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Writing matric can be a lonely journey. Hours spent in solitary confinement with a pile of past exam papers from schools in every corner of the...
Zara Abelson is still haunted by the bullying she experienced 20 years ago. As someone with learning issues, she had been to a remedial school, but...
The statistics are clear – girls are doing better than boys, on average, at school and university. However, the “female advantage” disappears in the workplace, where...
The 2018 head girl of Merrifield Preparatory School & College in East London, Leah Schewitz, was the only Jewish person at the school and, for many...
For many high school students, matric is the most stressful, charged, and demanding experience of their school experience. While a certain amount of pressure to perform...
“Even if a child has a learning difficulty, they are still able to succeed,” says Romi Malloon, who is studying to be a teacher after battling...
Anyone over the age of 40 who attends a 21st birthday party and does not share any genetic material with the celebrant, or does not at...
(JTA) In 2014, Kim Hye-Kyung found herself staring into an educational abyss.
Ronnie Lubner was the poster boy for the view that school years are no predictor of success in life. After being expelled as a youngster from...
How important is tradition in Judaism? Obviously, very important. There is even a major song in the musical Fiddler on the Roof devoted to tradition!
Israel’s celebrated author, Amos Oz, was an icon for how one can be both an unapologetic Zionist and a fierce critic of Israel’s nationalistic, right-wing drift.
The Mishna in the tractate of Rosh Hashanah teaches us that there are four New Years in the Jewish calendar.
The Jewish National Fund of South Africa (JNF) will this coming week give South African Jewish scholars 6 000 packets of tomato seeds from Foods and...
(JTA) Four years ago, a heartbroken Bernard-Henri Levy found some solace in how more than a million Frenchmen marched through this city to protest extremism.
The next few months will doubtless be dominated by news and discussion about the upcoming national elections scheduled to take place early in May. The South...
What is it about a politician’s speech that you remember afterwards? His catchy phrases? His body language? The urgency in his voice? These are often more...
In your editorial “Friends where you didn’t know you had any” (14 December 2018), you highlighted the incident of an Afrikaans lady who was so excited...
As a child, December holidays meant Muizenberg. As an adult, we seemed to spend the time on the Atlantic Seaboard. And then this year, for the...
(JTA) When Genevieve Liu was 13, an unimaginable tragedy changed her life.
(JTA) Though he was just six years old on the night of Kristallnacht, Rabbi Chanoch Ehrentreu can still recall the horror: Torah scrolls burning in the...
(JTA) If Beale Street Could Talk, the new film from Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, is at heart a film about African-American love during a time of...
