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(JTA) Haredi mother wins race A haredi Orthodox mother of five from Jerusalem has won a half-marathon in Latvia.
The parsha of the week, Behar, tells us that we shouldn’t work the land of Israel in the seventh year (Shemitah) or harvest its produce. The...
Every year, two weeks before Pesach, 16 Israeli Diller communities travel to their respective diaspora partner communities, where they are hosted by local teens for 10...
King David High School Linksfield pupils Anna Kayla Joffe and Carly Rachelson have been awarded the World ORT Gina and Joseph Harmatz Award for Social Responsibility...
Students at King David Victory Park High School recently participated in workshops to deal with the emotional fallout of the digital age.
Grade R students at Mino Lopato Nursery School proudly graduated to wearing their Grade R T-shirts recently. The T-shirt is a big part of becoming the...
King David Rosabelle Klein Nursery School is counting down the days of the Omer.
Shaarei Torah held a mock poll at the school recently to teach students how to run an election and how to vote. The class divided into...
Former American boxing promoter Joel Berman hosted a charity benefit in Brooklyn, New York, last month to raise funds for two South African non-profit organisations: Operation...
President Cyril Ramaphosa was guest of honour at the launch of the Nedbank YES (Youth Employment Services) campaign on 2 May in Sandton, in which ORT...
Lynne Gottschalk and Anthula Markovitz are starting to prepare in earnest for their trip to Hungary in late August. Such preparation means a trip to Bantry...
Lilian Kallmann was awarded volunteer of the year at the Johannesburg Union of Jewish Women’s (UJW’s) 87th annual general meeting on 7 May. Kallmann works in...
Psychologist and couples therapist, Connie Valkin, spoke recently to the Women’s International Zionist Organisation’s (WIZO’s) Women Inspired branch about the intricacies of marriage.
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu is “the single biggest enemy” in government to South African Jewry. So says the national vice-president of the South...
(JTA) Madonna defies boycott demands Pop icon Madonna says she will not cancel her Eurovision appearance due to calls for a boycott, and she will always...
On Election Day, while millions of South Africans went to the polls in the hope of a better South Africa, one man met his death in...
(JTA) Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London for the National Demonstration for Palestine on 12 May.
“There are now four Jewish MPs, and you can be sure that we will be a voice for the whole community,” says Glynnis Breytenbach, who will...
Morris Kahn, the chairman of SpaceIL and the funder of the spacecraft Beresheet, announced his support for a second attempt to take Israel to the moon.
“It was completely surreal and magical. It took my breath away. Every heartbreak and hard relationship happened for this moment,” says Gina Myers, who Lee Thompson...
It’s a relief to catch our breath after a hectic few weeks. We completed the elections, both in Israel and South Africa, had Pesach, Yom Hazikaron,...
Statesmanship is a delicate craft. Some leaders prefer a subtle approach. American president Donald Trump is not one of them. He believes in grand displays of...
Before the elections, I said that I would love to see a heat map showing where major party personalities were campaigning in 2019 compared to 2014.
Musician and entertainer Jonathan Birin was astonished when the crowd he was playing for wore tzitzit (tassels) and yarmulkes, and knew all the words to the...
Nine on the British Sunday Times Rich List of 2019 are South African – and of those, five are Jewish.
The recently introduced “Moses Moyo Award” for courageous journalism in community media has upset industry players who have criticised the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef)...
Nicknamed “Captain Sunshine” by the New York Times, American-born maverick Josef Abramowitz, (55), waged multiple battles to feed solar-generated electricity into Israel’s national grid. That tenacity,...
While Israel is acclaimed for being the start-up nation, it now looks to Haredi women and Israeli Arabs to secure the future of its entrepreneurial technology...
International-award-winning Polish film director Joanna Kos-Krauze is adamant that countries must face their genocidal pasts head-on, and that film can play a key role in starting...
How could a little Jewish boy born in the Congo end up having an international career as a dancer and choreographer, and teach some of the...
Gold Reef City was turned into a Yom Ha’atzmaut festival park last Thursday afternoon, and those who made the effort to be there celebrated as they...
Just days after Israel endured hundreds of rockets fired on its civilians, Capetonians of all kinds came together to celebrate the Jewish state’s 71st Independence Day.
Jewish band Breindy and Matt has been nominated for the 2019 South African Music Awards (SAMAs).
(JTA) Judging by all the media attention, the world loves short Jewish women named Ruth.
I have climbed Mount Sinai. Although the exact location of Mount Sinai is unknown to archaeologists, I was fortunate enough to have toured with the real...
A siren wailed at exactly 10:00 last Thursday morning in Pretoria. This eerie sound –streamed live from Israel Radio – brought Jews in Israel and those...
The Torah was donated by the Genn and Mielke families in honour of their father, the late Dave Genn. It was presented to the shul on...
Last week, I nervously proposed an idea to the family. I suggested that for one hour from when we sat down to dinner, we would all...
However one interprets the results, last week’s national and provincial elections undoubtedly ushered in a new era in the history of our democracy, one that hopefully...
Amidst the complicated post-election analyses going on in South Africa and Israel, ordinary people are often confused. And, notwithstanding the intellectual analyses, most people actually voted...
