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Why is Netanyahu threatening to dissolve the government over a TV station? That was the question many in Israel were asking last Sunday morning after Prime...
When Gimelli restaurant opened in Bryanston, Johannesburg to critical acclaim, bookings for the gourmet Italian eatery had to be made more than two months in advance.
With near-daily scandals rocking this country, it sometimes seems we are unravelling under blundering leadership. But we are not alone and not that bad compared to...
Last year a Jewish community delegation, headed by the SAJBD and comprising communal leaders, university students and day school learners, participated in the Human Rights Day...
Today’s increasingly dominant “third generation Austrians” (after the Second World War) are the first to be detached enough from the history of Nazi atrocities to be...
When families leave their elderly parents in old age homes in South Africa and emigrate, they usually do this with a heavy heart.
“The Beyachad Library is (finally) going to be closed down... No, it’s nonsense, it will never close...” Rumour-mongering has always been standard fare concerning this establishment.
The Red Sea parting was a miracle, but Jewish women the world over are hoping for a new modern miracle - that their homes could be...
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein discussed the importance of bikkur cholim at a breakfast for Bikkur Cholim volunteers last Tuesday at the HOD.
Two King David Linksfield grade 11 learners - Natalia Laffer-Liebson and Jamey Wolpe - have been elected as Johannesburg Junior Councillors for 2017.
King David Pre-Primary School Victory Park believes that children need to be taught about and exposed to the mitzvah of tzedakah from a young age.
King David Sandton showed their strong support for the South African Jerusalem Marathon runners who ran under the banner of "Running for Recovery" last Friday.
The children of Sydenham Pre-Primary had a bread tasting, enabling them to do a tongue tip test for pita, rye and health bread.
OWN CORRESPONDENT At Yeshiva College Pre-Primary School, the parsha was brought alive during Sheila Sklaar’s parsha lesson, as the children were dressed in the clothing of...
Purim has come and gone, but will be back this time next year. Are we prepared for Purim 5778? Yes, if our standard is that of...
As a hostage to the conflict being waged by conservatives on either side, I wish to once again place on record my objections to the war...
The Jerusalem Marathon has only been run for six years, but it has quickly joined the ranks of its Boston, New York and London counterparts as...
MIDDLE EAST - “No comment” - the two words journalists most abhor, but which with time have come to be interpreted as an admission of guilt;...
The DA’s Helen Zille made comments on Twitter last week that sunk her deep into hot water. She defended colonialism. To be exact, she tweeted: “For...
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” wrote American statesman Benjamin Franklin in 1789. “If only it could be...
A huge obstacle has been removed for South African students wanting to study in Israel, with the announcement this week that The Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
For some youngsters, Purim has become an excuse to get fall-down drunk, all in the name of religion. And while the source quoted is the Mishnah,...
Limmud, the international network of Jewish learning communities, will receive the Jerusalem Unity Prize in the Diaspora category on Unity Day, June 7, in recognition of...
South African Jews need not worry about being disliked by black South Africans, because in truth they are not foremost on their minds, according to a...
After being bombarded by Israel Apartheid Week messaging on billboards in and around Johannesburg over the past few weeks, Johannesburg residents woke up last week Thursday...
Rav Yochanan said of G-d himself: "Wherever you find His (G-d’s) greatness there you find His humility." At the end of the week’s Torah reading, it...
President Jacob Zuma resisted repeated attempts to get him to impose a travel ban on Israel and reiterated the ANC’s support for the two-state solution in...
In what has been dubbed the Jewish “Fashion event of the year”, WIZO has partnered with Luminance and the Lupus Foundation to ensure you are “Dressed...
British-born Milo Yiannopoulos was forced to resign from Breitbart News, a far-right wing news site in the United States two weeks ago, over comments he made...
Jews who keep Shabbos have every sympathy for Deidre Faris, a Seventh Day Adventist who was discriminated against and fired from her job at TFD Network...
The Israeli government is furious after at least three senior ANC members lambasted the country during Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) events last week. On Monday, South...
“It’s too late.” “I’m too far gone.” “It’ll never be the same...” How many times have we heard those words? Or, worse still, said them?
Over 250 Cape Town Jews sent a petition to the Western Cape government in support of developing social housing on prime Sea Point land that had...
ANC Deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte insists that she is not an anti-Semite, but she believes Israel is an apartheid state. Duarte spoke alongside Palestinian Ambassador to...
Temperatures rose across our readership this last week - some with laughter and others with ire - at our Purim shpiel, “Government to expropriate Yeshiva College,...
MIDDLE EAST - Russian President Vladimir Putin once famously called the demise of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the (last) century”.
I’m a parent and I’m a teacher. As a parent, I understand the fears of sending my child off to a schooling system where teachers may...
Chloé Valdary - who was born and raised in New Orleans - was only six when she was introduced to Judaism when her father switched from...
One may be forgiven for thinking someone with tattoos all over his body, who does graffiti for a living is a felon. So says Craig Dershowitz...
From hating to defending Israel Yahya Mahamed is an Israeli Arab who was one of the Israelis who was brought out to South Africa by the...
