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The Western Wall is where our people go to pray, to celebrate simchas, and to mourn the destruction of our Holy Temple. As next week we...
With every passing year, Tisha B’Av mourning for the lost Temple becomes more challenging. The disastrous fall of Jerusalem and the derailment of Jewish history occurred...
They walk among us. But they aren’t one of us. They are the people pleasers. And they not only invite unhappiness and misery into our personal...
Pride washed over the South African-born father as he sat on a sun-drenched beach in Marseilles, his eyes fixed on his Israeli daughter gliding across the...
You may not remember watching a local sports match, but you never forget being at an Olympic Games, especially when it’s held in Paris. Two million...
For leading ear, nose, and throat surgeon Professor Peter Friedland, telling his patient, former President Nelson Mandela, that he was planning to emigrate was a formidable...
Late business icon Eric Ellerine was the ultimate entrepreneur, having started out with a single shop and building an empire on that foundation. It is therefore...
Jewish students at Stellenbosch University have more than tripled in number over the past five years, growing from 40 in 2019 to more than 150, creating...
Boaz Dreyer (68) made aliya from South Africa with a vision of one day planting a vineyard, making wine, and leaving a legacy for his four...
With every stitch, a group of women who have long crocheted and knitted for charity are joining the broken threads of displaced families and soldiers fighting...
Tragedy marred the first-ever hat-trick of centenarians at Jaffa, the Pretoria Jewish home for the aged, when Willie Pokroy joined Ockey Salmenson and Zelda Wolfe in...
Married couples generally have lots in common including similar interests, mutual life goals, and complementary career aspirations. However, they don’t often have their maternal grandmothers both...
Countless successful South African performers attribute much of their nurture and growth to one woman: Daphne Kuhn. In fact, some of them were given their big...
Dr Benji Ozynski and his medical assistance platform, Engage MX, won the prized tech entrepreneur category in the 2024 South African Future Trust (SAFT) Awards on...
The Under-16 South African football team narrowly missed out on a bronze medal at the European Maccabi Youth Games in London this past week, but it...
I remember waking up on 7 October 2023, 307 days ago, to my phone pinging with messages about what was happening in Israel. My colleagues and...
This week, we begin the last book of the Torah: Devarim (Deuteronomy). It contains the words that Moses speaks to the Israelites on the plains of...
Last weekend, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) hosted its bi-annual national executive conference (NEC). The NEC is always a highlight of our calendar,...
“I was certain of that gold medal,” said South Africa’s man on the inside of Team South Africa at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. He...
The elimination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas political desk and the former chairperson of Hamas in Gaza, was a long time coming. This...
There’s been an embarrassing and alarming display of insubordination and mixed messages from the country’s newly minted government of national unity (GNU), and Israel is at...
When a secret military training camp in Mpumalanga was discovered just days after the United States treasury sanctioned two South African individuals linked to Islamic State...
Jay Kaplan may now be studying at the University of Chicago (UChicago), but his strong Jewish identity emanating from growing up in Johannesburg led him to...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) have criticised the South African government’s deafening silence after Iranian proxy,...
With remarkable ease, South Africa has entered a new political era following the May elections. The deep decline in voter support for the African National Congress...
Since 7 October, thousands have visited Israel to express their solidarity, which is appreciated, especially now. Many want to visit the south of the country to...
With US President Joe Biden having finally bowed out – as predicted in this column two weeks ago – and being replaced by Vice-President Kamala Harris...
When searching for a Jewish South African competing in the Olympic Games, look no further than the United States women’s rugby team, which includes winger Sarah...
It’s been a long winter. And while it might not have been colder than it usually is, it has felt more desolate. Perhaps because the season...
Israel carries a heavy load for the Jewish world. Even though I spent two weeks in Israel in February 2024 on a self-styled mission, nothing prepared...
A father whose daughter was kidnapped by Hamas. The life and death of peace activist Vivian Silver. Humanising the stories of those impacted by 7 October,...
There’s huge satisfaction when your pupils go on to achieve, and so for 84-year-old retired ballet teacher Bernice Lloyd, having movie star Charlize Theron; Tanya Howard,...
Exactly 30 years ago, two Jewish men decided to launch an organisation to improve the lives of all South Africans. They were the great philanthropist Bertie...
The Shakedown, a South African crime-comedy caper by Ari Kruger (AK) and Daniel Zimbler (DZ), will premiere on Prime Video on 8 August. The SA Jewish...
The under-16 South African Maccabi boys tennis team has been training hard to ensure that it can go toe-to-toe with tough competition at the 2024 European...
Fifteen-year-old goalkeeper Jonah Gruskin may not be able to show his football prowess at this year’s European Maccabi Youth Games in London, but he held pride...
JTA – Bella Hadid expressed regret for modelling an Adidas sneaker originally designed for the 1972 Munich Olympics in which 11 Israelis were murdered in a...
On Wednesday morning, we woke up to the news that Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, been assassinated in Iran. I’m not one to revel in death,...
In relation to the tribulations of exile and the hope for redemption, the Gemara at the end of Tractate Makkot relates the following: “Once, Rabban Gamliel,...
Over the weekend, our collective hearts were once again broken as we learnt of the indiscriminate and deadly rocket attack on a soccer field in the...
