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Jewish communal leaders pleaded with certain members of the community to cease weddings and private minyanin (prayer quorums of ten men) in a desperate bid to...
We are living in unprecedented times. The entire world is hunkered down. People aren’t at work, children aren’t at school. Our daily lives have been disrupted...
A crisis is a time when many people only look out for themselves, but as lockdown loomed over South Africa, many South African Jews saw it...
Johannesburg resident Molly Paikin was devastated when her sister, Sarah Schneider, passed away this week in Florida in the United States, but even more so when...
When Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein last week called on South African Jews to daven (pray) at home on their own without a minyan (a prayer...
As lives are re-shaped in the reality of lockdown, community members are coming to terms with shul no longer being a defining feature of their daily...
Legendary hotel magnate Solomon ‘Sol’ Kerzner was known around the world as a brilliant business visionary, but when he died, he was surrounded by what he...
As we step into three weeks of national lockdown, I pray that we all take this seriously and stay home and away from each other.
I write this hours before Israel goes into a full lockdown (on midnight, Wednesday 25 March). Still, it hasn’t been easy living under a partial one...
In the face of worldwide lockdown, South African Jewish-owned small businesses have had to shut up shop. From the loss of dreams to the loss of...
“There is going to be a huge opportunity to innovate for many businesses” during the coronavirus outbreak, said Allon Raiz, the chief executive of Raizcorp, a...
Life happens. No-one is immune. Most of us have experienced unpredictable challenges or even crises. Sometimes the initial response may be, “It’s not fair, why do...
“If we don’t care for the people who care for us, there’s going to be nothing to care for in the future.”
My name is David Mrost. I have been under the Chevrah Kadisha for quite a while. I feel the chev deserves recognition for what it does...
Like Ivan Schlapobersky, I, too, am proud of the supportive visit to China Mall by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, and I also haven’t...
“The COVID-19 pandemic we are going through now will probably go down in history as the most severe public health threat we have faced since the...
People who have contracted the Covid-19 coronavirus should avoid certain anti-inflammatory medications as they have been shown to aggravate the disease in certain cases.
Two weeks ago, retired internationally renowned virologist Professor Barry Schoub was packed and ready to go on holiday – and then the phone rang.
Over the past week an unprecedented amount of small businesses have asked me how to retrench, close down, liquidate, even just lock the doors. There’s no...
“Eat your fruit and vegetables.” This isn’t just something parents say to their kids, it’s key to boosting our immunity. Healthy eating is more important than...
Where once your daily gym session or team training regimen was a given, social distancing and an impending lockdown have changed everything. But staying active at...
Forget raising doctors and lawyers, under lockdown, parents are simply scrambling to ensure their kids don’t become permanent couch potatoes. But by prioritising emotional support and...
Coronavirus has three winners: the makers of sanitiser and masks, pharmaceutical companies, and the third isn’t so clear.
While cooking at Chez Panisse at the start of her career, author and chef Samin Nosrat noticed that amid the chaos of the kitchen, there were...
ORT Johannesburg celebrated the organisation’s 140th birthday on International ORT Day, 18 March 2020, with a huge birthday cake and much cheer in spite of the...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies on 23 March arranged for lunch and dinner to be delivered to 13 Australian MTA (a one-year Bnei Akiva...
We applaud President Cyril Ramaphosa for his decisive action on Monday night in announcing a three-week lockdown to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The steps outlined in...
Last Friday marked a week that my daughter, Abby, who is 15, wasn’t at school. COVID-19 has closed her high school, which means that she is...
Unsurprisingly, the parents of teenagers everywhere have shifted their concern to a different type of corona – the virus. We’ve officially been put on lockdown, and...
Architecturally and sociologically, the “open plan” was a “wow” moment in 1980s design. The idea was that creativity would flourish without walls or doors to contain...
Six or seven hours before President Cyril Ramaphosa was giving his second national address in eight days on Monday night, Israeli rugby player Omer Levinson was...
The chief rabbi of South Africa, Dr Warren Goldstein, made the toughest decision of his career on Wednesday (18 March) by announcing the closure of shuls...
A birthday party celebrated more than 12 000 kilometres away in the United States brought the dreaded COVID-19 virus right into the living room of the...
Times like these require us to respond with heroic strength. One of our foundational Torah values is the sanctity of human life – every human life...
“Witnessing a fire about to destroy the home you grew up in is a sight I hope few people have in their lives”, says David Horler,...
A visiting Arab Israeli activist accused the head of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions South Africa (BDS-SA) movement of being a liar in a live television debate...
Jewish schools took the lead this week as they made the bold decision to close their doors because of coronavirus before it was official policy.
A controversial social media post from popular South African clothing brand Mevrou & Co. on Sunday, 15 March, resulted in anger and confusion, but had the...
Right now, there is no such thing as business or life as usual in our community, country, or world. COVID-19 has succeeded in turning our lives...
Israeli coalition talks have begun in earnest. On Monday, Benny Gantz, the leader of the centrist Blue and White Party, was tasked by President Reuven Rivlin...
