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An ANC motion to rename Sandton Drive after the notorious plane hijacker Leila Khaled passed in the Johannesburg City Council with the support of the EFF...
Violence against women and girls is a pandemic. A conservative estimate is that more than 35% percent of women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence from...
The Israel story is “malfunctioning or getting warped in translation”, says Canadian-born Israeli Matti Friedman, who is a senior journalist and author based in Jerusalem.
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook reiterated the company’s commitment to fighting hate and used a Hebrew phrase to do so.
On Wednesday morning, we woke up to the devastating news that the Beit Midrash Morasha synagogue had burned down and along with it, seven Torah scrolls...
Naomi Hadar, the Chairperson of the Israel United Appeal United Communal Fund (IUA UCF) for 17 years, stepped down from her position last week.
Local conceptual artist Kim Lieberman and United States Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg have connected across continents over a deep understanding of the concepts underpinning...
A chance finding of books, letters, postcards, tram stubs, dinner invitations, and concert tickets of a David Polnay in a second-hand bookshop in Johannesburg led to...
“How many people would lay down their lives for a stranger? Albanians would.” So says American photographer Norman H. Gershman, explaining why he devoted his time...
Braving the tuckshop queues for a Sloppy Joe. Passing notes in class. Checking out the good-looking prefects. Releasing balloons for Yom Ha’atzmaut. Singing and dancing at...
Pranks and fun are part of school life. Often, they are the moments we remember the most. King David schools have had plenty of fun over...
A staggering 500 King David scholars – out of more than 3 000 – are being subsidised to enable them to get a Jewish education.
While the British government is embroiled in extricating itself from the European Union (EU), an increasing number of South African Jews are bent on joining the...
I see that Velaphi Khumalo “eventually apologised” for his arrogant remarks, such as that blacks should do to whites what Hitler did to the Jews! Some...
Hatikvah is a popular song and anthem of the Jewish people expressing the aspirations and hopes of the majority.
I refer to the racist decision by Stellenbosch University to exclude all Israelis from the conference titled “Recognition, Reparation and Reconciliation: The Light and Shadow of...
A conference titled “Recognition, Repatriation, Reconciliation: The Light and Shadow of Historical Trauma” being held at Stellenbosch University this month had a number of Pro-Palestinian delegates...
Two days after my return from a Jewish heritage tour of India, Robert Bowers, 46, opened fire on a congregation of Jews assembled at their synagogue...
People with disabilities don’t get a lot of development opportunities after school, says Naomi Schauer, Chevrah Kadisha’s Programme Co-ordinator Disabilities. That’s why Chevrah Kadisha Protected Employment...
The adult education division (AED) of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) recently celebrated another successful year of weekly thought-provoking and stimulating talks. Members danced to...
Every year, the women of the Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO) endeavour to spread a little festive cheer to those less fortunate in our society. This...
Jemma Cohen, a nine-year-old King David Linksfield Grade 3 pupil, is playing the part of Chip in Beauty and the Beast JR at the Peoples Theatre...
Five King David pupils have been awarded South African colours for dance by the South African Body of Dance, an associate member of DanceSport SA and...
On the first night of Chanukah, Jews around the world light the first candle of the chanukiah to commemorate the miracle of light in the Temple.
After a workshop on chanukiahs with the DIJE (the department of informal Jewish education) and the King David School Jewish Department, Grade 4s at King David...
The children of South Africa have been betrayed by the education system. And the clamour to enter universities has given them a false sense of a...
Since the early years of this century, regular attempts have been made on university campuses throughout the world to impose a boycott against Israeli academics and...
President Cyril Ramaphosa this week praised South African Jewry for setting an example of unity to the nation.
Professor Shifrah Sagy of Ben Gurion University in the Negev found out she had been excluded from attending a conference at Stellenbosch University when she saw...
In the presence of President Cyril Ramaphosa and senior Cabinet ministers, Jewish communal leadership expressed deep regret for not having supported Jewish activists.
South Africa’s Community Security Organisation (CSO) is not overly concerned that 11 alleged ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) patriots have been released on bail....
An independent panel of inquiry cleared Equal Education Co-Founder Doron Isaacs, and former General Secretary Zackie Achmat, of any wrongdoing or cover-up in a storm over...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said South African Jews should tell the defenders of BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) “the truth – BDS is distortion and lies”.
It has been more than two months since Zalman Orlianski (71) died after a fight over a parking place at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg,...
Why is it that we so often don’t see the full reality of the situation we are living in until it is reflected through someone else’s...
For months now, all eyes have been on southern Israel and Gaza. Less attention has been focused on what’s happening in the north of Israel, and...
The recent support from the community for the boys who were sexually assaulted at Parktown Boys High School was a game changer, moving activism into the...
A bigger house. A better car. The latest gadgets. In a world increasingly governed by possessions, selling most of the contents of your home – and...
Yiddishkeit is alive and well at Zimbabwe’s Carmel School, in spite of the fact that there isn’t a single Jewish child or Jewish teacher at the...
As Chanukah approaches, the beach beckons as many head off for their annual year-end getaway. But what about escaping for chagim not associated with the secular...
