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Killarney Mall cares

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

Generous Killarney Mall shoppers and retail sponsors have managed to collect one-years-worth of stationery for Thembelenkosini Care Givers in Soweto, part of an ongoing initiative to support the centre.
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Abby the robotic nurse jet fuelled by ORT

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

Josh Lasker, an ORT Jet beneficiary, is a founding partner and head of development of a robotic nurse named Abby – an automated, self-service, health-screening kiosk.
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Jill Katz, a regal presence who touched many lives

Feb 07, 2019 2 Comments

Jill Katz, a renowned, respected, and beloved matriarch and rebbetzin, passed away last week at the inspiring age of 91.
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Eight-year-old soccer star shines in Brazil

Jan 31, 2019 Go comment!

The South African SuperSport Football Academy Under-9 team won the Silver Playoffs in the recently held IberCup in Brazil, and eight-year-old Dylan Friedland of King David Sandton was part of the successful South African side.
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Maccabi table tennis has fans on the edge of their seats

Jan 31, 2019 Go comment!

Table tennis fans were given a unique opportunity to watch the game played at an extremely high level last Sunday at the Maccabi Top 16 Table Tennis Tournament in Fairmount, Johannesburg.
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UJW brings cheer to scholars by paying for uniforms

Jan 31, 2019 Go comment!

Instead of giving Christmas presents, the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) in Port Elizabeth opted to fund lay-byes for school uniforms instead. In this, they followed the example of Professor Jonathan Jansen, the former Vice Chancellor of the University of the Free State (now at Stellenbosch University), who did the same thing.
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WIZO-Magimix partnership puts food on the table

Jan 31, 2019 Go comment!

Helen Keller said, “Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much.” When we work together on a common goal, we can achieve things beyond our wildest dreams.
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Caleb named SA’s junior chess player of the year

Jan 24, 2019 Go comment!

Caleb Levitan, 8, became the youngest chess player to be named Junior Chess Player of the Year by Chess South Africa in December last year. While he is ranked number one, his twin brother, Judah, is number two. And these two just keep breaking South African chess records.
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Geoff Ramokgadi’s covenant with Judaism

Dec 13, 2018 1 Comment

Wearing a yarmulke, Geoffrey Modise Menachem Ramokgadi draws stares from most people he encounters, whether in his adopted country of Swaziland, his home town of Rustenburg, or in the synagogues and Jewish shops of Johannesburg.
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Tough, teasing, enigmatic: Abramowitz’s debut novel is a stunner

Dec 13, 2018 2 Comments

FutureLife: A Protea is not an Artichoke is not a book about horticulture. It’s not a book about breakfast cereal. In some sense, it’s not even a book. It’s a work of paper-and-print performance art written by one of South Africa’s best new authors. It’s also, beguilingly, an autobiography of someone else – who, as it happens, doesn’t exist.
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New novel dwells on Jerusalem’s dark side

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

Like a city in the shadow of an oncoming storm, a novel can be dark, brooding, and forbidding. In spite of being set in the Jerusalem of 1961, Zvi Jagendorfs Coming Soon: The Flood features none of the city’s brightness.
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KosherWorld Chanukah bash the icing on the doughnut

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

KosherWorld hosted its annual community Chanukah Party on Thursday, 6 December.
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Record-breaking Chanukah doughnut tower

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

It is not every day that Johannesburg sees a Guinness World Record attempt – and this one was extra sweet.
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Gap-year seminar for youth leaders cements unity and identity

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

The Israel Centre – Jewish Agency’s Partnership2gether Peoplehood Platform hosted its second gap year seminar in November for Jewish youth who are on year-long programmes in Israel. The seminar aims to foster co-operation and understanding between South African youth movements and peer movements in the Israel partnership region of Beit Shemesh Mate Yehuda.
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Education ‘change maker’ honoured in Switzerland

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

While global citizens gathered in South Africa over the weekend to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s centenary and raise money for deserving causes, a South African citizen was being celebrated in Zurich, Switzerland, for his work in the field of child and youth development.
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New Beit David shul consecrated in Durban

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

The new Beit David Synagogue was consecrated at the Durban Jewish Club in Durban on Sunday, 2 December. A mincha service led jointly by Rabbis Sa’ar Shaked and Emma Gottlieb was followed by the consecration service and ceremony at 20:00.
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South Africa Friends of Sheba off to a flying start

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

Ivan and Lynette Saltzman hosted an event to celebrate the launch of South African friends of Sheba in their home in Johannesburg on 6 December. The initiative aims to strengthen the relationship between the South African Jewish community and Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Silk Butterfly Project a soulful way to celebrate Jewish heritage

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

When psychiatrist Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross visited the Maidenek concentration camp in 1946, she found hundreds of butterflies etched on the walls of the children’s barracks. Some had been engraved with pebbles, and others scratched with fingernails, but all of them represented a message which took Kübler-Ross 25 years of working with dying patients to fully comprehend. In spite of the awareness that their young lives were drawing to a close, the children left the butterflies as representations of their eternal souls, which would live on forever.
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UJW celebrates another capacity year of Brain Boost

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

Brain Boost, a stimulation group run by the Union of Jewish Women (UJW), celebrated the end of 2018 with a farewell tea held at Friends Restaurant on 4 December. Brain Boost was established in 2016 after the UJW identified the need to establish a group to support those affected by memory loss. It has since grown to full capacity.
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A healthy stomach is a healthy mind

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

If you have a healthy stomach, you have a healthy physical, mental, and emotional approach to life.
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