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Members of the Lithuanian government are calling on South Africans holding Lithuanian citizenship to vote in the upcoming election, saying its outcome could determine the future...
Internet Communications Technology expert Arthur Goldstuck, whose latest book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI was recently launched, says there’s no reason to panic about artificial intelligence...
Seeing a little girl, about eight years old holding a placard saying, “One Zionist One Bullet” outside Beyachad in Johannesburg, where the annual Aliyah Expo was...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog flew to Kigali in Rwanda this week to commemorate 30 years of the Rwandan genocide with President Paul Kagame. “Three decades after...
Walking into the Aliyah Expo in Johannesburg and Cape Town last week was like taking a trip into a real-life encyclopaedia for aliya, say participants, with...
Over the past few years, Pam Cohen’s* expenses and those of her children far exceeded what she was making in her little business, and she got...
Life can be pretty absurd! Women have been known to give birth to a baby when they never knew they were pregnant. A tiger can break...
The loved ones left behind after suicide often have more questions than answers, said Liane Lurie, a Johannesburg clinical psychologist and Carin Marcus, a clinical social...
What started as a way for former 702 radio presenter and travel blogger David Batzofin to create a portfolio for his travel writing 14 years ago...
“We’ve all seen online hatred towards Jews, especially recently, but it’s a completely different thing to hear this hatred, when it’s directed at you personally, with...
For South African BCom Marketing student Kayla Lowenstein, the call for the return of the hostages is personal. One of the young men still being held...
Eleven-year-old King David Primary School pupil Caiden Distiller has no strings to hold him down, to make him fret and make him frown as he has...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein called on American Jewish leaders to recognise that “Israel’s war with Hamas – and by extension Iran – is against the...
As many as one in ten people who get COVID-19 in 2024 are likely to get “long COVID”, according to Professor Barry Schoub, the professor emeritus...
South African tertiary students took home more than just tools to combat antisemitism on campus and in their community at the international StandWithUs conference in Los...
What started off as a plan to create an online platform for the Jews of Kimberley has, with the help of South Africans around the world,...
It’s not unusual for a newborn to wear his dad’s tallis at his bris, but it is unique when it was one of the only things...
When 10-year-old Liam Meyersfeld wanted to find a way to help his favourite animal shelter, nothing was going to get in his way. So he raised...
Don Krausz, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, and the chairperson of the Johannesburg chapter of the South African Holocaust Survivors Association, has been made a pawn of...
Radio and media personality Gareth Cliff says the Jewish community needs to recognise that the African National Congress (ANC) is as “unimportant as a drugged-up meth-head...
Chabad makes a point of ensuring that Jews feel welcome around the world and encourages a Jewish way of life. Now, Rabbi Chezkin Yehudah Malka and...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) delivered a memorandum to the justice department in Pretoria on 12 February in response to Justice and Correctional...
“October 7 marked the point of no return,” Rabbi Danny Mirvis, the acting chief executive of World Mizrachi, told a presentation organised by Mizrachi South Africa...
The hills are alive to The Sound of Music at the Teatro at Montecasino, where two budding young actresses from King David Victory Park (KDVP) Primary...
“If they have a problem with Jewish religious symbols, let them say it outright,” Ward 72 Councillor Daniel Schay said in the first Johannesburg council meeting...
“One day, when true peace comes, they’ll write books about her, name streets after her, and make movies about her life. If Israelis knew what Sylvia...
The mayor of Rishon LeZion, Raz Kinstlich, made a big show on Sunday, 28 January, of taking down the South African flag in the city’s Garden...
When Christian community leader Clive Mashishi, the founder of the Clive Mashishi Foundation and volunteer for the South African Friends of Israel, found out that he...
“Over our lifetime, we spend two years looking for lost objects,” says Rebekah Saltzman, who makes a living helping people declutter their homes. Professional declutterer Saltzman...
When Gina Dave started Grade 8 at King David Linksfield in 2020, she decided to follow in her older sister’s footsteps by participating in the Duke...
The Israel national cricket team are going all out to make their mark in this year’s T20 World Cup, and the two South Africans behind the...
Hirsch Lyons matriculant Sara Fine almost spent more of her matric year ensuring that less-fortunate scholars achieved academic success than she did her own. Fine was...
“Hardly anyone can say that they weren’t impacted by missing the first month of matric, and were able to slot right back,” Brocha Lewis, a Cape...
When Ayala Cohen, a top academic student at Hirsch Lyons and a dedicated ballet dancer, tore a ligament in her foot in mid-April of matric in...
For many students, university is the first time that they have a true sense of independence. But for some, this freedom is a culture shock, especially...
When Josh Kahn, a Reddam House Bedfordview 2023 matriculant, was ranked tenth academically at the end of his first term of Grade 8, he told himself...
When the late Mike Krost and his best friend, Harry Sack, embarked on a six-month European trip together almost 70 years ago, the idea that their...
Ruth Rabinowitz is described as a testament to the power of dedication and hard work. As an academic, a doctor, and then a politician, and ultimately...
The SAFTA (South African Film and Television Awards) award for best online content 2023 was given to director Christopher Grant Harvey for his short film titled...
Jewish youth from around the country and a smattering of those from abroad who chose to go to Habonim Dror or Bnei Akiva camp in December...
