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South Africa woke up last week to yet another delegation of Hamas in the country. South Africa under the African National Congress (ANC) has always been...
As the curtain comes down on 2018, what might 2019 bring for South Africa, Israel, and beyond?
This year opened on a euphoric note after the election of Cyril Ramaphosa to President of the African National Congress. It raised hopes of a turnaround...
The development of a halachic prenuptial contract intended to put an end to the problem of “gett” refusal and the resultant status of agunot – chained...
The South African Board of Jewish Education (SABJE) has cut funding for Jewish Studies classes at non-denominational remedial schools, citing the costs of funding its new...
Operational for about 30 years, the King David Linksfield School Hostel became a home away from home. Largely accommodating children from South Africa’s farming communities, the...
A shiny bald pate. A mess of curls untouched by a hairbrush. A finely-cropped carpet of bristles to which a kippah miraculously clings.
In a few days’ time, Jewish youth from across South Africa will set off for various campsites on the coast, eager to escape the confines of...
On a quiet afternoon on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem in 1972, Romanian-born holocaust survivor Lyonell Fliss stood alone on the roof of a water tower he...
Jews are prominent in the fight for social justice, and this is no less so in the area of woman abuse. Perhaps that is because one...
Your guide to eating kosher over the holidays.
Jews have always been deeply involved in improving the lives of fellow South Africans, but until recently, there hasn’t been a network to bring all of...
“We tried not to ask why this happened, but we believe it was Hashem’s way of bringing the community together, and showing his miracles,” says Aviva...
“And Yehudah approached him [Yosef] ...”
Wearing a yarmulke, Geoffrey Modise Menachem Ramokgadi draws stares from most people he encounters, whether in his adopted country of Swaziland, his home town of Rustenburg,...
FutureLife: A Protea is not an Artichoke is not a book about horticulture. It’s not a book about breakfast cereal. In some sense, it’s not even...
Like a city in the shadow of an oncoming storm, a novel can be dark, brooding, and forbidding. In spite of being set in the Jerusalem...
This being the final Above Board column for the year, I will, as has become tradition, take the opportunity of reviewing the work of the South...
Chanukah is so last week. Which makes it a lot less topical than I would like. That means that if I choose to use my column...
HIV/AIDS doesn’t make the headlines these days as it once did. It has largely slipped under the radar because medically, the disease is now managed successfully.
KosherWorld hosted its annual community Chanukah Party on Thursday, 6 December.
It is not every day that Johannesburg sees a Guinness World Record attempt – and this one was extra sweet.
The Israel Centre – Jewish Agency’s Partnership2gether Peoplehood Platform hosted its second gap year seminar in November for Jewish youth who are on year-long programmes in...
While global citizens gathered in South Africa over the weekend to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s centenary and raise money for deserving causes, a South African citizen was...
The new Beit David Synagogue was consecrated at the Durban Jewish Club in Durban on Sunday, 2 December. A mincha service led jointly by Rabbis Sa’ar...
Ivan and Lynette Saltzman hosted an event to celebrate the launch of South African friends of Sheba in their home in Johannesburg on 6 December. The...
When psychiatrist Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross visited the Maidenek concentration camp in 1946, she found hundreds of butterflies etched on the walls of the children’s barracks. Some...
Brain Boost, a stimulation group run by the Union of Jewish Women (UJW), celebrated the end of 2018 with a farewell tea held at Friends Restaurant...
If you have a healthy stomach, you have a healthy physical, mental, and emotional approach to life.
Russian billionaire and owner of the Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, is joining forces with Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Revolution football club,...
There is no doubt that the Jewish community should not only thank Bowmans for its report, but also compliment it on the amount of work conducted,...
The investigation into the Stan & Pete treif chicken saga has revealed shocking details of how the country’s former foremost kosher caterer allegedly used unkosher meat...
When Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela removed the names of Israeli academics from the online programme of her conference at Stellenbosch University, she said she did it in...
This weekend is one of the busiest on the Jewish calendar. It’s called Shabbos-Rosh Chodesh-Chanukah. On Friday afternoon, we will light two sets of candles, the...
Bongani Masuku, the man who was found guilty of hate speech in the Equality Court last year for threatening to subject Jews to “perpetual suffering”, was...
Two Muslim men were on opposite sides of a controversial motion tabled in the Johannesburg City Council last week to rename Sandton Drive to Leila Khaled...
When it became clear that all five Sifrei Torah of Beit Midrash Morasha in Sea Point, Cape Town, had been lost in a massive fire around...
Terror organisation Hamas was welcomed and given red-carpet treatment by the African National Congress (ANC) this week. It was the guest of the ruling party.
What a week for this community! During the week of Chanukah, we have Hamas hobnobbing with the ANC, and Cape Town’s Beit Midrash Morasha shul experiencing...
I am in Buenos Aires to report on the G20 world leaders summit. It has been a diplomatic test for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman....
