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The South African squad will show their flair and skill at the M21 Maccabiah Games this month, but will they bring home the coveted gold and...
It has taken dedication, discipline and determination for Dean Levy to become the number one under-19 table tennis player in South Africa and the winner of...
Six weeks after having double brain surgery, 16-year-old South African national junior swimmer, Matt Carrol, is ready to compete at the 2022 Maccabi Games in July....
When Jacqui Boyd got the call to be one of Team Maccabi South Africa’s flag bearers at the Maccabi Games in July, her lifelong dream came...
Johannesburg 74-year-old grandmaster golfer, Moshe Duek, won’t just be Team Maccabi South Africa’s oldest athlete at the Maccabi Games in July, he’ll also be the sole...
Team Maccabi South Africa’s padel convenor, Rob Sulcas, will be competing in his fifth Maccabi Games in his fourth sport, padel, a game making its debut...
“Bitcoin represents something profoundly important, notwithstanding some of the scepticism that surrounds it,” says Steven Boykey Sidley, the co-founder of multiple technology companies and an award-winning...
About seven weeks ago, South African-born Mark Blankfield was walking to the doctor in Melbourne, when his phone rang. “Hi Mark, I’m Fiona from the governor’s...
To be named on the Queen’s 2022 Birthday Honours list with one of Australia’s highest civilian honours was a wonderful surprise for South African-born social entrepreneur...
d=f “Analysts, commentators, economists, and central bankers are battling to understand what’s happening and how things are going to play out,” he said. “We haven’t had...
The legend of Gerald Fox was reactivated last Sunday, 12 June, as more than 4 500 people – including three close family members – ran together in...
South African chess prodigies, 11-year-old twins Judah and Caleb Levitan, are doing what they love – playing competitive chess in a country that has a thriving...
The late President Nelson Mandela called them “an amazing group of women” because of the work they had been doing in the townships since 1994. But...
It isn’t often that South African businessmen are knighted by the Queen of England, but then Cape Town-born Sir Bradley Fried, the chairperson of the Court...
King David High School Linksfield (KDHSL) is passionate about rugby, but last week was the first time the school brought home a major trophy in the...
Having been a bully and someone who was bullied, Clinton Fein and Bryan Schimmel are on a mission to use their experience to eradicate bullying from...
“No matter how your morning starts off, when you get on a bike, you get a real sense of freedom and it certainly makes me feel...
“You would get this on an aeroplane.” “This must be served at Diepsloot prison.” “It tastes like Swiss roll.” “This is a mushy pudding.” “It tastes...
He was one of the brains behind Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Johannesburg, and has been knighted by the French government. Now, David Kramer, a Johannesburg-based educator,...
Elian Weiner and Mark Robbins have always been avid tennis and squash players, but now they’re both hooked on a new sport, padel. Likewise, Ricky Lewis...
Twenty-five-year-old Cape Town-born athlete, Jonathan Benjamin, is “beyond thrilled” to be selected to compete for South Africa in the 2022 World Games in the duathlon discipline....
“Israel will never say no to any Jewish person who wants to make aliya, certainly not to older Jews. The reason the country exists is to...
Did you know that Holocaust victims used wooden clubs, newspapers, toothpaste tube caps, and bread to create chess sets during World War II? This was revealed...
“A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives.” As we commemorate International Museum Day on 18 May, these...
South African Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein may well sway the decision-making process in Israel’s Knesset over whether Israel should change to a five-day working week,...
Jake Weinstein, a Grade 11 pupil at King David High School Linksfield, became one of the first South Africans to come in the top four in...
Johannesburg doctor Jacov Lalou, 42, set a new South African Backyard Ultra record by running 38 consecutive laps of 6.7km each on Sunday, 1 May. Lalou...
“Ever since Israel was established, our people have had to fight for their existence. Eight wars have been fought, 24 068 have given their lives in...
The fifth wave of COVID-19 has begun in Gauteng and the Western Cape, according to medical experts, with case numbers increasing substantially over the past two...
For decades, the testimony of Holocaust survivors has been the most common tool to teach the younger generation around the world about the Holocaust. However, until...
It may seem strange to read about squash saving lives, but that’s exactly what Egoli Youth Empowerment is doing for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. At the...
If you know Craig Nudelman or Adam Rosman, they are most likely to greet you with the following on 4 May: “May the fourth be with...
When Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor who went on to live in South Africa, was liberated from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia in 1945, he was...
Capetonian Sarah Silber exceeded her expectations by coming 19th out of 1 010 women in the Two Oceans ultra-marathon (56km) in her hometown on 17 April this...
Whenever King David High School Linksfield (KDL) alumnus David Shein sits at a table, he always looks around and says to himself, “I’ve got to have...
“The Nazis hunted down Jews in hate. The Rebbe taught us to search for and seek out every single Jew in love.” This was a life...
Many youngsters in the early 1940s dreamt of flying a Spitfire and shooting down lots of Messerschmitts. It was the time of World War II. One...
“It was a powerful experience to be among a group of like-minded people and share the emotions of those previously injured in battle, either mentally or...
It’s not often that you find a nice South African Jewish girl who works as an air hostess, but back in the late-1950s and 1960s, Alicia...
“People think innovators must be geniuses – super-intelligent people with phenomenal memories. Absolute nonsense,” said South African-born and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) educated innovator and...
