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The Union of Jewish Women’s (UJW’s) Sewing Empowerment School, established in 2010, held its graduation on 15 December with a fashion show, certificates, prizes, and lunch...
The year started with a bang at Yeshiva College on Monday, as staff from across the schools came together for breakfast at Frangelicas. Coffee and inspiration...
Johannesburg Feed the ducks and take a boat out on Zoo Lake Rent a rowboat and take some seeds along to the Zoo Lake to feed...
Yeshiva College Grade 6s came to the end of six years of primary school on Tuesday, 30 November, with a valedictory evening to recognise their achievement....
Workforce Staffing recently combined with Eye Worx to provide eye screening and prescription glasses to children in Alexandra township. Workforce Staffing, a division of Workforce Holdings,...
Jewish memory is the theme of Kaunas European Capital of Culture 2022, a project funded by municipalities and the national government. The Lithuanian city was named...
Two young South African women have been chosen to participate in the Zionist Leadership Academy programme run by the global resource development division of Keren Kayemet...
United Herzlia Schools (UHS) has signed a deal with Rabie Property Group to develop a retirement village on the land previously occupied by the school’s Constantia...
King David Schools, in partnership with the King David Schools’ Foundation and Feed SA, will be donating a library, called the Kacev Family Library, to the...
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston...
Yeshiva College’s sports day last week was the highlight of the school year, with track, soccer, netball, and swimming making up the day’s events. Medals were...
Jaryd Raizon of The Knowledge Trust won first prize at the Shining Light Awards ceremony, held at the Studeo in Woodstock, Cape Town. This is the...
The Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO) Johannesburg on 18 November partnered with Michele Engelberg, the founder of Keep Safe Self-Defence Workshops, to give a workshop to...
Torah Academy last week welcomed former Miss South Africa, Shudufhadzo “Shudu” Musida, to the school to share her newly-released children’s story, Shudu Finds her Magic. “Miss...
Mazaltov to the new Yeshiva College Grade 6 house captains. Zion Captains: Dalya Lewis and Amichai Altman; vice-captains: Layla Jacks and Yonatan Bricker. Judah captains: Dalya...
Samuel Blou and Daniella Reubenson, Grade 9 students at King David High School Victory Park, received bronze medals in the South African Maths Olympiad earlier this...
Arnold Garber, partner at KosherWorld, recently visited the Jerusalem offices of The Jerusalem Report magazine. He presented to Steve Linde, the editor in chief, the “KosherWorld...
The Chevrah Kadisha and Beth Din on 12 November consecrated the rest of the new burial section at Westpark Jewish Cemetery in Johannesburg. Situated on the...
Starting by upskilling teachers, teaching pupils and then coming second – 1% away from declaring victory – in an international coding and robotics competition is a...
The Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO) recently enhanced the life of five-year-old Bontle Tshabalala by donating a customised wheelchair from Israel, which will help her to...
The CSO Johannesburg team held a fundraising event at the Soweto Country Club on 3 November, giving golfers in our community a rare opportunity to play...
Famous artist’s model and patron, Pamela Amelia Frampton, has enjoyed a lifetime of tennis, dancing, speaking French, painting, playing piano, art galleries, lectures, shopping, eateries, and...
Peter Pan, was alive and well, performing this King David Primary School Victory Park musical production to five ‘sold out’ audiences. The school was grateful it...
After an overwhelmingly positive response from parents, Hatzolah partnered with King David schools last week to vaccinate pupils against COVID-19 on site. The service, for students...
More than 100 Yeshiva College Boys High School pupils and parents celebrated a gala dinner siyum on Sunday, 31 October, to celebrate learning a collective 7...
Elphin Lodge Retirement Village in Lyndhurst, Johannesburg, had a Shabbat Project like no other last weekend, with the unveiling of a Sefer Torah for use on...
Nursery school, Grade R, and junior primary school children this month collected thousands of items to stock the lunchboxes of children in need. The initiative, a...
King David Victory Park Grade 8, 9, and 10 students recently participated in Trulife workshops on sexting and cyber-bullying, vaping, and addiction. Using music, dance, and...
Temple Israel, the last shul in Hillbrow, and Beit Emanuel in Parktown last week arranged for the Gauteng health department to set up a pop-up COVID-19...
South Africa’s newest Jewish youth organisation, BBYO, led by teens for teens, was launched at King David Schools this past week. A proud affiliate of the...
Shabbatonim may have been prevented by the pandemic, but King David School’s Venture educational programme for Grades 10 and 11 managed to replicate the Encounter experience...
King David High School Linksfield boys ran through Johannesburg in purple Speedos on 15 October to raise funds for prostate and testicular cancer awareness and screening....
“I have spent countless hours over the past year delving into the stories of the Tanach,” says Jake Weinstein, a Grade 10 student at King David...
Two King David Schools students were honoured at the South African Mathematics Foundation awards ceremony on 16 October. King David Senior Primary Linksfield Grade 7 student...
Yeshiva College Primary School recently announced the election of Bini Sassoon and Tali Smookler as mini city counsellors for 2022.
The tension was tangible as Yeshiva College Grade 10 pupil Avigal Rogoff went head-to-head with nine other finalists in the nail-biting finale of the Israel Quiz...
Students at King David High School Linksfield and King David High School Victory Park brought the Israel Quiz trophy home for the sixth consecutive year on...
In terms of learning, it was a regular year for Yeshiva LeRabbonus Pretoria, which in late August conferred semicha (ordination) to 11 students from the class...
I’m sure we speak for scores of Golden Acres residents who attended the recent yom tov services in expressing our deepest appreciation to Rabbi Jonathan Fox...
Chabad ensured that hundreds of Jews who couldn’t otherwise celebrate Sukkot were able to do so by building sukkahs at shopping centres, universities, and retirement facilities....
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