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Her angelic appearance and sweet nature belie her high achievements - she has just added yet another prestigious award to her already long and impressive list...
While they are each others’ biggest competitors, trying to draw on the same pool of potential chanichim for camps, Habonim Dror SA and Bnei Akiva SA...
They have a food garden next to their company headquarters, that feeds 14 000 people and employs 30 people permanently. This garden was a rubbish dump,...
Social conditions unique to South Africa, allowed Jewish women to play a pioneering role beyond that in the older, larger and more established Jewish communities of...
Four years ago, Cape Town-based psychologist Lisa Michalson’s world fell apart following a horrific car accident which killed her husband and only child instantly, leaving her...
“What happens when we forget to remember?” That’s the question US artist, educator and activist Dr Karen Frostig, posed at a talk she gave at the...
The position of Parliamentary Liaison is a relatively new one within the SAJBD. It was introduced with a view both to keeping ourselves abreast of major...
It is not unusual for elder South African politicians to use their anti-apartheid struggle credentials as political capital, as if their views are superior to others.
It was my fault. Because not only did I invite cartoonist Zapiro into the studio for an interview but because I asked him about his Israel...
Carole Bome recorded a 78 RPM record when she was just seven years old and didn't really think of it again, until a stranger in Australia...
There are not a lot of frum crime novel writers, or few that bring their Yiddishkeit into their novels. Faye Kellerman - international best-selling author, is...
The 18th annual Aish Partners Conference, which took place the weekend of November 17-19, was its largest event to date, with over 1 000 attendees.
The JNF of South Africa is seeking Holocaust survivors who were part of the 300 000 people who came to Israel with the Bricha Movement between...
South African Jewish Board of Deputies Pretoria Council chairperson Louis Pearlman honoured two stalwart community workers at the AGM last week.
Independent Media Group’s foreign editor, Shannon Ebrahim, is being disingenuous in her explanation and half-hearted apology (“Star dishes up three-year-old story as news”, SAJR, November 24).
Dr Iqbal Survé, in your position as chairman of the Independent Media Group, your emphatic statement in the SA Jewish Report in early May of 2015,...
After centuries of persecutions and suffering many Jews decided that it was time to seek safety in our ancient homeland and return to the Holy Land.
Pupils from Hirsch Lyons Girls’ High School volunteered recently at the Union of Jewish Women's brain boost programme for seniors with memory difficulties. This programme is...
King David High School Victory Park’s junior soccer girls emerged as overall winners of the 2017 JVW Jo’burg Stream 3 league.
Mina Lopato Nursery School’s grade Rs did their families and their school proud with their South African graduation concert.
Black Friday took on a whole new meaning last week when the children of Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School held a “Black Shabbos” and “Black Snacks” fun...
There have been 10 Jewish rugby players who have represented South Africa in rugby Tests.
“We were waiting for my dad to come home and watching the news, when we realised that the plane had gone missing.” Carin Berman (née Marcus)...
A messy war of words has been ignited over what led to a meeting between a visiting Israeli minister and South Africa’s Minister of Water and...
Rabbi Dovid Hazdan broke into a popular Sotho prayer song at the end of a moving address in front of a crowd of hundreds, who enthusiastically...
Zimbabwean Jews are “cautiously optimistic” about their future and the future of their country. While they may not have been out on the streets revelling in...
A bizarre article about a German astronaut working at the International Space Station having photographed rocket fire over Gaza last week, was featured in The Star...
Do we need security and comfort to do well in life? Do we achieve more when we are relaxed and comfortable, or when we are challenged...
As the Zimbabweans celebrate the resignation of Mugabe, we here in South Africa are looking forward to the upcoming ANC elective conference. We are desperately hoping...
The future of Syria is anyone’s guess, but increasingly the odds are that Israel’s northern neighbour will evolve into either a Russian- or Iranian-controlled country. That...
South Africans - whose family may have been among the Vilnius University students or academics who were kicked out in 1941 because they were Jewish -...
The proposed downgrade of the South African embassy in Israel - a motion before the ANC national conference next month - met solid opposition on constitutional,...
The ANC’s proposal to downgrade the South African Embassy in Israel - raised in July and to be debated again at the party’s December conference -...
After decades of oppression, resistance and stalled attempts to break the apartheid status quo (justifiably defined as a crime against humanity), South Africans finally negotiated an...
With the opening of new remedial facilities catering for Jewish children with barriers to learning, the question begs: is this in response to a growing need...
A group of Jewish parents in the heart of Johannesburg’s north-eastern suburbs, are considering schooling options because of the high price of private Jewish day school...
Advocate Michael Donen SC was honoured in Parliament this month when the House congratulated him on the “remarkable effort he put into representing freedom fighters for...
“Please don’t make me out to be a hero,” says Rolene Miller as we begin this interview. This epitomises the low-profile woman who has for 25...
Kathy Kaler's mother had a dream in 2005 that her daughter was talking on radio.
“The more aware we are and the more educated we are, the better equipped we’ll be to get rid of the abuse that’s happening,” Tova Goldstein,...
