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After a great deal of public clamour, media noise, and anxious expectations, the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines have finally arrived. What can we expect? Undoubtedly,...
There has been a focus on frontline healthcare workers and emergency medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic, but what about the community’s loyal and over stretched...
Israel is reporting promising initial results from its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the fastest in the world. The first official findings released by the health ministry show...
A Johannesburg doctor is battling to come to terms with the tragic passing of his esteemed colleagues who died in a fatal helicopter crash last week....
Sigal Josselowitz never got to say goodbye to her father after he was admitted to hospital with COVID-19 at the beginning of December 2020. During their...
The war against the second wave of COVID-19 raged in the Western Cape in December, and many of those hard hit were either local community members...
When the second and more virulent COVID-19 wave came crashing down at the beginning of the holiday season, Hatzolah Medical Rescue went above and beyond the...
With the rollout of vaccines imminent in South Africa, a panel of local experts weighed in on the subject in a webinar hosted by the SA...
South African healthcare workers can now register for their COVID-19 vaccination using a platform launched by Discovery this week. Information captured will be fed into the...
As the second wave of COVID-19 hits the country, so did the trifecta of curfew, an alcohol ban, and the closure of beaches. These all had...
My beloved Jonathan, our two boys, our household staff, and I battled the COVID-19 V2 variant. Of all of us, it hit me the hardest. I...
Buffets of canapés and dessert, the sharing of snacks and dips, and horah dancing – allegedly without masks – were just some features of a Jewish...
While people around the world line up for vaccination against COVID-19, only 53% of South Africans plan to get vaccinated when it becomes available to them....
Since its arrival, COVID-19 has challenged physicians to gather evidence and make firm decisions. This isn’t a behaviour to which good evidence-based doctors are accustomed. A...
“The price of vaccines is so ridiculously low in comparison to the terrible economic damage of every day of a national closure. The argument [of cost]...
When Cape Town opera singer Belinda Silbert caught COVID-19 in March 2020, she says she was in “excruciating agony that was indescribable”. “I was screaming constantly....
When the text message popped up on my phone at the end of December, I gave a huge sigh of relief. The message was from my...
A year ago, we were holidaying in South Africa, visiting family and friends, and my late parents’ graves in the Pinelands Jewish Cemetery. We were also...
Exactly one year ago today, I was in Varanasi, a holy city in India on the banks of the holy Ganges (or Ganga) River. One of...
As Israel led the world in inoculating its citizens against COVID-19 – earning the new title, “vaccination nation” – I got my first Pfizer shot on...
The second wave of COVID-19 is currently crashing over the South African Jewish community, leaving tragedy, despair, and fear in its wake. In Cape Town, one...
For the second time in 10 months, shuls have had to close their doors as COVID-19 rampages across the country. While most within the community have...
While countries like Israel have already vaccinated many of its people, South Africa is still negotiating the procurement of vaccines in the battle against COVID-19. The...
We have emerged from the eye of the storm to confront a second wave that is significantly worse than we anticipated. It feels like a tsunami....
As Jewish schools across the country begin the year amidst a second wave of COVID-19 and a new variant of the virus, educators are confident that...
The United States of America’s ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, has described the frightening experience of contracting COVID-19 and landing up in the intensive-care unit...
It was a hot summer evening on 6 December when I felt the first chill. Surely it wasn’t COVID-19? My husband and parents had it two...
COVID-19 has taken many community stalwarts in the past few weeks. Just two are my in-laws Barney and Esther Singer, who celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary...
I’m hardy, I’m a traveller. I climb mountains and hike for weeks in remote forests. I never get sick. But I did. 2020 what have you...
I’m Nicola Date, a 32-year-old arts manager, comedian, and costume designer, mother, and two-time COVID-19 survivor. I have had a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse through hospitalisation. When...
“For the first time in my life, I was so relieved to be home after the December holidays. It felt like we had run the frightening...
Only 21% of Israelis reported that they would agree to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the first round of a vaccine rollout, according to a study...
I had heard that “when one child writes matric, we all write matric”. As a first-time matric parent of twins, I feared the worst. On reflection,...
2020 was to be the year that my baby was in matric. We had been through matric three years before with my older daughter, so we...
“COVID-19 has knocked me right off my feet. I’ve lost my job and my income along with it. R100 has become a lot for me, and...
Back in March, COVID-19 was brought into the heart of the South African Jewish community because of a party held thousands of kilometres away. At that...
A diabetic man enters my office, and instead of unveiling his quarterly collection of diabetes questions in order to receive reassurance, today he has only one...
COVID-19 has taken a major toll on the emotional well-being of our community. While some have developed a number of coping mechanisms, many continue to battle...
As Gusti Yehoshua-Braverman ends her decade-long term as head of department of diaspora affairs at the World Zionist Organization (WZO) in October, she is more determined...
The Jewish community in Johannesburg has experienced a dramatic drop in COVID-19 deaths since the surge in July. “So far in September, we have only had...
