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I’ve been told I’m quite shy. I talk only when comfortable, amongst loved ones, or in familiar spaces. I’m also passionate. I love learning new things,...
Herzlia High School elected its student leadership council (SLC) on Friday, 31 July, which will be in place until the elections midway through 2021. At this...
After 134 days of lockdown, the pervasive sense I get from my patients is that they are “over it” and just want to get on with...
Who is more important, the Jew or the Jewish people? In last week’s parsha, we read the first chapter of the Shema. This week, we read the...
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, founded to protest police discrimination against black people in the United States (US) in 2012, hit the headlines this year...
When community members saw the former Robertson shul in the Western Cape advertised for sale as a one-bedroom cottage this week, many were shocked. But the...
Jewish doctors who are on the frontline of COVID-19 in the public sector are conveying a message of teamwork, innovation, and hope that goes against the...
Israel’s newest ambassador used to tend sheep in the green hills of the Galil. The ambassador-designate to Eritrea in the Horn of Africa is a Bedouin...
If you ever doubted the ripple effect of one person’s good deeds on the world, a recent webinar featuring the heroic actions of a few individuals...
Tony Ehrenreich, the former Western Cape provincial secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has finally apologised, six years after his Facebook post...
Controversial broadcaster Gareth Cliff has come under fire for hosting a notorious antisemite and conspiracy theorist on his current-affairs television show, resulting in a heated online...
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng hit back at Africa4Palestine in a 19-page affidavit this week, describing underhand tactics of twisting the truth and targeting him individually after...
If the Jewish people could survive centuries of hardship and remain strong, we can be assured that we will emerge from our current difficulties with a...
In times of crisis, heroes emerge. It’s our duty to acknowledge those in our midst, and ensure that they get the recognition they deserve for their...
A couple of years ago, a telephone call to your GP was a pre-emptive stab at whether you were on the right track with a problem....
How will we fill our time? That’s a question designed for boredom! Looking at the lockdown this way, we see a long period of utter boredom,...
When Carryn Bukris envisioned her wedding day, she never imagined she’d be wearing a mask as she walked down the aisle with her husband, Shai. In...
For Arab-Israeli actor Ala Dakka, a character isn’t just a role. It’s another identity. Known to millions as Bashar the boxer from hit Israeli TV series...
“Hey guys! You ready for the protest? We gotta get the tables and chairs into the street before 12:00. We’ve got 15 minutes before kick-off, so...
Most people in the entertainment industry begin their year with a somewhat blank calendar, and tons of faith. The shows will go on, and we will...
HOWARD FELDMAN Remaining silent has never been a talent of mine. From as early as I can remember, I was unable to just to “shut it”,...
In spite of its reputation for being the “engine room” of the country, Johannesburg has many elegant, experimental buildings designed by Jewish architects. Johannesburg Heritage Foundation’s...
The ten commandments are perhaps the most famous part of the Torah. They appear first in the book of Shemos/Exodus, and they are repeated in this...
King David Linksfield has a new student leadership body who are rearing to go for 2020-2021. The high school held online elections on 20 July and...
Some items appear to have been on the agenda of the council of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) forever, and one of these...
Once a hot commodity, office space is fast becoming the exception rather than the rule. COVID-19 may have sparked the shift to home offices, but it’s...
Having largely been confined to our four walls over the past few months, many of us have finally tackled those home-improvement projects. Whether we’re doing it...
It’s been more than a hundred days since some children last went to school. Some briefly attended classes before returning to online learning, and others are...
As the ambulance was about to whisk him away to hospital, Holocaust survivor Henri Meenz watched his beloved wife kiss the mezuzah on their front door...
The COVID-19 stats rose by an extra few recently, as Solly and Cynthia Levin both succumbed to the merciless disease a mere week apart. I have...
A host of politicians, celebrities, high-profile figures, and other social-media users took part in a two-day boycott of Twitter from Monday morning to protest antisemitic hate...
As South Africans, we are pretty famous for saying sorry. We say sorry if we want to get past someone, if we want to ask the...
