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Eighty-four-year-old Russel Wolpe and 79-year-old Salome Hurwitz proved that age is just a number at the South African Masters National Swimming Championships in Cape Town from...
Professor Peter Friedland, a much-loved South African emigrant to Australia, has made a major breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19. This King David Linksfield alumnus has...
I have long held the view that men are stupid. Especially when it comes to relationships. Many a friend, married for years, has been shocked to...
Tel Aviv Heat director of rugby and head coach Kevin Musikanth says he and his 38-man squad have had a great reception since arriving in South...
At the height of the clamour against Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane competing in the Miss Universe pageant in Israel last year, there was unexpected support...
Spending a night in a bus stuck in the snow in a remote area of Moldova is not the place you would normally find a South...
It feels like the world is in a constant state of chaos. Just as we start to emerge from a global pandemic, a major war breaks...
Most of Ukraine is fighting back against the Russian invasion, but some towns have fallen and have been occupied by Russian forces. One such city is...
This has turned out to be one of those articles for which more people declined to be interviewed than agreed. The Russian Jewish community numbers about...
As bewildered and distressed Ukrainian refugees land at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, olim – some of who are from South Africa – are there to...
A South African man met the love of his life on an online Jewish dating site, but has no idea when he’ll see his Russian fiancée...
It goes without saying that the primary outcomes of a Jewish education are Jewish knowledge, Jewish identity and connection to the Jewish community. Parents who make...
Russian soldiers have continued to bombard and destroy Ukrainian towns and cities relentlessly in this terrible war. To date, close to three million Ukrainians – mostly...
As I write this, Ukrainians are being battered and their homes destroyed by Russian soldiers, all in the name of recolonising areas that used to be...
With the unfolding human tragedy in Ukraine worsening every day and the civilian situation in some Ukrainian cities approaching absolute crisis status, it’s worth taking a...
It has been a week of chaos and anxiety for local travellers affected by the sudden shut down of Comair’s British Airways and Kulula. There is...
Like many Italian youngsters, 19-year-old Viola Turone looked forward to travelling as a high school exchange student. But unlike many of her peers, she chose to...
(JTA) When Jerry was 21, he was invited to a “white kiddush”, a twist on the Shabbat eve service that substitutes vodka for the traditional wine...
There are a number of reasons why we wear masks and fancy dress on Purim, one of which is to hide our identity, much like Esther...
Leave it to the Jews. The entire country is reeling in frustration at yet another extension of the State of Disaster. We cannot wait for the...
In the centre of this article is a klaf, a scroll of Esther. This megillah was owned by a woman named Esther Teeger who, unusually for...
Michael Abrahamson is South Africa’s longest-serving mentalist and the only broadcaster in the country’s sporting history to win the prestigious SAB Radio Broadcaster of the Year...
Johannesburg attorneys Raymond Joffe and Ivor Feinberg were on 11 March given one of the highest honours from the president of Lithuania for nationals outside of...
A local Jewish-led production company will join Israel’s Keshet International (KI) to produce a murder mystery series based in South Africa. The show, titled Paradys, explores...
At times during the COVID-19 pandemic, there were about nine funerals in a single day. Each was carried out with respect, efficiency and compassion, according to...
Yoel Krassner, a pupil at Yeshiva College, was placed second in Gauteng and seventh countrywide at the Wits Mathematics Competition last year. But, although Krasner’s talent,...
The Torah Academy recently introduced new iPads to its classrooms as part of its “Up-Tech” project, which ensures that every classroom has access to up-to-date technology....
Parents from last year’s Grade 00 class at Mina Lopato Nursery School were determined to extend their children’s Mina Lopato experience by banding together to engage...
Greenside Shul unveiled a new mural on Wednesday, 16 March, for Purim in honour of its congregant, Myna Pretorius, who died suddenly of COVID-19 on 4...
This week’s Haftorah (Jeremiah Chapter 7 & 9) concludes with the powerful verse: “Thus says the Lord: let not the wise man praise and boast of...
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find...
It sounds like the start of a bad joke. Or a dad joke. But it isn’t. It’s a serious question. What do air fryers, fish braais,...
South-African oleh Herschel Gutman has put cricket on the map in Israel. This former captain and coach of the Israel national cricket team wasn’t just named...
The Tel Aviv Heat (TAH), Israel’s first professional rugby union team, are scheduled to tour South Africa this month. The team, made up of South Africans,...
As an endless column of humanity streams across Ukraine’s border with Poland, there are countless aid agencies and Polish citizens waiting to meet them. Among them,...
(JTA) Konstantyn Batozsky believes he’s on a list of so-called “neo-Nazis” to be rounded up “Gestapo-style” and “exterminated” by Russian forces seeking to enter Kyiv. Batozsky,...
Instead of taking her four kids to the park or the beach on Sunday, 6 March 2022, Alana Baranov and her husband, Gary, took them to...
As bombs fell around the orphanage, the girls screamed and cried. They had always felt safe in Tikva Children’s Home, but Putin’s invasion stole that from...
I know I’m sticking my neck out by writing this and I know a lot of readers will disagree. So let me be quite clear at...
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is playing out every day on our televisions and cellphones. This war is being fought as much in cyberspace, social...
