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South African-born advocate Hertzel Katz, who turns 90 this year, was deeply moved when he was recognised in December 2021 for his tireless efforts towards sustaining...
Six South African sportsmen represented Israel as part of Tel Aviv Heat, the country’s first professional rugby team, in the European Super Cup, which concluded at...
Though some say an international qualification is needed to get ahead, others say you can follow your passion without a degree and still be hugely successful....
Lexi Davies, a kind, hardworking, friendly, popular student and the head of the Judaica committee at King David High School Linksfield, was about to write matric...
Yeshiva College’s head boy, Akiva Fox, and head girl, Kayla Sifris, gave student representatives of each Jewish school in South Africa an opportunity to express their...
Dannica De Aguiar, Amira Karstaedt, and Aerin Cohen leave King David High School Victory Park with a combined tally of 24 distinctions, but they also leave...
Torah Academy Boys High School student, Eli Zlotnick, began matric in 2021 feeling as if he couldn’t take any more life blows. However, he managed to...
Hirsch Lyons student Simcha Schneider struggled to maintain a work ethic throughout high school and encountered a few curveballs along the way, so he could have...
Rachel Hertz didn’t just focus on academics to get her average of 94% in matric at Redhill in 2021. She was an integral part of the...
“Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do, because you’re the one that ultimately defines your success. Like I always say, ‘When you’re...
Leadership comes in many forms, but this group of four young leaders from King David High School Linksfield’s (KDHSL’s) 2021 matric class were pretty unique. Their...
The class of 2021 is unlikely to attend university remotely this year like its 2020 peers, but it will have to be vaccinated to attend. It...
Fifty years after being sent as the first Chabad emissary to South Africa, Rabbi Mendel and Rebbetzin Mashi Lipskar are being recognised for transforming this community....
As an archivist at the National Library of Lithuania was opening boxes to show off some recent discoveries, she pulled out a Yiddish theatre poster to...
The military campaign between Israel and Hamas in the summer of May 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant spike in antisemitism over the past...
What started as a fun pastime for Belinda Daniels, a South African emigrant in Australia, has resulted in the establishment of a soup kitchen that’s feeding...
Israeli Professor Manfred Green is optimistic that we are in the latter stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, although he admits we’re not getting rid of coronavirus...
Though the fourth wave of COVID-19 has been mild, those who deny they have the virus have caused a headache for doctors because invariably, they help...
As South Africans heave a sigh of relief at the improving COVID-19 situation, other nations are recording record infection levels, reporting new variants, and even worrying...
On the anniversary of the storming of the Unites States Capitol, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an international Jewish non-governmental organisation combatting hate, has called on the...
South African-born doctor Graham Sher was surprised, speechless, and deeply moved to be appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest...
Larry Cohen trained with football stars like Gareth Bale, Harry Kane, and Gianluigi Buffon during his playing career, but now he’s cheering for the likes of...
“I never married and I never had my own children, but I’ve been blessed with thousands who, in return, provide me with so much pleasure and...
When King David Junior School Linksfield principal Ruth Isaacson listens to two children each telling their side of a story that potentially involves bullying, she usually...
Many Jewish musicians will not play or listen to the music of Richard Wagner because he has been promoted as Hitler’s favourite composer, but for most...
South African-born rugby player Sarah Levy scored a hat-trick as the Barbarians trounced the Springboks 60-5 at Twickenham in London. A record crowd for women’s rugby...
COVID-19 cases have increased over the past three weeks in South Africa, especially in Gauteng, but the vast majority in hospital are unvaccinated, according to experts....
It’s ironic that traditional Chanukah desserts include rugelach (sweet pastries made from cream-cheese dough) and sufganiyot (doughnuts) even though Jews and dairy tend not to get...
“Should I take a patient off a medical ventilator?” “How do I balance a mother’s desired method of childbirth with what’s best for her baby?” “Do...
Marilyn Bassin has dedicated her life to bettering the lives of indigent children, so she didn’t mind spending the past six months repairing stinking, rat-eaten wheelchairs...
Few principals can say they have been immersed in every part of the school they run, but then Lorraine Srage is certainly not just any principal....
Passing on knowledge of the Torah through the generations has always been one of the roles of a rabbi. In the fourth industrial revolution, however, social...
Few individuals have saved as many lives as this year’s Absa Jewish Achiever Humanitarian Award winner Glynne Wolman, founder of The Angel Network. “The Angel Network...
Eric Ellerine is a leader, a mensch, a man for all occasions, and an all-around quintessential businessman with a happy disposition, a video about him at...
Andrew Canter, this year’s Absa Business Leadership Award – From COVID to Hope winner, isn’t scared to risk raising issues that should be raised and dealing...
Vegtech Netafim founder Barney Isralls says it was the combination of his two passions – agriculture and Zionism – that led to the success of his...
Although 96-year-old cellist, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, says what she saw as a little girl on the Berlin streets on the morning after Kristallnacht is “indescribable”, the memories...
The running of South Africa’s municipal election on 1 November has come in for some criticism, but voting stations in wards 72, 73, and 74 in...
Newly elected Democratic Alliance (DA) ward counsellor Daniel Schay feels “absolutely privileged” to be voted into ward 72. And in Sea Point, the DA’s Nicola Jowell...
The future of Cape Town Jewry “continues to look remarkable”, Howard Sackstein said following a panel discussion on the issue at the Cape South African Jewish...
