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After experiencing two hurricanes in one month in North Carolina, South African-born Emma Gordon Blass muses the complications of living in a place where the weather...
“I didn’t have the language to articulate what was happening, and I didn’t have the emotional capacity to bridge the gap between what my body felt...
Arthur Ashkin this month became the oldest ever recipient of a Nobel Prize, at the age of 96, for ground breaking investigations in the field of...
Celebrity Shashi Naidoo claims she was offered a large sum of money to not join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions South Africa (BDS SA) press conference...
Senator Robert Menendez hardly needs to establish his pro-Israel bona fides. He is guaranteed a standing ovation every time he appears at the annual conference of...
The editor of the Sunday Times Bongani Siqoko has for two weeks running made huge public apologies. Three massive investigations – into the so-called rogue unit...
Optimism doesn’t mean everything is going to be great, but that we respond to everything with greatness. Or so the children of Kids Kicking Cancer are...
In the run up to the Shabbos Project, I recalled a piece I had published in the “Jerusalem Post” on 2 June 1990, when living in...
This year’s Shabbos Project contains a youthful twist. The organisers have handed over the reins to the next generation, offering student leaders an opportunity to take...
Media experts have called on South African Jewish communal organisations to use creativity to attract the attention of youthful audiences and combat ideological opponents more effectively....
A prominent Jo’burg media businessman recently paid for an outdoor banner on the R24 highway to OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg. Quoting Nelson Mandela, it read,...
Like matza and kneidlach, the bagel is a quintessentially Jewish food. After a mezuzah on the doorpost, no Jewish home is considered complete without a bagel...
“Pandora’s Bag is a suite of my best comic songs about handbags and the women who wear them,” says actress, songwriter, and cabaret artist Joanna Weinberg....
It seems that every Tali, Doron, and Hymie is emigrating, but the fact is that many Jews are choosing to stay in South Africa. Whether they’re...
Drake has held the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for most of this year. The Canadian rapper and singer during his career has...
To most of us, the HOD is synonymous with Barmitzvahs, wedding receptions, or similar type of simchas. Few are aware, however, that the Hebrew Order of...
“My mother started feeding me Jewish novels from a very young age,” author Steven Boykey Sidley told the “Talking Books” festival at the Rabbi Cyril Harris...
In a world of “click-bait” headlines, the above is probably the least likely to cause anyone to take a second look. And yet it should be....
Every rabbi has an airport story. In fact, some rabbis tell so many incredible stories of providential encounters on airplanes, that I wonder if it is...
South Africans know a few things about boycotts. Israel – and those who want to boycott it – could learn a bit from us, even though...
Over the past few years, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) have regularly teamed up with the...
Young and old, baritones, and falsettos, even those who are quite tone deaf, were swept up in Koolulam fever at the Sandton Convention Centre on Sunday,...
The year 1981 was proclaimed the International Year of Disabled Persons by the United Nations, which called for a plan of action with an emphasis on...
Summer has arrived! With beautiful long days, green, luscious trees, and the sun out every day, we are aware of the harsh effects that the hot...
Torah Academy Boys High Grade 12 pupils learn the laws and practicalities of kosher meat, from slaughtering to treibering (the removal of veins and fats), and...
Israeli artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat, 21, is a strong contender for gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 as he takes the gymnastics world by storm.
When Adam Golding, the choirmaster at Great Park Shul, heard the magnificent sound of the Profeti Della Quinta musical ensemble in Vienna almost two years ago,...
Has the South African ambassador to Israel returned to work in the Jewish state or not? That is the million-dollar question that is confusing politicians and...
Gauteng government employee Velaphi Khumalo has been found guilty of hate speech after his Facebook comments called for the country to be “cleansed” of white people.
Jewish South African-born Lana Marks, a bespoke handbag designer to the world’s rich and famous, has been pinpointed in world media as the future United States...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has promised the community it will leave no stone unturned in its fight against anti-Semitism to ensure that...
When Zulu Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi stood up to accept his 90th birthday gift from the Johannesburg Jewish community this week, he was well aware of the...
I was in Israel when I heard the phenomenal news that the South African Ambassador to Israel was going back to resume his duties. That was...
If there is something surprising about the downing of a Russian military aircraft a little over three weeks ago in Syria, it is that it didn’t...
The name Rabbi Avraham Tanzer is synonymous with youth Torah education in Johannesburg, and has attended many a barmitzvah at Yeshiva College, the school he helped...
Former Constitutional Court Judge Albie Sachs is on a personal mission to make sure that Maiden’s Cove is accessible to all, and that this area does...
There are always heroes amid the horrors of war. They are often from ordinary backgrounds, but prove extraordinary in their unwavering sense of humanity.
When Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that she would be stepping down as United States ambassador to the United Nations by the end of this year,...
Israeli oriental metal group Orphaned Land has won an international award for its music video, Like Orpheus. This group won Video of the Year at the...
Jews have a deep connection to chocolate – not just to eating it, but to its development as a confectionery.
