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Team South Africa won its first gold medal of the ongoing Maccabi Games when its lone golfer, Johannesburg-based 74-year-old Moshe Duek, won the individual net competition...
Matric pupil Hannah Robertson has won four medals, including two golds, for South Africa at the ongoing Maccabi Games. This St Andrew’s School for Girls scholar...
Professional runner Durbanite Adam Lipschitz defended his 10km title in Jerusalem on 18 July at the Maccabi Games, crossing the finish line ahead of about 2...
South Africans are being pitted against South African expats or their children at the Maccabi Games and for some, this poses a small conflict of interest...
When Darren Zidel came across pickleball while scrolling through Instagram about 18 months ago, he never thought he would become the president of Pickleball South Africa...
“Either you love chess, or you don’t play it.” So says Clive Wolpe, who has been a lover of the game for most of his life. ...
Hundreds of local Jews, rabbis and communal organisation sang and danced down Oaklands Road in Orchards, Johannesburg last Sunday, 10 July, after completing the South African...
There’s a strange myth about Jewish youth battling to get into the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and not being very welcome there, but it’s exactly...
Western Cape Stormers’ loose forward Hacjivah Dayimani is in Israel, captaining the South African rugby team in the Maccabi Games 2022. On the back of winning...
South African-born baritone and former Linksfield Shul chazzan Colin Schachat never dreamed that he would sing two pieces with world-famous Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in front...
British-born Ray Hill was an anti-racism campaigner whose was involved in far-right-wing politics in South Africa for 10 years, only he was a spy for the...
A four-member group from the University of the Free State (UFS) has recently returned to South Africa from a five-day study tour on transboundary water and...
Dr Shirley Siew was trailblazer in everything she did, especially in medicine and aviation. She was known for her academic excellence and enquiring mind, and won...
They were best friends who enjoyed a “Huckleberry Finn kind of childhood”, running free on the streets of Bulawayo. But as they grew up, they lost...
The South African squad will show their flair and skill at the M21 Maccabiah Games this month, but will they bring home the coveted gold and...
It has taken dedication, discipline and determination for Dean Levy to become the number one under-19 table tennis player in South Africa and the winner of...
Six weeks after having double brain surgery, 16-year-old South African national junior swimmer, Matt Carrol, is ready to compete at the 2022 Maccabi Games in July....
When Jacqui Boyd got the call to be one of Team Maccabi South Africa’s flag bearers at the Maccabi Games in July, her lifelong dream came...
Johannesburg 74-year-old grandmaster golfer, Moshe Duek, won’t just be Team Maccabi South Africa’s oldest athlete at the Maccabi Games in July, he’ll also be the sole...
Team Maccabi South Africa’s padel convenor, Rob Sulcas, will be competing in his fifth Maccabi Games in his fourth sport, padel, a game making its debut...
“Bitcoin represents something profoundly important, notwithstanding some of the scepticism that surrounds it,” says Steven Boykey Sidley, the co-founder of multiple technology companies and an award-winning...
About seven weeks ago, South African-born Mark Blankfield was walking to the doctor in Melbourne, when his phone rang. “Hi Mark, I’m Fiona from the governor’s...
To be named on the Queen’s 2022 Birthday Honours list with one of Australia’s highest civilian honours was a wonderful surprise for South African-born social entrepreneur...
d=f “Analysts, commentators, economists, and central bankers are battling to understand what’s happening and how things are going to play out,” he said. “We haven’t had...
The legend of Gerald Fox was reactivated last Sunday, 12 June, as more than 4 500 people – including three close family members – ran together in...
South African chess prodigies, 11-year-old twins Judah and Caleb Levitan, are doing what they love – playing competitive chess in a country that has a thriving...
The late President Nelson Mandela called them “an amazing group of women” because of the work they had been doing in the townships since 1994. But...
It isn’t often that South African businessmen are knighted by the Queen of England, but then Cape Town-born Sir Bradley Fried, the chairperson of the Court...
King David High School Linksfield (KDHSL) is passionate about rugby, but last week was the first time the school brought home a major trophy in the...
Having been a bully and someone who was bullied, Clinton Fein and Bryan Schimmel are on a mission to use their experience to eradicate bullying from...
“No matter how your morning starts off, when you get on a bike, you get a real sense of freedom and it certainly makes me feel...
“You would get this on an aeroplane.” “This must be served at Diepsloot prison.” “It tastes like Swiss roll.” “This is a mushy pudding.” “It tastes...
He was one of the brains behind Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Johannesburg, and has been knighted by the French government. Now, David Kramer, a Johannesburg-based educator,...
Elian Weiner and Mark Robbins have always been avid tennis and squash players, but now they’re both hooked on a new sport, padel. Likewise, Ricky Lewis...
Twenty-five-year-old Cape Town-born athlete, Jonathan Benjamin, is “beyond thrilled” to be selected to compete for South Africa in the 2022 World Games in the duathlon discipline....
“Israel will never say no to any Jewish person who wants to make aliya, certainly not to older Jews. The reason the country exists is to...
Did you know that Holocaust victims used wooden clubs, newspapers, toothpaste tube caps, and bread to create chess sets during World War II? This was revealed...
“A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives.” As we commemorate International Museum Day on 18 May, these...
South African Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein may well sway the decision-making process in Israel’s Knesset over whether Israel should change to a five-day working week,...
Jake Weinstein, a Grade 11 pupil at King David High School Linksfield, became one of the first South Africans to come in the top four in...
