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The TV lounge at Sandringham Gardens was transformed, from just an ordinary room into one with décor fitting for a queen. Blanche Gittleson occupied the “throne”...
The Mama Ca Reading Project, steered by ORT SA, aims “to give children of all walks of life access to books and to provide training to...
Play: From Koe'siestes to Kneidlach Performer: Chantal Stanfield Director: Megan Furniss Venue: Auto & General Theatre on the Square, Sandton Until: March 18
The Sinai Indaba conference last weekend has been lauded as a great success, as in previous years. Anybody who attended would have been struck by the...
Everyone must see the address by the new American Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley.
A regrettable incident occurred recently at King David Victory Park when the theatre director made ugly comments in anger to some high school learners.
On hearing the name Elliot Wolf, thousands of South African Jews - particularly King David Linksfield alumni - almost dof their caps with respect to this...
With costumes, spiels and lots of drinking, Purim is one of Judaism’s most raucous holidays. You might know about beautiful Esther thwarting evil Haman’s plans, the...
Purim is traditionally considered a story of Jewish triumph, celebrating the narrow averting of a nation’s genocide. Yet, the Scroll of Esther opens not with Jewish...
With Purim this week, we marvel anew at the story of Queen Esther and Mordechai and the miraculous manner in which Hashem’s behind-the-scenes intervention brings salvation...
Those who accept at face value claims that “Israel Apartheid Week” aims at promoting justice, human rights and democracy, need only witness how this annual propaganda...
Over the past months Jewish community centres across the United States, Argentina and the United Kingdom have received bomb threats, with evacuations taking place late last...
In the United States, Jewish cemeteries have been the target of horrific vandalism across the country, but this is no longer the case in South Africa,...
Sinai Indaba saw some 5 000 people gather in Johannesburg to hear some of the Jewish world’s most celebrated thinkers and speakers share multi-faceted insights on...
An American Jewish mother came up with the idea to build a Star Wars-inspired Lego shul - including the Legovitcher Rebbe and chassidim. She is trying...
Gabriel Zollmann is the South African Union of Jewish Students national chairman. A fourth-year medical student, he was head boy at King David Victory Park during...
Middle East: Most Israelis feel they get so much bad press anyway that another “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW) aimed at garnering support for the Boycott, Disinvestment...
Apartheid was instituted in South Africa in 1948 in order to make sure that one racial group could feel and act superior to another. The idea...
Former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe spoke out against the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, saying it had failed. Motlanthe was the keynote speaker at...
From vociferous conversations arguing against Jewish colonialist associations, to others condemning Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) students as being ignorant of the situation, the energy sparks flew...
When President Yaacov Zuma finally rose to the podium during State of the Nation 2017 and spoke of “radical economic transformation”, a palpable shudder rippled through...
Someone once asked: “What is the difference between ignorance and apathy?" The reply came quickly: “I don’t know and I don’t care!"
Israel’s Knesset last week passed the first reading of the Criminally Offensive Content from the Internet bill - dubbed the “Facebook bill”.
Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg punctuates each remark with a quick, almost imperceptible nod. It’s not a rhetorical device, a means to underline and affirm what he’s just...
While few South African Jews have any desire to emigrate to Germany, those who can, are flocking to claim German citizenship. It is all about having...
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Forget an apple a day; a smile a day is healthier. This Adar, the month when the Talmud instructs us to increase in joy, consider the...
March is a month that Jewish students dread. It is the month that the hate fest known as Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) winds its ugly way...
We live in a society where dog eats dog and everyone is out there for themselves. That is, other than the Jewish community. Let me rephrase...
The freedom to walk in the streets in your suburb is something most people the world over, take for granted. For us, it’s something brand new....
Shaun Duvet is the owner and managing director of Ultra South Africa and a King David School alumnus. He has straddled the world of DJ, producer,...
Two Jewish entrepreneurs, Brett and Mark Levy of Blue Label Telecoms, have pulled off a coup by reaching an agreement with struggling Cell C, beating off...
Sinai Indaba’s launch in Cape Town last weekend drew far more young people - school kids and university students alike - than in previous years because...
“South Africans need to know their history, and the local Jewish community has a very important role to play in this, making others aware of the...
The global economy is headed for turbulence in the Donald Trump era and his plans to bring back manufacturing jobs to the US won’t work, according...
One of the flagship projects of the Jewish Agency for Israel may be forced to shut down after one more round, as their funding expires after...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concluded a highly successful five-day visit to Australia last week, being feted by his Australian counterpart, Malcolm Turnbull and having an...
Sixty-one years after the founding of the Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto - synonymous with the start of the Soweto Uprising in 1976 – Isaacson’s...
Keith Kleinot was South Africa’s own version of “Mr Chips”, an old-fashioned schoolteacher who devoted over 20 years of his career to teaching at an impoverished...
A four-acre bushveld garden in the heart of the Sandton concrete jungle is hard to imagine. Alongside a road that during the week is bumper to...
