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My wife gave me this idea. I gave it context. And I love the theme. Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived...
Only one Nazi war criminal was ever tried and convicted in Britain. In fact, most Nazi war criminals and collaborators who hid in the United Kingdom...
(JTA) In the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire was seeking to conscript men into its army, including the several thousand young Jewish ones who were living...
GG Alcock was born white and Zulu bred. Growing up in a mud hut with no water or electricity in rural KwaZulu-Natal, today he has coined...
The South African Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Coalition this week tried everything in its power to stop esteemed Gauteng Judge David Unterhalter from being interviewed by...
It has been a week of high drama on the global COVID-19 vaccine stage as niggling concerns about both the Pfizer BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson...
The fact that a high-level University of Cape Town (UCT) lecturer told his students that “Hitler committed no crime” seems too unbelievable to be true, but...
In a tragic irony, a man who lived life to the full was condemned to endure an illness that meant he could no longer move or...
When Stephen “Sugar” Segerman started searching for the Barmitzvah boy whose photograph was on his mantlepiece, he didn’t imagine he would find out from someone half...
Zan Swartzberg from Bethlehem in the Free State was one of 800 South African Machal volunteers who heeded Israel’s call for help after it was surrounded...
The South African BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Coalition, much like the former BDS-SA, which is now Africa4Palestine, claims that it is made up of human-rights activists...
On Shabbat morning over Pesach, Sydenham Shul passed the leadership baton from the incomparable Rabbi Yossy Goldman to his successor, Rabbi Yehuda Stern. For the first...
The magnitude and nature of the sexual-abuse allegations against Zaka founder Yehuda Meshi-Zahav have even shaken Shana Aaronson, the highly experienced executive director of Israeli anti-abuse...
“I can’t remember her face for some reason.” So said Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter of his pain at the fragmented memory of his twin sister, Sabine,...
“Rwanda, for many second-generation Holocaust survivors, is a kindred experience,” says Tali Nates, the founder and executive director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. “I...
Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut are generally tough days for Israelis in the diaspora as it isn’t easy to experience them properly thousands of kilometres away...
Yom Ha’atzmaut is an opportunity to declare proudly and publicly our connection to Israel. This is our opportunity to remind ourselves and the world what Israel...
Like many other teens, 15-year-old student Jevan Sifrin found himself with too much time on his hands under the hard lockdown last year. But instead of...
Death is part of life, yet it remains a taboo topic, especially when it comes to children. Yet, with COVID-19 bringing death to our doorstep, it’s...
Johannesburg in the 1970s is the setting of a newly published novel, We Were the Newmans, by Beverley Lester, where the quiet innocence of a Highveld...
We are in the midst of counting the Omer – a commandment to count the days and weeks from the second day of Pesach until Shavuot....
In a moving Yom Hazikaron ceremony, King David High School Linksfield on 14 April commemorated the fallen soldiers of all the wars in Israel and those...
Jane Klein won first prize in the Union of Jewish Women’s Kosher Mobile Meals (KMM) Donate and Win Pesach Appeal – a three-night stay at Savanna...
I’m generally enthusiastic about whatever it is that I do. I’m either putting on weight or losing it. I’m never maintaining it. I’m either building up...
When the country went into lockdown in March last year, it was obvious that the traditional, countrywide Yom Hashoah ceremonies couldn’t be held, and that the...
After a rigorous search, Yeshiva College has announced the appointment of Morah Janna Kirkel as principal of Yeshiva Pre-Primary School. The school wishes Kirkel much hatzlacha...
The kosher department spends nearly six months of the year planning for Pesach and making certifications. This year was particularly challenging with the sad and untimely...
There’s a lot going on in Hunter Biden’s new memoir, Beautiful Things. First and foremost, it’s a love letter to Hunter’s brother, Beau Biden, who died...
A young couple attempted to flee the scene of a botched armed robbery at Melrose Arch on Easter Monday, only to get caught in a hail...
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng came out swinging in his appeal against Judge Phineas Mojapelo’s judgment ordering him to apologise for comments made about Israel. Mogoeng criticised...
For most of the world, the late March attack on the coastal town of Palma may have been just another terror attack in the faraway province...
There is a widespread perception in the community that South Africa is lagging way behind in its vaccine rollout, but insiders say there will be enough...
Justice Albie Sachs felt a real sense of liberation after encountering the man who orchestrated the car bombing in which he lost an arm and the...
It has been a busy time for Tony Leon, the erstwhile leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), but one he takes in his stride. Leon has...
The United States-Saudi Arabia relationship is a really interesting case study for those who watch Middle Eastern geopolitics closely. Some background to current events is necessary...
If ever you question the importance of commemorating Yom Hashoah, which we do this week, keep in mind that we’re not talking about statistics, but the...
Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman once successfully searched for Sugarman (also known as the musician Sixto Rodriguez) and found him, so what are the chances of him finding...
It’s been nine years since Labia Theatre owner Ludi Kraus was unwittingly caught up in a fight with the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) over the screening...
Prioritising mental and emotional health in the workplace is good for business, but few companies have formal strategies to deal with these challenges. Professor Karen Milner...
“My photographs try to weave together the complex tapestry of the Jewish African peoples segregated by historical, cultural, linguistic, and regional divides yet united by a...
