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For the past five years, Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein’s Generation Sinai initiative has brought Jewish parents and children together in classrooms across the country to...
The year was 1935, and the Spanish government was making elaborate plans to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Rambam’s birth – seemingly a great honour...
A listing of all Shavuot events around the country
A Sefer Torah is not only about the liturgy on the page; it is often also symbolic of a person, event or history that needed to...
Of the three “pilgrim festivals” – Pesach, Shavuot and Succot – Shavuot is the only one without any defined rituals attached. As a result, customs have...
A woman famous in her homeland emigrates to marry into a royal family. She will marry into a family that has suffered tragedies and faces an...
Being Jewish is not a punishment – it is a gift. But a funny thing happens with this gift.
Shavuot is the day on which G-d gave the Torah to the Jewish people. The reading of the great Revelation at Sinai includes, of course, the...
Thankfully, we live in a day and age where there is a groundswell of advocacy for human rights. This is a day and age where social...
Shavuot is a festival that has something for everyone. There’s delicious cheesecake, all-night Torah learning, baskets of fruit being brought by the children to shul, and...
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was once invited to give a lecture at a University in America in preparation for Shavuot. He arrived to find that it wasn’t,...
This weekend we celebrate Shavuot, the holiday commemorating the giving of the Torah. Many people celebrate through Tikkun Leil Shavuot, learning Torah all night long.
In just over a year since we made aliya, I’ve been amazed at the number of family and friends who have visited this part of the...
The eruption of further deadly violence along the Gaza border earlier this week was a sobering reminder that Israel’s existence is something that many of its...
South African Jews can be forgiven for being confused about Israel and South Africa, both of which concern them immensely. The abiding feeling is a conflict...
As Israel celebrated Yom Yerushalayim last week, it was so evident how the army has developed from rag-tag beginnings 51 years ago to its current form...
With patience and wisdom Reb Zalman instructed his young student, Mendel, in the reading of the Torah. Reb Zalman explained: “When you see the two yuds...
Rabbi Shalom Hammer was the guest speaker at Camps Bay shul last week. He told the Cape Town Jewish community on erev Yom Yerushalayim that Jerusalem...
The Johannesburg community gathered at Yeshiva College campus to celebrate the 51st year of Yom Yerushalayim, commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem after the Six-Day War in...
The moms of Mina Lopato Nursery School (in Greenside) pupils were treated to a special Mother’s Day.
We regularly see people with albinism in Johannesburg, but do we know what causes this lack of pigmentation and the challenges they face?
King David Linksfield pupils rank well above national and international standards. This was confirmed in the Acer International Benchmark Tests in maths and English.
King David High School Victory Park celebrated the 51st Yom Yerushalayim in a special assembly emphasising the significance the Old City of Jerusalem has held for...
“The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship (NGF) showed me the possibilities of a world in which we can talk to each other and not over each other –...
A beautiful and inviting learning centre with modern, comfortable chairs and tables surrounded by a vast Torah library was officially opened in Oaklands on Wednesday night.
The UJW Cape Town branch were proud that for the first time in an 85 years history, a Capetonian has been elected national chairperson of the...
The Union of Jewish Women tirelessly do what they can to make a difference in socieity, according the the UJW/s national president Myra Goldenbaum at the...
The Argentine Football Association appears to have given the BDS movement against Israel the finger and confirmed that its national soccer team will play a pre-World...
The words “Israel” and “golf” may not be synonymous, but one South African dreams of turning the start-up nation into a global golfing powerhouse.
A Christian prayer vigil for Palestine is being called for this weekend by groups aligned with the BDS movement. However, many leading Christian groups have no...
During the darkest days of apartheid, Rosalie Bloch sheltered families of detainees and apartheid activists in the lounge of her home in Mowbray, Cape Town. On...
Seventy-three years ago this week, on May 8 1945, many Jews recited the Shehecheyanu blessing to express thanks that they had survived to see that day....
One section stands out from the rest in this week’s Parsha. It is known as the Tochecho, or The Rebuke. In it, we read a litany...
When the now former mayor of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille, visited the BDS South Africa stall at the Cape Town Ramadaan and Lifestyle Expo at...
“This is not a trivial trip. We don’t fly this far for window dressing.” These are the words of visiting kashrut expert Rabbi Menachem Genack. Together...
Eliyahou Roth was studying Talmud at a yeshiva in Israel in 2003 when he got a harsh wake-up call. A Gentile friend called him and began...
So many of the more cynical among us refer to Mother’s and Father’s Day as Hallmark holidays – simply a way of retailers having another reason...
I thoroughly enjoy spoiling my mother on Mother’s Day. There is something about having a special day that belongs to her (and me now, as a...
Not so long ago, I was in the Kazakh capital of Astana for a conference and found myself seated next to the Lebanese ambassador to that...
Kanye West, the African-American rap artist, seems to have placed his well-pedicured feet right in it. “Slavery,” he suggested last week, sounded “like a choice” to...
