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One of the vivid memories that I have about the period in my life spent on planes was taking off from Zurich Airport on the way...
With the third wave of COVID-19 infections well and truly upon us, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) last week convened a national COVID-19...
(JTA) Silicon Valley tech stands against antisemitism Heads of some of Silicon Valley’s most recognised technology companies including Google, Twitter, and YouTube are among about 200...
This week’s parsha introduces us to the detrimental spiritual effects of tumat met, the impurity that comes from being in contact with the dead and the...
I’m appalled by prominent members of our government, even one of our own – Ronnie Kasrils – who has the gall to speak out against Israel,...
“Most of our ancestors were forced to flee Lithuania in terrible circumstances, and restoring our citizenship will go a long way to address the wrongs of...
I’m so sad that I came across this terrible article (“Professor of propaganda” by Howard Sackstein, SA Jewish Report, 3 June 2021). First, I’m a Wits-trained...
Daniel Segal, a pupil at King David Victory Park Primary, was proclaimed the winner of the English speaking countries category of the My Family Story contest...
Grade 7s at King David Linksfield Senior Primary School have been learning about activism and protest art. They collaborated and created artworks in different mediums, each...
ORT Jet was founded by key stakeholders in the community in 2005 to support Jewish businesses, and since then, the shift in the business world has...
On 16 June 1976, Soweto, just outside Johannesburg, South Africa, erupted in the first mass uprising against the apartheid regime, as thousands of students took to...
Parents who have lost children in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict talk forgiveness and reconciliation. Robi Damelin made aliyah from South Africa in 1967. A Palestinian sniper’s bullet...
They have had a longstanding friendship and worked closely together, but when Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein saw Anglican Church Archbishop Dr Thabo Makgoba describe the...
Hundreds of applications worldwide for Lithuanian citizenship based on ancestry are being rejected by the Lithuanian Migration Department, some pending indefinitely and others being placed on...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Dr Naledi Pandor brought a sense of calm in the midst of the recent feverish anti-Israel rhetoric in South...
Nausheena Mohamed is a Muslim and a Middle East peace activist. She is no stranger to insults and criticism from her own community for her alternative...
It’s the height of irony that South Africa’s minister of communications and digital technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, heartily endorsed an item of fake news about Israel last...
With the plummeting temperatures across South Africa, our community has once again descended into concern and despair as new COVID-19 infections skyrocket. This round seems even...
Too many in our community are contracting COVID-19, and too many are dying from it. What’s too many, you might ask? One person is too many,...
“Living on the Gaza border is 95% heaven, and 5% hell,” said Adele Raemer. She’s made it her mission to tell the world what life is...
(JTA) As Benjamin Netanyahu makes a last-ditch attempt to stay in power, even with a rival coalition set to take office, American journalists and scholars are...
Anne Frank’s diary was a source of strength and inspiration for Robben Island prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, who would copy out its passages by candlelight in...
“This isn’t a COVID-19 story; it’s a love story.” So says Cindy Silberg, the oldest daughter of Simon and Maxine Schneider, reflecting on the profound legacy...
“COVID-19 lockdown? It’s epic. It’s probably the single greatest thing that has happened to single people ever.” This assertion by gym owner Nicholas Ingel, who has...
Silvia Foti grew up believing her grandfather was a war hero but a deathbed promise to her mother to write a book about his life unearthed...
A man wrapped in tefillin, head bowed in prayer against a background abstracted with an intensity of brush strokes; Haredi scholars striding like warriors; soldiers’ heads...
Author, lecturer, and facilitator David Zidel told an ORT Jet networking session on 21 May that businesses should uplift one another, saying, “Even if someone can...
King David High School Victory Park matric girls light candles at Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday, 4 June, during an Oneg Shabbat (Joy of Sabbath) session during...
One of the aspects of the recent Israel-Hamas conflict that should concern anyone committed to fundamental democratic values in South Africa was the disturbing extent to...
So, there we were in the desert waiting to enter the land of Israel, when the spies returned from their reconnaissance mission. They had news which...
I remember once being peripherally involved in a community dispute (a rare occurrence in Jewish life to be sure) some years ago. Discontent had been bubbling...
(JTA) Bombed AP building ‘had Iron Dome jamming tech’ Israel’s United States ambassador told Associated Press (AP) that the Israeli army destroyed the building containing its...
Does time heal wounds? When my youngest son made a crucial decision at the end of 2020 to take up a position in Liverpool in the...
Let’s take a deep look at apartheid Israel. Israel will have an Israeli Palestinian minister in the new coalition, eight Israeli Palestinian members of parliament, an...
There’s a solution to the problem of Israel haters. It’s long term, but successful. Let me give you an example. In the late 1950s, Prime Minister...
In contrast to the Palestinian Authority (PA) which last held elections in January 2006, and yet again cancelled elections scheduled for 22 May 2021, Israel’s vibrant...
The Union of Jewish Women (UJW’s) sewing school recently graduated its February 2021 class. At the graduation, each graduate wore outfits and displayed items they had...
It’s a cold autumn night in Johannesburg. I lie on my bed preparing for my pending aliyah, my laptop resting on my thighs, writing. Suddenly my...
(JTA) Tucked between a dance school and a 1960s retro lounge on a quiet street in Tucson, Arizona, sits a small Middle Eastern and African foods...
The daughter-in-law of United States President Joe Biden was on route to South Africa on Wednesday to attend her beloved mother’s funeral in Johannesburg. Melissa Cohen-Biden,...
