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A Johannesburg doctor is battling to come to terms with the tragic passing of his esteemed colleagues who died in a fatal helicopter crash last week....
When the second and more virulent COVID-19 wave came crashing down at the beginning of the holiday season, Hatzolah Medical Rescue went above and beyond the...
While people around the world line up for vaccination against COVID-19, only 53% of South Africans plan to get vaccinated when it becomes available to them....
Six years ago, infamous campus rabble rouser and Fees Must Fall student activist Mcebo Dlamini was a fiery, Israel-bashing antisemite prone to hurtful and divisive words,...
Time magazine dubbed 2020 the worst year ever. On its latest cover, it features “2020” with a large red “X” through it, marking the end of...
Virology experts in South Africa have allayed fear of COVID-19 vaccines, saying they are a “triumph of science”, and are likely to be game changers. However,...
An Umhlanga rabbi will make sure an old man’s memory is kept alive thanks to a pair of tefillin and a tallis found in his room...
The South African Rabbinical Association has strongly condemned two community-made spoof videos which have been circulating on social media that depict Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein...
A spoof video which depicts Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein as Adolf Hitler has been doing the rounds on social media. Though it’s intended to be...
The Cohen family in Johannesburg has been inundated with media calls from around the world intrigued by United States (US) President-elect Joe Biden’s South African-born and...
Lana Marks, the United States (US) ambassador to South Africa and a close friend of US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, may soon...
Professor Karen Milner, the Gauteng chairperson of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), was shocked when she opened a threatening email at the end...
In sentencing Matome Letsoalo, a South African magistrate has sent a clear message that antisemitic statements won’t be tolerated. In the Randburg Magistrates Court on 30...
For the first time in the country’s communal history, the leadership of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues (UOS) has laid bare its financials and governance vulnerabilities...
The first criminal conviction in an antisemitism case in South Africa may have an impact on how the courts will rule in pending cases where Jews...
The Union of Orthodox Synagogues (UOS) has appointed an ombudsman to tackle complaints and issues raised following the recent public outcry over kosher food prices and...
Online fame is the currency of our youth, say social-media experts who admit that while it can be dangerous and a damaging road to travel, it...
The African National Congress (ANC) has called on the Israeli government to release a suspected Palestinian terrorist who has been on prolonged hunger strike in protest...
Local manufacturers of kosher food say they are looking overseas for alternative kosher certification following the furore caused by the Beth Din’s removal of a company’s...
Democratic Alliance member of the National Assembly, Darren Bergman, represented South Africa as a Parliamentarian For Peace (P4P) at the World Normandy Peace Forum last week....
The Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has defended its decision to include an academic who supported the academic boycott...
Owner of 4aKid, Ally Cohen, is in the baby business. But this did little to prepare her for one of her staff going into premature labour...
Strong co-operation between the University of the Free State (UFS) and University of Haifa in Israel is to be marked next week with their first international...
She lived with pain for years, but this didn’t stop much-loved infant swimming instructor Rikki Kotzen, 31, from dedicating her adult life to saving lives and...
The presence of South African steel tycoon Eric Samson and his wife Sheila will be strongly felt during the first United States presidential debate between Democratic...
Successful businessman and philanthropist Robbie Brozin had never read the awe-inspiring preamble to the Constitution when he was invited to become a trustee of Constitution Hill...
United States ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, may have to alter her Rosh Hashanah plans and lie low as the community prepares to usher in...
South Africa appears to be over the COVID-19 surge, with death and infection rates mercifully lower than initially feared, however scientists and politicians caution that now...
A highly disturbing livestreamed video of a man committing suicide on social media has shocked members of the community, with warnings to parents of tweens and...
When South African-born pilot Tal Becker, 64, touched down at Ben Gurion Airport on the return leg of the historic, first-ever direct journey from Israel to...
With winter behind us and spring in the air, it appears as if the community is dropping its guard and behaving as if the coronavirus pandemic...
Before COVID-19, the World Health Organization declared 2020 International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife to honour Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing and...
As widespread international support for the recent deal to normalise diplomatic ties between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel continues to grow, the South African...
“This was the year we were going to bring it home,” says talented first-team rugby captain, Joshua Pimstein, of King David High School Linksfield (KDHSL), lamenting...
When a young woman in the community was sexually assaulted and robbed at gun point in her home two years ago, it was an elite team...
Incidents of violent crime have dropped in the community, while soft crime and snatch and grabs are on the rise, security experts revealed this week in...
When a family home burnt to the ground in front of its owners’ shocked and bewildered eyes one Shabbos morning last year, a few members of...
Controversial broadcaster Gareth Cliff has come under fire for hosting a notorious antisemite and conspiracy theorist on his current-affairs television show, resulting in a heated online...
As the ambulance was about to whisk him away to hospital, Holocaust survivor Henri Meenz watched his beloved wife kiss the mezuzah on their front door...
