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If ballgowns, bouillabaisse, and Bates mean anything to you, chances are you’re a fan of the hit series, Downton Abbey. The release of the long-awaited film...
Once a trade for a nice Jewish boy, diamond cutting and polishing in South Africa no longer is.
The opening of Beit Luria on 8 September 2019 was a dream come true for its founders.
Renowned Israeli pianist Dr Michael Tsalka performed Mozart’s piano concerti nos 20 and 25 at the Brooklyn Theatre in Pretoria on 15 September.
The Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO) recently partnered with pupils from Yeshiva College High School in Johannesburg to assemble custom-designed wheelchairs, which were given to children...
Alwyn Uys, guest speaker at Herzlia Middle and High Schools’ recent Sports Awards, inspired the audience with a story of how he triumphed over adversity to...
King David High School Linksfield dominated the stage of the Inter-High Dance awards last Thursday, winning in four categories: dance, choreography, theme dance, and best overall.
King David Linksfield has had a successful rugby season, the highlights of which include the 1st XV being awarded a silver medal in the Pirates School...
Grade 6 pupils at King David Senior Primary Linksfield have partnered with Summerwood Primary School in a special, voluntary after school extra-mural activity called Collaborate and...
Shaun Sacks of NGO Monitor takes issue with non-governmental organisations working for human rights in Israel. His critique is disingenuous, and based on innuendo rather than...
In the past two weeks, South Africa has once again been shaken to its core by the horror of widespread violence against “foreigners”. Under the auspices...
Theatre director Sylvaine Strike; actress, voice, and text specialist Gina Shmukler; choreographer Phumlani Mndebele; and the first-year students of the Market Theatre Laboratory have created Eclipsed,...
Quick Trivial Pursuit question: “How many Israeli teams have competed in the Olympics?”
People tend to be suspicious of change. The thinking goes that if things have worked well enough in the past, why not carry on as before?...
I have never fasted well. From a young age, the mere thought that I would have to do so filled me with anxiety and stress. It...
What is it about a piece of fabric with patterns and colours that can make people rush into battle and get killed? Millions have died in...
Gandhi Rosh Hashanah greeting found in archives A Rosh Hashanah greeting written by Mahatma Gandhi on the day that the Nazis invaded Poland has been discovered...
This week's Torah portion, Nitzavim, is always read on the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah. There are so many things about this portion that connect it to...
Lawyers are advising the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) in laying criminal charges after a Johannesburg man went on a shameless anti-Semitic, racist, and...
The boyfriend of the Israeli woman who was raped at a backpackers’ lodge in Graskop, Mpumalanga, two weeks ago says she “isn’t stable at all”, and...
Media stalwart Anton Harber is the latest target of a racial attack on Twitter, having been accused of defending racists seemingly because he is white.
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has criticised the “dishonest tactics” being used to imply support for a University of Cape Town (UCT) academic...
Seven people around the world have reportedly died from a vape-linked lung condition, and about 450 others are believed to be affected by it, according to...
I fear for our youth, what with the ugly face of social media. This week, there seems – unwittingly – to be a theme to this...
After a decade in power, incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might soon have to vacate the country’s top office.
The results of the second Israeli election this year are still fresh and undetermined. It seems like a deadlock. None of the major parties can easily...
Terry Kurgan won the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction earlier this month, for her book Everyone is Present, a fundamentally Jewish book. The SA Jewish Report...
Minimum sentences have no effect on curbing crime, but long sentences aren’t the answer either, Emeritus Justice Edwin Cameron told the Annual Rabinowitz Lecture at the...
In March 2015, Pippa Shaper got the call no mother wants to get. By that stage, she had already buried three members of her family.
If you want to pull society back from the brink, the teachings of Tanach might be in order. The key to saving a society on the...
Six Israeli cyber security companies last week led the Israeli ministry of trade and economics’ first business delegation to Botswana.
Beatie Deutsch, the first haredi woman to win an international athletics competition, took eighth place in last week’s 42.2km Cape Town Marathon.
Doornfontein was once the heart and soul of Jewish life in Johannesburg. Nestled to the south of Berea, Yeoville, and Bellevue in a valley in the...
“I grew up in the Jewish community of Kimberley, and always dreamed of getting married in my own shul, surrounded by the people I know and...
A single violin plays hauntingly as figures clad in unnerving animal masks gaze into the distance from the windows. Other individuals with hidden faces then drift...
With apples and honey being the most synonymous with Rosh Hashanah, it’s no surprise that the melodical words, “Apples dipped in honey we do eat; we...
For years, we have been bluffing ourselves that we can make peace with Hamas and Hezbollah, and we have been supplying these organisations with cement and...
We live in a country where unfortunately, children are exposed to the worst of humanity, whether it be on the front page of a newspaper, listening...
The conversation went something like this. “I really want to climb Kilimanjaro. Do you know any good causes?”
Last week, the proponents of an academic boycott against Israel at the University of Cape Town (UCT), contrived (in defiance of university regulations) to send a...
