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King David Victory Park held a siyum this year to celebrate the completion of a section of Talmud. Participation in the event, run for the first...
King David Linksfield pupil Shiri Kaplan has won the Chapman University of California’s annual Holocaust Creative Writing Competition in 2021 for a poem submitted while the...
It isn’t easy to imagine what the Jews went through in getting out of Egypt and wandering the desert for 40 years, but the Chevrah Kadisha...
Grade 7 pupils at King David Victory Park Primary School recently packed 80 bags for mothers and their newborns to be delivered to the Edenvale Hospital....
Yeshiva College’s parent-teacher association has started a fundraising campaign which has the entire community laughing out loud. School moms leave home early each morning and pick...
Maccabi South Africa wishes lifelong Maccabian, George Mendelsohn, a happy 90th birthday. Born in Berlin, Germany, on 12 March 1931, George left Germany five years later...
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) South Africa hosted a tour of Linksfield Ridge on Sunday, 14 March, a series of koppies with spectacular views to the...
WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organisation) Johannesburg held its 107th annual general meeting via Zoom on 4 March 2021 with Joceline Basserabie in the chair. Rabbi Ryan...
Weeks of marking ancestors travels on maps, discovering family heirlooms, and interviewing relatives culminated in a My Family Story art exhibition at King David Linksfield (KDL)...
King David High School Victory Park Grade 11s are leading davening groups at the primary school, furthering the family atmosphere that exists among the four schools...
King David High School Victory Park pupils Dina Kay and Dannica De Aguiar light candles on Kabbalat Shabbat during break on Friday, 5 March.
Yeshiva College pupils Elisheva Kahn and Ariella Kretzmer won the “My Family Story Project” run by the Beit Hatfusot Museum in Tel Aviv. The Grade 7...
Thirteen girls had their Batmitzvah ceremony at the Great Park Shul in Houghton Estate on Sunday, 7 March. The theme of their milestone transition into womanhood...
King David High School Victory Park, Andrew Baker At King David High School Victory Park, we celebrate the outstanding achievement of our entire matric class of...
The Chevrah Kadisha opened its gates to the community for the first time in almost a year last Friday, 26 February, for the Greatest Purim Drive-Thru....
Usually when Purim comes around, Chabad Seniors Programme arranges parties and gifts for the “young at heart” throughout Johannesburg. This year, with COVID-19, was no different....
See what is happening in your area for Purim. Chevrah Kadisha: The Greatest Purim Drive-Thru! The Chevrah Kadisha is throwing open its doors at its premises...
The Yeshiva College matric students of 2020 returned to campus on the weekend to get their certificates together with a muffin and coffee, generating an atmosphere...
For the past 128 years, the Jewish Women’s Benevolent Society (JWBS) has been working under the radar, assisting those in our community in need. However, since...
The PJ Library programme was officially launched at all King David pre-primary and junior primary schools in 2021. Founded by American philanthropist Harold Grinspoon, PJ Library...
Yeshiva College Primary and Girls High School celebrated Rosh Chodesh Adar with music, movement, delicious food, and lots of fun. The primary school was filled with...
The Elise WIZO Gift Shop sadly closed its doors at the end of 2020 after being a well-known feature of Johannesburg Jewish life for many decades....
Rain didn’t dampen the palpable energy of Yeshiva College students as they arrived, excited and a bit nervous, back on campus on 1 February. Students and...
King David Pre-Primary Linksfield students Ari Pantelias, Aria Demby, and Rachel Becker admire the figs growing on the school’s fig tree that was planted last year...
King David educators Heidi Morgan and Mandy Gruzd were recently announced as winners of the World ORT Beatrice Wand-Polak Educators award. This was for their dedication...
South African healthcare workers can now register for their COVID-19 vaccination using a platform launched by Discovery this week. Information captured will be fed into the...
The Jewish National Fund’s (JNF’s) nationwide Tu Bishvat celebrations this week conveyed the message that protecting the environment is more important than ever. “The COVID-19 pandemic...
King David Senior Primary Linksfield is proud to announce 2021 Mini City Councillors Sasha Hollander and Jaxon Cohen.
More than 75 devices around the globe logged in to Beit Luria’s World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) Shabbat Around the World programme on Friday, 15...
The outfits modelled by graduates of the Union of Jewish Women’s (UJW’s) Sewing School were all the more spectacular for the fact that some of their...
This year, many of us are staying home or looking for activities for our children that will be COVID-19-safe. While we can’t list all the activities...
It’s a wrap! And just like that, matric 2020 has finished! Yeshiva College’s brave and strong matrics have completed their exams, and can have a well-deserved...
When is a Jewish National Fund (JNF) Blue Box not a blue box? Never. Even though the physical box now has a digital donation option, it’s...
So many in our community have lost jobs since the onset of lockdown. We are publishing their details to help them find work. This is the...
The Union of Jewish Women (UJW) has tackled the COVID-19 pandemic with passion, creativity, and incredible generosity. Beneficiaries in rural and urban areas across South Africa...
In spite of the disruptions of 2020, 28 students at King David High School Victory Park participated in the Wits Mathematics Competition in the third quarter,...
Crawford College Sandton is extremely proud of Grade 9 student Jayden Symanowitz who came eighth in Gauteng in the Junior Secondary Schools’ category in the Wits...
The Embassy of Israel in South Africa has joined Fight Back SA, a non-profit organisation focused on the empowerment of women and children, to provide free...
Zac Abel, the son of Raella Abel and Chris Purcell, and the grandson of Myrna Nel and David Abel, has been selected as the 2021 SACS...
Coming up with an activity for international Mizvah Day on 15 November was a no-brainer for the Gauteng Progressive movement, whose members spent the day cleaning...
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