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Over the years, so many people around the world have said to me that the Shabbos Project could only have been born in South Africa. Who...
The conversation would go something along these lines. “Mrs Feldman,” they would say, on seeing my late grandmother, “You are looking too wonderful!” A pregnant pause...
King David High School Linksfield boys ran through Johannesburg in purple Speedos on 15 October to raise funds for prostate and testicular cancer awareness and screening....
“I have spent countless hours over the past year delving into the stories of the Tanach,” says Jake Weinstein, a Grade 10 student at King David...
Shabbatonim may have been prevented by the pandemic, but King David School’s Venture educational programme for Grades 10 and 11 managed to replicate the Encounter experience...
South Africa’s newest Jewish youth organisation, BBYO, led by teens for teens, was launched at King David Schools this past week. A proud affiliate of the...
Yeshiva College Primary School recently announced the election of Bini Sassoon and Tali Smookler as mini city counsellors for 2022.
Two King David Schools students were honoured at the South African Mathematics Foundation awards ceremony on 16 October. King David Senior Primary Linksfield Grade 7 student...
I’ve never thought of us as the invading type, we’re more “people of the book”, but for five amazing days, even if in our own minds,...
Let me introduce myself. My name is Karen Milner, and I’m the newly elected chairperson of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD). I look...
The Shabbos Project is once again happening this weekend in more than 1 500 cities and 100 countries around the world. Following last year’s pivot to...
“Please – next time he’s going to kill her! Help me get my daughter away from him and to the UK so we can keep her...
Our sages teach of the obligation of every Jew to ask, “When will my actions reach those of our illustrious patriarchs and matriarchs?” We see the...
The sun is out, borders are open, and COVID-19 numbers are low. It’s time to take advantage of the opportunity and travel again! With December just...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi Pandor, warmly welcomed the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine Dr Riad Malki...
The hearts of a Johannesburg family have been ripped apart after the senseless murder this week of well-known jeweller Mark Kopelowitz, who was shot in cold...
The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) this week called for former High Court Judge Siraj Desai to be held accountable for contravening the judicial code of...
Although Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s decade-long tenure was filled with ups and downs, his comments in support of Israel last year may be the thing that...
On the eve of the meeting of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) this week, there has been much speculation about whether Israel’s recent...
When the South African government hosts the foreign affairs minister of another country, it’s generally good news. When we welcome leadership from elsewhere, it mostly means...
(JTA) During a visit to his native Libya in 2002, David Gerbi saw something that he says still haunts him almost 20 years later. “I was...
We are less than three weeks away from a local government election, and it’s likely to be our most chaotic and fractious since 1994. The country...
South Africans go to the polls on 1 November in “elections that no parties really want”, according to political journalist Stephen Grootes. In the midst of...
Booster jabs may well become essential as it appears that antibodies to COVID-19 decline significantly six months after receiving a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine....
When Shelley Harari read that a Yiddish machzor originally printed in Vilna had been uncovered in Cape Town, she couldn’t hold back the tears, realising that...
(JTA) In an interview that aired on HBO, both of the founders of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream brand reiterated that they stood behind the...
Exactly 30 years ago, emissaries from the Jewish Agency came to Ethiopia to tell Batya Shmueli’s family that “the way to Jerusalem is open”. Soon after,...
A Cape Town boy with a Joburger’s drive, Allan Greenblo was a pioneering journalist, editor, and publisher who always landed on his feet. Filled with optimism...
It was in my former role at the media group then known as Times Media Limited that Allan and I fully crossed paths, although as journalists,...
There are many reasons why it isn’t easy to be a Jewish male. Expectation of performance begins at eight days, and hardly eases up until we...
This week, we have been hard at work finalising the upcoming South African Jewish Board of Deputies national conference, to take place on Sunday, 17 October,...
In this week’s Torah portion, Lech Lecha, we read about the first Jew, Avraham, who resisted the tide of paganism, idolatry, and immorality. Society had moved...
Mila Ben David, known as “The Cheetah”, became the youngest ever person to be crowned Woman Achiever of the Year at the Johannesburg Women in Sports...
The tension was tangible as Yeshiva College Grade 10 pupil Avigal Rogoff went head-to-head with nine other finalists in the nail-biting finale of the Israel Quiz...
Students at King David High School Linksfield and King David High School Victory Park brought the Israel Quiz trophy home for the sixth consecutive year on...
Just before Pesach this year, the SA Jewish Report detailed how leading global “watertech” company, BlueGreen Water Technologies, was assisting local government authorities to transform toxic...
For many of us, Lithuania exists in black and white, images described to us by our grandparents in grainy shtetls, photos with faded corners. On Sunday...
It was a case of action replay for esteemed Judge David Unterhalter this week at the re-run of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) Constitutional Court judge...
Jewish students at Stellenbosch University were deeply distressed by having to choose between observing high holy days or writing tests, including on erev Yom Kippur. They...
The current violence in Arab-Israeli cities is a greater threat to the state of Israel than Hamas and Hezbollah. The comparison might sound dramatic, but since...
