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There’s no better way to start a new year than with great food. We’ve therefore searched the globe to bring you this culinary delight. Join Rotem...
Inside every person is at least one incredible story. On Thursday night, four people reveal their remarkable tales. Colin Nathan is South Africa’s most famous boxing...
A proposition for a new, independent anti-corruption body landed on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s desk on Tuesday, 24 August, and those who have spent years toiling to...
In what local political analysts describe as a “fairly routine phone call”, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a telephone call to South African president Cyril Ramaphosa...
One of South Africa’s biggest TikTok sensations, bodybuilder Noel Deyzel, known for posting fitness and nutritional tips and workout routines, received hate messages on social media...
Recent events in Afghanistan may seem like a million miles away, but the story of the late Private Gregory “Greg” Sher brings them a lot closer...
If elected, Dr Mpho Phalatse, the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) mayoral candidate for the City of Johannesburg, would be the first female executive mayor of Johannesburg –...
Most of us are feeling a little fragile and exhausted. Many are suffering from what would otherwise be diagnosed as low-grade depression, but I’m not sure...
The Taliban had a famous saying, “You have the fancy watches, but we have the time.” With this cryptic line perhaps summarising the reason for the...
Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz wrote, “The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.” At the time of...
We know what it means to be resilient, but what if there was a way to prevent crises in the first place? This is the question...
Two people from two different backgrounds – Rabbi David Masinter and artist Leonard Nyathi – have come together with the goals of teaching, educating, uplifting, and...
Discovering that your child has a learning disability is traumatic for most parents. Parents often respond with a wide range of emotions, they may feel anger,...
Just a few months ago, it was unfathomable that Israel would ever have a prime minister that wasn’t Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, the wily politician who always...
Bernardo Pulido spent more than $29 000 (R440 630) on genealogical documentation, Jewish heritage certificates, attorney fees, and trips to Spain to prove his Sephardic heritage. But...
Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, known as the father of rabbinic Judaism, saved Judaism from complete and utter destruction during the Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 70...
The story of the Bukharian Jews, a community with deep roots in Central Asia, is sadly coming to an end, but the community’s legacy lives on...
“Women feel we have to be superheroes, but it’s being vulnerable that really makes us into supermoms,” says Feige Swimmer. Together with Devorah Rothman, Swimmer is...
Grade 6 students at King David Senior Primary Linksfield last week packed and supplied educational hampers to their outreach school, Houghton Primary, which has yet to...
Dance is a powerful tool in the fight for social justice and healing those impacted by conflict. These topics as well the ability of dance to...
Hatzolah responders Warren Katz and Yehuda Sevitz visited King David Pre-Primary Linksfield students and taught them about kindness and mitzvot in the month of Elul. Then,...
Jewish golfing champions are a bit of an anomaly in South Africa. However, right now two young Jewish golfers are on a winning streak. Professional golfer...
“The best thing about doing a PhD is being able to have the time and luxury of thinking. It’s three years, and yes, it’s very busy,...
There is a three-word phrase in our formal prayers that conveys the essence of Judaism. Being such a powerful phrase, it features appropriately in every formal...
There aren’t many positive things to be said about living through a pandemic. The loss, the fear, anxiety, and financial impact cannot be understated, nor the...
On 2 September at 20:00, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), in partnership with the SA Jewish Report, will be holding a webinar to...
After experiencing an unprecedented paroxysm of violence, looting, and ethnic warfare, Durban is about to become the epicentre of another shameful event, the Durban IV World...
I’m looking for information on my late great grandfather, Moss Goodman, my grandmother’s father. He was born in 1859 in Whitechapel, London, and died on 20...
Einstein said “G-d does not play dice with the universe” but it’s the job of scientists and astronomers to explain the rules of the game. On...
Israel is bracing itself for renewed terrorism from the fundamentalist Taliban Sunni Muslim insurgency in Afghanistan. Hamas was quick to praise the group’s takeover of the...
Doctors in the United States (US) are expressing their frustration as they battle to keep COVID-19 patients alive in Florida hospitals who chose not to be...
The list of countries boycotting next month’s United Nations anti-racism conference is growing over concerns that the gathering in New York will promote antisemitism. This year...
Esteemed Gauteng Judge David Unterhalter as well as several other prospective candidates will have another chance at interviewing for a position on the Constitutional Court. The...
(JTA) The Biden administration didn’t exactly call attention to the anniversary of the Abraham Accords, the historic co-operation agreements between Israel and several of its Arab...
Now is the time when serious consideration is being given to what lies ahead for the end-of-year holiday season under the spectre of COVID-19. Will it...
There has been a sudden ‘disappearance’ of a number of people in South Africa who are very outspoken about what they believe to be human rights....
The Goldman family have experienced many incredible moments, but few have come close to the time they took a spontaneous stroll with then-president Nelson Mandela. Every...
Working from home has become a way of life, but before March 2020, it was unthinkable in many sectors of the South African workforce. All that...
With COVID-19 on our minds, it’s easy to forget that tuberculosis (TB) is an epidemic that takes South African lives every day. Now, a tiny patch...
South African olim and their families last week welcomed the news that Israel had downgraded South Africa to its “orange list” of countries. Though it eases...
