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Following the huge success of Redhill School’s theatrical production of Cabaret last year, some tried to dissuade the school’s executive head from putting on another musical...
It has a bitter wit with an instinctual way of letting off steam and the most colourful curses, but many claimed that it wouldn’t survive. However,...
Where in the world do people drop everything they are doing on a school or work night and spontaneously go out in their hundreds of thousands...
Two weeks ago, I reported on how factions of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) group at the University of Pretoria (UP) were protesting against “the presence...
At age 60 something, Rabbi Dovid Hazdan grabbed a backpack, a Torah and his Tefillin, and decided to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. He may be the first...
The University of the Cape Town (UCT) has denied responsibility for allowing members of terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to address an audience...
JTA – When Daniel Schleider and his wife, Lior, leave Israel next month, it will be for good – and with a heavy heart. “I have...
Bullying has become a crisis in our community, whether it occurs through exclusion, nastiness, or manipulation, in person or online, say experts. The problem was highlighted...
When Dean Immermann, the chief security officer of Community Active Protection (CAP), hugged his wife goodbye early on the evening of Sunday, 19 March, she had...
There’s good reason why South Africa’s Human Rights Day is also the world’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. At Sharpeville on Monday, 21...
After more than a decade of research, countless civil society consultations, lobbying of government, and numerous oral and written submissions to parliament, the Prevention and Combating...
“The best thing about Roodepoort in the West Rand where I grew up was the train station to Johannesburg,” joked journalist Gus Silber. His father was...
Has the robot Armageddon commenced? ChatGPT took only five days to gain its first million users after its launch on 30 November 2022, and just two...
Members of the small Jewish community in the Eastern Cape municipal area of Nelson Mandela Bay (which includes Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth), are among thousands who...
“No-one,” said my wife, with the conviction of someone who indeed had asked everyone, “writes how much they loved working on their tombstone!” She paused for...
There was a pervasive air of excitement as more than 600 literary enthusiasts attended the Jewish Literary Festival at the Gardens Community Centre in Cape Town...
Former apartheid activist John Schlapobersky used the Jewish Literary Festival to pay tribute to his childhood doctor, Dr Alec Folb, who was in Vereeniging on Human...
“There are opportunities in all the doom and gloom,” Tony Leon, former Member of Parliament and founder of the Democratic Alliance, told the Jewish Literary Festival,...
Jewish anti-apartheid activist Ruth First may have been killed by a letter bomb sent by South Africa’s security police back in 1982, but 40 years later,...
“I couldn’t have written this book while my father was alive,” Denis Hirson told an audience gathered in Joburg recently for the launch of his novel,...
The recently announced Iran-Saudi Arabia deal isn’t good for Israel. The Americans might be trying to undersell it, but behind closed doors, they’re panicking. The optimism...
When something happens on your watch or on your property, can you refuse to accept responsibility for it because you weren’t intrinsically involved in it? That’s...
Here in South Africa, our national treasure continues to be the late Nelson Mandela. The status and respect he enjoys even after his death are legendary....
When “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW) was first introduced on our university campuses, it posed many complex challenges for Jewish students. Should the invective of the other...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein opened the inaugural Sandton Sinai Inter Jewish Day School Student Leadership Summit on 12 March with a powerful message about the...
How to build a world-class city! with Chris Pappas of uMngeni & Geordin Hill-Lewis of Cape Town Our cities are crumbling, money is missing, there’s no...
South African Jewish Board of Deputies National Director Wendy Kahn has described as “chilling” a demonstration titled “in protest of Zionism’s presence at universities” at the...
Doctors at public hospitals, many of them Jewish, have had to sweep floors, take patients to the toilet, and wash them while dealing with critical medical...
Three years ago, the world shut down in an effort to combat an unknown enemy: the newly emerging COVID-19 pandemic. Though this terrifying time has faded...
Community leader Marlene Bethlehem usually spoke to her dear friend, Ann Harris, before Shabbat every week. So, when she didn’t hear from her this past Friday...
A few weeks ago, I was sitting at a lavish dinner celebrating a remarkable family who had donated yet another borehole, solar panels, and pumping system...
Since 7 January this year, Israelis have been taking to the streets every Saturday night to protest against the proposed judicial overhauls. Armed with Israeli flags,...
The heated debate on Israel’s judicial reform played out at the South African Zionist Federation’s webinar, “Courting controversy: the debate on Israel’s judicial reforms” on 9...
Convicted of 48 counts of fraud and given a jail sentence, Greg Blank, a once legendary stockbroker, took his fate and used it to transform one...
It turns out that there’s a name for them. I hadn’t heard of the concept, but it’s apparently a real thing around the world. And now,...
It’s not every day that a South African composer’s work is chosen to be performed in the International Women’s Day programme in the United Nations (UN)...
Visiting American Israeli journalist and social media influencer, Emily Schrader, has spent the past six months bringing the world’s attention to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s...
“I just sat in the dark and cried myself to sleep.” “I’m prone to things I never was before, such as road rage and losing my...
Joe Pamensky – or “Papa Joe” as almost everyone knew him – died last Wednesday, 8 March, in Johannesburg after a long and uncomplaining battle with...
King David Linksfield’s A Musical was a trip down memory lane through school stories and musical theatre classics. The show, performed from 12 to 14 March,...
