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Although close to 200 Litvaks – Jews of Lithuanian descent – voted in the Lithuanian presidential elections on 12 May at Beyachad in Johannesburg, the result...
Over the past two years, Johannesburg marketer Michael Said transformed himself from an overweight and tired 61-year-old to being fit and healthy enough to tackle the...
The African National Congress (ANC) is likely to get between 46% and 52% of the vote, with the Democratic Alliance (DA) remaining the official opposition although...
Leaving an additional empty chair at our seder tables, possibly with a photograph of a hostage, is one way of bringing into our homes the plight...
The demand for property from people arriving in Israel has never been greater, said Marc Reiss, who heads up private and international banking activities in Israel,...
Dafi Forer Kremer, the new director of the Israel Centre in South Africa, is determined to assist Jewish educators to teach South Africans about Israel. Having...
You may have driven along Johannesburg roads like Vilakazi Street and Beyers Naudé Drive, named after a distinguished Zulu poet and Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist respectively. Now,...
Thirteen-year-old Caleb Levitan will represent South Africa at the Chess Olympiad in September, which is like a World Cup chess team event, after placing second at...
South African-Israeli freediving athlete, Thalia Sklair, says it was a surprise but a great feeling to be the best female freediver at the first official AIDA...
Group quiz night has become a favourite pastime in our community, and it’s mostly due to international relations expert Larry Benjamin. A Johannesburg quizmaster and compiler...
He was the friendly face that greeted you, and helped you park when you arrived to meet people for lunch on the kosher strip or to...
It’s not every day you see a rabbi riding a unicycle, but those at Sandringham Gardens in Johannesburg will attest to the fact that Chevrah Kadisha...
The barbarity of the attack by Hamas in Israel may have been shocking to many observers, but it wasn’t a surprise to those familiar with the...
Johannesburg teacher Shireen Saacks will bear the flags of South Africa and Israel in the half marathon of the 13th Jerusalem Winner Marathon on 8 March...
When global equity specialist David Shapiro sits at his desk in Johannesburg, he relishes the fact that technology allows him to buy shares in companies anywhere...
When the top 10 women swimmers in the 14 to 30 age category crossed the finish line at the Midmar Mile in KwaZulu-Natal earlier this month,...
Three Herzlia High School water polo players dived into the pitch-black water of the water polo pool in Knysna harbour in the Western Cape recently to...
Twenty-year-old Johannesburg swimmer Dani Furman pictures herself calmly awaiting her chance to dive into the Midmar Dam while a throng of other swimmers push and shove...
At the time of going to press, Bafana Bafana had reached the semi-finals of the 2024 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Ivory Coast, and the...
Capetonian Mark Blumenthal made aliya with his wife in January this year and in doing so, they wanted to show their support for Israel and show...
South African Donald Ramphadi and Israeli Guy Sasson almost achieved perfection without much practice at the prestigious Australian Open tennis tournament last week. They had barely...
King David High School Linksfield matriculant Ricci Waksman got eight distinctions and made it onto the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) outstanding achievements list by placing within...
Amit Frankel overcame a battle with mental health in his latter years at King David High School Linksfield to be admitted to studying psychology at the...
King David High School Linksfield matriculant Rachel Miller refused to let her hearing impairment be an obstacle to achieving goals that even she sometimes saw as...
Michaela Saayman went into her matric year at King David High School Linksfield with an overwhelming sense of stress and anxiety. “I had no idea what...
Johannesburg septuagenarian Irene Sundelson surprised herself by playing bridge for 48 hours across six days to win two South African Women’s Bridge Association Championships in October...
The appearance of two chief rabbis – of South Africa and the United Kingdom (UK) – to honour Muizenberg Shul’s centenary celebrations this month was a...
“When an amazing cyclist such as Chris Froome, the Kenyan-born four-time winner of the Tour de France, supports an event, you just have to come on...
When chess twins Judah and Caleb Levitan stepped into a restaurant in Serbia last month, the 13-year-olds were startled by the smoke. “There’s no such thing...
Johannesburg civil engineer Gregg Bernstein went into the 2023 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in India earlier this year with a lot of pressure on himself and a...
Professor Ronnie Schloss once had to run around the canteen at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) to find players for its senior team in the...
The war in Israel has made Osher Favel strangely more convinced to make aliya from South Africa than she was before it started. Favel is one...
As Afghanistan takes on South Africa in the ICC Cricket World Cup, one person integrally involved with the team is likely to have mixed emotions, namely...
The Springboks were crowned world champions at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, but the team’s fans are also the best in the world, says South African...
Hylton Kallner, who received this year’s Absa Business Leadership Award on 22 October, said that if he had to select a Springbok team of actuaries, doctors,...
Inasmuch as a pair of Cape Union Mart hiking shoes can get you to a mountain summit, the pinnacle of company chairperson Philip Krawitz’s life has...
Forensic pathologist Professor Ryan Blumenthal’s day job is in the cold world of the mortuary, not up in lights on a stage in front of 600...
Soon after touching down at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on 15 October, 73-year-old South African olah Andrea Goldblatt experienced a traumatic moment when a siren...
Former Proteas cricketer Adam Bacher has “a strong feeling about our Proteas” at the ongoing Cricket World Cup in India. South Africa started the tournament with...
Herzlia High School’s under-14 soccer team was excited about playing in the provincial final of the Kay Motsepe Football Cup, until they found out it was...
