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“Give Prayer a Chance”, a new initiative by Chabad House Johannesburg, is described by its director, Rabbi David Masinter, as a spiritual Iron Dome for the...
While the world changed for Jews on 7 October 2023, educational practices have also had to adjust, David Bryfman, the chief executive of the New York-based...
“Most of us – if not all – have been born into a tapestry of ancestral trauma as the Jewish people.” Peta Cline Feigin, local life...
First-time voters went out in their numbers in order to take a stand in their future South Africa in the country’s national elections on Wednesday, 29...
In a sometimes confusing teenagers’ world, there are few places one can express one’s feelings in a judgement-free zone. Often, it’s teens who best understand and...
Although they may be far from the country of their birth, South African expats around the globe went out in their thousands to vote on 18...
“The time has come for us to imagine. Let’s create a space of hope and how. To realise the dream that we all share in, here...
When news of the massacre at the hands of Hamas in Israel on 7 October filtered down to Omer Cohen*, who was living in Cyprus, he...
It may be difficult to get into a party mood for the 76th year of Israel’s independence in light of the war and global rise in...
“Remembering the systematic genocide of the European Jews, a crime against humanity on an unprecedented scale, and the horrors and atrocities perpetrated in Germany’s name under...
King David High School Linksfield matric student Jaime Freeman discovered a talent for wildlife photography during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 while on a trip to...
Miriam Lazarus is one of the few remaining Lithuanian Holocaust survivors in South Africa, but she wouldn’t have been born if the Nazis had their way....
On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of 44 000 Jews from Hungary and 1 900 Jews from Rhodes, this year’s Yom Hashoah ceremony in Cape Town...
When Nomakwazi Ndlovu left her job at Sorbet Drybar Bedfordview four years ago and wanted to start her own business, she had no clue where to...
Members of the Lithuanian government are calling on South Africans holding Lithuanian citizenship to vote in the upcoming election, saying its outcome could determine the future...
Internet Communications Technology expert Arthur Goldstuck, whose latest book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI was recently launched, says there’s no reason to panic about artificial intelligence...
Seeing a little girl, about eight years old holding a placard saying, “One Zionist One Bullet” outside Beyachad in Johannesburg, where the annual Aliyah Expo was...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog flew to Kigali in Rwanda this week to commemorate 30 years of the Rwandan genocide with President Paul Kagame. “Three decades after...
Walking into the Aliyah Expo in Johannesburg and Cape Town last week was like taking a trip into a real-life encyclopaedia for aliya, say participants, with...
Over the past few years, Pam Cohen’s* expenses and those of her children far exceeded what she was making in her little business, and she got...
Life can be pretty absurd! Women have been known to give birth to a baby when they never knew they were pregnant. A tiger can break...
The loved ones left behind after suicide often have more questions than answers, said Liane Lurie, a Johannesburg clinical psychologist and Carin Marcus, a clinical social...
What started as a way for former 702 radio presenter and travel blogger David Batzofin to create a portfolio for his travel writing 14 years ago...
“We’ve all seen online hatred towards Jews, especially recently, but it’s a completely different thing to hear this hatred, when it’s directed at you personally, with...
For South African BCom Marketing student Kayla Lowenstein, the call for the return of the hostages is personal. One of the young men still being held...
Eleven-year-old King David Primary School pupil Caiden Distiller has no strings to hold him down, to make him fret and make him frown as he has...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein called on American Jewish leaders to recognise that “Israel’s war with Hamas – and by extension Iran – is against the...
As many as one in ten people who get COVID-19 in 2024 are likely to get “long COVID”, according to Professor Barry Schoub, the professor emeritus...
South African tertiary students took home more than just tools to combat antisemitism on campus and in their community at the international StandWithUs conference in Los...
What started off as a plan to create an online platform for the Jews of Kimberley has, with the help of South Africans around the world,...
It’s not unusual for a newborn to wear his dad’s tallis at his bris, but it is unique when it was one of the only things...
When 10-year-old Liam Meyersfeld wanted to find a way to help his favourite animal shelter, nothing was going to get in his way. So he raised...
Don Krausz, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, and the chairperson of the Johannesburg chapter of the South African Holocaust Survivors Association, has been made a pawn of...
Radio and media personality Gareth Cliff says the Jewish community needs to recognise that the African National Congress (ANC) is as “unimportant as a drugged-up meth-head...
Chabad makes a point of ensuring that Jews feel welcome around the world and encourages a Jewish way of life. Now, Rabbi Chezkin Yehudah Malka and...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) delivered a memorandum to the justice department in Pretoria on 12 February in response to Justice and Correctional...
“October 7 marked the point of no return,” Rabbi Danny Mirvis, the acting chief executive of World Mizrachi, told a presentation organised by Mizrachi South Africa...
The hills are alive to The Sound of Music at the Teatro at Montecasino, where two budding young actresses from King David Victory Park (KDVP) Primary...
“If they have a problem with Jewish religious symbols, let them say it outright,” Ward 72 Councillor Daniel Schay said in the first Johannesburg council meeting...
“One day, when true peace comes, they’ll write books about her, name streets after her, and make movies about her life. If Israelis knew what Sylvia...
