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The South African Jewish community’s own Professor Barry Schoub has been selected to chair the most recently created Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on COVID-19. The appointment...
South Africa appears to be over the COVID-19 surge, with death and infection rates mercifully lower than initially feared, however scientists and politicians caution that now...
With winter behind us and spring in the air, it appears as if the community is dropping its guard and behaving as if the coronavirus pandemic...
With over 25 million cases, some 861 000 deaths and a monthly loss of some $375 billion across the global economy, COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc...
Surprising though it may seem, COVID-19 hasn’t dampened the thriving dating scene across the Johannesburg Jewish community. Lonely hearts are finding love in spite of social...
My mother is very much a doer. She would venture into the ashrams of India and visit strangers in hospitals to spread love and healing. This...
Ronan Keating sang, “Life is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it”, and never before has this been more true than over these past five months. Not...
Emigration is expected to increase in the months and years ahead as South Africans struggle to survive in a battered economy and volatile political climate exacerbated...
“In a big crisis, the world turns to social science,” said Dan Ariely, the renowned Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University. “We...
In a heart-wrenching post on the Joburg Jewish Mommies Facebook group last week, Tracy-Lee Langlois shared the tragedy of having passed COVID-19 on to her mother,...
As the epicentre of COVID-19 moves to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), five people have died from the virus in the tiny Durban Jewish community of 1 800, all...
Our community has felt the impact of COVID-19 hugely, what with 106 people having lost their lives to the coronavirus, and so many more becoming very...
A palpable sense of anticipation has begun to permeate our homes. This isn’t uncommon for the latter part of August, for the renewal of spring and...
It’s Sunday, 14 June, just more than 11 weeks after South Africa has gone into full lockdown, and so far, no one I know has COVID-19....
From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I worked on the frontlines as a pharmacist. Each day, I would go to work, much to the...
After 134 days of lockdown, the pervasive sense I get from my patients is that they are “over it” and just want to get on with...
Jewish doctors who are on the frontline of COVID-19 in the public sector are conveying a message of teamwork, innovation, and hope that goes against the...
In times of crisis, heroes emerge. It’s our duty to acknowledge those in our midst, and ensure that they get the recognition they deserve for their...
When Carryn Bukris envisioned her wedding day, she never imagined she’d be wearing a mask as she walked down the aisle with her husband, Shai. In...
How will we fill our time? That’s a question designed for boredom! Looking at the lockdown this way, we see a long period of utter boredom,...
Most people in the entertainment industry begin their year with a somewhat blank calendar, and tons of faith. The shows will go on, and we will...
As the ambulance was about to whisk him away to hospital, Holocaust survivor Henri Meenz watched his beloved wife kiss the mezuzah on their front door...
