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“Do you have a passport?” Lauren Duncan, the JVW football team manager, asked 25-year-old defender Erin Herz at a training session held by the Johannesburg women’s...
Durban’s most loved runner, Adam Lipschitz, will be among the 1 000 other runners lining up at the start of the inaugural Khayelitsha Half Marathon in...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on the Jewish people of the world to work together to reclaim the term “Zionism”, which he insists means “responsibility”. In...
Not only was Ahmed Obaid AlMansoori the first prominent Muslim Arab personality to participate at the World Zionist Conference in Basel, Switzerland, this week, he also...
Nearly 16 000 runners took on the challenge of the Comrades Marathon 2022 last Sunday, 28 August. Emotions ran high as people beat their best times, others...
In just six years, Johannesburg Jewish rifle shooter Perry De Gouveia has shot the lights out in his sport. Having received National Protea Colours from the...
Holocaust educator Tali Nates founded the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) in 2008. Now, Germany, the country that led the systematic murder of six million...
When Roei Ben-Tolila was an officer in the elite units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), he always told his soldiers, “There’s nothing you can’t do”....
After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s largest and oldest ultramarathon returns on 28 August, when more than 20 000 runners will...
Former Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions activist Klaas Mokgomole will be running the Comrades Marathon on Sunday with the Israel flag draped over his shoulders, raising money for...
When runners pass through Hillcrest at about the 60km mark during this year’s Comrades Marathon, they can stop to lay tefillin and do other mitzvahs. The...
A delegation of Israeli water experts have arrived in South Africa to help the Tshwane municipality solve its water issues, and Johannesburg may follow Tshwane’s lead...
The Jews of the Caucasus have “been through it all”, said Ruben Shimonov, a Detroit-based educator, community builder, and social entrepreneur, speaking at Limmud Johannesburg last...
“In five or 10 years’ time, there’ll probably be a museum dedicated to what’s happening in Ukraine. What will be in that museum? Will it be...
Dr Mpho Phalatse, the executive mayor of Johannesburg, has called on the private sector to help sort out the city’s economy and job creation, while she’ll...
Hungarian-born Tamas Buchler is doing what he can to dispel the myth that central Europe is all about death camps, encouraging people to recognise that Jews...
The Israeli left-wing is in tatters following the failure of the Oslo Peace Process, Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year rule, and the dramatic decline of the Israeli Labor...
Both King Edward VII School (KES) head boy Dean Bacher and Grade 11 student David Teeger are batting all-rounders. Both are the only current students at...
Simeon Hurwitz, the co-owner of Hurwitz Farming, didn’t expect his farm’s eight-year-old Boran bull, named Jumbo, to be sold for a record-breaking price of R2.3 million...
Seventy-year-old Johannesburg lawn bowler, Desiree Levin, couldn’t walk 10 years ago, so winning bronze at the Commonwealth Games on 3 August was “beyond her wildest dreams”....
The victory of South Africa’s women’s football team, Banyana Banyana, at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations on 23 July shows that women have a place...
Eighty-one years after Lyonell Fliss and his parents were saved by the skin of their teeth from being murdered during the savage Iași pogrom in Romania,...
A South African olah played a key role in introducing surf life-saving – the only sport with the purpose of saving lives – to this year’s...
“It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Jewish community since World War II, and remains the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentinian history,” said Harold...
South Africa’s junior cricket team won gold at the 2022 Maccabi Games for the fifth consecutive time since the introduction of junior cricket to the Jewish...
South Africa obtained two gold medals in the 1.5km open swimming at the Maccabi Games on 24 July, with matric student Hannah Robertson winning the open...
South African tennis star Jacqui Boyd has now won a total of nine Maccabiah medals, including seven golds. In this year’s Maccabi Games, her fifth time...
“You experience almost a spiritual feeling while surfing in the sea. Every wave is totally different. You need the creativity to pull off different types of...
As a child in Johannesburg, Dr Ian Froman refused to go to kindergarten until they set up a place where he could play tennis in the...
Team South Africa won its first gold medal of the ongoing Maccabi Games when its lone golfer, Johannesburg-based 74-year-old Moshe Duek, won the individual net competition...
Matric pupil Hannah Robertson has won four medals, including two golds, for South Africa at the ongoing Maccabi Games. This St Andrew’s School for Girls scholar...
Professional runner Durbanite Adam Lipschitz defended his 10km title in Jerusalem on 18 July at the Maccabi Games, crossing the finish line ahead of about 2...
South Africans are being pitted against South African expats or their children at the Maccabi Games and for some, this poses a small conflict of interest...
When Darren Zidel came across pickleball while scrolling through Instagram about 18 months ago, he never thought he would become the president of Pickleball South Africa...
“Either you love chess, or you don’t play it.” So says Clive Wolpe, who has been a lover of the game for most of his life. ...
Hundreds of local Jews, rabbis and communal organisation sang and danced down Oaklands Road in Orchards, Johannesburg last Sunday, 10 July, after completing the South African...
There’s a strange myth about Jewish youth battling to get into the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and not being very welcome there, but it’s exactly...
Western Cape Stormers’ loose forward Hacjivah Dayimani is in Israel, captaining the South African rugby team in the Maccabi Games 2022. On the back of winning...
South African-born baritone and former Linksfield Shul chazzan Colin Schachat never dreamed that he would sing two pieces with world-famous Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in front...
British-born Ray Hill was an anti-racism campaigner whose was involved in far-right-wing politics in South Africa for 10 years, only he was a spy for the...
