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When maverick entrepreneur Gidon Novick, the creator of kulula.com, left the airline industry in 2011, he had no intention of going back. That’s in spite of...
Motivational music videos have become synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic. From doctors to teachers, song and dance has become a way to raise morale in the...
“I want to tell all people whose ancestors left Lithuania how lucky you are. I love my country, but it’s dotted with 234 mass-murder sites. As...
“Israel is 72 years old, and we can say loud and clear that it’s a much stronger and safer state. We are no longer in 1948,...
The double portion of Matos/Massei deals with Moshe divvying up the land for the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
It began on the first day of July, when I awoke with an unusually severe cough. Six months ago, I would most probably have made light...
I’m a survivor. I’m a thriver. I’ve been through some pretty challenging things in my 63 years, and I’m still here. But, I’ve never experienced anything...
My husband has a bee in his bonnet. “We must order everything for delivery – including groceries,” he says after reading the infection statistics for Gauteng....
John and Gwen Hurwitz celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary recently. The couple, who live at Our Parents Home, are in good health, good spirits, and still...
“The challenges every day are immense,” said a Hatzolah worker. “Most people are running and hiding away from the danger that lurks, but we walk straight...
This Saturday is Mandela Day, and though we are still under lockdown and COVID-19 is rife, there are a number of ways to get involved this...
I’m not certain what to make of the famous story that appears towards the beginning of the book of Genesis. It tells of people who got...
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday announced the latest measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. In stressing the gravity of the situation facing the country, he...
The terror organisation ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) has warned South Africa not to go to Mozambique’s aid in response to the...
Religious Christian communities across South Africa have declared their unwavering support for Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s right to express his religious convictions.
It was Hatzolah medical manager and advanced life support (ALS) responder Yudi Singer’s birthday this week. Instead of blowing out birthday candles and spending the day...
“We like to believe there’s no gender-based violence in our community – that Jewish husbands, wives, parents, and professionals don’t abuse. However, abuse is alive and...
“We are fighting an invisible enemy, and we are giving it everything we’ve got, but there is only so much that can be done,” says Chevrah...
This past week, I’ve heard of people I know fairly well whose companies have gone into liquidation, have had to put their homes up for sale,...
“I’m scared for my future. I want to work and to provide for my family,” says 44-year-old Baruch Zwarenstein, just one of those in the South...
With the benefit of hindsight, I now know that I became infected with COVID-19 along with several other people at our shul’s Purim dinner on 10...
I succumbed to the menacing virus. It was a terrorist attack
Hundreds of Zimbabweans love tennis today – and have made something of their lives – because of the passion of a man called Larry Katz.
(JTA) At 04:00, Israeli rocker Aviv Geffen was still crying, head in hands, in the empty Haifa-area amphitheatre where he had performed the previous late May...
The popular TikTok video-sharing app is being used by antisemites, Holocaust deniers, and other far-right extremists to reach young people, according to the report, “Spreading Hate...
A pall of smoke malingers over Alexandra Township on the outskirts of Sandton, Johannesburg. Not an uncommon sight in winter, as those living in corrugated shacks,...
She dedicated her life to doing humanitarian work in disaster-stricken countries, but now Galit Cohen is applying her skills to helping South Africans ride the COVID-19...
Benoni resident Yakima Waner can’t stay at home like the rest of us as the COVID-19 pandemic batters South Africa because too many people depend on...
When Dr Bernd Wollschlaeger’s son asked who his paternal grandfather was, his father struggled to give him an easy answer.
While the COVID-19 pandemic may be novel, it’s by no means unprecedented. From the bubonic plague to the Spanish flu, widespread diseases have come and gone,...
There is a constant interplay between divine providence and freewill in our lives. This is active not passive. It’s not co-incidence or happenstance. It means that...
(JTA) The bombshell news on Tuesday was ironic for some. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, one of the world leaders who has most staunchly downplayed the potential...
(JTA) There were about 30 000 Jews in the city of Frankfurt before World War II, making it the largest community in Germany.
(JTA) Tamara Boronina, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor living in Ukraine, can barely afford her small Odessa apartment on her monthly pension of $65 (R1 110).
Bennie Katzman is correct when he says that the South African Jewish community shouldn’t get involved in Israeli politics. (“Majority of Israelis support sovereignty over occupied...
It’s official: the shtetl is under attack.
ChaiFM broadcast the first episode of Jewish Board Talk (JBT) on 13 March 2012, a one-hour Jewish-interest talk show initially hosted by Steven Gruzd and subsequently...
Sunday wasn’t an easy day for me, for no apparent reason. No one in my family has COVID-19, it was a beautiful winter’s day in Johannesburg,...
For a about a week and half (maybe two-weeks maximum), I had a friend who was called Jacobus Johannes Hercules Fourie. He hailed from Potchefstroom, where...
The head of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC) believes that South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng may need to recuse...
