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In March 2015, Pippa Shaper got the call no mother wants to get. By that stage, she had already buried three members of her family.
If you want to pull society back from the brink, the teachings of Tanach might be in order. The key to saving a society on the...
Six Israeli cyber security companies last week led the Israeli ministry of trade and economics’ first business delegation to Botswana.
Beatie Deutsch, the first haredi woman to win an international athletics competition, took eighth place in last week’s 42.2km Cape Town Marathon.
Doornfontein was once the heart and soul of Jewish life in Johannesburg. Nestled to the south of Berea, Yeoville, and Bellevue in a valley in the...
“I grew up in the Jewish community of Kimberley, and always dreamed of getting married in my own shul, surrounded by the people I know and...
A single violin plays hauntingly as figures clad in unnerving animal masks gaze into the distance from the windows. Other individuals with hidden faces then drift...
With apples and honey being the most synonymous with Rosh Hashanah, it’s no surprise that the melodical words, “Apples dipped in honey we do eat; we...
For years, we have been bluffing ourselves that we can make peace with Hamas and Hezbollah, and we have been supplying these organisations with cement and...
We live in a country where unfortunately, children are exposed to the worst of humanity, whether it be on the front page of a newspaper, listening...
The conversation went something like this. “I really want to climb Kilimanjaro. Do you know any good causes?”
Last week, the proponents of an academic boycott against Israel at the University of Cape Town (UCT), contrived (in defiance of university regulations) to send a...
In 2018, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa launched the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) School initiative that seeks to provide facilities for girls across South Africa...
The Pretoria Council of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, the Pretoria Union of Jewish Women (UJW), and international disaster-relief agency CADENA recently came to...
In a talk titled, “The dignity of difference in relation to gender issues”, at the September WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organisation) Forum, Carr said we should...
PewDiePie rescinds $50 000 donation to ADL Popular video blogger PewDiePie announced a donation of $50 000 (R736 000) to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), then rescinded...
The penultimate portion in the lead up to Rosh Hashanah is Ki Tavo. We search for the essential message G-d is trying to convey to us...
Herzlia Middle School held its Culture Awards ceremony on 11 September to recognise pupils’ achievements in various fields of arts and culture.
The King David High School Linksfield U14 boys soccer team won the Discovery Cup last week
Five King David Victory Park Primary School (KDVPP) students made it to the final round of the Wits maths challenge at the University of the Witwatersrand...
Grade 3 boys from Torah Academy recently visited the Shofar Factory at Chabad House in Savoy.
Yeshiva College has turned a classroom into a state-of-the-art computer room for its high school. The computer room will be used to teach information technology and...
Redhill High School pupils Zianda Goldstuck (Grade 11) and Benjamin Weisz (Grade 8) have been selected for the Gauteng U18 and U16 chess teams respectively. Next...
“He’s gone through three shoe-sizes in the past eight months,” says Guy Taitz of his goalkeeper son, Zach, who has just returned from a successful week-long...
A 22-year-old Israeli tourist was raped on her birthday while on holiday in Graskop, Mpumalanga, recently in the midst of a nation-wide protest against sexual violence.
A record 920 guests converged on the Sandton Convention Centre on Sunday, 8 September, to find out the winners of this year’s Absa Jewish Achiever Awards.
Standing alongside President Cyril Ramaphosa, Nicole Mirkin looked out at the sea of protesters who rallied in Cape Town last week to voice their rage at...
Last week, a Jewish teenager was named on Twitter for allegedly sexually harassing a teenage girl. In a series of detailed tweets, she alleged that he...
Romy Petersen and Bianca Gewer leave their phones on all the time because they are a lifeline to hundreds of victims of the recent xenophobic attacks....
There is something outrageously inspiring about sitting in a magnificent ballroom at the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards surrounded by about 900 of the best minds in...
On Tuesday next week, Israelis head to the polls in the second election in five months. Although Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party won back in April, the...
This coming Tuesday, Israel is heading to the polls for its second election in six months. Here is my abbreviated manual on what to focus on...
Jessica Montell warned about “eroding Israeli democracy” in a lecture she gave at the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies recently (see article in SA Jewish Report...
Israel and Hezbollah supposedly came within 30 minutes of war last Sunday. In order to understand how they got there and what was different to the...
Until recently, recognised terror organisations that target Jewish installations were considered the greatest threat to our safety. This is no longer the case, say two senior...
Businessman Hlumelo Biko, the son of the late black consciousness activist, Steve Biko, praised the South African Jewish community, saying that it is an example of...
There’s an old joke about Robert Mugabe dying unexpectedly during a trip to Israel. The undertaker tells Mugabe’s delegation that it will cost $500 000 (R7.3...
Wherever Sir Mick Davis is involved, he makes a difference. The length and breadth of his extraordinary career became clear as he ascended the stage to...
“I didn’t get to Jupiter, but NASA named a small planet after me. It’s called ‘Siyaxuza’,” scientist and entrepreneur Siyabulela Xuza told the audience at the...
Absa Business Icon Award winner Adrian Gore said he wanted to use his time on the podium to promote optimism, hope, and vision in South Africa.
