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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...
“Without radical change, our future looks bleak. But there’s a new force in the world that’s shaping our future.” This force is Generation Z, people born...
A man secretly fasting in an Arab country; a national-team cricketer breaking his fast during a team meeting; and a woman refused entry into a shul...
When we hear the words “medicine” and “the Holocaust”, we generally think of Nazi doctors and their inhumane crimes. However, there were numerous Jewish and other...
Three proteges of Johannesburg karate grandmaster and instructor Malcolm Dorfman achieved something they never thought possible by winning bronze at the World Shotokan Karate Association Championships...
The war in Ukraine hasn’t just taken a toll on Ukrainians, but on first responders, survivors of genocide and their descendants, as well as those watching...
Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, affectionately known as “the travelling rabbi”, shocked a Union of Jewish Women audience on 12 September by saying that South African Jews should...
By the end of Elul (25 September), Rabbi Eitan Ash, the rabbi of Chabad of Savoy in Johannesburg, will have spread 30 positive messages about South...
South Africa isn’t widely known for its prowess in ice hockey, nor are local Jewish teens usually recognised for their talent in this sport. That is,...
Players from the national female soccer team Banyana Banyana attended a soccer clinic on Wednesday, 14 September, for under-14 girls at King David High School Victory...
Firefighters in Ukraine are now more likely to have the equipment they need to deal with the horrors of the war thanks to the efforts of...
Award-winning Johannesburg boxing trainer Colin Nathan’s protégé, Sivenathi “The Special One” Nontshinga, was looking knackered, slouching on a stool in the corner of the boxing ring,...
“Do you have a passport?” Lauren Duncan, the JVW football team manager, asked 25-year-old defender Erin Herz at a training session held by the Johannesburg women’s...
Durban’s most loved runner, Adam Lipschitz, will be among the 1 000 other runners lining up at the start of the inaugural Khayelitsha Half Marathon in...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on the Jewish people of the world to work together to reclaim the term “Zionism”, which he insists means “responsibility”. In...
Not only was Ahmed Obaid AlMansoori the first prominent Muslim Arab personality to participate at the World Zionist Conference in Basel, Switzerland, this week, he also...
Nearly 16 000 runners took on the challenge of the Comrades Marathon 2022 last Sunday, 28 August. Emotions ran high as people beat their best times, others...
In just six years, Johannesburg Jewish rifle shooter Perry De Gouveia has shot the lights out in his sport. Having received National Protea Colours from the...
Holocaust educator Tali Nates founded the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) in 2008. Now, Germany, the country that led the systematic murder of six million...
When Roei Ben-Tolila was an officer in the elite units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), he always told his soldiers, “There’s nothing you can’t do”....
After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s largest and oldest ultramarathon returns on 28 August, when more than 20 000 runners will...
Former Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions activist Klaas Mokgomole will be running the Comrades Marathon on Sunday with the Israel flag draped over his shoulders, raising money for...
When runners pass through Hillcrest at about the 60km mark during this year’s Comrades Marathon, they can stop to lay tefillin and do other mitzvahs. The...
A delegation of Israeli water experts have arrived in South Africa to help the Tshwane municipality solve its water issues, and Johannesburg may follow Tshwane’s lead...
The Jews of the Caucasus have “been through it all”, said Ruben Shimonov, a Detroit-based educator, community builder, and social entrepreneur, speaking at Limmud Johannesburg last...
“In five or 10 years’ time, there’ll probably be a museum dedicated to what’s happening in Ukraine. What will be in that museum? Will it be...
Dr Mpho Phalatse, the executive mayor of Johannesburg, has called on the private sector to help sort out the city’s economy and job creation, while she’ll...
Hungarian-born Tamas Buchler is doing what he can to dispel the myth that central Europe is all about death camps, encouraging people to recognise that Jews...
The Israeli left-wing is in tatters following the failure of the Oslo Peace Process, Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year rule, and the dramatic decline of the Israeli Labor...
Both King Edward VII School (KES) head boy Dean Bacher and Grade 11 student David Teeger are batting all-rounders. Both are the only current students at...
