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The prospects of a swift return of South Africa’s ambassador to Israel look bleak. Last week, at her first newly instituted monthly press briefing, Minister of...
Pro-Israel Christian communities are tired of keeping a low profile in the fight for Israel and have called for a mass rally in support of the...
When I was incensed that an Iranian teenager, Maedeh Hojabri, was arrested for putting videos of herself dancing on social media, people looked at me quizzically....
Russia, this week, is the most popular place on earth. The semi-final England-Croatia game of the FIFA World Cup coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting...
I was very fortunate to have received permanent residency in South Africa in 2013, under the category of “exceptional skills”. I was 26 years old at...
People around the world are joining the social media campaign to support the young Iranian gymnast, Maedeh Hojabri, who was arrested for posting videos on Instagram...
In this week’s Parsha, Matot, Hashem commands the Jewish people to avenge the spiritual destruction that was wreaked on the Jewish men with the Midyan idolatrous...
Nia dancing has ordinary women from all walks of life doing the unthinkable: Enthusing about an “exercise regimen”.
Few South Africans are aware of former president Nelson Mandela’s visit to Israel after he retired as the first democratically elected president in 1999. It is...
Last year, Aaron Greenblatt founded Aaron’s Rock Your Socks, a charity that collects socks for the needy, and was the youngest ever nominee at the SA...
With more hats than the Queen Mother, Pamela Solarsh made for a quirky choice for secretary to the mayor of Johannesburg. Never one to miss a...
By Saturday afternoon, it was already part of the scenery. Birds tweeting, dogs barking, kids playing, and the Russians and Syrians bombing.
With nominations closing on Friday (13 July), you have just hours to enter Achiever names (depending when you read this) to ensure that those who have...
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is unlikely to have much of an immediate effect on medical aid schemes or even public hospital care, according to various...
Save the date. On 13 February 2019, an Israeli-built unmanned spacecraft is expected to land on the moon, having blasted off from Earth two months earlier,...
From bulbous and egg-shaped to small and thin, the brinjal or eggplant (or if you’re British like me, the aubergine) is a staple fruit within Sephardic...
It is not often that a Jo’burg Jewish boy packs up his life to move to New York in pursuit of a dream, and wins a...
When one thinks of photography of a personal nature, what springs to mind is the ability to share images online with a relatively unconfined group of...
Mandela Day – Wednesday, 18 July – is around the corner and while you may want to do something meaningful, you haven’t had time to figure...
Over the past few weeks, this column has unavoidably had a negative focus, having reported mainly on recent acts of anti-Semitism and how the SA Jewish...
Remember the Hebrew writing on South African weapons during apartheid’s war against its enemies in the 1970s? Israel needed whatever friends it could get; so did...
Jockey Anton Marcus is rewriting the record books of South African horseracing.
I write in response to last week’s article about Janna Jihad Ayyad (“Palestinian child’s personal jihad is effective propaganda”, 6-13 July). The mention of Palestine and...
Maccabi South Africa brought the FIFA World Cup alive for a group of residents from the Selwyn Segal Centre in Sandringham recently in a morning of...
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Johannesburg personal trainer Troy Mayer swam through the ice last month simply to prove that we are limited only by what’s in our head.
The time between submitting a column and it being published, is for me an anxious period. Because I pride myself on writing with authenticity, it often...
The Chairman of Likud SA, Sergio Kowensky, was shot dead in broad daylight outside his factory in Benrose, Johannesburg, this week.
While a South African sports team is nowhere near the World Cup in Russia, we do have one esteemed representative on the field. His name is...
The Knesset approved a Bill on Tuesday to allow families who came to Israel from Yemen in the early days of the state to find out...
Hate speech accused Velaphi Khumalo faces an uncertain future as he awaits the judge’s final call on whether he will be found guilty or not.
By Wednesday afternoon, more than 2.62 million people across numerous social media platforms had viewed footage of an elderly rabbi protesting, and then shuffling along with...
South African Jewry is concerned that anti-Semitism is not just rising, but spiking. The South African Jewish Board of Deputies this week laid criminal charges against...
I have never met Sara Netanyahu, the wife of incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I have never interviewed her, nor been in the same room...
While most 12-year-olds focus on academics, sport or just having fun, Palestinian Janna Jihad is spreading her message of resistance in South Africa, calling on sympathisers...
Avraham Infeld struggles. Like anyone born in South Africa named Aubrey, who suddenly becomes known as Avraham, Infeld struggles with issues of identity. What is this...
It was a chance meeting that turned Chad Nathan’s life as a talented Instagram “self-influencer” into helping someone less fortunate who wanted much the same things...
The construction of a new museum in Lithuania to commemorate Jewish life lost in the Holocaust began last week, after a ceremony attended by Lithuania’s top...
“Where are you taking us?” So reads the inscription on the memorial of the infamous Grey buses which, during World War II, were used to transport...
With only eight days to go until the deadline, it’s time to submit your nominations for this year’s Absa Jewish Achiever Awards.
