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A Johannesburg mother has finally found insight into her tortured childhood, after reading a Holocaust survivor’s recently published memoir.
This Yom Hashoah, there are fewer survivors left. I am stating the obvious as the Holocaust began 85 years ago and ended 73 years ago. So,...
A customer and friend of Rachel and Rodney Saunders, the botanist couple who were kidnapped in KwaZulu-Natal in February and presumed killed by followers of the...
Bernadette Lifshitz, the owner of a high-end boutique at Cape Town’s Canal Walk, has allegedly disappeared with her stock in tow – leaving loyal staff, customers...
The dusty dorp of Brandfort in the Free State is well known because the late struggle stalwart, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was banished there by the apartheid regime...
Internationally acclaimed South African deejay and producer Black Coffee is keeping mum following his controversial performance in Israel, which resulted in the ANC calling for a...
The DA has unreservedly apologised for a faux pas in calling on Progressive Rabbi Julia Margolis to say a prayer at its electoral conference last weekend,...
Discredited Stan & Pete owner Jeff Shull this week said “life goes on” after he was forced to shut down his kosher catering business under a...
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, known as the Mother of the Nation, died at the Netcare Milpark Hospital at the age of 81 last week. The struggle stalwart, affectionately...
“And sitting here today at my typewriter in the warm sunshine…”
Within hours of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making a deal with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on April 2 not to send 40...
What happens when the living witnesses to the Holocaust are no more?
I finished reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris more than a month ago, but I am still ruminating on it. It is one of...
The last Jew in Eritrea standing alone in a colourful shul. Two Ethiopian boys wrapped in talleisim, praying. Jewish cemeteries around Africa. These images form part...
Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg are well known for having saved Jews during the Holocaust, but few know of the valiant efforts by President Manuel Quezon...
English is a global and porous language. It has been sucking up words from other languages, like a hungry sponge, for centuries.
Although Lithuanian Antanas Zabulis is not Jewish, he is chair of the board of Litvakworld, a non-governmental organisation that preserves and commemorates Jewish history in Lithuania....
With a rich history dating back to the late 1800s, the Jewish community of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, has faltered, but never fallen. The recent rededication...
Russell Fransman is highly charged and enjoying the good life as a “bionic man”.
“You can teach ethics, but you can’t teach people to be ethical.” This was one of the take-home messages of Professor Solly Benatar, who delivered a...
Judy Moritz, a 70-year-old Houghton grandmother, found a way to ease her arthritis in her hands – she took up Lego. This opened up a whole...
Few can match Steven Adler’s commitment to the community. His dedication stretches from the tender age of five, as a member of Bnei Akiva, and spans...
The past fortnight has seen a flurry of biased media coverage against Israel in certain sectors of the mainstream media, much of it relating to the...
One thing that puzzles Diaspora Jews seeing images of Israeli soldiers facing masses of mostly unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in the March of Return at the Gaza...
I want to tell you about something that happened whilst we were away for Pesach. Our family was fortunate enough to spend the week at the...
Sometimes change comes upon us without warning. At other times we are warned beforehand by instinct, but we often don’t take heed. If we are to...
The pupils at Crawford Preparatory Sandton participated enthusiastically in the school Seder. It took them on a journey that began with the Jews’ persecution and their...
Grade 7 pupils at King David Victory Park Primary School, Yeshiva College Girls’ High School and Torah Academy Girls’ High School recently embarked on an exciting...
I note there has not been much reader comment regarding the Stan & Pete saga.
On page 4 of your March 23 issue, under the headline “SAUJS rises above IAW Holocaust slur”, there is a picture of graffiti that appeared on...
I look forward every week to reading your newspaper, which I think compares well with the best Jewish journalism in English.
Jemima Montag made Australian history on Sunday when she became the first Jewish athlete from that country to win a gold medal in track and field...
What do you do when you see a Facebook post with a photograph of a baby lion being carried in the trunk of an elephant, while...
It’s hard to imagine a conflict today without a social media element. Last Friday’s rioting along the Israel-Gaza border lasted only a few hours and left...
