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Robyn Sassen’s article on William Kentridge was interesting and, as a great admirer of William and his work, I enjoyed reading it.
Three weeks ago, Israel approved a draft law giving Culture Minister Miri Regev the authority to cut funding from cultural institutions that “contravene the principles of...
As previously reported, this year’s Gauteng Council conference is being held in two parts. The first took place on 7 October. In order to comply with...
“There is a golden thread running through this ‘new dawn’ – it is not our second chance, it is our last chance,” Business Leadership South Africa...
The Selwyn Segal’s family day was full of “laughter, noise, and precious family time”, said Lee Unterslak, who together with Tanya Azoulay and the Selwyn Segal...
The amazing “team collectables” and many volunteers gathered early at Norwood Mall on Sunday 4 November to unpack and display hundreds of items to sell at...
In a nachas-filled morning
Sershin Naicker, the University of the Witwatersrand School Recruitment Manager recently visited King David Victory Park High School. This school has been identified as one of...
Elaine Macdonald and Vanessa Mearns, a mother and daughter, author-illustrator team, delighted the children of Sydenham Pre-primary School with a book reading of their recently published...
Four Torah Academy Boys’ High School students, Avi Cobb, Akiva Rosen, Dani Schwartz, and Avi Smith, graduated as Level 3 first-aiders last week. They became known...
Four years ago, neither Jordan Arelisky nor Aaron Isserow could have imagined that that they would be competing in a World Cup. Yet, in just over...
The Tree of Life Congregation community of Pittsburgh was participating in the worldwide Shabbos Project last Saturday when a gunman opened fire and killed 11 congregants...
“George has been gripped by fear. It has been hell.” These are the world of long time George resident and former city councillor, Myron Rabinowitz, describing...
A police affidavit in the KwaZulu-Natal mosque attack and multiple-bomb-threat case being heard in Verulam Magistrate’s Court this week provides evidence of a link between the...
The community has lost one of its real-life heroes with the sudden and tragic passing of social activist and pro-Israel lobbyist, Moses Moyo, last week.
The University of the Witwatersrand’s (Wits’) Student Representative Council has called on Dean of Student Affairs Jerome September to declare a state of emergency and postpone...
There was a groundswell of support for Parktown Boys High teens as their abuser appeared for sentencing at the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court east of Johannesburg...
The horrific anti-Semitic attack in Pittsburgh in the United States has shaken the Jewish world. It is such a horrifying thought that someone would do this...
If you watch foreign news reports, you’ll be forgiven for thinking war between Israel and Hamas is imminent. Each Friday, the sides brace for the inevitable...
Let’s call it like it is for once, shall we? No tiresome beating around the bush.
On Saturday morning, a friend was in from Israel, and I took him to one of the many synagogues in my neighbourhood. He was surprised by...
Israel may be a country under constant threat, but Sderot – a city on the Gaza border – is under constant attack.
Dr Bernie Fanaroff is a South African Jewish achiever extraordinaire, but too few people know why. He is an award-winning radio astronomer, and a quiet, humble...
The South African Jewish community emerged from the Shabbos Project weekend to shock and horror at the news of what had happened to fellow Jews at...
Here’s how last Saturday’s tragedy happened. (This account has been reconstructed from JTA, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The New York Times, and the Today Show. Some of...
Observant Danish Jews are concerned about their future in the Nordic country because, aside from an increase in anti-Semitic incidents, the country is proposing and introducing...
Fourteen Israeli children – who live in a conflict zone on the Gaza border – will be coming to South Africa to attend Habonim camp in...
“I have always believed that the majority of people want peace, and are ready to take risks for peace. For Israel, there is no path that...
The day after the killings, a man who brings Jewish boys into the covenant and escorts the Jewish dead to their final resting place finally got...
In 1943, my great grandfather, Rabbi Sholom Posner, was sent by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Pittsburgh to secure the foundations of the fledgling yeshiva school.
There are a lot of things in this world that make no sense to me.
There is a bus stop with my name on it somewhere in Katherine Street, Sandton. On the side of the shelter, it implores, “Howard Sackstein Stop...
I’m just going to come out and say it: I’m a bad Jew. A very bad Jew. A colleague who is the daughter of a priest...
Tayo Ayodele is a lone Jew living in Abuja, Nigeria, who kept Shabbat with the rest of the Jewish world on the Shabbos Project last week.
Rather than entering a state of passivity, I found that “keeping” Shabbos involves constructing the conditions in which the world comes to you differently.
This past weekend, I did something that scared me. And, to my surprise, I was acutely reminded of past moments filled with love and sacredness. It...
Last Shabbat, the United States Jewish community suffered its worst-ever anti-Semitic attack, when a lone gunman invaded a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and fatally shot 11 worshippers....
South Africans may see something of their own history in Robert Bowers, the killer of 11 Pittsburgh Jews in their synagogue on Saturday. He shouted that...
I am a member of a gym that offers its patrons fruit and vegetables at no charge. The idea is that after a workout (or before),...
With more revelations emerging about the alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of Saudi Arabia, the South African government has vacillated and delayed...
