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(JTA) Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, 62, used to bite her nails aggressively. It was a chronic, nervous tick, and it had to stop. After all, she was the...
(JTA) You may be surprised to learn that fish and chips, though wildly popular in England for what seems like an eternity, actually was a specialty...
(JTA) Women served as combat soldiers during Israel’s War of Independence, when the fledgling country needed all the fighters it could get. But following the 1948...
(JTA) Chanukah season means latkes, menorahs, and the retelling of the classic story about Judah and the Maccabees. But there’s a woman from a few hundred...
(JTA) Azariah de’ Rossi was an entirely unremarkable Italian Jew in his late 50s when the earth shook beneath his feet in the great Ferrara earthquake...
What I find fascinating about Chanukah is the way its story has been transformed by time.
(JTA) Jewish summer camp is such a crucial part of the American Jewish experience that many Jewish adults, even in their older age, probably remember the...
(JTA) The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Wednesday launched impeachment hearings just hours after the Intelligence Committee, chaired by Adam Schiff, concluded its...
(JTA) They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious, and … Jewish?
(JTA) As long as there have been Jews, there have been two unwavering constants: anti-Semitism and Jewish jokes about anti-Semitism.
(JTA) At a parade in Brussels, Belgium in March, revellers danced to a song about Jewish greed while standing on a float shaped like an Orthodox...
(JTA) The 2019 Golden Globe nominees were announced on Monday morning, and the film Marriage Story, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, leads the pack with...
South Africa was plunged into darkness this week, literally and figuratively, as Eskom announced unprecedented stage 6 load shedding in an attempt to keep the lights...
Veteran African National Congress (ANC) politician, economist, intellectual, and activist, Professor Benjamin (Ben) Turok, passed away in Cape Town on Monday 9 December at the age...
(JTA) The gunmen who entered a Jersey City kosher supermarket and engaged in a deadly shootout with police deliberately chose the store, the city’s mayor said.
From his hillside home in India, the exiled Dalai Lama offers religious guidance, provides spiritual counsel and, as of last week, is exploring ways to bring...
As 2019 comes to a close, what’s on the cards for 2020? I’ve gazed into my crystal ball again to select the issues to follow in...
Load shedding is on my mind this week, having had fewer hours of electricity at home than I have had in the gym. The problems arising...
The British Labour Party’s recently released election manifesto promises that should its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, win this week, it would immediately suspend the sale of arms...
It has been one heck of a year – a tumultuous 2019 characterised by heartache and human achievement, political turmoil, and heroism.
Cape Town kabbalist and former congregational rabbi, Dr Lionel Mirvis, died at the age of 93 in his Kenilworth home on 9 December, after a short...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Global Survey which recently identified South Africa as second only to Poland in the anti-Jewish stakes has been greeted with disbelief by...
I was privileged to meet Zozibini Tunzi at the FAIRLADY Women of the Future 2019 Awards, where I was one of the judges. She had just...
Dr Taj Hargey, the founder of the Open Mosque in Cape Town, says it’s time for Jews and Muslims to offer each other support and take...
How do you free your mind when your body can barely move? This was the reality for Phyllis Woolf, but for her, entrapment was never an...
Only 800m from the Gaza Strip, 15 year old Sara* lives on Kibbutz Nachal Oz, the same place where four-year-old Daniel Tregerman was killed by mortar...
As summer vacation stretches out ahead of us, so do many hours where children and teens might use screens to keep them occupied. Plus, we all...
While the battle continues for an egalitarian section of the Kotel in Jerusalem, the progressive Jewish movement has made huge strides in other areas, gaining substantive...
Where is the centre of Jewish life? Is it the shul or Jewish school? Or the Jewish home? The teachings of a great Jewish hero can...
If Judaism disapproves of physical beauty, how can the Torah praise the beauty of countless women throughout Jewish history? How can we reconcile an appreciation of...
No matter what dieting trend you follow, the fact is that even Professor Tim Noakes might agree that doughnuts are – and always will be –...
One had to both amused and dismayed at the way world leaders took pot shots at the so-called “leader of the free world” during the North...
I will always think of Chanukah as a winter chag. Going back to my years growing up in Europe, the associations with this holiday are always...
Chanukah means latkes, doughnuts, and dreidels, right? Not necessarily. People around the world celebrate the chag in all kinds of interesting and unusual ways, honouring all...
(JTA) While Chanukah is traditionally not one of the most central holidays of the Jewish calendar, it can offer many opportunities for fun. Here are some...
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice,” said Martin Luther King Jr. In the mid-1950s in America with all the...
With its turkey, tinsel, and trees, no Christian holiday seems to fascinate Jews more than Christmas. The promise of pudding and presents captures our imagination. With...
Hey, do you know what negative space is? I’ve thrown out this question to people around me this week, and have received some interesting answers. “It’s...
The holidays are here and soon parents will face a perennial plight: how to keep their children busy.
It’s holiday time! Whether you are sweltering in the summer heat, gearing up for a white winter, almost en-route to your grand vacation, or visiting the...
