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So often on Pesach we want to eat some of our favourite dishes or cakes from the rest of the year. Here’s Romi Rabinowitz’s Pesachdike green...
The Exodus is an unforgettable story, but why does there have to be so much bloodshed? Though the ten plagues hit hard, it was the parting...
In all of Jewish tradition, no holiday has an educational and emotional bond with our children like Pesach. The Torah specifically highlights that not only are...
One of my teachers, Rabbi David Aaron, tells the story of a seminar he once ran teaching people new depths of meaning for our ancient traditions....
This year, Pesach and Easter fall on the same weekend. It’s also during the month of Ramadan. So the three Abrahamic faiths are all marking holy...
Come Seder night, how many millions of Jews will be looking much more forward to the kneidlach than the matzah itself? Frankly, I don’t blame them....
Long lines of refugees fleeing in the bitter winter cold, stooped by fear of an unknown future, their faces bearing the unspeakable suffering of having left...
“Anatomy of Gratitude” is Brother David Steindl-Rast, a 90-year-old Benedictine monk’s formulation of how to be grateful, a practice increasingly explored by scientists and physicians as...
Chocolate chip cookies I served these with ice-cream last Friday night. My family gobbled them up, and no one believed me when I said they were...
It’s not like anyone should be able to point fingers. This year, with Easter Friday, Ramadan, and Passover all happening on the self-same day, it’s pretty...
So, here we are again … running away. Two years ago, we all ran into our houses; we shut down our lives; we isolated; and we...
When the beautiful cosmos blooms peak in the Delta and the leaves start to brown and fall from the trees, we know that Pesach is coming....
When well-known radio personality, inspirational speaker, and writer, Roslyn Basserabie, lost her beloved husband in a Vespa scooter accident last year, it upended her world. But...
In these unfathomable times filled with devastation, Ukrainian Jewish and other refugees will make an appearance at every Pesach seder worldwide as their exodus from their...
Jewish cookbooks abound and so do special Pesach editions, but this year, Linksfield Shul put together a Pesach cookbook with a difference. The SA Jewish Report...
At the beginning of October 2021, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was forced to rerun its April 2021 Constitutional Court (Concourt) interviews after the Council for...
Last week, I mentioned that my son was marrying a Yemenite girl and that we had no idea what to expect from the henna party. And...
In South Africa, April is Freedom Month, celebrating the election on 27 April 1994 that ushered in democracy. This year, Pesach, Easter, and Ramadan all occur...
Aarhus. Valencia. Ho Chi Minh City. Jersey. Whether it started out as a desire for something different, a journey for love, a gap year, or a...
The talk at the local supermarket, on social media, and at parent pick-ups is that many people are so stressed by high Pesach prices, they might...
In 2020, just as we were ready to celebrate Pesach, the time of our freedom, COVID-19 ensured that freedom as we knew it was a thing...
Unapologetically a “real mom” – of four boys between the ages of five and 12 – Casey Shevel is all about authenticity. In her hilarious book,...
In the well over two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have gone through lockdowns, punitive economic restrictions, and irksome impositions on our physical and social...
South Africa’s inaugural fully democratic, multiracial elections commenced on 27 April 1994, and since then, April has come to be regarded as Freedom Month in this...
Join us for an evening of laughter, music, cooking, and inspiration as we bring you: Comedy by Nik Rabinowitz, Gilli Apter, and Mrs South Africa contestant,...
After a six-year behind-the-scenes journey, Telfed (the absorption organisation for South Africans in Israel) has launched a world first – a seven-year medical degree in English...
One year after a University of Cape Town (UCT) political science lecturer claimed “Hitler committed no crime”, he remains firmly in his academic seat. Dr Lwazi...
Not many people would flee a war only when things were truly dire, then fly back into the humanitarian catastrophe to host a seder for refugees...
Antisemitism experts are disgusted by a meme posted on social media last week by local anti-Israel lobby group Africa4Palestine which compared Israel to Nazi Germany. Africa4Palestine,...
Two Israeli fears have come to pass. The rioting and demonstrations of last April and May in mixed Jewish-Arab cities is seemingly back. As are attacks...
When the well-known Johannesburg businessman and philanthropist, Solly Krok, first heard that the iconic Johannesburg property, Summer Place, was going on auction in 1994, he didn’t...
When Advocate Christiaan Bester took on the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC’s) hate-speech case against the Congress of South African Trade Union’s (Cosatu’s) Bongani Masuku...
If I didn’t know it was 100% true, I might have thought that Telfed’s new seven-year medical degree in English in Israel, specifically for South Africans,...
South African journalist and author, Jonathan Ancer, has just brought out a book, Mensches in the Trenches, which documents the “Jewish foot soldiers in the anti-apartheid...
I loved my time in Russia. Floating down the Moskva River with the smell of cooking chocolate swirling from the Red October Chocolate Factory. Meandering through...
My father, Hymie Bloom, passed away on Sunday evening, 27 March, at the age of 93. He was born in Wales in 1928, the youngest of...
King David High School Linksfield Grade 11 pupil Ricci Waksman is going places and she’s not even finished high school. Waksman was inducted as co-mayor of...
Imagine having your house blown up, civilians killed in your neighbourhood, and the organisation you work for attacked. Russian soldiers made this the reality of the...
“People think innovators must be geniuses – super-intelligent people with phenomenal memories. Absolute nonsense,” said South African-born and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) educated innovator and...
The chief rabbi of Kyiv, Ukraine, has reached out to Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein in a plea for help for the city’s bereft Holocaust survivors...
