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The Talmud states that “one who reads the Megillah backwards did not fulfil the mitzvah [commandment]”.
If you thought Purim was just about hamentashen, dress-up, mishloach manot (gifts of food and drink), and noisemakers, you would be wrong. All around the world,...
While we’re all accustomed to hearing our local rabbi recount the story of Esther in lilting Hebrew, did you know it can be read in any...
The Talmud teaches us that we are required to drink on Purim until we don’t not know the difference between “cursed be Haman” and “blessed be...
Purim is as much a story about gender persecution as it is about anti-Semitism. Some years ago, a rabbi gave a shiur suggesting that the oppression...
From kings to queens to treacherous villains, when it comes to Purim we can put on whatever mask we want and temporarily become that persona. But...
Thousands of young Jews thronged to the Ultra Music Festival this past weekend in Cape Town and Johannesburg, where some of the world’s greatest electronic dance...
It was a chance meeting that led Josh Rubin, Dean Joffe, and David-Phillip Dirks to create a video about Burundian refugee Mdalaga Mrisho, and raise more...
School groups visiting the Jewish Museum will this year receive the lauded children’s book, Fatima, and a box of crayons each. This is as a result...
Soloist Russel Lurie recently took an audience on a journey to commemorate the 75th year of remembrance and release of prisoners from Auschwitz.
Dr Anastacia Tomson, guest speaker at Temple Israel’s annual Pride Shabbat this year, called for the Jewish community to build “safe spaces” that are sacred to...
Following our attendance at the State of the Nation address (SONA), the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ (SAJBD’s) National Vice-President Zev Krengel and Parliamentary Liaison...
I remember the evening I chose my Grade 10 subjects very well. I was 15, hardly thinking about university and gap years, and yet there I...
In typical South African style, we are at the risk of peaking way too soon. The virus has hardly even visited the African continent, and already...
If anyone can give you a disease, everyone potentially becomes an enemy. Infectious disease is especially divisive socially, and Covid-19 tests not only medical technology, but...
Ambassador Jakštonytė of Lithuania writes powerfully about Lithuanian love for Jews in her article “Never again, says Lithuanian ambassador” in the SA Jewish Report (28 February...
I commend the Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies on having made the decision to continue its responsibility to the country communities under its jurisdiction.
Dennis Wiener continues to make numerous allegations against the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. All are either totally unfounded or have been comprehensively addressed previously....
When the organisers were planning Herzlia School’s 80th birthday celebration last year, little did they realise how auspicious it would be to celebrate at a time...
Pupils at King David Junior Primary Linksfield this week brought tinned goods and non-perishable items for the Blessings Eco Preparatory School.
King David Senior Primary Linksfield’s marimba bands joined 180 pupils from around Gauteng at the Theatre of Marcellus at Emperors Palace on Monday 24 February and...
King David High School Linksfield last Sunday hosted a “Just Keep Swimming Mental Health Awareness Swimathon” to stand up against teen suicide. All the proceeds went...
Holocaust survivor Solomon Perel was told two things by his parents before they were separated from each other: never to forget that he was a Jew,...
Every year on the first day of Adar, Torah Academy celebrates in style with music and dancing.
When Paul von Zwiklitz participated in one of his first Cape Town Cycle Tours (then known as the Argus) in 1996, little could he have imagined...
On 21 February 2014, Beeld, edited at the time by Adriaan Basson, published a front-page story about North West University having a Nazi culture. The claim...
