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Moments before Pesach started, a freak electrical fault plunged Holocaust survivor Joseph David Matzner, 84, and his wife into darkness for the duration of Yom Tov...
“Going out to work outside camp one morning, we saw trucks lined up on the railway line. Little faces peeped out. We felt completely helpless. We...
She’s a diminutive and elegant 84-year-old, the proud mother of two sons and a gathering of grandchildren, a feisty, fierce patriot of Poland, and an admiring...
The Torah teaches us that “death and life are in the power of the tongue” (Mishlei 18:21), and much has been written and spoken – rightly...
At the time of writing, we are preparing to join community members throughout the country in commemorating Yom Hashoah. Among the things that make this year’s...
There’s a cell phone-made video circulating the radio waves of a man in a car spraying sanitiser on the cupped hands of a beggar instead of...
In many ways, the story of COVID-19 is a story of relevance and perspective. Ask many of us about our hierarchy of needs in January 2020,...
When Joanne Hooghuis couldn’t be with her daughter, Siobhan Wilson, on her birthday, she did the next best thing, she donated masks to underprivileged communities.
Helen Richfield, the wife of the late Leslie Richfield
ORT Jet is offering to help Jewish businesses in distress navigate the process of applying for government and private-sector assistance. Volunteers who have the skills to...
Jewish sportsmen are coping with the demands of the COVID-19 lockdown in broadly similar ways, although each brings to the pandemic an adaptation of their own.
While we are all holed up in our homes, our intrepid photographer, Ilan Ossendryver, is out capturing what we are missing. In the following images, we...
While we are all holed up in our respective homes – leaving just to go shopping for essentials – our intrepid photographer Ilan Ossendryver is out...
If you would ask me, “Rabbi, what’s your favourite story ever?”, it would be the following little tale which I hope will resonate with you too,...
When internationally respected Rabbi Moshe Taragin delivered an online shiur on Monday evening, he was taken aback when it was beset by a torrent of swearing,...
This is going to be a Pesach like none other. As we follow the stipulations laid out so resolutely by our state president – observing them...
As most of us stay within the safety of our homes during lockdown, others are stepping out into the unknown to fight an invisible enemy for...
If Jewish life is centred on family and community, how will our rituals continue under lockdown? While the practicalities are constantly evolving, this is how the...
Lockdown is a challenge for most of us, but when you’re confined to a crowded shack, the struggle is unimaginable.
When coronavirus hit South Africa, most organisations knew where their priorities lay – in tackling the crisis. But some, like the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)...
Just getting food to eat during lockdown has become a massive motion picture. Nothing is simple right now, except perhaps our ride to work – from...
There’s a joke that in Israel, you play politics for 90 minutes and then, in the end, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu always wins. That’s certainly...
In nearly 50 years on the stock exchange, the current crisis is the eleventh major downturn in financial markets I’ve had to navigate. Each crisis exhibits...
As South Africa and other countries closed their airspace because of the global coronavirus pandemic, many South Africans were left stranded at airports or in foreign...
Novel virus, new way of life
A number of caring people in the community are taking Winston Churchill’s words, “Never let a good crisis go to waste” to heart.
A heartbroken Johannesburg mother who recently lost her only child to measles is dumbfounded how a preventable disease ended her son’s life after he overcame years...
Pesach is a very interesting and stressful time of the Jewish year. There are so many fresh mitzvot (commandments) that have to be performed, so much...
“Don’t panic when the numbers [of COVID-19 infections] shoot up to 3 000 or 4 000 in coming days,” Dr Anton Meyberg told an audience of...
I remember receiving two WhatsApp videos eight weeks ago. The first was a video of an horrific animal market in a city I had never encountered...
For the past two weeks amidst the mayhem of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rabbi Yossi Hecht of Chabad Sandton, has gathered all his beloved grandchildren – a...
South African-born social entrepreneur Naomi Stuchiner has been too busy to bask in the glory of winning the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
“The changing of the world starts at home – and it starts between the spouses,” asserts Rebbetzin Tamar Taback, a pioneer in women’s Torah study. It’s...
“As for you, you shall not leave the entrance of the house.” (Exodus 14, 22)
Mah nishatana hashana hazot mekol hashanim? (Why is this year different from all other years?)
The number four is built into the seder experience. Through the evening, we will drink four cups of wine, we will ask four questions, we will...
Wow! How the world has changed in the past few weeks! Our sages say, “The salvation of Hashem comes in the blink of an eye,” and...
The famous therapist, Salvador Minuchin, was once asked if he believed in multiple personality disorder. He replied, “A person with multiple personality disorder is someone with...
Have you ever experienced a moment in your life when it felt as if the ground beneath your feet disappeared? Psychologists call these moments “life shocks”.
I was speaking to a psychologist the other day, and he told me about a particular case he was dealing with and how it took him...
