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“We had a magical and mystical Lag B’Omer this year,” says Rabbi Yossy Goldman of Sydenham Shul. Participants delved deeper into the insights of Rabbi Shimon...
What happens when your shul’s annual Lag B’Omer Kumzitz gathering can’t take place because of lockdown? Naturally, you arrange a Zoomzitz instead.
ORT Jet’s Business Rescue Initiative has helped 52 businesses to access government funding and other relief measures since the lockdown began.
However irrational you think that South Africa’s approach to COVID-19 might be, we aren’t alone. In spite of myriad global experts, there isn’t a country in...
There has been considerable activity on the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ (SAJBD’s) COVID-19 Jewish community platform over the past week. While the site continues...
One of the most devastating effects of the COVID-19 crisis is its financial impact. The Gesher Fund has been set up in our community to address...
An elderly resident of Jewish old aged home Highlands House in Cape Town died on Saturday after testing positive for COVID-19, and five more residents have...
The anti-Israel movement in South Africa, which went under the banner of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions South Africa (BDS-SA) movement, has broken down. The international BDS...
There was an eerie stillness at West Park Cemetery in Johannesburg last week as two sisters stood two metres apart from each other wearing gloves and...
As we end our first week of level-4 lockdown, I don’t believe we have greater freedom in spite of some of the bans being lifted. There...
My name, Hussein Solomon, captures my diverse identity. I’m a practicing Muslim who, on account of my paternal grandfather, has Jewish blood flowing through his veins....
Few could imagine African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Denis Goldberg, who lived most of his life as a communist and anti-Zionist, at a Bnei Akiva machaneh...
“It was Pesach 2.0 – being trapped in Mitzrayim [Egypt] during a plague, and waiting for the Red Sea to open the way home,” says Capetonian...
“The economy of South Africa is akin to a patient arriving at a hospital. We don’t know if it’s going into intensive care or serious monitoring....
They may be stuck at home, but that hasn’t stopped a group of teenagers from King David High School Linksfield (KDHSL) from helping the less fortunate.
When mother and dance teacher Romy Petersen sees injustice, she doesn’t simply express sympathy. She does something about it. She juggles her responsibilities as a mom...
As hundreds of exercise enthusiasts puffed and panted, world-renowned artist Conor Mccreedy stood at his canvas and painted. They were on the same online exercise panel.
South African Jews, particularly youngsters, have become far less tolerant of anti-Semitism, says Associate Professor Adam Mendelsohn, the director of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre...
I was setting up the tefillin (phylacteries) booth on the Venice Boardwalk in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. I was a teenager, hoping to capitalise...
(JTA) The new Labour Party leader in the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, still can’t quite get over the Corbyn hump.
Michael Sieff, the new national executive director at the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) donated cutting-edge Israeli medical-grade masks from Israel’s Sonovia Tech to Hatzolah on...
This coming Tuesday, we will celebrate Lag B’Omer. It’s a day that marks the passing of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a great Torah scholar and Kabbalist...
Adapting labour law to lockdown is no less daunting than finding one’s way up to the summit of Mount Everest. We are in unchartered territory, attempting...
(JTA) When Natan Sharansky learned in December that he would become the eighth Genesis Prize honoree, he decided he would use his $1 million (R18.7 million)...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) continues to engage in efforts to alleviate the impact, economic and otherwise, of COVID-19 on the Jewish community...
One of the challenges created by the lockdown is time management. For those who are able to work remotely, the added pressure of virtual meetings, assisting...
When Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein saw the devastation wrought by the coronavirus lockdown on South African Jewish businesses, he decided to do something to help.
