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It was an awesome pamper party with a difference, when at least 90 little girls arrived at the Selwyn Segal Toy Shop on Sunday morning, October...
I am Erene Schwarz. Me and my husband Bernhard have been here in Amman, in Jordan for the past 10 months, helping at a small “unofficial”...
In further comment, Britain's current foreign secretary, Boris Johnson. (Ahead of Balfour 100. UK enshrines Churchill's headstrong case for Israel - Times of Israel - SA...
Andile Mngxitama (of Black First Land First) should be renamed Paul Joseph Goebbels.
Abraham Klein is one of Israel's greatest soccer referees. The 83-year-old, who was born in Timisoara, Romania, survived prejudice, politics and the Holocaust, to become one...
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane told a packed audience at the annual launch of the Israel United Appeal-United Communal Fund (IUA-UCF) campaign in KwaZulu-Natal on October...
Freda Solomon turned 99 on October 19.
The annual concert of the Johannesburg Jewish Male Choir last weekend was the perfect occasion to pay tribute to its musical director Evelyn Green, a founder...
About 2 500 Christian Zionists will hold a peaceful protest on November 2 to counter the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) march on the Israeli Embassy in...
They call it “dumbwalking” nowadays. When we space out of our bricks and mortar world and into that new digital world order. Watching the display on...
Black First Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama has come out guns blazing in defence of hate speech allegations levelled against him in the Equality Court,...
The National SA Jewish Board of Deputies’ newly-elected Treasurer, Eric Marx, has stepped down suddenly amidst allegations regarding his conduct during his term as Cape Board...
South Africa has been declared at risk for plague importation, by the World Health Organisation, one of nine countries in this category, on account of trade...
When the Minister of Finance Malusi Gigaba approached Geoff Rothschild to take up a seat on the new South African Airways Board of Directors, he could...
In our edition last week, we ran a story about Tokyo Sexwale, who was scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the gala dinner at the...
This week coalition talks between the Austrian conservative People’s Party and the far-right Freedom Party, began in earnest. The Freedom Party’s first leader was a former...
If we at Afrika Tikkun can have one legacy, it is this: the act of compassionate connection. This is kindness that embraces individual value and difference...
The Jewish month that began this week, Cheshvan, has traditionally been dubbed “mar", or bitter, because it alone among the months is devoid of any holidays.
When Dr Avraham Neguise was a little shepherd boy in a rural Ethiopian village, he had no inkling that he would one day become one of...
As the Economic Freedom Fighters readied themselves to march to the Israeli embassy in support of Palestinians on Thursday (November 2) the Jewish students at Wits...
“I just put one foot in front of the other.” So says Toni Krok, a South African, now living in North London, mother of two daughters...
It is deeply moving to watch how the Shabbos Project has matured here in South Africa over the last five years. It has become part of...
The product of a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother who, herself, had a Roman Catholic father, I have the privilege and burden of existing...
As exams approached, and the stresses of being a first year UCT engineering student studying away from home began to catch up with me and I...
My first Shabbos Project was last year and the conclusion to a difficult stretch. My partner, Rory, and I had fumbled our way into Cape Town...
It was a family tragedy that spurred the establishment of the South African Jewish Orphanage - the first such institution in the country - known today...
It’s been 31 years since The Mitzvah School was started, as a crisis class providing a year of tuition to matric students from Alexandra township. It...
As talk show host, listener feedback is critical in order to get a sense of the mood and thinking of the listener. There are days, however,...
For 30 years, award-winning British historian, author and former head of BBC TV History Programmes, Laurence Rees has interviewed hundreds of people about their Holocaust experiences,...
Rachel Raff is the newly-appointed South African Union of Jewish Students national chairperson. She grew up in the heart of Jewish Johannesburg as the oldest of...
Thembekile Molaudzi, an innocent man, spent 14 years behind bars - being subjected to torture and four years’ solitary confinement - after being sentenced to life...
The silence grabs you first as you walk into Gideon Mendel’s Drowning World, a selection of photographs from his eponymous 10-year project, currently on show at...
It was a morning of WIZO celebration as a number of women were awarded the prestigious Rebecca Sieff Award for long service in recognition of their...
Two of the surviving Machal volunteers who left South Africa to volunteer in the 1948 War of Independence, met recently for an impromptu “reunion” at Jaffa...
Last week, in my report on the World Jewish Congress Community Directors’ Forum in Cape Town, I observed how highly South African Jewry is regarded in...
A farmer murdered while working his land is a shocking scene. Yet many people rejected this week’s countrywide protests, called Black Monday, by farmers against the...
Artists Yda Walt and Cheryl Rumbak’s exhibition titled Where is Kovno? at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, is deceptively easy to navigate. Its compartmentalised displays...
".....amidst the harsh reality of a century old conflict in a region engulfed in turmoil, with terrorist group Hamas still vowing to eliminate Israel, and Iran...
The report of the Balfour Declaration - intrigue and providence - by Rabbi Ramon Widmonte (SA Jewish Report, October 27), makes interesting reading.
King David Pre-Primary Linksfield, in conjunction with the Chief Rabbi’s Office, are sharing some delicious joy in what they have called KDPPL Cupcake Project.
