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Temple Israel Cape Town hosted human rights activist and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Yosef Abramowitz, as one of its guest speakers on Friday night, 15...
Music is powerful, and the high holy days are filled with majestic tunes to make the liturgy soar. There’s a line from the machzor that we...
This week, we begin the last book of the Torah: Devarim (Deuteronomy). It contains the words that Moses speaks to the Israelites on the plains of...
Why is Chanukah eight nights long? You know the answer to this one, right? The olive oil needed to light the menorah should have lasted only...
What did you see when you opened your eyes this morning? Well, if you were like me, not much as it was that 04:00 to 06:30...
When I was a kid, I loved eating matzah on Pesach, and my all-time, top-two toppings were honey or charoset. Yes, I had a sweet tooth,...
Yawn! Not another Torah portion describing the building of the Mishkan (Tabernacle)! Really? Didn’t we cover this in great detail already? If you’re reading this week’s...
Our Torah portion this week opens with the famous story of Noah, but I want to focus on the end of the parshah and the equally...
As the new year begins, I have just finished the shloshim period for my mom, aleha shalom (peace upon her). It doesn’t matter how many times...
This year, Pesach and Easter fall on the same weekend. It’s also during the month of Ramadan. So the three Abrahamic faiths are all marking holy...
There’s a lot about Chanukah that speaks to where we are in South Africa’s young democracy right now. And it starts, like many Jewish discussions, with...
June is Pride Month, celebrating the freedom that we have in South Africa for the LGBTQI+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex) community to live...
If you tell anyone that you have heard the voice of G-d speaking to you, they might give you the name of a good therapist. But...
I wrote before Purim about the masks that we wear. Not just the COVID-19 ones, but the permanent ones that hide our true selves. And I...
As I write this, I’m looking at a row of masks. That might not be surprising given that it’s a week to Purim. The masks, however,...
Chanukah in South Africa is weird, let’s face it. It’s a festival of lights in the middle of summer! It’s a time to eat greasy latkes...
Every Torah scroll is a work of sacred artistry created by a sofer (scribe) whose work takes about a year to complete. With all this labour...
Back in March, when the full impact of coronavirus hit South Africa and President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the hard lockdown, the festival of Pesach was just...
