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Will Smith did what every self-respecting husband would do. Oscars host Chris Rock made a joke at the expense of Will’s wife. Which wouldn’t have been...
I have long held the view that men are stupid. Especially when it comes to relationships. Many a friend, married for years, has been shocked to...
At the height of the clamour against Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane competing in the Miss Universe pageant in Israel last year, there was unexpected support...
It sounds like the start of a bad joke. Or a dad joke. But it isn’t. It’s a serious question. What do air fryers, fish braais,...
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find...
When Nelson Mandela delivered the keynote address at the 1993 South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) national conference, he commented on how many anti-apartheid activists...
I’m a rebel. Finally. After 53 boring years, I have now become a lawbreaker. And it makes me feel alive. Until it kills me. And then...
We’re drawn to stories, and we’re drawn to heroes. Every compelling book or movie that has a hero follows a similar pattern. The tale often begins...
Over the past week, we have all watched in dismay and horror at the events unfolding in Ukraine. The destruction, suffering, and loss of life has...
For the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), the handing down last week of the Constitutional Court judgment in the matter of Bongani Masuku marked...
Some years ago, we were making a guest list for a function. It went rather swimmingly until I innocently mentioned the name of someone whom I...
The inherent danger of adhering to any cause, ideology, or faith system is that it can easily lead to those who don’t subscribe to such beliefs...
I’m not a runner. But every morning, I race against the 06:00 news. The beginning of the headlines is my cue to log onto Wordle and...
The African Union (AU) decided at its executive council meeting on 6 February to defer a debate on whether to withdraw Israel’s accreditation to the bloc...
In my defense, I had recently lost my mother when I was asked by a fellow kaddish sayer to please slow down as he was finding...
On Sunday, I joined my colleagues in the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) in attending the official opening of the Union of Jewish Women...
If President Cyril Ramaphosa had a Jewish mother, he would probably be a doctor today. Whether it was his profession or not, he would have been...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, 27 January, was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in November 2005 to commemorate Jewish and other victims of...
In our rush to get back to what was considered normal in a pre-COVID-19 world, I’m concerned that we might be “throwing the baby out with...
In memoriam: George Szemere I start this week’s column with a tribute to Holocaust survivor George (Stern) Szemere, who passed away in Johannesburg last week. George...
Some years ago, for no reason that I can clearly remember, there was a spate of “drive-by” shootings. What started as horrific and shocking headline news,...
It’s like man-flu, only with everyone around being even more annoying than they usually are. That’s my experience a few days into a bout with Omicron....
I suspect that Debs has me on speed dial. As her one-phone-call-away COVID-19 reassurance go-to person, I suspect I’m just one in a series of contacts...
In spite of the challenges of 2021, WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organisation) South Africa, under the excellent leadership of President Shelley Trope-Friedman, enjoyed a productive and...
The year began with South Africa in the middle of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, and unfortunately, is ending with a fourth wave now well...
The announcement of the new Omicron variant and its dire impact on overseas travel continues to dominate the news. With the sharp increase in infection numbers...
This isn’t a column about Daisy. It’s a column about kindness and appreciation. And even though Daisy, our beloved German Shepherd, is central to the story,...
Our community was shocked and grief-stricken to learn over the weekend that one of its own young members, Eliyahu David Kay, had been fatally wounded in...
I hadn’t thought of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem Ulysses for some years. And yet, there I was in the middle of a conversation with Avi Kay,...
At the time of writing, we are hopeful that Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, will represent our country at the Miss Universe pageant in Eilat in...
I feel sorry for Julius Malema. This is why. A few moments after the death of FW de Klerk, Julius Malema tweeted an article that contained...
Earlier this week, we were alerted to an incident involving several highly offensive posts belittling the Holocaust on a matric WhatsApp group. Unfortunately, the relative anonymity...
I didn’t realise until way too late that Chanukah is very early this year. It falls in November, which isn’t just early, but also enormously confusing...
Along with several of my colleagues at the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), I had the pleasure of being part of the observer team...
On Sunday afternoon, I was reminded what it is that I love about the South African Jewish community. It so happened that I was in a...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) this week focused on final preparations for the multifaith election observer team that will be taking part in...
I fully intended to be outraged at an Economic Freedom Fighters tweet that quoted Julius Malema. He was speaking at an election event that was live...
The conversation would go something along these lines. “Mrs Feldman,” they would say, on seeing my late grandmother, “You are looking too wonderful!” A pregnant pause...
Let me introduce myself. My name is Karen Milner, and I’m the newly elected chairperson of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD). I look...
There are many reasons why it isn’t easy to be a Jewish male. Expectation of performance begins at eight days, and hardly eases up until we...
