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We’re heartbroken and devastated at the state of our community when it comes to sexual abuse, and the Chaim Walder debacle has had a deep impact....
עַל אֵלֶּה אֲנִי בוֹכִיָּה עֵינִי עֵינִי יֹרְדָה מַּיִם (For this I weep – tears stream from my eyes.) (Eicha/Lamentations 1:16) It’s this verse, that for so many...
Every year on the anniversary of its founding in 1912, the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) issues its “January 8th Statement”. In...
With the doors of international travel slammed shut on an exhausted nation, and South Africans desperate to escape the monotony of nearly two years of lockdown...
Although Miss SA Lalela Mswane is the latest high-profile South African to be targeted for visiting Israel, bullying of this kind isn’t new. For more than...
As the year meanders to a close and the Chanukah candles start to flicker out, I can hear Fleetwood Mac’s hit song, “Tell me lies, tell...
An avalanche of panic calls, contact questions, and quarantine-bound disappointed families was certainly not what I expected in the last week of November. I have, once...
The legendary New York Yankees’ catcher, Yogi Berra, renowned for his paradoxical axioms, was attributed as saying, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Just as...
When we hear the phrase “gender-based violence” (GBV), we automatically think people mean violence against women. But this is a mistake. In fact, the term GBV...
I didn’t know Eli Kay. I know that he worked at the Kotel, that he was 25, that he was carrying a Likutei Sichos when he...
I spent a surreal week in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) representing South Africa in a delegation of young World Jewish Congress Jewish Diplomatic Corps leaders...
In the lead-up to the recent T20 World Cup, South African cricket was rocked by allegations of systemic racism at the highest levels of the game....
The last apartheid leader, FW de Klerk, died peacefully at his home, aged 85, in the luxury suburb of Fresnaye, Cape Town, on 11 November 2021....
On Sunday, the government announced that it had withdrawn its support for Miss South Africa to compete in the Miss Universe competition. The competition is due...
I have just returned from an educational tour of Northern Iraq (Kurdistan) where I studied the parallels of genocides and persecution. As Jews, we’re familiar with...
Low turnout was the biggest feature of South Africa’s fifth local government elections since the country’s democratic transition. Some blamed COVID-19, the weather, the inefficiency of...
Way back when I was in primary school, I had a good friend who grew up in a deprived household – at least, he felt deprived...
Tens of thousands of 12 to 17 year olds around the country presented for their COVID-19 vaccines this week. What advice should teens be given after...
I recently looked back at some election results. Earlier in the year, the Democratic Alliance (DA) clung onto a Pretoria West seat by three votes in...
In June 1941, an unpretentious monthly bulletin called Jewish Affairs made its first appearance in South Africa. It came out at a time of unprecedented stress...
“Please – next time he’s going to kill her! Help me get my daughter away from him and to the UK so we can keep her...
We are less than three weeks away from a local government election, and it’s likely to be our most chaotic and fractious since 1994. The country...
The current violence in Arab-Israeli cities is a greater threat to the state of Israel than Hamas and Hezbollah. The comparison might sound dramatic, but since...
Twenty years ago in September 2001, a week before what became known as “9/11”, the United Nations (UN) hosted what it called the “World Conference on...
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced last Thursday, 30 September, that the country would be moving down to adjusted level 1 lockdown. A number of restrictions have now...
The overarching emotion that signified the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was fear. I remember a palpable fear that permeated the community before the first case...
About 200 years ago, the Torah giant, the Tiferet Yisrael (Rabbi Israel Lifshitz – 1782 to 1860) exhorted his followers to be vaccinated against smallpox. The...
Discovering that your child has a learning disability is traumatic for most parents. Parents often respond with a wide range of emotions, they may feel anger,...
Now is the time when serious consideration is being given to what lies ahead for the end-of-year holiday season under the spectre of COVID-19. Will it...
We are living through one of the most traumatic times in which uncertainty reigns supreme, but we tend to focus on the physical consequences and forget...
The third COVID-19 wave is ongoing, driven by the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In spite of decreasing case numbers in Gauteng, the national test...
Sometimes we forget to have the most important conversations with our children. Life is so busy, we are scrambling to keep up with school lifts, homework,...
In mid-June, when COVID-19 cases began climbing to unprecedented levels in our community, I was privileged to be asked to become a Hatzolah COVID-19 Wellness caller....
The South African government recently acted surprised that Israel had rejoined the African Union (AU) as an observer. History tells us that it shouldn’t have. Connections...
Fighting misinformation and a pandemic is taxing. However, it doesn’t help for Reform UK leader Richard Tice to make misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines and fertility....
On Sunday, amidst all the challenges and trauma of this pandemic, I had a most inspiring experience. I decided to visit the pop-up vaccination site at...
The drop in cases of new COVID-19 infection in the community in the past week is like the loosening of a noose around the necks of...
South Africa has survived an insurrection, if President Cyril Ramaphosa is to be believed. This is no laughing matter. The extent and context of the violence...
I’m cursed with optimism. But as the smouldering cinders of last week burned themselves to charcoal and our president flanked by his podgy unkempt generals wailed...
Psycho-social media and literature have long highlighted the negative effects that the cyber age is having on our youth. The computer screen, cell phone, internet, game...
