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“When you lose someone, your life and the way you knew it will never be the same - everything is different… It’s not true that life...
The ceremony started with a siren - the same siren (live on Israeli radio) that stopped the whole of Israel to remember their soldiers who fell...
South African Jews gather annually to commemorate Yom Hazikaron and then Yom Ha’atzmaut, but it is not quite as personal for us as it is for...
Hananel Edri is an acclaimed Israeli performing artist who was brought out by the South African Zionist Federation to perform at various Yom Ha’atzmaut celebrations.
Israel’s existence has been to a large degree shaped by wars over the decades. Many South African Jews were involved as volunteers or soldiers. We remember...
Communism is often seen as a particularly Jewish enterprise. Karl Marx, a German Jew living in Victorian England, birthed Communism with “Das Kapital”. Many Russian Communists...
A few years ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Benjamin Pogrund, former deputy-editor of the Rand Daily Mail. His newspaper was the only one catering...
At one minute to 10am on Monday morning, I was transported back to Israel and from then on the day was one that reminded me of...
The World Jewish Congress in New York resolved last week to urge Internet companies to implement mechanisms to remove illegal and offensive content from their platforms,...
Hostile protesters marred Cape Town’s unusually low-key Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration by preventing the community from entering the Baxter Theatre on Monday evening.
This week's parsha, Acharei-Kedoshim, begin with the words: Acharei mos shnei bnei Aharon.
“Viva the rainbow nation, viva” shouted Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein as he addressed thousands of protesters at the Freedom Movement Rally in Pretoria last week Thursday.
