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“Performing artists rely on gatherings of people. So in a sense, they’ve been hit hardest by lockdown. Any way you look at it, they have no...
Around the same time that President Cyril Ramaphosa got his COVID-19 vaccination in Cape Town on Wednesday, 17 February 2021, an unassuming Jewish doctor was one...
Reverend Frank Chikane, an icon of the anti-apartheid struggle, “declared war on Israel and its supporters” during a Zoom webinar on 6 February 2021, according to...
Michael Sarembock may have just turned one last week, but the Cape Town baby’s cherubic face was already known to millions when he was featured in...
You’ve heard of the gay pride movement, but have you ever considered that a similar concept could be applied to Jewish identity? Internationally renowned educator Ben...
Fifty-two years ago this week, student and Israeli army paratrooper Edward “Eddie” Joffe, who had recently made aliyah with his family from South Africa, was senselessly...
Professor Leslie Leiserowitz, who grew up in Johannesburg, studied in Cape Town, and settled in Israel, was recently awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2021 together...
Watching a quarter of their patients die from COVID-19. Being yelled at by a family unable to come to terms with their father’s demise. Spending hours...
What do you get when you combine antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and COVID-19 denial? While white supremacists and QAnon supporters feel like they are far off, this...
Eran Eyal seemed destined for success: a head for business, a love of technology, insatiable ambition, a charming personality, and extreme intelligence. But all this may...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that no matter who they pray to, religious communities have a lot in common and are dealing with similar difficulties. Recognising...
The South African Association of Progressive Rabbis (SAAPR) has made the decision to recommend that its progressive shuls remain closed for the time being. “The Jewish...
It’s not often that you find a nice Jewish girl from Cape Town captaining a super yacht in the Mediterranean, but for 28-year-old Kaela Bermeister, it’s...
Zimbabwe and Israel have had full diplomatic relations since 1993, but further overtures by our northern neighbour to the Jewish state could cause conflict with South...
Making aliyah in normal circumstances is challenging, but under lockdown, it has become even more so. Yet, there are some surprising benefits to doing it during...
The boy from Benoni who grew up to rub shoulders with the stars and invent a system that would revolutionise the theatre industry has passed away...
While South Africa’s borders remain open during the current stage of the pandemic, other countries are essentially “closing our borders for us” by making it very...
Sigal Josselowitz never got to say goodbye to her father after he was admitted to hospital with COVID-19 at the beginning of December 2020. During their...
The war against the second wave of COVID-19 raged in the Western Cape in December, and many of those hard hit were either local community members...
As the second wave of COVID-19 hits the country, so did the trifecta of curfew, an alcohol ban, and the closure of beaches. These all had...
Leaving behind the things you take for granted – family, home comforts, and understanding the language – to serve in the army of another country isn’t...
Buffets of canapés and dessert, the sharing of snacks and dips, and horah dancing – allegedly without masks – were just some features of a Jewish...
On 12 January, Rabbi Desmond Maizels and his wife Esther welcomed a new granddaughter into the world. But simcha turned to sorrow when he passed away...
A culture of bullying, racism, toxic masculinity, sexism, homophobia, corporal punishment, indoctrination, and militarisation. “k****r-hunting” on the weekends, and army “cadet” training at school. Parents who...
You may find it mysterious that you and a friend eat and exercise in a similar way, but you have totally different body shapes. Or the...
When Cape Town opera singer Belinda Silbert caught COVID-19 in March 2020, she says she was in “excruciating agony that was indescribable”. “I was screaming constantly....
The second wave of COVID-19 is currently crashing over the South African Jewish community, leaving tragedy, despair, and fear in its wake. In Cape Town, one...
As Jewish schools across the country begin the year amidst a second wave of COVID-19 and a new variant of the virus, educators are confident that...
The United States of America’s ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, has described the frightening experience of contracting COVID-19 and landing up in the intensive-care unit...
As Ruth Wasserman Lande was sworn in as Israel’s newest member of the Knesset (MK) on Monday 11 January, it was the culmination of a long...
Even before matric Rage was declared a “super-spreader” event, the country was bracing itself for a second wave of COVID-19 infection. Now, as numbers continue to...
A matric pupil lies in high care at a Johannesburg Netcare hospital. Her peers are being admitted to hospital or are locked down, battling respiratory symptoms,...
If there’s one word that captures the challenge of business in 2020, it’s “pivot”. But what does it really mean to find that your entire market,...
“I’m not supposed to be alive today,” says Dror Zicherman, aged 35. A personal trainer and gym owner, he seems like any other young Israeli. But...
Three people committed suicide in the Johannesburg Jewish community in November, and four others since January, leaving families and friends questioning how to spot the signs...
Back in September 2019, the Beth Din found Rabbi Chanoch Galperin innocent of an allegation by the East London Chevrah Kadisha (ELCK) that he had forged...
While we hope that the challenges of 2020 will be over when the clock strikes midnight on 31 December, experts warn that this is just the...
The quiet of a suburban street in the greater Glenhazel area was broken when a rally of gunshots was fired at the home of a Jewish...
It’s a showstopper of a cake – pancake-thin baked biscuits layered with homemade custard, piled high in a way that’s pleasing on the eye and the...
Greg Borowsky was in an Uber last week when a friend called to tell him that a song he had composed, Let Me Go, had just...
