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By Saturday afternoon, it was already part of the scenery. Birds tweeting, dogs barking, kids playing, and the Russians and Syrians bombing.
With nominations closing on Friday (13 July), you have just hours to enter Achiever names (depending when you read this) to ensure that those who have...
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is unlikely to have much of an immediate effect on medical aid schemes or even public hospital care, according to various...
Save the date. On 13 February 2019, an Israeli-built unmanned spacecraft is expected to land on the moon, having blasted off from Earth two months earlier,...
From bulbous and egg-shaped to small and thin, the brinjal or eggplant (or if you’re British like me, the aubergine) is a staple fruit within Sephardic...
It is not often that a Jo’burg Jewish boy packs up his life to move to New York in pursuit of a dream, and wins a...
When one thinks of photography of a personal nature, what springs to mind is the ability to share images online with a relatively unconfined group of...
Mandela Day – Wednesday, 18 July – is around the corner and while you may want to do something meaningful, you haven’t had time to figure...
Over the past few weeks, this column has unavoidably had a negative focus, having reported mainly on recent acts of anti-Semitism and how the SA Jewish...
Remember the Hebrew writing on South African weapons during apartheid’s war against its enemies in the 1970s? Israel needed whatever friends it could get; so did...
Jockey Anton Marcus is rewriting the record books of South African horseracing.
I write in response to last week’s article about Janna Jihad Ayyad (“Palestinian child’s personal jihad is effective propaganda”, 6-13 July). The mention of Palestine and...
Maccabi South Africa brought the FIFA World Cup alive for a group of residents from the Selwyn Segal Centre in Sandringham recently in a morning of...
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Johannesburg personal trainer Troy Mayer swam through the ice last month simply to prove that we are limited only by what’s in our head.
The time between submitting a column and it being published, is for me an anxious period. Because I pride myself on writing with authenticity, it often...
The Chairman of Likud SA, Sergio Kowensky, was shot dead in broad daylight outside his factory in Benrose, Johannesburg, this week.
While a South African sports team is nowhere near the World Cup in Russia, we do have one esteemed representative on the field. His name is...
The Knesset approved a Bill on Tuesday to allow families who came to Israel from Yemen in the early days of the state to find out...
Hate speech accused Velaphi Khumalo faces an uncertain future as he awaits the judge’s final call on whether he will be found guilty or not.
By Wednesday afternoon, more than 2.62 million people across numerous social media platforms had viewed footage of an elderly rabbi protesting, and then shuffling along with...
South African Jewry is concerned that anti-Semitism is not just rising, but spiking. The South African Jewish Board of Deputies this week laid criminal charges against...
I have never met Sara Netanyahu, the wife of incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I have never interviewed her, nor been in the same room...
While most 12-year-olds focus on academics, sport or just having fun, Palestinian Janna Jihad is spreading her message of resistance in South Africa, calling on sympathisers...
Avraham Infeld struggles. Like anyone born in South Africa named Aubrey, who suddenly becomes known as Avraham, Infeld struggles with issues of identity. What is this...
It was a chance meeting that turned Chad Nathan’s life as a talented Instagram “self-influencer” into helping someone less fortunate who wanted much the same things...
The construction of a new museum in Lithuania to commemorate Jewish life lost in the Holocaust began last week, after a ceremony attended by Lithuania’s top...
“Where are you taking us?” So reads the inscription on the memorial of the infamous Grey buses which, during World War II, were used to transport...
With only eight days to go until the deadline, it’s time to submit your nominations for this year’s Absa Jewish Achiever Awards.
An unstable economy, a highly charged political environment, and the threat of crime are just some reasons why many South Africans leave our shores seeking greener...
Pinchas, the hero of this week’s Parsha, was previously unheard of. Though he belonged to the “royal family” as the grandson of Aaron, he was an...
Growing up in Uganda, Shoshanna Nambi was active in her small Jewish community. She taught songs and the Torah portion to younger children, and was a...
Young Jewish people want different things to their parents and grandparents. This includes how and where to pray. So, Jewish communities around the world are devising...
South African Jewish Board of Deputies National Director Wendy Kahn took part in an “Expert Stakeholder Consultation on Monitoring and Combatting Antisemitism” meeting in Geneva Last...
What should we do about the k-word? Flight crew evicted a woman from a flight about to take off from Johannesburg to Durban two weeks ago,...
We were having dinner, and discussing what food my wife had prepared for an upcoming trip to the Kruger National Park. The list was uninteresting, and...
When I witness the malevolent campaign by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) and the ruling party and its affiliates: the South African Communist Party,...
It has come to our attention that Spares 2000, a Sharp-Rite, has been mentioned relating to an ongoing situation regarding anti-Semitic/hate-speech that supposedly came from an...
A wise dentist once said you don’t have to brush all your teeth, only the ones you want to keep! In the interests of a healthy...
Chiara Cohen, 26, cannot bear the thought of dogs in shelters freezing in winter.
