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“I’ve made so many mistakes,” former Springbok coach and SuperSport analyst Nick Mallett told the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards Breakfast on 20 October, chief among which...
The kippah, or yarmulke, may be small in size, but it has a mighty presence in Jewish men’s lives. Not just men, but the mothers of...
Dietician Carla Chait’s novel, Floor1, feels a bit like a food supplement rather than a nourishing meal – and that’s intentional. Chait is trying to convey...
Three famous names: Hermann Kallenbach, Mahatma Gandhi, and Count Leo Tolstoy all came together at a blue plaque ceremony at Tolstoy Farm near Lenasia on Sunday...
“It all started with a word,” Karen Lazar says of her latest book, W is for Witness. But this book is more than a game of...
“I couldn’t have written this book while my father was alive,” Denis Hirson told an audience gathered in Joburg recently for the launch of his novel,...
Soweto based entrepreneur Thando Makhubu is known for starting an ice cream business three years ago on just R700 in social-grant payments. Now, the enterprising businessman...
Most families fly to the Cape. But our family has always hit the road. What was originally motivated by budget has become a joy, so much...
There’s no “Start 101” school that teaches you how to create a business, the secret is just to start, says entrepreneur Miles Kubheka. “It’s 90% showing...
There’s no reason to expect Russia’s war with Ukraine will end any time soon because the stakes are too high for President Vladimir Putin, Bill Browder,...
The world looks at Israel as a country full of Israelis, but there is no such thing as a typical Israeli. Rather, there are about 30...
Artist Jennifer Kopping’s exhibition at the Holocaust & Genocide Centre in Johannesburg is magical and poignant. Titled “Heartsounds”, it’s made up of intricate collages that use...
Most people don’t think about floors, assuming that we walk on firm ground. But this wasn’t the case at Greenside Shul, where the timbers of the...
He was an architect, a developer, a sportsman, a philanthropist, a Zionist, and supporter of the Indian resistance movement (Satyagraha), but Hermann Kallenbach is best known...
Internationally renowned virologist and COVID-19 advisor, Professor Barry Schoub, has used a prestigious award to question whether science can play a greater values-driven social role. Schoub,...
Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg has opened a new Jewish section at the top of the cemetery – called section E – in which only “flat tombstones...
Internationally acclaimed futurist Clem Sunter says that when he wrote his latest book, Thinking the Future, he believed South Africa’s chance of overcoming its most negative...
Eighty-six percent of viewers of a recent SA Jewish Report webinar said they thought antisemitism in South Africa was getting worse but the South African Jewish...
“Thirty five years ago, I had to contend with lubo-phobia – Jews afraid of the ‘black hat’. I had to show people I was normal,” jokes...
Sleep should come naturally, yet our inability to get enough of it is an obsession of the modern age. “Sleep is a smiley faced curve of...
Jewish rescue and recovery organisation Zaka SA has been awarded a medal of bravery by the Gauteng province for its assistance with the fire in the...
Gareth Cliff, a long-time religious sceptic, had a moment of revelation on Wednesday, 14 April, when he interviewed Rabbi David Rosen on national television for his...
Herman Rothenberg, who turns 100 on 15 February, escaped the Holocaust in Germany in 1934 when his parents sent him out the country on his own...
There is a saying that a successful marriage means falling in love many times, always with the same person, and this couldn’t be truer for Esther...
Communal organisations and rabbis have responded with outrage to recent spoof videos that made fun of the controversy over kashrut prices. A video of Hitler shouting...
Most parents think their teenagers spend too much time on the internet and too little time engaging with the real world. Chabad has come up with...
Youngsters who have seen David Labkovski’s paintings of the Holocaust say the artworks are much more raw and emotional than the black and white images we...
Helen Kruger, an expert South African bridge player and teacher, was appointed to the World Bridge Federation (WBF) executive council earlier this month. This is the...
Kelita Hoffman is a busy corporate lawyer and the mother of a three-year-old with physical challenges. She’s also the founder of Challah2Share, which bakes and delivers...
This year’s Shabbos Project will be a little more bountiful thanks to social entrepreneur Zvika Arran, who has created a Flowers for Shabbat project together with...
Rabbi Ricky Seeff, formerly the principal of King David Victory Park Primary School (KDVPP), has taken up his new position as general director of the South...
King David Victory Park (KDVP) Primary School’s new principal, Kevin Lees, describes himself as a traditionalist in terms of teaching and learning, but also unconventional and...
Shuls, shuttered since 18 March, are to reopen this month in some provinces, but they will have to comply with strict safety protocols, says Chief Rabbi...
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...
If you ever doubted the ripple effect of one person’s good deeds on the world, a recent webinar featuring the heroic actions of a few individuals...
In spite of its reputation for being the “engine room” of the country, Johannesburg has many elegant, experimental buildings designed by Jewish architects. Johannesburg Heritage Foundation’s...
