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Sunday evening marks the beginning of Tu B’Av, a minor holiday that celebrates wine harvest. It is considered an auspicious day for matchmaking and thus has...
South Africans who had joined the ranks of ISIS are now believed to be fleeing back home after the defeat of the radical Islamic terror group,...
Rabbi Lazer Silver was an outstanding Torah scholar and leader.
The names of several of South Africa’s most prominent Jewish businessmen - many of them now deceased - have been dragged through the mud in recent...
The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural‚ Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) report, is a severe threat to freedom of religion...
A group of 20 influential South African Jews have signed a letter to outgoing Israeli Ambassador Arthur Lenk in which they call for an urgent end...
Cyril Green was just about to be celebrated by his peers for a lifetime achievement of comedy. But he passed away on Sunday before he was...
Every Saturday on my return from the synagogue, I collect the Saturday Star from where it lies at the end of the driveway. I walk into...
On a community newspaper, it is inevitable that sometimes we are going to have to do something we really don’t want to do. This happened to...
The death penalty has only been carried out once in Israel, in 1962, against Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Final...
It was in the thick of the “Three Weeks” - the period in which Jews mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple and the departure of...
Lord Peter Hain compared contemporary Middle East conflicts to Europe’s Thirty Years War from 1618 to 1648. That bloody, protracted war pitted religious groups against one...
She’s a Johannesburg kugel and proud of it, filling her days with selfie videos, beauty appointments and not much else. She loves neutrals and saving the...
“I feel overawed at my own chutzpah, to think that I could capture my life in 224 pages of text and colour,” says Natalie Knight, the...
Chicken noodle soup is regarded as a therapeutic dish in several cultures, including Jewish-American and Chinese communities where traditional medicine is practised. Although researchers have not...
Alan Gross contacted me a couple of months ago. There was something he thought I should know.
Ashley Blaker is heading to Johannesburg to have us laughing in the aisles at the Emperor’s Palace theatre to celebrate Sydenham Shul’s 75th anniversary. It will...
Play: My Name is Asher Lev Cast: Robert Fridjhon; Alan Swerdlow; Louise Saint-Claire Director: Moira Blumenthal Venue: Studio, Pieter Toerien's Theatre, Montecasino Until: September 3
Any reunion is by definition unique. The participants are different, the circumstances and individual stories are different, the innumerable moving parts are different.
The wild mixture of feelings people of different races experience in today’s South Africa was eloquently portrayed in a play last week at Wits Theatre called...
The focus of the Board over the next three weeks will be on our national conference, which will take place in the Sandton Shul hall on...
Current events in Israel are a clear indication of the warnings and instructions of last week’s parsha.
South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP) published a statement welcoming the ANC’s recent policy conference recommendation to downgrade diplomatic ties with Israel.
After successful runs in Cape Town and Johannesburg, a unique exhibition has been touring the country and has landed in Durban, South Africa’s third largest Jewish...
The Union of Jewish Women Pretoria celebrated Mandela Day on July 26 with a visit to Kalafong Hospital. It took more than the required 67 minutes...
Scott Blumstein admits it: He never expected to get the card he needed to become the World Series of Poker champion.
Refiloe Moahloli, author of the children's book “How Many Ways Can You Say Hello”, captivated the children of Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School at last week’s reading...
To highlight the importance and great significance of the nine days preceding Tisha B’Av, King David Schools embarked on a campaign called “9 days of KDness”.
King David Ariel, the brand new Jewish remedial school opening in Johannesburg in January next year, hosted its first open event for all grade R and...
Crawford College Sandton is very proud of its grade 8 learner Daniel Shapiro, who was selected as part of the Rand Central Local Area Football (RCLFA)...
