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The world is in a climate crisis and it’s because of humans. It’s simple, if the earth dies, we die too. This fact should shock us...
“I know apartheid, I grew up in it, so I know I never experienced it in Israel,” says Apostle KT Mkhize, who recently visited the Jewish...
When Jayme Wolpe was woken by a knock on the door of his hotel room in Eilat on 26 June 2019, his life changed in a...
Sacha Baron Cohen is best known for playing over-the-top comic characters Ali G and Borat, and he recently stunned Netflix audiences with his role as heroic...
“Jewish cockroach!” “Jewish vermin!” These hate-filled taunts were directed at a five-year-old Jewish boy in Melbourne, Australia, who had just started kindergarten in his local public...
Many years ago, I had the privilege of studying at the Drisha Institute in New York, where women are paid to sit and study Talmud. After...
Of all the festivals, Sukkot is surely the one that speaks most powerfully to our time. Kohelet could almost have been written in the 21st century....
Members of the military know the risks they take so that others can sleep peacefully at night, and Jewish servicemen are no different.
As we get ready to perform the mitzvah of sitting and eating in the sukkah, we sought out a couple of delicious recipes to prepare that...
Nadav Ossendryver, wildlife fanatic and founder of the app Latest Sightings, has taken game viewing to a whole new level with his YouTube channel recently hitting...
I must confess to having ambivalent feelings about Shakespeare. Being the only Jewish girl in my Grade 10 class when we were doing The Merchant of...
“It was wonderful to be amongst descendants. [It] gives you the feeling they understand what your life has been about.” So said one of the participants...
Earlier this year, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) decided to establish an organisation called the Small Jewish Communities Association (SJCA) to take over...
In the current era, it has become trendy to apologise for almost anything, which makes the person doing it feel good while not necessarily helping the...
I woke up on Monday morning to the realisation that I’m nothing without caffeine. I have no personality; I can hardly string a sentence together; and...
There is a classic photograph of a group of Boer prisoners in Bermuda, one of the British colonies where about 30 000 Boer prisoners of war...
Thank you for the article on rape in South Africa in 2019, “Rape victim has long road to recovery - but we can help”, SA Jewish...
Accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing, the South African envoy to the United Nations, Clinton Swemmer, cited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement about annexing the Jordan...
Ancient metropolis discovered under highway Archaeological excavations in northern Israel in preparation for a highway interchange to the new city of Harish have uncovered a 5...
According to our sages, Yom Kippur is a day with a unique power to remove from us the stain of transgression. It’s Hashem’s gift to us,...
There are a variety of things that make one proud to be South African, and rugby is one of them.
Grade 8 pupils and the students representative council of King David High School Victory Park recently visited Our Parents Home in Norwood, where they did Kabbalat...
Author Jeremy Daniel recently had Torah Academy Boy's High School pupils on the edge of their seat with humorous and heartbreaking stories about the sporting personalities...
Eighty family and friends got together to bake challahs at Waverley Shul on 25 September to commemorate the sudden death of Hayley Fraser seven years ago...
Members of Greenside shul came together on 6 October to create the shul’s annual giant sukkah mural, measuring 5m wide by 3.3m high. This is the...
More than 150 women gathered on 6 October for the opening of a state-of-the-art, four-bathroom mikvah at Linksfield Shul on the King David Linksfield (KDL) campus...
At first sight, Luca Lazarus doesn’t strike you as a talented gymnast. Shy and modest, the only thing that gives it away is the fact that...
When former hedge fund manager Clive Nates was considerably younger, he used to catch the bus to and from school with a couple of friends. Conversation...
Gauteng Human Settlements MEC Lebogang Maile has insulted the Jewish community by accusing Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba of “giving buildings to Jews”, but he refuses to...
South Africa’s envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this week accused Israel of using Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned annexation of the West...
A Zambian politician has accused the country’s president, Edgar Lungu, of smuggling money and drugs on a return trip from a state visit to Israel in...
Attorney Ian Levitt confirmed this week that Matome Letsoalo is to be prosecuted for a string of vicious anti-Semitic comments he posted on Twitter more than...
The Competition Tribunal has given the go-ahead for a bid by an Israeli-led consortium to buy South Africa’s biggest dairy company, Clover.
Over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I will pray for peace and harmony. I will especially pray for an end to anti-Semitism.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin announced on Wednesday night that he would task incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a government coalition. It came as talks...
Amidst the smouldering ruins of Jerusalem, a conversation takes place between two great Jewish leaders of the time. Their words reverberate through history, and have a...
Encouraging Iran to rejoin the community of nations while simultaneously keeping the world safe is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
Just before Geoff Ramokgadi passed away, he told his friend, journalist Suzanne Belling, that he looked forward to seeing “his father, Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris” at...
While South Africa is regarded as one of the most unsafe places in the world, serious violent crime has gone down in most neighbourhoods where community...
Open Mosque President Imam Dr Taj Hargey first envisioned holding an interfaith retreat for all three Abrahamic faiths – Jew, Christian and Muslim – four years...
