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The problems faced by South Africa are complex, and the role played by everyday people is crucial in solving them. This was Corruption Watch Executive Director...
To choose love amidst hate and hope amidst darkness. This was the takeaway message which Edna Freinkel, the recipient of the Europcar Women in Leadership Award,...
Fast food shared the stage with fitness and health as the co-founder of Discovery and chief executive of McDonald’s South Africa were recognised for their extraordinary...
Soccer star Dean Furman might indeed be a naches (pride) machine for the whole nation, but on Sunday night, no one could have been prouder of...
It’s not your duty to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it. These words of the sage, Rabbi Tarfon of Pirkei...
With his brow creased in concentration, maestro Benjamin Zander wielded his conductor’s baton like a wand, and cast a spell over the riveted audience at the...
Shosholoza took on a whole new meaning on the rubbish-strewn streets of Kliptown last week, when world-renowned conductor Benjamin Zander came across some gumboot dancers during...
We should all find a way to make our own small difference to the world, said Kirsh Family Entrepreneur Award winner Michael Gewer in receiving his...
When Absa Professional Excellence Award winner Joseph Gerassi arrived at the podium to receive his award, he had a confession to make: he hadn’t prepared a...
Netanyahu removed from rally after rocket fire Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to be removed from the stage during a campaign speech in the southern...
Whether it manifests in the crude bigotry of the lower classes or the snide subtleties of the upper crust, anti-Semitism is a fact of life.
Coming as it did at the end of a traumatic week for this country, this year’s Absa Jewish Achiever Awards was a heartening demonstration of how...
Earlier this week, Pierce Brosnan, the former 007 star, announced that he believed that the next James Bond should be a woman. His comments were made...
South Africa has been forced to examine its identity following the xenophobic attacks on foreigners and the spike in gender-based violence that has rocked the country...
Nelson Mandela wrote in Long Walk to Freedom, “No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or...
There are so many reasons why the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards is an annual inspiration. However one of the most understated is that when you talk...
Kosher Mobile Meals (KMM), the flagship project of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) in Johannesburg, was started in 1972 to provide nutritious meals for elderly...
Orange Grove Primary School pupils were treated to a visit by dynamic local Jewish author Jenny Braun to the school’s library last week to read her...
Eden Preparatory School in Lyndhurst held a fashion show last Thursday to a full-house audience.
King David Sandton was transformed into an art gallery recently when it hosted the work of three King David schools – Sandton, Victory Park, and Linksfield...
Best-selling author Nikki Bush enthralled parents and students at a presentation at the King David Victory Park Grade 9 subject choice day recently. Bush wore five...
Rabbi Kacev, the general director of the South African Board of Jewish Education and King David Schools, blew the shofar for pupils at King David Minnie...
Sydenham Hebrew Pre Primary School’s sports day took a different turn this year.
Israel’s dream of reaching next year’s European Championship finals all but ended in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana on Monday, when their footballers conceded a third...
Israeli athlete Beatie Deutsch is hoping to use this year’s Sanlam Cape Town Marathon on Sunday, 15 September, as a step towards qualifying for the Tokyo...
Likud South Africa Chairperson Larry Marks feared for his life this week when he came face to face with protesters in downtown Johannesburg as xenophobic violence...
A Johannesburg ward councillor last week stunned two Jewish women when he compared the enforcement of by-laws to raping a woman. In two separate incidents, this...
A year ago, Penny Stein met three siblings at a shelter for abused children whose grandparents had distributed pornographic photos of them. Although she had worked...
Some Jewish and Arab Israeli women are going all out to get to know one another and connect across the cultural divide. They are all Israelis...
(JTA) Explosions earlier this week at two Hamas police checkpoints in Gaza City left three policemen dead. But it wasn’t Israel that planted the explosives, as...
This has been a crazy week in South Africa, one in which even the sunniest optimist has been hammered.
Israel just scored another victory in the ongoing psychological warfare against her enemies. Or did she? On Sunday, after Hezbollah, the militant Iranian-sponsored group, fired three...
Racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, among many other forms of bigotry, remain a scourge in society. Decent people have a moral obligation to condemn these forms of...
While many families like to spend quality time together over a Sunday brunch or even a leisurely stroll, few can beat the bragging rights of the...
Johannesburg father of two Troy Mayers likes to push the boundaries of pain and suffering.
He may not be famous because he worked quietly under the radar, but Professor David Sanders, who died suddenly at the end of August, has been...
It would be easy to alleviate some of the trauma women go through in getting a gett without actually changing the halacha, Dayan Dr Shlomo Glicksberg...
If you’re looking to LOL with your BFFs because YOLO, you’re practically living in the stone age because your slang is seriously out of date. So,...
As time passes, remembering the Holocaust becomes an intergenerational project, one that seeks to draw together the descendants of those directly affected by this atrocity.
Judy Klipin experienced burnout. After becoming a life coach and seeing the need for it among her clients, she wrote a book, Recover from Burnout; Life...
