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South Africa has been in the grips of a well-publicised growing crisis ever since Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, and their co-conspirators unseated President Thabo Mbeki. Under...
One and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic may be a suitable time to look back, and try to visualise possible future scenarios. The world...
The sheer number of new cases announced every night speak for themselves. For us, it translates into upwards of 20 admissions per day. There are times...
As our community fights the third wave of COVID-19, it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed by fear and uncertainty. What’s there to say when so many...
I often sit and stare at the vastness of the universe and wonder if we are alone in this world. Are there other living beings out...
It’s 17:20 on Tuesday, and I have just finished a full day’s work as an attorney. My volunteer Hatzolah shift starts at 18:00. In spite of...
Trees are an extremely important part of the earth’s ecosystem. They perform a multitude of functions. They produce oxygen and process carbon dioxide which is the...
Exactly 80 years ago, on 22 June 1941, the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa, a savage assault on the Soviet Union. Named after the Holy Roman Emperor...
June is Pride Month, celebrating the freedom that we have in South Africa for the LGBTQI+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex) community to live...
We are now well into a third wave of COVID-19, and it seems we are still a few weeks away from its peak. All evidence suggests...
My wife, Naami, and I were last week summoned to a school in the slapdash city of Hadera to be re-educated on how to drive. This...
After 12 consecutive years of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israelis are coming to terms with the fact that the magician, as his fans like to call him, has...
(JTA) Whether this week marks the last of Benjamin Netanyahu’s record-setting tenure as prime minister or is just a prelude to another never-count-him-out comeback, it seems...
With the plummeting temperatures across South Africa, our community has once again descended into concern and despair as new COVID-19 infections skyrocket. This round seems even...
It’s a cold autumn night in Johannesburg. I lie on my bed preparing for my pending aliyah, my laptop resting on my thighs, writing. Suddenly my...
An associate professor of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Family Medicine used a university WhatsApp group with his interns to propagate the following anti-Israel view....
Rashomon, the Japanese movie by Akira Kurosawa, relates the story of a murder whereby four different characters give their version of what happened. Three of them...
In the first week of the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout, more than 117 000 people were vaccinated, with many of our senior citizens receiving their first...
The origins of all wars are contested. Israel’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls” is no exception. Relying on the logic of cui bono – or he...
I write this with an overwhelming sense of sadness. The past two weeks have been difficult for everyone. Quite a few people have messaged me in...
Everyone is relieved that the guns have fallen silent – for now – in the worst Palestinian-Israeli clashes since 2014. The South African government hasn’t minced...
The recent Israel-Palestine outburst of violence was in many ways a media and public-relations war: a battle for the global, regional, and local support which is...
Nuance, context, fact checking, and, above all, reflecting both sides of the story when the issues are sharply contested, are the sine qua non of professional...
When it came to the tragic events at Mount Meron over Lag B’Omer, the writing was on the wall, say many who have written and spoken...
(JTA) When I was very young, what motivated me to go to shul on Shabbat morning was the fire station two houses away from the synagogue....
Every time we drive our vehicles into the streets in South Africa, we embrace real risk. The Automobile Association of South Africa has previously quantified that...
Going into our second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been fed an ample diet of despair, blame, and negativity, especially when it comes to...
A story broke in The Jerusalem Post on 11 April that Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility had once again been attacked. According to the paper, the site’s...
Yom Ha’atzmaut is an opportunity to declare proudly and publicly our connection to Israel. This is our opportunity to remind ourselves and the world what Israel...
The kosher department spends nearly six months of the year planning for Pesach and making certifications. This year was particularly challenging with the sad and untimely...
The United States-Saudi Arabia relationship is a really interesting case study for those who watch Middle Eastern geopolitics closely. Some background to current events is necessary...
On a recent visit to Tshwane, I was horrified to see the dilapidated state of the Old Synagogue on Paul Kruger Street in the city centre,...
In Pirkei Avot, it says, “If I am not for myself then who will be for me? If I am only for myself, then who am...
Taxi drivers in Israel are the best political barometer. A friend shared on Twitter a chat he had on a ride a week ago, when the...
I have lost friends, colleagues, and family members this year, people of all ages. How many of our legendary, most distinguished spiritual leaders have been taken...
Parliament’s plans to change the property clause in our Constitution to allow the state to expropriate land without compensation (EWC) have stalled. However, a freshly drafted...
Like most people, when I first started writing about mental-health issues 26 years ago and heard the word “suicide”, I’d picture someone taking their own life...
(JTA) I can’t stop thinking about Flory Jagoda, Joseph Sassoon, and Kitty Sassoon – three American Jews in their 90s who died last week. As an...
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,...
Our newspaper last week was described by some as “depressing”, and they had good reason to do so. While we paid tribute to our paramedic heroes,...
