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The article in the Jewish Report of May 5, "Jewish life in small Eastern Cape towns", prompted memories of my late father, Reverend Moses David Klaff.
AfrikaBurn takes place every year without fail and thousands descend on the Tankwa Karoo National Park, where unless they bring it, they won’t have it for...
Among the people relieved at political centrist Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election on Sunday, are arguably South African artists - including many Jews...
There was a time in South Africa’s history when there was strong opposition to Jewish immigration throughout society and across the political spectrum. In the 1930s,...
I have just returned to my desk after attending an annual event celebrating International Nurse’s Day. The highlight is always the moving ceremonial signing of the...
“The biggest challenge for you is going to be the culture shock,” a wise Israeli diplomat warned me, when he heard we were making aliyah. Our...
Last Sunday’s Rebbetzins Conference at the HOD hall in Johannesburg, attracted 70 of the country’s approximately 140 rebbetzins. “It’s something I put a lot of effort...
Canadian Irene Lilienheim Angelico wrote a letter to the iconic Jewish singer Leonard Cohen – who like her and most South African Jews – was of...
“I Love my Community” is a chesed project, run by Gila Zulberg and Tamara Assness, aiming to reach out and help those less fortunate in the...
The Union of Jewish Women Pretoria tackle a host of outreach programmes, that include sponsoring 10 orphans at Sunnyside Primary School and other monthly food and...
Residents of Elphin Lodge, Tarentaal and Inyoni Creek celebrated Yom Ha’atzmaut with WIZO Johannesburg this year.
OWN CORRESPONDENT Hirsch Lyons Girls’ High School, together with schools all over the world, took part in launching a worldwide mishmeres learning programme called ‘Lunch Brake’....
The thorny issue of how to resolve the impasse between Israel and Palestine over West Bank clubs playing soccer in Israel’s soccer leagues, has reached another...
Grade 2 children from Torah Academy Primary School hold up letters they wrote to the soldiers of the Israel Defence Forces to thank them for protecting...
Grade Rs at King David Pre-Primary Victory Park are learning about different occupations.
LESLEY BLOCH After an exhilarating round of outdoor play last week at Sydenham Pre-Primary, junior group friends joined each other to relax and sit in the...
It is generally believed in the community that the price of kosher meat is much higher in Johannesburg than in Cape Town - and that Durban...
Thousands of people in the city of Lincoln lined the streets on Monday to cheer their heroes - the Lincoln City football team, nicknamed the Imps,...
It isn’t usually a big deal to find a rabbi to do a baby boy’s bris, but that is if you are living in a big...
Michele Asa and her sisters have taken up the cudgels of their late mother in restoring the Roodepoort Jewish cemetery.
Arguably, the opportunity to be in an air force has more romantic appeal than the infantry. When an opportunity manifested for young South Africans in 1947...
I wish to congratulate Robyn Sassen on her lucid, accurate and compassionate report on this year’s Yom Hashoah.
Anecdotally Koppel has had a very good year financially, and he and his wife Ruth have built a brand-new, fully-equipped Pesach kitchen. They have invited their...
When the Thulsie brothers were arrested last July on charges of planning to carry out Islamic State-inspired terrorist attacks in South Africa, it was reported at...
A piece of popular history which throws light on today’s confusing world is the release 50 years ago in 1967 in England of The Beatles’ album...
When textile designer Yda Walt first went to Lithuania, the thing that struck her was not what she saw, but what was missing. “I was shocked,”...
Helen Lieberman was “overwhelmed” when she was informed of her latest and possibly most prestigious award as Officier de la Légion d’Honneur (National Order of the...
“I’m not here to talk about Penny Sparrow,” Justice Sharise Weiner tells the audience at ORT SA’s Houghton premises in Johannesburg. “When I say let’s talk...
One of the best symbols of the current Jewish political divide is a Muslim woman.
Amnon Worko’s mother was heavily pregnant with him when their extended family fled Ethiopia by foot due to famine and ill will towards Jews there. It...
The Durban Jewish community celebrated the 69th birthday of the State of Israel on Monday evening in a festive atmosphere and with delicious food. A crowd...
Around 5 000 Johannesburg Jews descended on Huddle Park in Linksfield at dusk on Monday to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut. With an autumn chill in the air,...
The KwaZulu-Natal Zionist Council focused its Yom Hazikaron commemoration on the lives of six individuals who lost their lives during Operation Pillar of Defence, fallen soldiers...
“When you lose someone, your life and the way you knew it will never be the same - everything is different… It’s not true that life...
The ceremony started with a siren - the same siren (live on Israeli radio) that stopped the whole of Israel to remember their soldiers who fell...
South African Jews gather annually to commemorate Yom Hazikaron and then Yom Ha’atzmaut, but it is not quite as personal for us as it is for...
Hananel Edri is an acclaimed Israeli performing artist who was brought out by the South African Zionist Federation to perform at various Yom Ha’atzmaut celebrations.
Israel’s existence has been to a large degree shaped by wars over the decades. Many South African Jews were involved as volunteers or soldiers. We remember...
Communism is often seen as a particularly Jewish enterprise. Karl Marx, a German Jew living in Victorian England, birthed Communism with “Das Kapital”. Many Russian Communists...
A few years ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Benjamin Pogrund, former deputy-editor of the Rand Daily Mail. His newspaper was the only one catering...
