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I’m a fan of healthy whole grains, but they can easily become heavy – even the healthy ones. Instead of packing my Passover meals with heavy...
South Africa is fortunate to have a close-knit and caring Jewish community whose members ensure that no Jew need be alone for the Pesach seders.
Poland’s newly passed Holocaust bill refers to an anti-defamation bill that makes it illegal for anyone to accuse Poland of being complicit in Nazi crimes. However,...
Natan Sharansky, the outgoing chairperson of non-profit organisation the Jewish Agency for Israel and a renowned Soviet dissident and human rights activist, was this week awarded...
“In Jewish tradition, we wait one year – a full cycle of chagim – until we say Yizkor. This is because in the first year, it...
Most of us need few excuses to make a batch of chocolate truffles, especially when coffee is involved. This recipe combines a velvety chocolate base with...
For the third consecutive year, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) marked Human Rights Day by taking a Jewish community delegation to Sharpeville, scene of...
The horrendous death of five-year-old schoolgirl Lumka Mketwa highlights a stark reality of South African society. Lumka fell into a pit latrine at an Eastern Cape...
I just can’t talk about chickens anymore. I really, really can’t. And that’s not only because I am being sued by Jeffery C Shull of Stan...
Days after she was released from Johannesburg Prison at the height of apartheid in 1985, Marion Crawford spoke at the launch of Jews for Social Justice...
There is a house, situated at 50 Durham Avenue, Raedene, which takes visitors back in time through its large selection of high-quality vintage items. These include...
The newly opened King David Ariel in Victory Park, dedicated to remedial education, has just introduced one of the two first Snoezelen rooms in South Africa....
Nikki Rabinovitch, a former King David Victory Park High School pupil, addressed the school’s weekly assembly about her alcohol addiction.
This year’s Purim play at King David Linksfield High School was a huge success, with the pupils having created their own show.
The Torah Academy Boys’ High School spent five unforgettable days out in the bush at Camp Seriti, near Bronkhorstspruit. The Shabbaton’s theme was The Power Within...
When I emigrated from South Africa nearly five years ago, one of the hardest things to leave behind was the incredible community we have come to...
I’d like to express praise for Rabbi Mordechai Rodal of Norwood Chabad. I had some new mezuzahs to be put up. Despite the rabbi not knowing...
Graduates of what were great academic institutions must be saddened and outraged today by the depths to which the universities of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and Cape...
Chelsea Football Club chairman Roman Abramovich has launched a campaign to fight anti-Semitism, which has become rife in British football.
The captain of Iran’s national soccer team posed for a photo with an Israeli soccer star. In a country that bans its athletes from competing against...
A major importer of kosher-for-Pesach products was this week forced to withdraw two top-selling products from the shelves after it was discovered that their expiry dates...
Israel being blamed for the Cape water crisis is a conspiracy theory that is taking hold in South African mainstream politics. In Parliament last Wednesday, a...
In traditional betei midrash, children begin their Torah studies with Sefer Vayikra, the Book of Leviticus. It contains all the laws of the priesthood and the...
The head of the Beth Din this week said the kosher supervision department was going to be revolutionised. He acknowledged the tacit role the organisation had...
Rowan Polovin, chairperson of the SA Zionist Federation (SAZF) Cape Council, says he fears for the future of Jewish students at the University of Cape Town...
On Tuesday morning, students of the University of the Witwatersrand arrived to find their campus defaced with ugly anti-Israel graffiti. At multiple locations across the campus,...
It is Israel Apartheid Week and there are unpleasant things happening on university campuses in South Africa. From the reports I have been getting, our students...
During one of my assignments with pro-Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine, I found myself in the direct firing line of the Ukrainian military. Wearing a helmet...
Issam Zeitoun, a Syrian now living in Germany, has been outspoken against the regime of Syrian’s President Bashar al-Assad and about his support for Israel. He...
Ishmael Khaldi is a Muslim Bedouin who has spent his life promoting Israeli democracy, having worked in Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs for 14 years.
Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) marks a week of hatred against the Jewish people in South Africa It is not necessarily against Israel’s policy, nor even the...
“There is no apartheid in Israel.” This was the resolute affirmation of the Ethiopian-born and the first ever black Miss Israel, crowned in 2013, Yityish Titi...
When the Israeli artists Elna and Gab, who are brothers, were in Cape Town recently, they left their indelible mark on a wall at the corner...
Guatemalan Diego Novella, charged with murdering his American Jewish girlfriend, Gabriela Kabrins Alban, at an upmarket Camps Bay boutique hotel in July 2015, turned to anti-Semitism...
The nine Lipskar children and their families flew in from nine cities and four countries to celebrate the 70th birthday of their father, Rabbi Mendel Lipskar....
An international fashion designer; a renowned sex therapist; a punk rocker; a rabbinical hedge fund manager; an educational psychologist moonlighting as a meditation guru; and a...
I sat down with Rivka Malka Perlman – spiritual entrepreneur, video blogger and creator of the Redemption Retreats – in a quiet room during Sinai Indaba...
Rabbi Laibl Wolf, one of the international speakers at Sinai Indaba, uses meditation to draw the youth back to yiddishkeit.
Despite the number of kosher restaurants in South Africa, kosher food gets a bad rap. Words like oily, bland, second-rate, unappealing, unoriginal and expensive are used...
As Israel Apartheid Week threatens to divide and poison the relationships between Muslims and Jews on campuses and beyond, individuals from the two faiths share how...
