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Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein this week was appalled at the “conduct of the commissioners of the Judicial Service Commission [JSC] in their questioning of two...
Pippa Ehrlich travelled from the depths of Cape Town’s icy oceans to the heights of the film industry when she won the Academy Award for Best...
There has been widespread local and international condemnation over a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing Israel of apartheid and persecution. The United States-based HRW published...
The appointment of judges is a key component of the health and vitality of our democracy. The Judicial Services Commission (JSC) has recently gone through the...
Families baking cakes, icing drive-by party cupcakes, and fermenting sourdough starters was one of the more celebratory public images of the COVID-19 lockdown. However, for some,...
The world watched in horror on Sunday, 21 April, as a raging wildfire bore down on the University of Cape Town (UCT), hitting at its heart...
In this country, we have a Constitution that most experts around the world believe to be one of the finest. Apparently, every genuine right that a...
Nearly 100 years later, Armenians continue to struggle for full recognition of the genocide inflicted upon their nation and, in a poignant twist, one of the...
With the old Johannesburg General Hospital, Cape Town’s Table Mountain, and the University of Cape Town having suffered devastating fire damage just last week, I would...
Nicholas Wolpe, the founder and chief executive of the Liliesleaf Trust, is a man on a sad, lonely mission. Out of desperation, he has become the...
He was the very first headmaster of Herzlia School in Cape Town, and a pioneer of Jewish education, but when Alexander Levin died in 1960, he...
When last did you make a phone call to a friend or family member just to chat? Not a voice note or a text, or a...
Yeshiva Primary School “flocked” north, south, east, and west before Pesach in an innovative fundraising campaign to build shade sails on the school playground. Nine flamingo...
It’s often said that a library is a cathedral for books, a museum for stories, where silence is law and the librarian rules. This idea was...
“Twelve thousand pairs of students were under Rebbi Akiva, and they all died in one chapter for they did not act respectfully to each other. It...
On Freedom Day, Wendy Kahn, the national director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), at the invitation of the MEC for sports, arts,...
Being blessed with five children and not enough time in the day to give them all what they need, we have begun considering importing a few...
This year, I got into the final round for the top 16 contestants in the International Bible Quiz, broadcast live on Yom Ha’atzmaut on 15 April....
As climate change becomes an emergency, the initiatives Israel has in place to combat it domestically and through international collaboration can only stand the planet in...
The financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s lives is set to last long beyond the initial crisis, in some cases permanently changing consumer behaviour....
Join us as we debate the STATE OF THE NATION featuring: Minister Tito Mboweni – Minister of Finanace Mmusi Maimane former leader of the Democratic Alliance...
South Africa is on fire! Join us to hear first-hand from those who experienced the disastrous fire at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and the devastating...
Jews across the Mother City watched in horror as an unseasonably hot Sunday, 18 April 2021, turned into an apocalypse. What started as a small fire...
Following what appears to be one of the first armed robberies at a shul in Johannesburg, Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein has described armed robberies targeting...
Jewish healthcare workers this week described incomprehensible scenes of mayhem and camaraderie as smoke from a fire at one of Johannesburg’s biggest public hospitals forced them...
Gareth Cliff, a long-time religious sceptic, had a moment of revelation on Wednesday, 14 April, when he interviewed Rabbi David Rosen on national television for his...
Every time we drive our vehicles into the streets in South Africa, we embrace real risk. The Automobile Association of South Africa has previously quantified that...
It’s one week before Lag B’Omer, and it seems to me that all we are hearing about right now is fire. Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital...
Going into our second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been fed an ample diet of despair, blame, and negativity, especially when it comes to...
A story broke in The Jerusalem Post on 11 April that Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility had once again been attacked. According to the paper, the site’s...
As a miracle nation, time and time again Israel has pulled the blue-and-white rabbit out of the hat, offering innovation and pride to Jewish communities around...
It’s the quintessential South African problem – another power cut caused by stolen equipment and a night spent in darkness, muttering, maybe even posting on social...
The South Africa Israel Chamber of Commerce’s (SAICC) new chief executive, Jonathan Shapiro, is on a mission to facilitate business between the rainbow nation and its...
(JTA) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he was ready to “remove obstacles” to renewing ties with the United States, apparently signalling a willingness to stop...
As COVID-19 numbers remain low, many young Jewish couples are taking the opportunity to get married. But at every simcha, one can see social media and...
“Some day, we will all die, Snoopy,” is the declaration of Charlie Brown in the Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz. “True, but on all the other...
As the Jewish nation camps in the wilderness linking the land of the Pharaohs and the promised land, they are warned not to emulate the behaviour...
(JTA) Dutch compensate owners of Nazi-looted painting A Dutch museum will compensate the rightful owners of a Nazi-looted painting the government said it could keep because...
Adam Lipschitz, 27, is soaring high after scoring a silver and fourth place for his races at the South African Championships at Tuks Athletics Stadium last...
Last week brought with it the disturbing news that armed robbers in Johannesburg had invaded a shul after a service and tied up and robbed those...
