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President Cyril Ramaphosa this week praised South African Jewry for setting an example of unity to the nation.
Professor Shifrah Sagy of Ben Gurion University in the Negev found out she had been excluded from attending a conference at Stellenbosch University when she saw...
In the presence of President Cyril Ramaphosa and senior Cabinet ministers, Jewish communal leadership expressed deep regret for not having supported Jewish activists.
South Africa’s Community Security Organisation (CSO) is not overly concerned that 11 alleged ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) patriots have been released on bail....
An independent panel of inquiry cleared Equal Education Co-Founder Doron Isaacs, and former General Secretary Zackie Achmat, of any wrongdoing or cover-up in a storm over...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said South African Jews should tell the defenders of BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) “the truth – BDS is distortion and lies”.
It has been more than two months since Zalman Orlianski (71) died after a fight over a parking place at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg,...
Why is it that we so often don’t see the full reality of the situation we are living in until it is reflected through someone else’s...
For months now, all eyes have been on southern Israel and Gaza. Less attention has been focused on what’s happening in the north of Israel, and...
The recent support from the community for the boys who were sexually assaulted at Parktown Boys High School was a game changer, moving activism into the...
A bigger house. A better car. The latest gadgets. In a world increasingly governed by possessions, selling most of the contents of your home – and...
Yiddishkeit is alive and well at Zimbabwe’s Carmel School, in spite of the fact that there isn’t a single Jewish child or Jewish teacher at the...
As Chanukah approaches, the beach beckons as many head off for their annual year-end getaway. But what about escaping for chagim not associated with the secular...
Enjoyed in Britain for well over a century, fish and chips has long been considered an English staple, but it may have been a Jewish invention.
Chani Lavine’s gelato business is fuelled by two passions: love for her family, and a drive to make people happy.
One of the great heroes of the Holocaust was Rabbi Avraham Grodzinsky, the spiritual leader of the Kovno ghetto. Until the outbreak of the war, he...
Either I am a very good mother or a very bad one.
Let’s start at the beginning. The story of Chanukah in a nutshell. During the time of the second Beit Hamikdash (Temple) the Holy Land was ruled...
How quickly the Jewish year slips by! One minute we are enjoying Purim; next we are agonising over Pesach; suddenly, the frantic timetable of the Yamim...
Religion and religious practice is studded with symbols – and Judaism is no different. For millennia, these symbols have been used to convey meaning, build identity,...
One of my favourite bedtime stories for my children is The Love-Me Bird by Joyce Dunbar. It’s a wise tale about a little bird who longs...
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi famously speaks of the “danger of a single story”, in the TED talk by the same name.
Jerusalem has always been the eye of the universe. Since time immemorial, the city, and particularly, the Temple Mount, has always been a place of profound...
Unlike a generation ago, the walls of the ghetto no longer sequester us from the rest of society. We fraternise, shop, and do business outside our...
Chanukah! Can you smell the latkes? Can you hear the faint echoes of Moaz Tzur? Do your fingers already feel a little slippery in anticipation of...
December rolls around, and the shopping malls of South Africa are filled with Christmas merchandise and song. You are lucky if your local Pick n Pay...
Think of Chanukah, and you almost always think of olive oil. Beyond being a key ingredient in fried latkes or doughnuts, oil is traditionally used to...
Babka is nearly a weekly occurrence in my house, and I can think of few things better. But it’s not just me: Babka has really been...
Central to every Jew’s childhood memories of Chanukah is a game of dreidel and a stash of gelt. It is true to say that after the...
When President Cyril Ramaphosa agreed to speak at the conference of the Gauteng Council of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies, we decided to use the...
Think of Rwanda, and what comes to mind is grotesque mass killings and villages filled with the detritus of the Tutsi genocide at the hands of...
It is a remarkable privilege to be writing this week’s column on a bus somewhere between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Today is day three of the...
I find the Airbnb website a perfect solution to my needs when travelling. Not having to stay at hotels but rather select a hospitality experience which...
The “taking the knee” incident at Herzlia recently has inflamed the community. If ever there was a divide within the community, this regrettable incident has highlighted...
The incident at Herzlia in Cape Town involving two misguided boys kneeling during the singing of the Jewish national song, Hatikvah, is just another instance of...
Grade 12s at King David High School Linksfield have finished their final exams, but they still have the generosity and thoughtfulness to consider others.
King David Rosabelle Klein Nursery School in Waverley has spent the week preparing for Chanukah.
Guests from South Africa and Swaziland attended a networking forum hosted by the Israeli Embassy on 25 November for more than 60 alumni of Mashav (Israel’s...
Many golfers depend on caddies, yet these staff members have little job security, recognition, or support. Caddies are seldom employed as permanent staff at golf courses....
Ram Barkai is a 61-year-old Israeli, now living in Cape Town, who has fallen in love with ice swimming. He started off doing “normal” swims –...
