Seminary Breslau, the 140th yahrzeit of...
Rabbi Gavin Michal of Baal Shem Tov Shul in Orange Grove is the sole SA Rabbi who follows the Breslov teachings of Rebbe Nachman. “I recently...
For a change of pace I’m running a three-part series over the next three weeks to share with you some interesting paradoxes we work with at...
The Union of Jewish Women’s Mandela Day Project, “No Child Should Go To School Barefoot”, saw the community open up its collective heart, and 1 500...
Parents, grandparents, staff and friends of Torah Academy, flocked to the primary school last week Friday to attend the annual Grade 1 Siddur Concert, with songs...
Inspired by both their attendance at this year’s Grahamstown Festival and performance experiences, King David Victory Park arts and culture learners returned to their Johannesburg home...
There’s a certain kind of magic that comes of nostalgia onstage; it needs to be caught in the bud before it sinks into maudlin silliness or...
The most valuable gift is to have time, full, long years.Time and timing is important. First, two anecdotes.
Supporters of the BDS movement and those of Israel, are quite entitled to their different views and beliefs, since this is a free, democratic country. However,...
I was surprised at the contents and the implications thereof in your editorial of August 22 - 29, entitling “Concerning the chasm among SA Jews”. In...
On September 14, delegates representing a wide range of Gauteng Jewish organisations will be coming together for the SAJBD’s biennial Gauteng Council conference. The theme of...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
"I am honoured to be able to continue the long standing tradition going back to Chief Rabbi Bernard Casper and Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris, both of...
In 2011 the English Football Association (FA) voted David Bernstein, a Jew, in as chairman. His nomination was met with surprise, with many expecting David Dein...
In a local spat at the end of 2011, coinciding with the then Israel-Gaza conflict which prompted the launch of the IDF’s Operation Pillar of Defence...
“As an alumnus of Rhodes University … I take umbrage at the stance by the university to include me in this biased and one-sided view which...
Justice Dennis Davis’ weekly show on ENCA, “Judge for Yourself,” this week put Avrom Krengel and Muhammed Desai head-to-head, joined by Daily Maverick Associate Editor and...
2013 was a record year, breaking the 3-5 mil visitors’ barrier for the first time, and 2014 seems set to beat that hands down. Ben-Gurion Airport...
With Rosh Hashanah approaching, the JWBS has and continues, to provide many Jewish families with what is usually their only form of support and sustenance.
Project to begin construction of nine locally-built tugs worth 1.4-bil blessed by five religious leaders in Durban, including Progressive Rabbi Hillel Avidan, pictured. Only then were...
“I was looking at WWI posters at the Washington State History Museum with my kids, & found one in Yiddish. How cool!” says US user Sara.
BDS-SA is cooing after it managed to get Woollies in Rosebank to temporarily close on Shabbos in the first in a series of planned “Monthly National...
“Whenever BDS has initiated an action it has engendered a counter-response that has more than cancelled out any gain it hoped to attain,” writes SAZF vice-chair...
Judging by the actions of the Bank of Israel, Israel’s central bank, the economy is in worrying shape. The bank’s Monetary Committee, at its monthly meeting...
