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The World Council of Churches (WCC), which has a long history of systemic bias against Israel, stopped short of labelling the Jewish homeland an “apartheid state”...
“Sadly, I’ve spent a lot of time in ambulances, but this was by far the best ride I’ve ever had.” These are the words of American...
Film makers and directors, Ari Kruger and Daniel Zimbler, are more than just winners of a prestigious South African Film and Television Award (SAFTA). The pair,...
What does a Johannesburg recovering drug addict and former professional cage fighter have in common with the Cape Town-raised grandson of Pick n Pay retail giant...
A seven-year-old child who cannot talk due to an extremely rare condition has become a mini celebrity with a kindness campaign. Shaina Shishler is lovable and...
The Community Security Organisation (CSO) this week begged the community to prioritise security in light of last week’s early parole of the notorious Thulsie twins, convicted...
“Drive for as long as you can,” advises 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Irene Klass of Johannesburg, who last week renewed her driver’s license. The well-groomed, red-haired nonagenarian...
A community hero who had been in a coma for three years after tragically being stung by bees was this week laid to rest. Father of...
Few shuls in South Africa can celebrate 40 years with the same rabbi and rebbetzin. Chabad of Sandton is one of them, with Rabbi Yossie and...
A Jewish mother whose weeks’ old baby boy was kept from her by her abusive, estranged lover, last week won the right to equal contact with...
The South African Chinese community has expressed gratitude to the Jewish community for supporting it during a protracted hate-speech matter in which it emerged victorious last...
“The South African Jewish community is important to the state of Israel and the country values its support,” says Ambassador Belaynesh Zevadia, the head of the...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor this week called on the world to join South Africa in its fight against Israel “until victory is...
Sequestrated businessman Martin Levick has paid back most of the money he took from an elderly couple after he promised to invest their life savings and...
When a newborn, abandoned baby was miraculously picked up by a Johannesburg couple walking home one Shabbos night, it not only heralded the start of a...
“They arrested me, hanged me from the ceiling, beat me up and interrogated me for five days,” says a gay Gaza Palestinian now living in exile...
Bruce Wolov was more fearful of the ‘sharks’ in business than he was of sharks in the ocean, friends say. That was until this prominent Johannesburg...
Law abiding Johannesburg accountant Dani Smith is grateful and relieved not to have been arrested and charged for stealing a car last weekend. The honest father...
Zimbabwean housekeeper Thandi Moyo (not her real name) has been living and working in South Africa for 10 years with her partner and their two children....
An elderly, ex-South African Jewish doctor this week recalled the perilous time when he was one of a few doctors countrywide performing illegal abortions. He risked...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi Pandor has been heavily criticised for “hijacking” one of the country’s most tragic events, Youth Day, to express...
Gary Bress was minding his own business while waiting his turn to cross a busy intersection where the traffic lights weren’t working. It was 13:15 last...
It took the bravery of one alleged rape victim and two determined Jewish gender-abuse activists to bring to book a surf-school instructor who has allegedly been...
It took a mere four days in Israel last month for anti-apartheid stalwart Reverend Frank Chikane to conclude that the decades-old conflict in the Jewish State...
A week before business icon and the former chief executive and chairperson of SA Breweries (SAB), Meyer Kahn, passed away on 2 June, he imparted one...
Johannesburg, which has the largest number of Jewish elderly residents in the country, has no kosher, privately-run Jewish retirement homes, creating a definite need. There are...
The Beth Din rarely encourages people to go to secular courts to resolve financial disputes, but it did so as a last resort for the elderly...
Hatzolah Medical Rescue has embarked on a potentially one of a kind, life-saving school initiative to prevent sudden cardiac death in adolescents (SCDA). Sudden cardiac death...
When Gavi Waksman, 17, opened his “beautiful blue eyes” for the first time in days, the community breathed a collective sigh of relief after experiencing concern...
It has been an emotionally charged week since the highly publicised, fatal, and tragic shooting of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while reporting in the troubled...
It has been a long and painful recovery for the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH), ravaged by fire more than a year ago. With the...
Terror financing is a reality in South Africa, as more and more evidence comes to light of Islamic State (IS) sympathisers and terror activists on home-grown...
“We will be ok, we will get through this,” is the mantra that gets Devorah Kay through each day as she mourns the death of her...
Fugitive father and son personal injury lawyers Ronald Bobroff and his son, Darren, have thrown South African prosecution authorities a curve ball. The notorious pair entered...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured communal leadership that the South African Jewish community has an important place in society and a crucial role to play in...
An aggrieved former mashgiach (kosher supervisor) of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues (UOS) has expressed his long-suffering gripes on social media in what some say is...
Many of us know the faces of the waiters at our most-frequented neighbourhood eatery, some might even know their first names and strike up a quick,...
The department of international relations and cooperation (Dirco) has been criticised for citing the Israel-Palestine conflict in the same breath as Ukraine, and ironically, urging the...
Johannesburg mother of two, Romy Saltz Petersen, from refugee and asylum non-profit organisation Afrika Awake, was at home with her children when her fears of an...
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...
