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The 2019 Limmud conference in Johannesburg was absolutely world-class. I was happy to be part of it, and to see people run from session to session,...
Maccabi Tel Aviv, the current holder of the Israel Super League, laid down a bold pre-season marker last week with the recruitment of Omri Casspi (31)...
The Community Security Organisation (CSO) exists to secure South African Jewry, but right now, this vital community organisation needs rescuing.
While community stalwart Shaun Karpelowsky remains in a coma in hospital, the community he serves has pulled together in a show of support.
Israel faces military threats on its northern and southern borders, from Iran, and in cyberspace. Though the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is strong and finds solutions,...
(JTA) The body of Dvir Sorek, the 19-year-old student who was murdered last Thursday in a West Bank terrorist attack, was found clutching a book by...
When a photo of Somerset West Private School students raising their arms in a Nazi salute surfaced last week, it caused outrage, especially when the school...
Palestinian-American scholar Dr Steven Salaita is still furious about the fact that his offer of a professorship at the University of Illinois was revoked in 2014...
The last thing any of us would want is for the CSO (Community Security Organisation) to be under threat – or so it would seem.
American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide last Saturday has triggered a wave of anti-Jewish conspiracies online.
My family and I managed to escape from Iraq and the hell of Saddam Hussein 48 years ago to the day on 15 August 1971.
(JTA) This week marks five years since an Israeli soldier, lieutenant Hadar Goldin, was killed by Hamas in the midst of a ceasefire during Operation Protective...
If you’re looking to date frum (religious), be sure to bear the following in mind: a packet of fudge can mean almost anything.
In July last year, shadchanim (matchmakers) around the world organised a worldwide prayer event asking Jews to pray for a solution to a single problem: unmarried...
(JTA) One of the most befuddling questions surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein saga is why Leslie Wexner, a billionaire entrepreneur, entrusted all of his money to Epstein,...
Jonathan Ancer has just released his second book on spies, Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies, the first being Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson. The SA...
Philippe Burger, professor of economics at a top South African university, recently returned from a trip to Israel believing that interaction between Israeli and South African...
(JTA) In 2011, Hungary’s largest Jewish group called on the justice ministry to ban the far-right Jobbik party, describing it as “anti-Semitic” and “fascist”.
The cannabis industry is booming in South Africa and around the world following legislation changes, and members of the community are taking the lead in its...
The Belarusian city of Brest won’t mean much to many. It meant nothing to me until a few years ago. But it was here where former...
“Don’t have more than three eggs per week”, “Have as many eggs as you like”, “Only have the egg white, and not the yolk”. Which one...
South Africa offered refuge to Jewish artists from Europe like Moses Kottler, Lippy Lipshitz, Wolf Kibel, and Hans Ludwig Katz, and then the South African National...
When Mordechai Perlov was fifteen years old, he was branded an enemy of the Soviet state and taken prisoner to chop trees on the arctic circle....
The Our Generation Doll Hairstyling Event for “little women” at the Selwyn Segal gift shop on Women’s Day catered for more than 130 little girls, each...
Lynn Joffe, the chief executive and founder of Creatrix, an agency which cultivates brand and edutainment storytelling for South African consumers, was guest speaker at an...
BabyLoversBlessings (BLB), an organisation which assists less fortunate mothers and newborns, recently received a stunning donation of hand-knitted jerseys, baby clothes, pads and more from the...
Grade 10 students at King David Victory Park High School recently participated in a presentation on substance abuse.
Torah Academy teachers recently attended workshops with conscious discipline practitioner Esther Levin, and have been integrating conscious discipline into their classrooms. The children have also had...
The Talmud tells us that Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria, Rabbi Joshua, and Rabbi Akiva went up to Jerusalem. When they reached Mt Scopus, they...
Israeli voters concerned with economy Though the majority of Israeli Jews support change to the religious status quo in their nation, issues of religion and state...
We had hardly had a chance to catch our breath after the whirlwind visit of our Women Wage Peace guests from Israel when it was time...
We’re clearly back in the negative part of the South African cycle. Wherever I go, I engage with people who are concerned, anxious, and worried.
On the day Nelson Mandela died in 2013, a crowd gathered on the pavement outside his house in Houghton, Johannesburg. Black women, among others, arrived from...
“Off the charts,” is how Elan Sawitzky, #TeamMaccabiSA’s head of delegation, describes the team’s 51 swimming medals at the recently-completed 2019 European Maccabi Games (EMG) in...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has invited Israel-hater Dr Steven Salaita to give its annual academic freedom lecture this week. A proponent of academic boycotts...
A number of Jewish donors have been named in the expose of leaked emails from the Cyril Ramaphosa presidential 2017 (CR17) campaign. The expose, published in...
What do a young Arab Israeli Muslim, a Christian Arab guidance counsellor, an Israeli music teacher, and an Israeli psychologist have in common?
When Nicci Raz agreed to lend her marketing skills to the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) in 2015, she anticipated a short stint involving only a...
At first glance, the picture that appeared on Somerset West Private School’s website appeared innocent enough – matric pupils playing the fool in a relaxed school...
The Boycott, Divest, Sanctions campaign in South Africa (BDS-SA) has been silent in the wake of suggestions that its PayPal account has been shut due to...
