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Clever Hans was never on Twitter (or X). He didn’t have Instagram or Facebook accounts, and amassed no followers on TikTok. The likely reason is that...
Mandy Gruzd, recently named the first official woman principal of King David High School Victory Park (KDVP), always aspired to be the head during her 16-year...
It’s never easy for young Germans to confront their family’s World War II past, but German author Lorenz Völker decided 20 years after his grandfather had...
If it feels like you’re always the loser when it comes to your kids’ gaming and its impact on their behaviour, you’re not alone. But there’s...
Israel continues to be the global hub of the Shabbos Project – or Shabbos Olamit as it’s called there. Ongoing partnerships including those with the ministry...
At a time of great difficulty and uncertainty, this year’s globe-spanning Shabbos Project, dubbed the “Shabbos of unity”, will bring Jews of all backgrounds together in...
With more than four million South Africans said to have diabetes – the highest prevalence in Africa – it’s unsurprising that many in our community are...
December’s typically fast approach is always punctuated by an interest in “who’s going where for the holidays”. Yet even with the dark days of COVID-19 pandemic...
Abraham’s journey introduced two fundamental traditions. For nearly 2 000 years, G-d had seemed remote and withdrawn from humanity. Dwelling in the heavens, He rarely conversed directly...
South African Jewish boxing history will be made on 23 November, when Doron Zinman and Joshua Feldman fight at the same boxing event at the Box...
JTA – President-elect Donald Trump named Mike Huckabee as his ambassador to Israel, picking an evangelical Christian who favours Jewish sovereignty in parts of the West...
When I think of the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, I picture beautiful canals, people cycling around safely, neat rows of tall narrow homes, and...
What a privilege it was to be among the hundreds who came out in support of the event hosted by the Jewish National Fund and The...
On Monday evening, 11 November, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies celebrated its 120th anniversary with a gala dinner attended by more than 300 guests,...
“I just wish the Iron Dome malfunctions,” wrote Cape Town businesswoman Mariam Jakoet-Harris on the social media platform Instagram on 9 December 2023. She is one...
After Israel captured senior Hezbollah naval operative Imad Amhaz in an unprecedented raid in the early hours of 1 November, Lebanese forces published photographs of 10...
Mark Lifman, 57, a notorious figure long embedded in Cape Town’s underworld, has met the same fate he once seemed to defy. Gunned down outside a...
In the Middle East, bluster can be an expression of fear, but it can also reflect the culture of honour and shame present in both political...
Professor Shabir Madhi, the dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), continues to share hateful anti-Israel material on social...
The South African government made a submission at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 28 October in its ongoing case accusing Israel of genocide. A...
Many admire the humanitarian work that the Gift of the Givers Foundation performs in the world’s disaster areas, providing relief from floods, earthquakes, and wars. It...
For many Jewish American citizens living in South Africa, the choice of who to vote for in the 5 November presidential elections was based on how...
South Africans living in the United States (US) described a mixture of exhaustion over the US’s divisive politics and concern about their presidential candidates’ support for...
“We have enough faith to survive in any situation that will come to us,” freed Israeli hostage Moran Stella Yanai told South Africans at a talk...
It started with glace cherries. Or more accurately, when our hosts thanked us for the cake that we didn’t send them. It was an old-fashioned chocolate...
After undergoing dialysis for a year and a half, South African born Israeli David Skolni knew a kidney transplant would be the only way to restore...
When you know you have a drink or drug problem, it’s probably difficult to admit it and seek help. To do that is to accept that...
A young South African woman, Laurain Cohen and an Australian man, Bill Atkinson, met and travelled in Europe together 57 years ago, and then went their...
While award-winning writer Gina Roitman was trying to help other daughters of Holocaust survivors to deal with their trauma, she found solace and understanding in meeting...
Many of our children grew up listening to Beautiful Creatures. Now, Gallo Records and Paul Choritz, Alan Glass, and Ed Jordan – the Beautiful Creatures team...
Richard Mendelsohn has recently launched his book, The Jews of Parow. The History of a South African Community as a part of a three-pronged project to...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, saying he no longer trusted him, a drastic step while Israel is fighting...
As Israel haters and antisemites rear their ugly heads more and more, we cannot sit back and ignore it. We must take them on in whatever...
Everyone deserves some peace and quiet. Right? A soldier going through intense rehabilitation in Tel Hashomer Hospital, explained to me on Sukkot why Israel is so...
In 2017, responding to pressure from anti-Israel advocates to cancel a concert in Israel, Radiohead’s frontman, Thom Yorke, expressed frustration that artists he respected had questioned...
