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The highest court in the land last week ruled that recently retired Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s so-called controversial Israel comments made during a webinar in 2020...
Israel is cracking down on a phenomenon known as “passport aliya”, in which people make aliya just to gain the benefits of a passport. But while...
Russian peacekeeping troops have been dispatched in eastern Ukraine while more than 100 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft are on high alert and 120 allied...
Jewish food fund Yad Aharon & Michael this week announced a new board of directors following the recent resignation of Managing Director Alice Friedman, the face...
(JTA) If I have learned anything over the past month, it’s that racist tropes aren’t harmless words. They must be actively and consistently challenged. You know...
When former Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was forced to apologise for his statements about Israel and Palestine and he did so, most of us thought that...
With 2022 well underway, many expected to see the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, we find ourselves rather bewildered by the information at hand. On...
The Constitutional Court recently handed down its much-anticipated judgment in the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on behalf of the South African Jewish Board of...
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana balanced austerity and relief in his maiden Budget speech to parliament on Wednesday, 23 February. Earlier this week, predictions were that tax...
In 1907, Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completed a striking gilded portrait of Jewish socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer in Vienna. Commissioned by her husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a banker...
Aura Herzog, who died recently at the age of 97, was the wife of late Israeli President Chaim Herzog, and the mother of the current president,...
How does a yarmulke-wearing boy born in Yeoville become speech writer for the leader of the opposition and senior editor-at-large for the third most viewed news...
In a shocking turn of events, antisemitic posts written on a fake Facebook profile are believed to have been written by a member of the Cape...
Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies member and local finance director David King is lucky to be alive after a freak accident while running that...
What’s simple and complicated, addictive and once-off, free, and also owned by the New York Times, and something you can do alone or with others? It’s...
When the Small Jewish Communities Association of South Africa’s Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft found a glass time capsule hidden behind the foundation stone of the Rustenburg Shul,...
Parshat Vayakhel is a detailed account of the construction of the vessels for the Mishkan and the building of the Mishkan itself. The Torah often withholds...
Most people don’t think about floors, assuming that we walk on firm ground. But this wasn’t the case at Greenside Shul, where the timbers of the...
American actor Zachary Horwitz swindled at least $650 million (R9.8 billion) from his more than 250 victims in a huge Ponzi scheme to finance his lavish...
Child sexual abuse is a nightmare and it’s easy to think it will never happen to our kids and that it’s not something we need to...
Some years ago, we were making a guest list for a function. It went rather swimmingly until I innocently mentioned the name of someone whom I...
For the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), the handing down last week of the Constitutional Court judgment in the matter of Bongani Masuku marked...
The energy at Torah Academy Nursery School was palpable last Thursday, 17 February, as the school welcomed grandparents and other visitors after two years of absence...
Mina Lopato’s staff recently put themselves in their children’s shoes to learn how to succeed. While brainstorming the theory of success – the nursery school’s theme...
King David Victory Park (KDVP) has its first food garden thanks to pupil Jessica Blem and head gardener Frank Ralapelle and his skilled team. Blem, who...
Not everyone gets Ryan Reynolds to play them in a movie. Meet Randy Schoenberg, the lawyer who forced Austria to return Gustav Klimt’s “Austrian Mona Lisa”...
South Africa’s highest court has ordered Bongani Masuku to apologise to the Jewish community for a series of hateful comments he made more than 13 years...
South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, this week vowed to ensure that Israel was excluded from the African Union (AU) in...
Communal leaders and Jewish students have been integrally involved in ensuring a protest-free start to the academic year at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), with...
A time capsule hidden behind the foundation stone of the Rustenburg Shul and discovered two weeks ago has unearthed documents written by people who founded that...
If the United Nations (UN) is going to hold an inquiry into the clashes between Israel and Hamas last May, surely the person heading the inquiry...
It took 13 years to get the highest court in the land to demand that former Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) leader Bongani Masuku...
“We all know that government doesn’t create jobs. Business creates jobs.” With these words, President Cyril Ramaphosa became the first South African president to give an...
Of late, our attention has been drawn to the scourge of sexual abuse within our communities both here and abroad, often with catastrophic outcomes. As a...
The long-awaited and much hyped State of the Nation Address (SONA) – delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa from the Cape Town City Hall after Parliament was...
South Africa has unreliable electricity, water scarcity, record unemployment levels, a lack of women in leadership positions, and two published state-capture reports showing wide-scale looting. Easy...
Just days before President Cyril Ramaphosa devoted a section of his State of the Nation Address (SONA) to the opening up of the cannabis industry in...
Larry Borowitz may appear an unlikely poet, but appearances are deceiving. His first book of poetry, Poetry in the Pandemic, has just been published internationally. We...
It takes gumption, grit, global vision and good-old-fashioned chutzpah to turn the inner city of Johannesburg into something enticing and attractive for urbanites, hipsters, and trendsetters....
There once was a time when little boys across the land wanted to be Richard Levi. That time didn’t last for as long as it possibly...
