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A Johannesburg doctor is battling to come to terms with the tragic passing of his esteemed colleagues who died in a fatal helicopter crash last week....
Sigal Josselowitz never got to say goodbye to her father after he was admitted to hospital with COVID-19 at the beginning of December 2020. During their...
Israelis are being allowed out of their homes in full lockdown to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi), who is viewed by...
When the second and more virulent COVID-19 wave came crashing down at the beginning of the holiday season, Hatzolah Medical Rescue went above and beyond the...
The war against the second wave of COVID-19 raged in the Western Cape in December, and many of those hard hit were either local community members...
I felt sorry for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Inauguration Day. Instead of being sworn in in front of hundreds of thousands...
We are certainly living in stressful times. It impacts on how we react to situations. So, when we would ordinarily – whatever that means now –...
South African healthcare workers can now register for their COVID-19 vaccination using a platform launched by Discovery this week. Information captured will be fed into the...
With the rollout of vaccines imminent in South Africa, a panel of local experts weighed in on the subject in a webinar hosted by the SA...
Leaving behind the things you take for granted – family, home comforts, and understanding the language – to serve in the army of another country isn’t...
As the second wave of COVID-19 hits the country, so did the trifecta of curfew, an alcohol ban, and the closure of beaches. These all had...
King David Senior Primary Linksfield is proud to announce 2021 Mini City Councillors Sasha Hollander and Jaxon Cohen.
The Jewish National Fund’s (JNF’s) nationwide Tu Bishvat celebrations this week conveyed the message that protecting the environment is more important than ever. “The COVID-19 pandemic...
(JTA) Sonja Levy was a positive person who made an excellent first impression and whose important position exempted her from deportation, according to the personal card...
The news that the Moderna vaccine is at least somewhat effective against the South African strain of coronavirus was met with some sense of relief and...
Antwerp mayor warns rule flouting triggers antisemitism The mayor of Antwerp, a city in Belgium where about 15 000 haredi Orthodox Jews live, warned that their...
Can we please speak about outrage for a minute? Because I’m convinced that emotional responses say more about us than we would like them to. And...
Ever since coping with COVID-19 became part of our daily reality, it has been routine to conclude one’s correspondence by wishing the other person good health...
I apologise in advance for this vent, but having read the SA Jewish Report today, confirming my suspicions about the number of illegal minyanim taking place...
My beloved Jonathan, our two boys, our household staff, and I battled the COVID-19 V2 variant. Of all of us, it hit me the hardest. I...
(JTA) Bernie Sanders was everywhere on James Corden’s late night show set on Thursday, 21 January. Life-sized cardboard cut-outs of the Jewish senator in his now...
Buffets of canapés and dessert, the sharing of snacks and dips, and horah dancing – allegedly without masks – were just some features of a Jewish...
Jewish schools are resuming online teaching, and while the situation is causing some frustration, parents have expressed support for the schools’ caution. From playschool to matric,...
While people around the world line up for vaccination against COVID-19, only 53% of South Africans plan to get vaccinated when it becomes available to them....
On 12 January, Rabbi Desmond Maizels and his wife Esther welcomed a new granddaughter into the world. But simcha turned to sorrow when he passed away...
As if university applications weren’t stressful enough, COVID-19 has made the anxiety worse for potential first-year students. Matrics of 2020 have no choice but to wait...
“The price of vaccines is so ridiculously low in comparison to the terrible economic damage of every day of a national closure. The argument [of cost]...
Since its arrival, COVID-19 has challenged physicians to gather evidence and make firm decisions. This isn’t a behaviour to which good evidence-based doctors are accustomed. A...
If you had asked me in September last year whether I would willingly have the vaccine against COVID-19, I would have told you I wasn’t sure....
A culture of bullying, racism, toxic masculinity, sexism, homophobia, corporal punishment, indoctrination, and militarisation. “k****r-hunting” on the weekends, and army “cadet” training at school. Parents who...
On Shabbat morning, 10th Shevat 5710, 28 January 1950, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, left this world. One year later, the seventh Lubavitcher...
JTA – A Moroccan institution has with official government backing signed an agreement with the United States (US) state department to combat antisemitism and anti-Zionism, the...
You may find it mysterious that you and a friend eat and exercise in a similar way, but you have totally different body shapes. Or the...
When the text message popped up on my phone at the end of December, I gave a huge sigh of relief. The message was from my...
When Cape Town opera singer Belinda Silbert caught COVID-19 in March 2020, she says she was in “excruciating agony that was indescribable”. “I was screaming constantly....
As Israel led the world in inoculating its citizens against COVID-19 – earning the new title, “vaccination nation” – I got my first Pfizer shot on...
Exactly one year ago today, I was in Varanasi, a holy city in India on the banks of the holy Ganges (or Ganga) River. One of...
A year ago, we were holidaying in South Africa, visiting family and friends, and my late parents’ graves in the Pinelands Jewish Cemetery. We were also...
More than 75 devices around the globe logged in to Beit Luria’s World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) Shabbat Around the World programme on Friday, 15...
So, Howard Feldman thinks maybe it’s time for introspection by the Jewish community on its love affair with Donald Trump. Long past, in my opinion, although...
