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Earlier this week, Pierce Brosnan, the former 007 star, announced that he believed that the next James Bond should be a woman. His comments were made...
South Africa has been forced to examine its identity following the xenophobic attacks on foreigners and the spike in gender-based violence that has rocked the country...
Nelson Mandela wrote in Long Walk to Freedom, “No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or...
There are so many reasons why the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards is an annual inspiration. However one of the most understated is that when you talk...
Kosher Mobile Meals (KMM), the flagship project of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) in Johannesburg, was started in 1972 to provide nutritious meals for elderly...
Orange Grove Primary School pupils were treated to a visit by dynamic local Jewish author Jenny Braun to the school’s library last week to read her...
Eden Preparatory School in Lyndhurst held a fashion show last Thursday to a full-house audience.
King David Sandton was transformed into an art gallery recently when it hosted the work of three King David schools – Sandton, Victory Park, and Linksfield...
Best-selling author Nikki Bush enthralled parents and students at a presentation at the King David Victory Park Grade 9 subject choice day recently. Bush wore five...
Rabbi Kacev, the general director of the South African Board of Jewish Education and King David Schools, blew the shofar for pupils at King David Minnie...
Sydenham Hebrew Pre Primary School’s sports day took a different turn this year.
Israel’s dream of reaching next year’s European Championship finals all but ended in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana on Monday, when their footballers conceded a third...
Israeli athlete Beatie Deutsch is hoping to use this year’s Sanlam Cape Town Marathon on Sunday, 15 September, as a step towards qualifying for the Tokyo...
Likud South Africa Chairperson Larry Marks feared for his life this week when he came face to face with protesters in downtown Johannesburg as xenophobic violence...
A Johannesburg ward councillor last week stunned two Jewish women when he compared the enforcement of by-laws to raping a woman. In two separate incidents, this...
A year ago, Penny Stein met three siblings at a shelter for abused children whose grandparents had distributed pornographic photos of them. Although she had worked...
Some Jewish and Arab Israeli women are going all out to get to know one another and connect across the cultural divide. They are all Israelis...
(JTA) Explosions earlier this week at two Hamas police checkpoints in Gaza City left three policemen dead. But it wasn’t Israel that planted the explosives, as...
This has been a crazy week in South Africa, one in which even the sunniest optimist has been hammered.
Israel just scored another victory in the ongoing psychological warfare against her enemies. Or did she? On Sunday, after Hezbollah, the militant Iranian-sponsored group, fired three...
Racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, among many other forms of bigotry, remain a scourge in society. Decent people have a moral obligation to condemn these forms of...
While many families like to spend quality time together over a Sunday brunch or even a leisurely stroll, few can beat the bragging rights of the...
Johannesburg father of two Troy Mayers likes to push the boundaries of pain and suffering.
He may not be famous because he worked quietly under the radar, but Professor David Sanders, who died suddenly at the end of August, has been...
It would be easy to alleviate some of the trauma women go through in getting a gett without actually changing the halacha, Dayan Dr Shlomo Glicksberg...
If you’re looking to LOL with your BFFs because YOLO, you’re practically living in the stone age because your slang is seriously out of date. So,...
As time passes, remembering the Holocaust becomes an intergenerational project, one that seeks to draw together the descendants of those directly affected by this atrocity.
Judy Klipin experienced burnout. After becoming a life coach and seeing the need for it among her clients, she wrote a book, Recover from Burnout; Life...
While the connection of Jews to Israel is frequently in the news, the changing nature of Jewish and Israeli links to Arab countries is a story...
(JTA) On 1 September, the picturesque region of Wallonia became the second in Belgium to ban killing animals without stunning them, rendering both kosher and most...
As a voluntary social worker at Yad Aharon, I’m making a personal appeal to the Jewish public to assist us in raising funds to cover the...
Thank you for your article about Herber House. I was a resident there from January 1947 to December 1953.
We Jews have known times of terrible discrimination. Fortunately, we enjoy comfort and a high standard of living in South Africa, even with the challenges to...
Choirs are fast becoming passé in shuls the world over. Apparently, fewer congregants look forward to seeing choristers ascend the bimah to sing tunes composed in...
Xenophobic violence against foreign nationals remains a serious problem in South Africa. Over the past decade, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), with the...
This past Sunday was the Yeshiva College campus open day. With 3.5 of our five children (thankfully) already through the school system, we are no longer...
The looting of shops belonging to foreign nationals by crowds in Johannesburg this week will be among the impressions that visitors to the city take home...
Dorothy Spitz, who recently celebrated her 103rd birthday at Jaffa (Jewish Accommodation for Fellow Aged) in Pretoria, is an accomplished musician and music teacher.
When Samuel (Shmuel) Moch came to South Africa at a young age from Lithuania, he couldn’t read or write. In spite of this, he became a...
Chabad opens first centre in Rwanda Chabad has opened its first centre in Rwanda, which becomes the African nation’s first synagogue served by a permanent rabbi.
