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Enjoyed in Britain for well over a century, fish and chips has long been considered an English staple, but it may have been a Jewish invention.
Chani Lavine’s gelato business is fuelled by two passions: love for her family, and a drive to make people happy.
One of the great heroes of the Holocaust was Rabbi Avraham Grodzinsky, the spiritual leader of the Kovno ghetto. Until the outbreak of the war, he...
Either I am a very good mother or a very bad one.
Let’s start at the beginning. The story of Chanukah in a nutshell. During the time of the second Beit Hamikdash (Temple) the Holy Land was ruled...
How quickly the Jewish year slips by! One minute we are enjoying Purim; next we are agonising over Pesach; suddenly, the frantic timetable of the Yamim...
Religion and religious practice is studded with symbols – and Judaism is no different. For millennia, these symbols have been used to convey meaning, build identity,...
One of my favourite bedtime stories for my children is The Love-Me Bird by Joyce Dunbar. It’s a wise tale about a little bird who longs...
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi famously speaks of the “danger of a single story”, in the TED talk by the same name.
Jerusalem has always been the eye of the universe. Since time immemorial, the city, and particularly, the Temple Mount, has always been a place of profound...
Unlike a generation ago, the walls of the ghetto no longer sequester us from the rest of society. We fraternise, shop, and do business outside our...
Chanukah! Can you smell the latkes? Can you hear the faint echoes of Moaz Tzur? Do your fingers already feel a little slippery in anticipation of...
December rolls around, and the shopping malls of South Africa are filled with Christmas merchandise and song. You are lucky if your local Pick n Pay...
Think of Chanukah, and you almost always think of olive oil. Beyond being a key ingredient in fried latkes or doughnuts, oil is traditionally used to...
Babka is nearly a weekly occurrence in my house, and I can think of few things better. But it’s not just me: Babka has really been...
Central to every Jew’s childhood memories of Chanukah is a game of dreidel and a stash of gelt. It is true to say that after the...
When President Cyril Ramaphosa agreed to speak at the conference of the Gauteng Council of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies, we decided to use the...
Think of Rwanda, and what comes to mind is grotesque mass killings and villages filled with the detritus of the Tutsi genocide at the hands of...
It is a remarkable privilege to be writing this week’s column on a bus somewhere between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Today is day three of the...
I find the Airbnb website a perfect solution to my needs when travelling. Not having to stay at hotels but rather select a hospitality experience which...
The “taking the knee” incident at Herzlia recently has inflamed the community. If ever there was a divide within the community, this regrettable incident has highlighted...
The incident at Herzlia in Cape Town involving two misguided boys kneeling during the singing of the Jewish national song, Hatikvah, is just another instance of...
Grade 12s at King David High School Linksfield have finished their final exams, but they still have the generosity and thoughtfulness to consider others.
King David Rosabelle Klein Nursery School in Waverley has spent the week preparing for Chanukah.
Guests from South Africa and Swaziland attended a networking forum hosted by the Israeli Embassy on 25 November for more than 60 alumni of Mashav (Israel’s...
Many golfers depend on caddies, yet these staff members have little job security, recognition, or support. Caddies are seldom employed as permanent staff at golf courses....
Ram Barkai is a 61-year-old Israeli, now living in Cape Town, who has fallen in love with ice swimming. He started off doing “normal” swims –...
Velaphi Khumalo, the man who wrote on Facebook that blacks should do to white people what “Hitler did to the Jews” has eventually apologised to the...
“We were evacuated from multiple homes, lost one home completely, and narrowly escaped losing our primary residence. It was quite a harrowing experience,” says ex-Capetonian Julian...
South African-born couture handbag designer Lana Marks has been officially nominated by United States President Donald Trump as the new US ambassador to South Africa.
On Thursday last week, the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation Dirco) issued a statement welcoming the halt to two days of hostilities between...
A Johannesburg Muslim man extended a hand of friendship to the Jewish community and was overjoyed that instead of an ugly backlash, he was supported on...
Energetically brandishing placards, demonstrators took a decisive stand against abuse in our community on Wednesday afternoon.
Two Herzlia Grade 9 boys went down on one knee in front of their parents and their school during the Israeli national anthem at their annual...
For most of this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to get his coalition partners to agree to early elections. These would have...
The Brics bloc – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – has three billion people, and covers a quarter of the world’s land mass. These...
“Regardless of the pros and cons of the specific situation, Herzlia has to be commended for creating an environment where kids feel empowered enough to voice...
Holocaust survivor Veronica Phillips, aged 92, was very nearly rescued during the Holocaust. As an 18-year-old girl living with her family in Budapest, she was almost...
Retired Justice Albie Sachs describes land expropriation without compensation as both a “hot potato,” and a “nettle”. But he is glad that at last the country...
Could the next Google come from Glenhazel? A fresh Facebook be conceived in Camps Bay or a super-smartphone devised in Sandton?
