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In 2018, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa launched the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) School initiative that seeks to provide facilities for girls across South Africa...
The Pretoria Council of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, the Pretoria Union of Jewish Women (UJW), and international disaster-relief agency CADENA recently came to...
In a talk titled, “The dignity of difference in relation to gender issues”, at the September WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organisation) Forum, Carr said we should...
PewDiePie rescinds $50 000 donation to ADL Popular video blogger PewDiePie announced a donation of $50 000 (R736 000) to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), then rescinded...
The penultimate portion in the lead up to Rosh Hashanah is Ki Tavo. We search for the essential message G-d is trying to convey to us...
Herzlia Middle School held its Culture Awards ceremony on 11 September to recognise pupils’ achievements in various fields of arts and culture.
The King David High School Linksfield U14 boys soccer team won the Discovery Cup last week
Five King David Victory Park Primary School (KDVPP) students made it to the final round of the Wits maths challenge at the University of the Witwatersrand...
Grade 3 boys from Torah Academy recently visited the Shofar Factory at Chabad House in Savoy.
Yeshiva College has turned a classroom into a state-of-the-art computer room for its high school. The computer room will be used to teach information technology and...
Redhill High School pupils Zianda Goldstuck (Grade 11) and Benjamin Weisz (Grade 8) have been selected for the Gauteng U18 and U16 chess teams respectively. Next...
“He’s gone through three shoe-sizes in the past eight months,” says Guy Taitz of his goalkeeper son, Zach, who has just returned from a successful week-long...
A 22-year-old Israeli tourist was raped on her birthday while on holiday in Graskop, Mpumalanga, recently in the midst of a nation-wide protest against sexual violence.
A record 920 guests converged on the Sandton Convention Centre on Sunday, 8 September, to find out the winners of this year’s Absa Jewish Achiever Awards.
Standing alongside President Cyril Ramaphosa, Nicole Mirkin looked out at the sea of protesters who rallied in Cape Town last week to voice their rage at...
Last week, a Jewish teenager was named on Twitter for allegedly sexually harassing a teenage girl. In a series of detailed tweets, she alleged that he...
Romy Petersen and Bianca Gewer leave their phones on all the time because they are a lifeline to hundreds of victims of the recent xenophobic attacks....
There is something outrageously inspiring about sitting in a magnificent ballroom at the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards surrounded by about 900 of the best minds in...
On Tuesday next week, Israelis head to the polls in the second election in five months. Although Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party won back in April, the...
This coming Tuesday, Israel is heading to the polls for its second election in six months. Here is my abbreviated manual on what to focus on...
Jessica Montell warned about “eroding Israeli democracy” in a lecture she gave at the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies recently (see article in SA Jewish Report...
Israel and Hezbollah supposedly came within 30 minutes of war last Sunday. In order to understand how they got there and what was different to the...
Until recently, recognised terror organisations that target Jewish installations were considered the greatest threat to our safety. This is no longer the case, say two senior...
Businessman Hlumelo Biko, the son of the late black consciousness activist, Steve Biko, praised the South African Jewish community, saying that it is an example of...
There’s an old joke about Robert Mugabe dying unexpectedly during a trip to Israel. The undertaker tells Mugabe’s delegation that it will cost $500 000 (R7.3...
Wherever Sir Mick Davis is involved, he makes a difference. The length and breadth of his extraordinary career became clear as he ascended the stage to...
“I didn’t get to Jupiter, but NASA named a small planet after me. It’s called ‘Siyaxuza’,” scientist and entrepreneur Siyabulela Xuza told the audience at the...
Absa Business Icon Award winner Adrian Gore said he wanted to use his time on the podium to promote optimism, hope, and vision in South Africa.
The problems faced by South Africa are complex, and the role played by everyday people is crucial in solving them. This was Corruption Watch Executive Director...
To choose love amidst hate and hope amidst darkness. This was the takeaway message which Edna Freinkel, the recipient of the Europcar Women in Leadership Award,...
Fast food shared the stage with fitness and health as the co-founder of Discovery and chief executive of McDonald’s South Africa were recognised for their extraordinary...
Soccer star Dean Furman might indeed be a naches (pride) machine for the whole nation, but on Sunday night, no one could have been prouder of...
It’s not your duty to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it. These words of the sage, Rabbi Tarfon of Pirkei...
With his brow creased in concentration, maestro Benjamin Zander wielded his conductor’s baton like a wand, and cast a spell over the riveted audience at the...
Shosholoza took on a whole new meaning on the rubbish-strewn streets of Kliptown last week, when world-renowned conductor Benjamin Zander came across some gumboot dancers during...
We should all find a way to make our own small difference to the world, said Kirsh Family Entrepreneur Award winner Michael Gewer in receiving his...
When Absa Professional Excellence Award winner Joseph Gerassi arrived at the podium to receive his award, he had a confession to make: he hadn’t prepared a...
Netanyahu removed from rally after rocket fire Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to be removed from the stage during a campaign speech in the southern...
Whether it manifests in the crude bigotry of the lower classes or the snide subtleties of the upper crust, anti-Semitism is a fact of life.
Coming as it did at the end of a traumatic week for this country, this year’s Absa Jewish Achiever Awards was a heartening demonstration of how...
