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As limiting as laws and rules may seem, they are integral to liberty. Although the Torah establishes a system of rules which govern our lives, its...
Places of worship have been given the green light to resume services across South Africa next week, but medical experts and the South African Jewish Board...
For two months, scores of South Africans stuck under lockdown in Israel and Israelis unable to leave South Africa have been waiting to hear when they...
Jewish schools across the country are dealing with a multitude of practical, ethical, legal, and emotional challenges as they start the process of reopening on Monday,...
There are no easy answers for parents afraid to send their children back to school in June, a panel of experts told a webinar hosted by...
Fear and anger are holding us hostage. These two emotions are running high in our community and the country at large. They can lead us to...
As of 20 May, paediatric cases comprise 2% of the total worldwide corona cases. This number is small, yet still significant. As we grapple with the...
As I knot my favourite leopard-print headwrap behind my neck and check the shape of my pencilled brows in the mirror one last time, I’m steeling...
Philip K Dick, an American science-fiction author, once offered some much needed advice: “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” For...
Hundreds of Kliptown residents are being fed on a regular basis because suburban folk in Waverley and Melrose North have created a feeding plan.
When anti-apartheid documentary filmmaker Laurence Dworkin passed away from COVID-19 in Cape Town on 17 May, he was on the brink of sharing his knowledge with...
Doctors’ rooms in Johannesburg are eerily quiet, and while this would be a good thing in normal circumstances, it’s making practitioners anxious. Patients with chronic conditions...
Teagan Noach, a Grade 11 pupil at Redhill School, believes that people are desperate for hope and has taken it upon herself to provide messages to...
The Sydney Jewish community has re-imagined and re-invented itself. One of the centres of Australian Jewry, it has responded to government-imposed restrictions in the context of...
Chief executive and founder of the Capital Hotel Group, Marc Wachsberger, came up with the concept of sanitised sanctuaries in his hotels to keep operating under...
Jerusalem is much more than the spiritual capital of the Jewish people, it’s a city that unites opposites. Secular and religious, Arab and Israeli, Jew and...
Yeshiva College English teacher Sue Chalom asked Grade 9 students to write short stories about their experience under lockdown. She was so overwhelmed by their honesty...
After the festival of our liberation, Pesach, comes Shavuot, the festival of the receiving of our Torah. The days of Sefirah (the counting of the Omer),...
Who makes your favourite cheesecake? This question reminds us of baking competitions and communal Shavuot dinner desserts. It’s popular custom to partake of dairy products and...
(JTA) Earlier this year, Dani Rotstein was earning a living doing something he’s passionate about: promoting the forgotten Jewish heritage of Mallorca.
I don’t think I’m the only one going into Shavuos with a gulp in my throat, knowing that if, G-d forbid, Moshiach doesn’t come in the...
Lauren Boolkin is a maestro at making delectable food. She has made a real effort to bring us something special for this Shavuot under lockdown. Get...
We have been successful in laying down the tracks to steer our country away from COVID-19 ruin. This has been an extremely challenging time, but in...
While the fog caused by COVID-19 is still far too deep to unravel, and no one can possibly know when or how the virus will eventually...
During the five-week lockdown, many of us became reticent to criticise or complain, fearing that it could come across as insensitive or tone deaf at a...
Among those particularly harshly impacted by the lockdown are the South Africans who found themselves suddenly stranded in foreign countries without either legal or practical means...
I have never been a natural athlete. To be fair, I’m not even an unnatural one. Because I’m no athlete at all. I exercise because I...
A few weeks into the nationwide lockdown, 11-year-old Jamie Kodesh told his parents he wanted to do something to help those worst affected by the coronavirus.
The Union of Jewish Women (UJW) has launched a Women of Action campaign to thank its members and volunteers, as well as the care-workers, medical personnel,...
Crawford College Sandton is exceptionally proud of former student Joshua Jankelow, class of 2019, who has been accepted to the following prestigious American colleges for further...
On 16 May, a 28-year-old South African athlete and bodybuilder, Simone Abigail Kriel posted a deluge of anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories on social-media platform Instagram.
This Shavuot, instead of being in shul with our communities, learning from our rabbis, we’re at home, learning with our families.
There has been an urgent call for University of Cape Town (UCT) alumni to support a campaign to vote out delegates aligned with the Boycott, Divestment,...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein has called for the lockdown to ease based on the fact that the virus will spread no matter when it ends,...
It’s been just short of two weeks since the launch of the Gesher Fund, envisioned by Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein and led by community leaders,...
Local medical experts are cautiously optimistic about the news of an American biotech company’s promising early results of a candidate COVID-19 vaccine.
Anti-Semitism never ceases to horrify me. I find any racism abhorrent because it’s senseless, hateful, and based on pure ignorance, nothing more.
After the longest political deadlock in Israeli history – more than 500 days – the country finally has a new government. With 36 ministers and 16...
Don’t you miss “precedented times” and “charted” territory? I do. I really do. I miss the illusion we had of control, predictability, and fairness before these...
One of my teachers, Rabbi David Aaron, tells the story of a student whose father had recently passed away. “My father,” the young man said, “was...
