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When David Da Costa celebrated his Barmitzvah, his late grandfather gave him a personalised book he had written for him containing life advice.
Writing matric can be a lonely journey. Hours spent in solitary confinement with a pile of past exam papers from schools in every corner of the...
Zara Abelson is still haunted by the bullying she experienced 20 years ago. As someone with learning issues, she had been to a remedial school, but...
The statistics are clear – girls are doing better than boys, on average, at school and university. However, the “female advantage” disappears in the workplace, where...
The 2018 head girl of Merrifield Preparatory School & College in East London, Leah Schewitz, was the only Jewish person at the school and, for many...
For many high school students, matric is the most stressful, charged, and demanding experience of their school experience. While a certain amount of pressure to perform...
“Even if a child has a learning difficulty, they are still able to succeed,” says Romi Malloon, who is studying to be a teacher after battling...
Anyone over the age of 40 who attends a 21st birthday party and does not share any genetic material with the celebrant, or does not at...
(JTA) In 2014, Kim Hye-Kyung found herself staring into an educational abyss.
Ronnie Lubner was the poster boy for the view that school years are no predictor of success in life. After being expelled as a youngster from...
How important is tradition in Judaism? Obviously, very important. There is even a major song in the musical Fiddler on the Roof devoted to tradition!
Israel’s celebrated author, Amos Oz, was an icon for how one can be both an unapologetic Zionist and a fierce critic of Israel’s nationalistic, right-wing drift.
The Mishna in the tractate of Rosh Hashanah teaches us that there are four New Years in the Jewish calendar.
The Jewish National Fund of South Africa (JNF) will this coming week give South African Jewish scholars 6 000 packets of tomato seeds from Foods and...
(JTA) Four years ago, a heartbroken Bernard-Henri Levy found some solace in how more than a million Frenchmen marched through this city to protest extremism.
The next few months will doubtless be dominated by news and discussion about the upcoming national elections scheduled to take place early in May. The South...
What is it about a politician’s speech that you remember afterwards? His catchy phrases? His body language? The urgency in his voice? These are often more...
In your editorial “Friends where you didn’t know you had any” (14 December 2018), you highlighted the incident of an Afrikaans lady who was so excited...
As a child, December holidays meant Muizenberg. As an adult, we seemed to spend the time on the Atlantic Seaboard. And then this year, for the...
(JTA) When Genevieve Liu was 13, an unimaginable tragedy changed her life.
(JTA) Though he was just six years old on the night of Kristallnacht, Rabbi Chanoch Ehrentreu can still recall the horror: Torah scrolls burning in the...
(JTA) If Beale Street Could Talk, the new film from Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, is at heart a film about African-American love during a time of...
(JTA) Canadian authorities, acting on a request from the United States, arrested a major Chinese tech mogul in Vancouver between flights on 1 December.
(JTA) It was during her successful campaign for Mexico City mayor that Claudia Sheinbaum made a reference to her Jewish heritage. Speaking before a group of...
(JTA) Weeks after they emigrated from Russia and moved to Germany, the Nedlin family sought to join the local Jewish community.
(JTA) Jerusalem is a city of endless titles and designations: City of Gold. Zion. The Holy Sanctuary. City of Peace.
(JTA) The last time that a stranger directed an anti-Semitic insult at me, I was carrying supplies for my son’s birthday party.
(JTA) Jaime Guttenberg and Meadow Pollack shared many similarities. Both were brown-haired and bright-eyed girls, beloved by friends and family. Both were passionate about their hobbies.
(JTA) Just like any other Santa Claus, Santa Rick will spend much of the next couple of weeks sitting children on his knee, asking whether they’ve...
(JTA) In the span of just a couple of days, Chaim Raice went from never having been on a bobsled to being a contender to represent...
It has been a harrowing week of torment for the South African-born parents of the latest terror-attack victim in Israel, who this week described events as...
European nations must increase their efforts to ensure security for the continent’s Jews in the face of widespread anti-Semitism, the Council of the European Union said...
Thirty-nine tombstones were knocked down, damaged, and broken in the Wellington Jewish cemetery last weekend, the Cape Jewish Board of Deputies has confirmed.
“I’m holding on as best I can, and living my life as fully as I can,” says iconic South African performer Johnny Clegg, who has been...
Flames and smoke billowing from the roof, seven Sifrei Torah scrolls burned in the inferno, and a crumbling, burnt-out synagogue. These are some of the images...
What was most unnerving about the Palestinian Solidarity Alliance’s (PSA’s) sunset march against Israeli “occupation” in Johannesburg on Saturday was the sheer gentility of all involved.
Technology and security are two defining issues that make Jewish youth camps different to the camps of 10 years ago.
“Even when it’s scary, we don’t want to leave our kibbutz. It’s our home,” say Chen Belkin and Rotem Goldman, two Israeli teenagers who live close...
When the world seems like a dark place, there are always pockets of light and love.
In the Middle East, everyone declares victory regardless of the results. So, it’s no surprise that the recent United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution against Hamas...
