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The Jewish National Fund (JNF) Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre on 3 October donated 1 000 fruit and shade trees to the community of Nellmapius, Mamelodi, a...
The Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO), accompanied by the South African Friends of Israel (SAFI), on 8 October handed over four wheelchairs to the Kutullo Disability...
This week, South African Jewish Board of Deputies National Director Wendy Kahn participated in a World Jewish Congress (WJC) community directors discussion on antisemitism and Holocaust...
Online fame is the currency of our youth, say social-media experts who admit that while it can be dangerous and a damaging road to travel, it...
Rabbi Ricky Seeff, formerly the principal of King David Victory Park Primary School (KDVPP), has taken up his new position as general director of the South...
The world had become corrupt during Noah’s time. It had reached the point where G-d had to hit the reset button – destroy the world in...
“This is the existential election,” says Elan Burman, one of numerous South African Jewish immigrants across the United States who describe an atmosphere of fear, anger,...
Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the lyrics for the English version of Les Misérables, died in London on 14 October, nine days after his 95th birthday. Known...
History reverberates through the present, and the way our memories are formed depends on how we perceive our past. “We’ve been made increasingly aware of the...
In an age when Israeli tertiary institutions are frequently targets for boycotts, the universities of Haifa and the Free State have bucked the trend and cemented...
So many in our community have lost their jobs since the onset of lockdown. We have invited people in this position to send in their details...
For weeks, Israelis have been taking to the streets in increasing numbers demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation. They’re angry with the government’s handling of COVID-19...
Hardly a day goes by without a report on the rise of global antisemitism. Opinion surveys, popular discourse, violence against Jews and Jewish institutions, as well...
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has always insisted that it isn’t antisemitic, but the newly-formed SA BDS Coalition (South African Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Coalition)...
The African National Congress (ANC) has called on the Israeli government to release a suspected Palestinian terrorist who has been on prolonged hunger strike in protest...
It’s so ironic that we have had a mini resurgence in the community of COVID-19, and it’s due to private parties that became super spreaders. When...
Back in March, COVID-19 was brought into the heart of the South African Jewish community because of a party held thousands of kilometres away. At that...
Young people don’t limit themselves to traditional ways to do their finances and banking. They do their homework and forge their own paths when it comes...
Mrs H.S. Balls Chutney is an iconic South African brand and taste that’s enjoyed around the globe, but its success began in Cape Town thanks to...
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, iconic 91-year-old South African businessman and philanthropist Solly Krok launched an initiative to combat the hunger...
Israeli Ambassador Lior Keinan and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador Mahash Saeed Alhameli met for the first time last week to celebrate the Abraham Accords signed...
In the run-up to the United States elections, nuance is something rare and exotic. I speak to family and friends in key American swing states, and...
When Judaica collector David Sussman heard about a century-old Sefer Torah being kept by a non-Jewish Polish man living in Krakow, he knew that it belonged...
King David Victory Park (KDVP) Primary School’s new principal, Kevin Lees, describes himself as a traditionalist in terms of teaching and learning, but also unconventional and...
While most people understand the dangers of taking risks during the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are throwing caution to the wind in situations where we...
(JTA) On Saturday, 12 September, Iranian authorities announced that 27-year-old wrestler Navid Afkari had been executed. Although officials claimed that he had been hanged, BBC Persia...
The Beth Din’s kosher desk is at the heart of a community storm this week, which has taken us all by surprise. I certainly haven’t seen...
Matrics across the country didn’t expect the disrupted year they found themselves in. While some embraced online learning and extra study time with fewer disruptions, many...
(JTA) Facebook has announced that it will now ban any posts that deny or distort the Holocaust, a landmark change from its previous policy. For years,...
When student activist Gabi Farber heard that she had landed a position on the University of the Witwatersrand’s (Wits’) Student Representative Council (SRC) after elections last...
My parents were married for 55 years, and fought for most of them. And then, when my mother died three years ago, my father realised there...
Local manufacturers of kosher food say they are looking overseas for alternative kosher certification following the furore caused by the Beth Din’s removal of a company’s...
A home in Norwood was engulfed in flames and almost completely destroyed on Monday evening. Though it’s not known how the fire started, the ZAKA fire...
When American lawyer Michael Leventhal saw a photograph of his late mother, Beba Epstein, as an 11-year-old on the front page of the New York Times...
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur have come and gone, and we are now winging our way to the December holidays. We are literally in the last...
Two Jewish scientists are part of teams that were awarded Nobel prizes in the space of 48 hours, on 5 and 6 October. Harvey Alter along...
University politics aren’t top of the agenda for most Jewish youth, but for Gabriella Farber, they are a calling. Farber has thrown her name into the...
The South African-born doctor who headed the medical team in the Entebbe raid in 1976, Dr Jossy Faktor, passed away at the age of 80 on...
Linda Goodman Givon, the founder of the world-renowned Goodman Gallery and known as “South Africa’s first lady of art” and “the grande dame of the South...
When Rabbi Avraham Tanzer passed away last Tuesday night, his machzor was still lying on his desk and his tallis was still draped over his chair...
