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At the foot of Table Mountain, a school in a historic synagogue, allows its teenage pupils to rest on bean bag pillows, study Torah in chevruta,...
South Africa’s many Six Day War IDF volunteers, form an integral part of Israel’s proud military history. And 50 years later, more than 60 of them...
“It started with one coffee and one crazy idea. It culminated in infinite memories in the Land of 1 000 Hills and 1 000 000 smiles.”...
Ask any child - the best way to learn is through fun. Ed Jordan and Alan Glass apparently got this right with their latest children’s book,...
Wearing strimels, black hats, knitted yarmulkes, shorts, sandals or suits, different Jews from around the world came together to discuss their common purpose - saving lives....
In a famous episode of "Seinfeld", Jerry is upset that his dentist, a recent convert to Judaism, is already telling Jewish jokes. He complains to the...
It is a paradox of travel that as we adventure into exotic distant lands, what we really want is to feel at home.
The clumsy attempt by the State Security Agency and SA Revenue Service to block distribution of the book by investigative journalist Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers,...
There is perhaps no better way to encapsulate the Habonim Machaneh experience than with the popular song our campers sing every December - “Habonim Machaneh makes...
Over the weekend, representatives of the SAJBD attended an event where the renowned human rights lawyer George Bizos was honoured by the Hellenic Federation of South...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem in May this year, the whole of King David Victory Park undertook a special project to illustrate their love...
The atmosphere was electric as the children of Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary celebrated their theme of Dr Seuss with a “Dr Seuss comes to Sydenhamville” day last...
Setlogane Manchidi came to Torah Academy Boys' High School last week to share his inspirational life story.
It was an awesome pamper party with a difference, when at least 90 little girls arrived at the Selwyn Segal Toy Shop on Sunday morning, October...
I am Erene Schwarz. Me and my husband Bernhard have been here in Amman, in Jordan for the past 10 months, helping at a small “unofficial”...
In further comment, Britain's current foreign secretary, Boris Johnson. (Ahead of Balfour 100. UK enshrines Churchill's headstrong case for Israel - Times of Israel - SA...
Andile Mngxitama (of Black First Land First) should be renamed Paul Joseph Goebbels.
Abraham Klein is one of Israel's greatest soccer referees. The 83-year-old, who was born in Timisoara, Romania, survived prejudice, politics and the Holocaust, to become one...
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane told a packed audience at the annual launch of the Israel United Appeal-United Communal Fund (IUA-UCF) campaign in KwaZulu-Natal on October...
Freda Solomon turned 99 on October 19.
The annual concert of the Johannesburg Jewish Male Choir last weekend was the perfect occasion to pay tribute to its musical director Evelyn Green, a founder...
About 2 500 Christian Zionists will hold a peaceful protest on November 2 to counter the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) march on the Israeli Embassy in...
They call it “dumbwalking” nowadays. When we space out of our bricks and mortar world and into that new digital world order. Watching the display on...
Black First Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama has come out guns blazing in defence of hate speech allegations levelled against him in the Equality Court,...
The National SA Jewish Board of Deputies’ newly-elected Treasurer, Eric Marx, has stepped down suddenly amidst allegations regarding his conduct during his term as Cape Board...
South Africa has been declared at risk for plague importation, by the World Health Organisation, one of nine countries in this category, on account of trade...
When the Minister of Finance Malusi Gigaba approached Geoff Rothschild to take up a seat on the new South African Airways Board of Directors, he could...
In our edition last week, we ran a story about Tokyo Sexwale, who was scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the gala dinner at the...
This week coalition talks between the Austrian conservative People’s Party and the far-right Freedom Party, began in earnest. The Freedom Party’s first leader was a former...
If we at Afrika Tikkun can have one legacy, it is this: the act of compassionate connection. This is kindness that embraces individual value and difference...
The Jewish month that began this week, Cheshvan, has traditionally been dubbed “mar", or bitter, because it alone among the months is devoid of any holidays.
When Dr Avraham Neguise was a little shepherd boy in a rural Ethiopian village, he had no inkling that he would one day become one of...
As the Economic Freedom Fighters readied themselves to march to the Israeli embassy in support of Palestinians on Thursday (November 2) the Jewish students at Wits...
“I just put one foot in front of the other.” So says Toni Krok, a South African, now living in North London, mother of two daughters...
It is deeply moving to watch how the Shabbos Project has matured here in South Africa over the last five years. It has become part of...
The product of a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother who, herself, had a Roman Catholic father, I have the privilege and burden of existing...
As exams approached, and the stresses of being a first year UCT engineering student studying away from home began to catch up with me and I...
My first Shabbos Project was last year and the conclusion to a difficult stretch. My partner, Rory, and I had fumbled our way into Cape Town...
It was a family tragedy that spurred the establishment of the South African Jewish Orphanage - the first such institution in the country - known today...
It’s been 31 years since The Mitzvah School was started, as a crisis class providing a year of tuition to matric students from Alexandra township. It...
