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When Howdy Kabrins arrived in South Africa shortly after his daughter Gabriela “Gaby” Alban’s murder at the Camps Bay Retreat boutique hotel some two years ago,...
South African Jews love biltong as much as sunny skies and braaivleis. It is in our nationality and love of all things South African.
The highly-anticipated arrival of President Donald Trump in Jerusalem, is likely to dominate news here in the Middle East and abroad for a while. Much has...
This week Israel and the Jewish world celebrated Yom Yerushalayim, commemorating 50 years since the recapture of the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan in the...
As part of the celebration of the giving of the Torah, it has become a practice to stay up all night on Shavuot, learning Torah. The...
"Above and Beyond" is a fascinating, emotion-driven and highly absorbing documentary about the shaky beginnings of the Israel Air Force, launched at a time when the...
“There’s a lot of hate in this world… We live with it daily: anti-this, anti-that - when all it should be is anti-hate.” Dorin Braun’s lyrical...
The Six-Day War was won with “miracles of Biblical proportions”, said guest speaker Rabbi Dorron Kline, at Cape Town’s Yom Yerushalayim celebration.
If you weren't able to be in Yerushalayim to celebrate 50 years since the reunification, the next best option was undoubtedly the incredible communal celebrations on...
Yom Yerushalayim commemorates the reunification of East and West Jerusalem, which was a result of Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day War. After thousands of...
One of the most contentious debates provoked by President Donald Trump, is the proposal to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Israeli leadership...
Shavuot is the “Rodney Dangerfield of Jewish holidays”, says Rabbi Shira Stutman of Washington, DC’s Sixth and I synagogue. Meaning: It gets no respect.
The Book of Ruth, which is read on Shavuot, is one of the shortest books in the Tanach, but its brevity conceals complexities and the deep...
“Not long ago I was one of those young people who automatically left shul for the mysterious Yizkor. Now I have joined that exclusive group that...
If you’ve never made homemade blintzes before, Shavuot is the perfect time to try it. Blintzes can be savoury or sweet, stuffed with fillings as wide...
President Donald Trump does not delve much into religion in his speeches in the United States, except to slam adherents of Islam. But during his past...
At the time of writing, the UK is reeling from the worst terrorist attack on British soil in more than a decade. The atrocity only drives...
Imagine this scenario: a family in need of financial assistance for their children’s school fees approaches the Chev for help. Our Financial Assistance department alerts the...
Beverley Winkler of Hertfordshire in England is trying to find out about her late father Saul Leigh’s life in South Africa. Leigh live in South Africa...
“This is a moment when American Jews are truly conflicted - they need to figure out which side of the divide they stand,” said Professor Eric...
“This is the day that the Lord has made - we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Tehillim 118:24).
The King David Victory Park grade 11s went to the Holocaust and Genocide Centre to view The Goldene Medina exhibition, celebrating 175 years of Jewish life...
Mina Lopato Nursery School, on the grounds of the Greenside Shul in Johannesburg, has met its match, having recently employed a new principal, Leanne Upiter Beer.
Since Pesach the children of Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School have been counting the Omer and marking off the days towards Shavuot.
Torah Academy Nursery School has embarked on a programme of Lego to help pre-schoolers explore emotions and physical characteristics in a fun and engaging way. This...
Lieutenant Colonel William Bergman and Ivan “Chips” Sive, placed a statue of a Magen Dovid on the memorial table at the annual General Jan Smuts memorial...
The Spanish ambassador to South Africa, Juan Ignacio Sell Sanz, awarded Jewish Spanish dancer and teacher Hillaine Barbara Sachs - best known in the dancing world...
Earl Grainger has decided not to renew his position as South Africa’s Federation Cup captain.
The list of ANC bigwigs supporting this Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) fast in sympathy with the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike is very long and I...
It was 30 degrees in the shade and there sitting on a bench along the Bat Yam beachfront, south of Tel Aviv, was an old man...
Ilanit Chernick (25) is a Johannesburg-born, King David Linksfield and Yeshiva College-educated multi-media journalist at The Star newspaper. Last week, she was caught in the crossfire...
Afrika Tikkun and The Smile Foundation are the first recipients of the newly-instituted Conscious Companies Awards 2017.
The formal birth of South African Jewry as an organised community is generally considered to be the holding of the first-ever prayer gathering in Cape Town...
Fifty years ago hundreds of South African Jews dropped everything in a heroic bid to play their part in helping to secure the survival of the...
When the US president comes to town, “it’s sorry for you”, if you happen to have booked a room or two at Jerusalem’s historic landmark King...
Ten Cabinet ministers and deputy ministers took part in a symbolic 24-hour fast in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons. They did so...
The story is told about someone who, during an audience with Baron Rothschild, asked him how much he was worth. The Rothschild wealth to this day...
It took just a chance meeting in shul that inspired Capetonian Judith Cohen to galvanise the local community to assist the father of young American Jewish...
The City of Johannesburg has launched an emergency measles vaccination campaign with 18 cases of measles having been reported in the province. They’re targeting all children...
“Vaccines, as well as the provision of clean water, have done more for human health than any other intervention,” says Professor Barry Schoub, former executive director...
