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In the chaos before the hard lockdown in March 2020, people scrambled to get groceries, stock up on alcohol, or buy cigarettes. But some used those...
(JTA) Video from a packed engagement party is roiling the Jewish community of Melbourne, Australia, amid a growing outbreak of COVID-19 that has extended yet another...
During the early days of the pandemic, Gillian Kay chose to spend lockdown in her beloved childhood home in South Africa instead of being alone in...
Families baking cakes, icing drive-by party cupcakes, and fermenting sourdough starters was one of the more celebratory public images of the COVID-19 lockdown. However, for some,...
Can you imagine 365 days without leaving your place of residence during a pandemic that plagues such facilities, and surviving not only with your health intact,...
Making aliyah in normal circumstances is challenging, but under lockdown, it has become even more so. Yet, there are some surprising benefits to doing it during...
Lockdown has had numerous negative repercussions, but it has also led to some new beginnings. For a group of Sephardi women who grew up together, it...
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...
South Africans have endured a tough time under the lockdown imposed by the government in March, from extended alcohol bans to crippling job losses. While the...
As families are forced into lockdown together, the fault lines in relationships become clearer, which has increased divorce in some countries by as much as 30%....
Who would ever have thought when we went into lockdown on Pesach, we would still be reeling from the effects of COVID-19 at Rosh Hashanah? My...
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...
To watch a Barmitzvah boy finally get called up to the Torah, or to stand in (socially distanced) support next to someone reciting Kaddish for a...
After five months of silence and stillness, the sound of prayer is once again reverberating around shuls across South Africa as doors are opened to welcome...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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 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,...
This week, there’s undoubtedly a slight lifting of spirits in the country. Following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s move to level-two lockdown, we are all feeling a move...
“This was the year we were going to bring it home,” says talented first-team rugby captain, Joshua Pimstein, of King David High School Linksfield (KDHSL), lamenting...
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...
On Sunday, we celebrated the Barmitzvah of the son of a close friend. It took place on Zoom, as has been the 2020 way. Although I...
Members of the tourism and hospitality industries protesting harsh lockdown measures were dispersed with water cannons and stun grenades by police in Cape Town on 24...
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...
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....
Whether it be through healthcare, altruism, or leadership, many women have made their mark in fighting against COVID-19 or simply helping others survive this pandemic. There...
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,...
Once a hot commodity, office space is fast becoming the exception rather than the rule. COVID-19 may have sparked the shift to home offices, but it’s...
Having largely been confined to our four walls over the past few months, many of us have finally tackled those home-improvement projects. Whether we’re doing it...
It’s been more than a hundred days since some children last went to school. Some briefly attended classes before returning to online learning, and others are...
