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A Johannesburg rabbi is behind a bold anti-corruption initiative for South African companies to root out all-pervasive rot of criminality threatening the future of the country....
Yael Sherer turned being a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her father into a lifelong battle to change the law in Israel to...
Renowned German-born physicist Albert Einstein, arguably the scientific world’s most famous Jew, wrote two messages to the South African Jewish community expressing praise and encouragement for...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein told the 60 rabbis and rebbetzins from around the country at the rabbinical conference at Zimbali Lodge in KwaZulu-Natal that he...
“I have not seen the likes of this since the Yitzchak Rabin assassination in 1995. It’s a rip in the fabric of society and the national...
The BRICS group, made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, last week decided to more than double in size. At its Johannesburg summit,...
Johannesburg business owner Craig Nerwich described that second he was about to dive into the ocean in Dover and swim to France as a “crazy whirlwind...
The Singing Kettle Cookery Book, the International Goodwill Recipe Book, The Toni Saphra Cookbook, and many other recipe books published by South African Jewish women’s organisations...
In the inaugural cabinet meeting of Israel’s 37th government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined four primary objectives: containing Iran and its proxies – Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad,...
From spices to sugar to pickles, Jews are “the original culinary movers and shakers”, said Jewish food researcher, writer, and lecturer Joel Haber at Limmud Johannesburg...
When does life actually start according to Jewish law? Rabbanit Dr Judith Fogel examined the halachic debates surrounding abortion at each stage of pregnancy, infusing rabbinic...
Imagine Holocaust survivors reliving their own trauma by collecting statements from hundreds of other survivors. This is what a special unit of the Israeli police, composed...
Spanish Football Federation regional leaders have called for the immediate resignation of President Luis Rubiales after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips. Rubiales, 46,...
When Renee Pozniak told me in September 2005 that Mendel and Oren Kaplan were looking to send someone to the United Kingdom (UK) to bring Limmud...
Kayla Diamond has been elected vice-president of global outreach for the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Campus Global Board which tackles antisemitism in tertiary education institutions throughout...
Growing up, filmmaker Gabriella Blumberg was aware that her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother had the BRCA1 gene and that they had all developed breast cancer. This...
Golda, with Helen Mirren, is certainly worth going to see, especially if you have a penchant for Israel and history. I left the cinema having learnt...
The 18th day of the month of Elul, or Chai Elul as it’s often referred to, holds dual significance as the birthdays of the Baal Shem...
When I hear that Jewish people outside of South Africa feel sorry for us as they believe we’re all miserable, negative, and our lives are awful,...
Last week, I wrote about the value that Limmud has added to the intellectual and cultural life of our community. I can now report back on...
When Maxine Nerwich watched from Cape Town as her son, Craig Nerwich (44), swam into French waters during his English Channel crossing on 23 August, she...
Shay Felber was holidaying in Cape Town when violent clashes intensified between the Ethiopian army and Fano militia in Ethiopia’s Amhara province two weeks ago, leaving...
“I don’t know why, but I have a sinking feeling that there’s going to be some sort of uproar if the results don’t go as planned,”...
Some years back, I was invited to Emperors Palace in Kempton Park to address a business conference. It took prodigious feats of imagination to remember that...
Dr Irwin Krombein (72) had worked in underprivileged Cape Town communities for decades, but that meant nothing to the mob of angry young men who stoned...
Traffic in Sandton will be more snarled up than usual this week because there are a lot of big machers in town. The Sandton Convention Centre...
Comparisons they say, are odious, and they frequently are, but sometimes they cannot be helped, albeit subconsciously. We compare all the time. It’s a human condition,...
We’ve been hearing a lot of noise over the past few months about a potential Israel-Saudi Arabia deal, which would finally normalise relations between the two....
Reflecting how words are either muted, used to empower, or destroy, a panel of women from diverse backgrounds participated in a women’s dialogue hosted at the...
Most historians consider the Holocaust to have started with Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 and to have ended after World War II in 1945....
When the COVID-19 pandemic ended and we returned to places of prayer, I realised that I was no longer “shul fit”. I found that I was...
The chief executive of Miss SA, Stephanie Weil, despises the “rehashed question” of whether beauty pageants hold relevance in today’s world. “It’s the first question I...
Wikipedia is such a part of our lives that we rarely take time to think about how it works and what role it plays in shaping...
As one of the few female comedy writers in Israel today, Michal Zoran has succeeded to the point where she now writes for satirical Israeli TV...
Seasoned Israeli journalist Allison Kaplan Sommer says the November 2022 election campaigns of Likud and other right-wing Israeli political parties didn’t allude to judicial reform, and...
Dietician Carla Chait’s novel, Floor1, feels a bit like a food supplement rather than a nourishing meal – and that’s intentional. Chait is trying to convey...
“When I was exhibiting in Hong Kong, I met a brilliant curator who made a comment which stuck with me – that the soft arts are...
Karate means “empty hand” in Japanese, but South African national team karateka Jesse Sim has gone anything but empty-handed in his more than 15 years in...
When people take risks to save lives, they are heroes. They may escape public exposure or even the notice of their friends and family, but that...
Every year, at the beginning of the month of Elul, we read the Torah portion of Ki Teitzei, which starts with the words, “When you go...
