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Torah Academy Boys High School matriculant Ariyeh Zetisky commuted from Pretoria to the school in Johannesburg and then back every day during high school, including matric...
Jonathan Hazi won a silver medal for Gauteng in the U19 National Volleyball Games during matric last year, while his fellow 2022 Yeshiva College Boys High...
Success in life isn’t dependent on how well you did in matric. In fact, for some, it has nothing whatsoever to do with it. South African...
Former South African number-one tennis player Ilana Kloss says it was a dream come true to win Junior Wimbledon in 1972 as a teenager, and now,...
The last remaining Holocaust survivor in KwaZulu-Natal, anti-apartheid activist Carmela Heilbron, passed away in the early hours of 13 January in Durban. Heilbron, her mother and...
Former musical director Benny Michel, who will turn 100 this year, is a legend in his own lifetime. Although he’s now battling health issues, his name...
A significant number of people have suffered injuries while playing padel, but experts say it’s not because the game is more dangerous than other sports, but...
Jews come from all over South Africa and the world to be a part of the Lion’s Head Minyan in Cape Town in December, climbing Table...
Fighting for Israel with healing rather than hate won the South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) an international award at the end of last year....
King David Primary School Linksfield pupil Sami Levin is no ordinary ballet dancer. She was named second best 12-year-old ballet dancer at the International Dance Organisation...
South African-born Professor Harry Ben Zion Brand was awarded the prestigious Bonei Zion Prize in the field of Culture, Art, and Sport in Israel for his...
Since Capetonians Steve Liptz and Warren Fialkov started working tirelessly to professionalise the 36ONE Openwater Swim Series in Cape Town earlier this year, the number of...
The gift of enabling children from Soweto to create crafts at a former dump site in Freedom Park is not lost on Moshe Singer, a multidisciplinary...
Eighteen-year-old full-time boxer Joshua Feldman has proven to award-winning boxing trainer Colin Nathan that Jews aren’t “too soft” to succeed in boxing. “This is a rarity...
Peter Lindenberg, former South African barefoot water skier, powerboat driver, and car racer, describes himself as a “born risk taker”. “I was abnormal,” he says. “I...
University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Professor Karen Hofman was awarded the Science for Society Gold Medal in October for work to improve the health of South...
The Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which the British government announced its support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Israel, would have been meaningless...
Gareth Shackleford, the great-grandson of the late Jan Smuts, unveiled the Jewish Guild War Memorial Building Cornerstone at Westpark Cemetery on 27 November, one century after...
No amount of preparation and training could prevent the fire that brought runners like Steven Berman to a halt in the 100km RMB Ultra Trail Cape...
Kosher bagels are available for fans attending the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, thanks to New York-based Rabbi Marc Schneier and Istanbul-based Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, who...
Jewish Greek American Dr Albert Bourla knew that his multinational corporation, Pfizer, had saved the world when he heard that the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine had a...
“The field of sport and exercise medicine is about getting people to perform at their best. It’s a challenge and a balancing act which sometimes I...
Grant Friedman and brothers Justin and Greg Blend of Africrest Properties took a gutsy move at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it paid off....
“There are many successful and talented nominees here today. I really can’t see how I deserve to stand out,” said Rob Leon, 38, the youngest ever...
“I’m overwhelmed with emotion,” said the owner of Fremax Farms, Fred Kadish, aka the potato king of South Africa, on receiving the Absa Business Icon Award...
Antisemitism is on the rise throughout the world, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the United States (US) Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, told the audience at...
The team which won the 13-year case against Bongani Masuku had the challenge of proving that Masuku’s statements targeting the Jewish community were antisemitic although he...
The new South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) Gauteng Council is focusing its attention on improving the South African Jewish community and broader South African...
The Nazis “tried to destroy and erase the Jewish nation. Even more than that, they tried to destroy the memory of the Jewish nation”, said Israeli...
Veteran South African football administrator Raymond Hack is excited about going to what he says will be an outstanding 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, starting...
Former Judge of the Constitutional Court Albie Sachs was the person behind the idea of starting the Constitution of South Africa with the words of Nkosi...
The Survivor, which debuted at South African cinemas last Friday, 4 November, portrays the barbarism and inhumanity of the Nazis towards Jews during the Holocaust. It’s...
Twelve-year-old King David Sandton Primary School student Caleb Levitan is the first chess player in South Africa to achieve the title of Candidate Master by recording...
Adversity leads to innovation, says iconic biomedical engineer Dr Adam Pantanowitz, a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). “Frugality can be seen as a...
When Nick Feinberg answered his phone last Friday morning, he became teary-eyed. He found out that his son, the 20-year-old Stormers versatile flyhalf, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, was...
Lawyer Gabriella Berkowitz won gold in the women’s 87+ kg division at the South African National Weightlifting Championships in Mossel Bay, Western Province, on 22 and...
Humanitarianism was a focus of late philanthropist and business leader Bertie Lubner’s life, so his children believe it’s fitting that the Jewish Achiever Humanitarian Award is...
Farm killings make up only half a percent of all homicides reported each year in South Africa, but they say a lot about society and go...
The legendary Sassoon and Kadoorie families not only achieved huge business success in India and China, but also dominated trade in Asia for 150 years, starting...
When 18-year-old Capetonian Naor Lombard surf skied across the finish line at the same time as New Zealander Jayden Murphy in the final of the youth...
