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Every year, the number of students walking away with five or six As (if not a full house of distinctions) seems to grow. In the past,...
X + 2y = 3z. This is the stuff of which nightmares are made. Even 20 years after leaving school, we can still wake up in...
Matric can be a lonely journey, but not if you are a twin. For most in Grade 12, the time outside of school is often spent...
Alon Raichlin went from introversion to finding his place in the spotlight in matric in four incredible years.
Joshua Allan cares little for conventional sports. This 18-year-old dynamo has found his flair in hip-hop dancing, an unorthodox choice which he says is much more...
Matthew Kimmelman doesn’t follow anyone’s script in life because he writes his own.
To most of us, the game of bridge is an archaic pastime played by the elderly. To 18-year-old Noah Apteker, however, it’s not only an addictive...
It’s not often that the head boy of Yeshiva College gets his black belt in karate just before writing matric, but Saul Joseph is no ordinary...
What does it take to help a talented child to get a distinction in matric? And what support is needed to get a struggling pupil to...
Do you remember your first epiphany in life? Moses had his at the burning bush.
The closest I ever got to acquiring sea legs was on a kosher cruise we took as a family some years ago. This is why it...
The ten seconds that the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force had to decide whether or not to shoot down the Ukrainian passenger...
Rabbi Yekutiel Tzvi Shalpid passed away on 11 December 2019 in Johannesburg after devoting 45 years of his life to the South African Jewish community.
Chess-playing twins, Caleb and Judah Levitan (9), have both had busy starts to the year. A couple of days ago, the two boys represented Johannesburg Metro...
The work of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) naturally slows down over the December break, but it never stops altogether. There are always...
Since escaping from the hell of the Soviet regime, Lithuanian-born Mordechai Perlov has committed his life to sharing his story with others and exposing the evils...
(JTA) When Yiddish poet Avraham Sutzkever said that poetry saved his life, he meant it more literally than many of his listeners realised.
(JTA) After Alex Sasaki died of a drug overdose in late March, Tzvika Graiver of the KeepOlim activist group posted on Facebook that the American-born soldier...
(JTA) Three recent surveys of American, Israeli, and French Jews commissioned by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) revealed that there is more that unites the diaspora...
(JTA) You might think being a Jewish soccer mom is no different to being, say, a Christian soccer mom or a Buddhist soccer mom. In some...
(JTA) It’s been 60 years since CP Snow delivered his scathing Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”. Snow lamented the fact that scientists...
(JTA) The sleepy Mediterranean city of Nice has been a haven for Jews for nearly 1 000 years.
(JTA) The end of each year offers the opportunity to remember the Jewish figures who we lost over the past 12 months who left outsized impressions...
