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South African matric results will be published this month. For those of you waiting for the “final verdict”, it’s important to know that your marks don’t...
I felt sorry for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Inauguration Day. Instead of being sworn in in front of hundreds of thousands...
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...
My grandparents suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. I grew up witnessing their internal, silent agony. They were victimised by antisemitism, and suffered. As the clouds gathered,...
There is no doubt that our community and wider country are starting 2021 in a meitzar, a narrow place, filled with fear and anxiety. Caught in...
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....
My first year at the University of the Witwatersrand was in 2017 and it was a strange year. There was no Jewish establishment. Each student came...
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, there were many conversations about how people felt about being forced to work from home. Some missed office chats with colleagues,...
Time magazine dubbed 2020 the worst year ever. On its latest cover, it features “2020” with a large red “X” through it, marking the end of...
It’s that time of the year when we gaze into crystal balls to see what 2021 has in store for us. The United Nations (UN) has...
Enraged by the Rage outbreak, and ambivalent about upcoming “simple” travel plans, patients have increasingly contacted me this week, enquiring as to the safety of going...
Last Tuesday, I took a call from my good friend, Ronnie, whose equity portfolio I manage. It was the first day of December, and the media...
In the days following the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, I feel like a heroin junkie, coming down after an orgasmic high, at least that’s what I...
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...
By the time Nelson Mandela became president in 1994, I had been living outside of South Africa for 16 years but recall the overwhelming sense of...
The story that led to Jeremy Corbyn being suspended from the British Labour Party for antisemitism started back in 2004. It began with a campaign that...
In the run-up to the United States elections, nuance is something rare and exotic. I speak to family and friends in key American swing states, and...
(JTA) On Saturday, 12 September, Iranian authorities announced that 27-year-old wrestler Navid Afkari had been executed. Although officials claimed that he had been hanged, BBC Persia...
I’m a recovering control freak. Growing up as a Gen X-er, my parents and my parents’ parents made sure we cut our teeth on three very...
The ugly Malka Leifer saga began 12 years ago, when three sisters, Dassi Erlich, Ellie Sapper, and Nicole Meyer, came forward in 2008 and reported to...
How warm are relations between Israel, Egypt, and Jordan? A few articles on the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies’ (BESA’s) website analyse these treaties. In the...
The reopening of shuls has been met with comments ranging from “delighted to be going back at last!” to “are you sure it is really safe...
I’ve always loved the basic message of Rosh Hashanah. We aren’t perfect; we make mistakes but, importantly, we can change. Rosh Hashanah forces us to carve...
The announcement by the president of progress to lockdown level 2 from 18 August and the consequent lifting of the great majority of infection-control restrictions has...
On Thursday, the news broke that Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had agreed to a full normalisation of relations, the first peace treaty between...
We were preparing for the pandemic to hit us, and had anticipated that in the worst-case scenario, we could have hospital beds in our reception area,...
Much of the Board’s focus last year was on how to deal with various incidents of bullying and intimidation by anti-Israel activists on Wits campus. The...
