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Yad Aharon and Yad Michael launched its Young Professionals Division last Wednesday, with the aim of educating the up-and-coming young Jewish professionals and entrepreneurs in Johannesburg.
The children of Glenoaks Remedial School in Kensington, Johannesburg collected over 3 150kg bottle top lids. These contributed to the handover of eight brand new wheelchairs...
Jack and Ray Franks – who recently celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary – don’t see themselves as a stereotypical elderly couple. They got married just after...
Solly and Shirley Kroll were the centre of attending at Bloemfontein’s Purim celebrations. They were honoured for their years of outstanding service and selfless commitment to...
Two hundred women listened in awe in Durban last Wednesday to the life stories of five women, each one undeniably a woman of courage.
Caster Semenya and fashion are not generally mentioned in the same sentence. However, Semenya – donning a chic Row-G suit – stole the “Dressed to Give”...
Cleverlands by Lucy Crehan. Published by Unbound. The Happiest Kids In The World: Bringing Up Children The Dutch Way By Michelle Hutchinson and Rina Mae Acosta....
Watching King David Victory Park High School’s production of A Chorus Line, I could have been watching a professional Broadway musical that Hazel Feldman had brought...
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Jan Heldenbergh, Daniel Bruhl, Efrat Dor, Iddo Goldberg Director: Niki Caro
There are not many Jewish players in Australian national sporting teams. It could simply be because they are not good enough.
Contact details; Message from the Chief Rabbi, the UOS chairman; UOS functions; Pesach obligations; Dates, Days, Times for around SA in 5777; Chometz; Kitniyot; Egg matzah;...
Adam is eight and a half years old and in grade 2. He is exhausted in the afternoons and it is always a fight to do...
The Knesset recently passed legislation that empowers the state to refuse entry to anyone publicly calling for a boycott of Israel. The law only applies in...
What are the chances of you spotting a woman dressed as Batwoman sitting in a coffee shop in Oaklands? A hairdresser attending to a client while...
Hundreds of religious and community leaders, from across the African continent and diverse backgrounds, gathered this week with a common goal: to show their support for...
Even to his supporters, France's centre-right presidential hopeful Francois Fillon is a flawed candidate.
Why is Netanyahu threatening to dissolve the government over a TV station? That was the question many in Israel were asking last Sunday morning after Prime...
When Gimelli restaurant opened in Bryanston, Johannesburg to critical acclaim, bookings for the gourmet Italian eatery had to be made more than two months in advance.
With near-daily scandals rocking this country, it sometimes seems we are unravelling under blundering leadership. But we are not alone and not that bad compared to...
Last year a Jewish community delegation, headed by the SAJBD and comprising communal leaders, university students and day school learners, participated in the Human Rights Day...
Today’s increasingly dominant “third generation Austrians” (after the Second World War) are the first to be detached enough from the history of Nazi atrocities to be...
When families leave their elderly parents in old age homes in South Africa and emigrate, they usually do this with a heavy heart.
“The Beyachad Library is (finally) going to be closed down... No, it’s nonsense, it will never close...” Rumour-mongering has always been standard fare concerning this establishment.
The Red Sea parting was a miracle, but Jewish women the world over are hoping for a new modern miracle - that their homes could be...
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein discussed the importance of bikkur cholim at a breakfast for Bikkur Cholim volunteers last Tuesday at the HOD.
Two King David Linksfield grade 11 learners - Natalia Laffer-Liebson and Jamey Wolpe - have been elected as Johannesburg Junior Councillors for 2017.
King David Pre-Primary School Victory Park believes that children need to be taught about and exposed to the mitzvah of tzedakah from a young age.
King David Sandton showed their strong support for the South African Jerusalem Marathon runners who ran under the banner of "Running for Recovery" last Friday.
The children of Sydenham Pre-Primary had a bread tasting, enabling them to do a tongue tip test for pita, rye and health bread.
OWN CORRESPONDENT At Yeshiva College Pre-Primary School, the parsha was brought alive during Sheila Sklaar’s parsha lesson, as the children were dressed in the clothing of...
Purim has come and gone, but will be back this time next year. Are we prepared for Purim 5778? Yes, if our standard is that of...
As a hostage to the conflict being waged by conservatives on either side, I wish to once again place on record my objections to the war...
The Jerusalem Marathon has only been run for six years, but it has quickly joined the ranks of its Boston, New York and London counterparts as...
MIDDLE EAST - “No comment” - the two words journalists most abhor, but which with time have come to be interpreted as an admission of guilt;...
The DA’s Helen Zille made comments on Twitter last week that sunk her deep into hot water. She defended colonialism. To be exact, she tweeted: “For...
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” wrote American statesman Benjamin Franklin in 1789. “If only it could be...
A huge obstacle has been removed for South African students wanting to study in Israel, with the announcement this week that The Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
For some youngsters, Purim has become an excuse to get fall-down drunk, all in the name of religion. And while the source quoted is the Mishnah,...
Limmud, the international network of Jewish learning communities, will receive the Jerusalem Unity Prize in the Diaspora category on Unity Day, June 7, in recognition of...
South African Jews need not worry about being disliked by black South Africans, because in truth they are not foremost on their minds, according to a...
