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Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primay School’s “STEM Room” (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is up and running!
The Torah Academy was last week Friday chosen by the Gauteng Department of Education as the best performing independent school, Eastern District, in the National Senior...
The first day of school is often fraught with tears and uncertainty - some tears from the moms and some uncertainty from the children themselves!
Minnie Bersohn Pre-Primary arranged some summer fun with a "car wash" for the senior and grade R children last week.
As well as focusing on Israel and the current problems it faces, the learners of King David High School, Linksfield, always keep their strong connection to...
Congratulations to Crawford College Sandton’s newly-elected Student Executive Body. They have great responsibilities and a tradition of excellence to maintain.
You have to hand it to the ladies at the Union of Jewish Women, give them lemons and they will make lemonade. Approximately four months ago...
Peter Sternberg, a vice-president of the African Jewish Congress and former president of the Zimbabwe Jewish Board of Deputies, died in England last week and was...
They say “a diamond is forever” - and this has proved a truism in the mining city of Kimberley. Although numbering 25 souls, despite demographics and...
No event since biblical times has impacted on the Jews of the world like the monstrous German extermination policy of Adolf Hitler - the Holocaust.
They came from near and far to pay tribute to the memory of Rabbi Nachman Meir Bernhard - Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Rabbi Mendel Lipskar, head...
They came together from all over sub-Saharan Africa - South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland, Mauritius and Kenya - to discuss the theme “Independence and...
Devotion to the cause of the State of Israel flourishes in the most unlikely places, even in societies where the Jewish presence is small to non-existent....
What? Is the rabbi turning TV quiz show host? Has he become a gambling man?
“Sugihara didn’t only save my grandfather, he also saved me. Because if not for Sugihara I may very well not be standing here today.” These were...
Hayley Pogrund has been elected the first woman chairman of the Constantia Hebrew Congregation in its 34-year history. Though not the first female member to occupy...
The World Economic Forum, held in Davos in Switzerland every January, has had a significant impact on South Africa, according to Stephen Koseff, CEO of Investec,...
The shadow of the Second World War and the Holocaust in particular had not lifted entirely, according to stalwart South African communal leader and currently president...
Tinged with nostalgia and sadness, last Sunday members of the Great Synagogue in Silverton Road in Durban, attended a special valedictory service on the shul’s closing....
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated in South Africa in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
A source I trust told me about 702 Talk Radio chat show host Redi Tladi, berating the leader of the Democratic Alliance, Mmusi Maimane, for visiting...
I have often been irked by the content of Geoff Sifrin’s Taking Issue columns, but have refrained from comment, simply because I’m not sure whether he...
President Jacob Zuma has the patience of Job. Other than patience the two men are as incompatibly immiscible as oil and water.
In “Ten Days, Ten Ways: Paths to the Divine Presence” edited by then Commonwealth Chief Rabbi Jonathan, Lord Sacks, the following quote by Daniel J Elazar...
Having followed media coverage over the last 22 years, it is time that we as society, the media, business and government, change the narrative of this...
From a biblical perspective, the recent UN resolution condemning Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, as well as East Jerusalem as illegal and criminal is very...
Surreptitiously, and like a thief in the night, the Obama administration, released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority, defying Republican opposition, who had blocked the release....
Jared Kushner was already a regular at the Harvard Chabad when he walked in one day, took a crumpled piece of paper out of his jacket...
Jonathan Kaplan, one of the most respected and highly rated rugby referees in the world in recent years, has been appointed “Director of Referees” for this...
Vicki Mervis (42) reaches out to the underprivileged through the medium of all forms of dance. Largely shunning the limelight, this Trinity-qualified dance teacher, steeped in...
Wherever they live, most Jews have family memories of forebears arriving in a new country as immigrants or refugees after escaping from places such as Nazi...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has sent its submission on the “Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill” to the...
If Linda Dirmeik has her way, Attimo will be a regular guest at homes and high schools everywhere.
A shul and a neighbouring mosque in Thornhill share a parking lot. Now, they also share a family!
On February 3 King David Linksfield High School will be launching an innovative initiative they have dubbed “Advocates for Israel”. The goal of the initiative is...
The Durban branch of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) again brought cheer to clinic patients over the festive season. Tikkun olam is always at its...
A singular honour befell South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, when in January he was called upon to deliver the prestigious annual Hildesheimer Lecture at the...
With the new academic year about to get underway, the focus is shifting once more to our university campuses. Orientation week commenced at Wits, with SAUJS...
THIS IS WHAT A JCC BOMB THREAT SOUNDS LIKE: Seventeen Jewish Community Centres in the United States received bomb threats. Centres such as these are comparable...
Ambassador Lenk appeared on the popular SABC News morning show, Newsroom, yesterday (Tuesday January 31) and discussed Israel's relationship with the US, the controversy over Donald...
