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“I have always believed that the majority of people want peace, and are ready to take risks for peace. For Israel, there is no path that...
The day after the killings, a man who brings Jewish boys into the covenant and escorts the Jewish dead to their final resting place finally got...
In 1943, my great grandfather, Rabbi Sholom Posner, was sent by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Pittsburgh to secure the foundations of the fledgling yeshiva school.
There are a lot of things in this world that make no sense to me.
There is a bus stop with my name on it somewhere in Katherine Street, Sandton. On the side of the shelter, it implores, “Howard Sackstein Stop...
I’m just going to come out and say it: I’m a bad Jew. A very bad Jew. A colleague who is the daughter of a priest...
Tayo Ayodele is a lone Jew living in Abuja, Nigeria, who kept Shabbat with the rest of the Jewish world on the Shabbos Project last week.
Rather than entering a state of passivity, I found that “keeping” Shabbos involves constructing the conditions in which the world comes to you differently.
This past weekend, I did something that scared me. And, to my surprise, I was acutely reminded of past moments filled with love and sacredness. It...
Last Shabbat, the United States Jewish community suffered its worst-ever anti-Semitic attack, when a lone gunman invaded a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and fatally shot 11 worshippers....
South Africans may see something of their own history in Robert Bowers, the killer of 11 Pittsburgh Jews in their synagogue on Saturday. He shouted that...
I am a member of a gym that offers its patrons fruit and vegetables at no charge. The idea is that after a workout (or before),...
With more revelations emerging about the alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of Saudi Arabia, the South African government has vacillated and delayed...
I refer to the outstanding article in last week’s paper which asks who will follow in the steps of Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.
It was interesting to receive news from the chief rabbi about the Shabbos Projects in Weldon, Tel Aviv, Florence, Darmstadt, San Luis, Spring Valley, Prague, and...
I am compiling a history of the Roodepoort Florida Hebrew Congregation, which hopefully will become a book. I would like to hear from anyone who has...
The attacker of the Pittsburgh synagogue last weekend told the policeman who arrested him that he wanted to kill Jews because he believed that, “They’re committing...
Mina Lopato Nursery School Grade R pupils in special graduation T-shirts pack boxes with toiletries brought in by parents
Sarah Orkin, a pupil at Sandton Sinai Primary School, made the school proud by winning the Grade 5 section of the Malcolm Gooding Speech Competition on...
The children of Torah Academy Nursery School baked challahs to take home and enjoy in honour of this year’s Shabbos Project last Friday.
The South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) won best student society at the annual Leadership Awards Ceremony at the University of the Witwatersrand last Tuesday.
Graduates of the 2018 Diller Teen Fellows programme shared stories of personal growth and learning with their proud parents and King David leadership at Beyachad in...
The grandchildren of Solomon and Janie Esrechowitz held a reunion in Johannesburg on Sunday 21 October after 50 years apart. There were 11 Esrechowitz children, resulting...
The much anticipated Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO’s) Etgar branch’s Annual Garden Day is always one of WIZO’s most successful events, and this year did not...
Former South African Steven Cohen felt pride as he watched his daughter, Gili, compete in the International Judo Federation (IJF) Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi last...
