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It sounds like something out of a horror movie, but it happened in a private Johannesburg care facility. Jewish pensioner Bernard “Bernie” Katz was admitted to...
Every single Chevrah Kadisha resident over 60, as well as most of Johannesburg’s Holocaust survivors, were vaccinated last week to their relief and that of their...
A volunteer firefighter who was born in South Africa has been at the forefront of the fight to protect Israel’s “Gaza envelope” – the area of...
As rockets rained down on most of Israel from Monday to Wednesday this week, many South African olim hunkered down in safe rooms, bomb shelters, and...
South African Jews and their relatives in Israel are battling yet another travel ban implemented by Israel at the beginning of May, which forbids travel to...
Twenty years ago, the infamous United Nations (UN) World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (or the Durban Conference) descended into a hate-fest...
When your grandmother isn’t given the care she needs, it will probably have an impact on you. For Lethabo Selowe, the nursing unit manager at Sandringham...
They say that behind every great man is a great woman, and in the case of Sarah Goldblatt and the Afrikaans literary legend CJ [Cornelis Jacobus]...
Yohanatan Hevroni was so excited about going to Mount Meron for Lag B’Omer after not having been there for seven years, he arranged a bus for...
On Monday, Israel implemented a ban on its citizens travelling to South Africa, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and Turkey amidst fears of COVID-19 variants. But...
As the dust settles after the Mount Meron disaster, questions will be asked about how it happened and why. Local expert Professor Efraim Kramer says stopping...
Israeli scientists have uncovered secrets of our evolution deep in a cave in the Kalahari Desert. A group of scholars from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein this week was appalled at the “conduct of the commissioners of the Judicial Service Commission [JSC] in their questioning of two...
Pippa Ehrlich travelled from the depths of Cape Town’s icy oceans to the heights of the film industry when she won the Academy Award for Best...
The world watched in horror on Sunday, 21 April, as a raging wildfire bore down on the University of Cape Town (UCT), hitting at its heart...
When last did you make a phone call to a friend or family member just to chat? Not a voice note or a text, or a...
He was the very first headmaster of Herzlia School in Cape Town, and a pioneer of Jewish education, but when Alexander Levin died in 1960, he...
Jews across the Mother City watched in horror as an unseasonably hot Sunday, 18 April 2021, turned into an apocalypse. What started as a small fire...
As COVID-19 numbers remain low, many young Jewish couples are taking the opportunity to get married. But at every simcha, one can see social media and...
The fact that a high-level University of Cape Town (UCT) lecturer told his students that “Hitler committed no crime” seems too unbelievable to be true, but...
In a tragic irony, a man who lived life to the full was condemned to endure an illness that meant he could no longer move or...
When Stephen “Sugar” Segerman started searching for the Barmitzvah boy whose photograph was on his mantlepiece, he didn’t imagine he would find out from someone half...
Zan Swartzberg from Bethlehem in the Free State was one of 800 South African Machal volunteers who heeded Israel’s call for help after it was surrounded...
Johannesburg in the 1970s is the setting of a newly published novel, We Were the Newmans, by Beverley Lester, where the quiet innocence of a Highveld...
Death is part of life, yet it remains a taboo topic, especially when it comes to children. Yet, with COVID-19 bringing death to our doorstep, it’s...
Like many other teens, 15-year-old student Jevan Sifrin found himself with too much time on his hands under the hard lockdown last year. But instead of...
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng came out swinging in his appeal against Judge Phineas Mojapelo’s judgment ordering him to apologise for comments made about Israel. Mogoeng criticised...
For most of the world, the late March attack on the coastal town of Palma may have been just another terror attack in the faraway province...
It’s been nine years since Labia Theatre owner Ludi Kraus was unwittingly caught up in a fight with the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) over the screening...
Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman once successfully searched for Sugarman (also known as the musician Sixto Rodriguez) and found him, so what are the chances of him finding...
Prioritising mental and emotional health in the workplace is good for business, but few companies have formal strategies to deal with these challenges. Professor Karen Milner...
An Israeli company is assisting local government authorities to transform toxic water to healthy drinking water in what could be a game-changer for South Africa as...
A young, pregnant Jewish woman walks down a London street without a care in the world. Behind her, a man strides purposefully, quickening his steps as...
Clive Mashishi is a man on a mission. A former construction worker, he left his job to educate local communities about the Holocaust, Israel, antisemitism, and...
Narrating the tale of the exodus from the Haggadah at the Passover table is at its essence a ritual of storytelling, which psychologists say can be...
Stuart Diamond has been the executive director of the Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape Board) for only two and a half years, but...
In a rapidly changing world, careers aren’t what they once were. Although there is certainly a place for getting a degree and working your way up...
They experienced unthinkable tragedy, but Bat-Galim Shaer and her husband Ofir continue to live with optimism and a desire to make the world a little brighter...
At first glance, Jason Woolf seems like any other 27-year-old American expat enjoying everything Cape Town has to offer. That is, until he starts speaking in...
A South African health-food company opened the door to getting a hechsher from international kosher certifiers when it adopted the Canadian Kosher Certifier (known as MK)...