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It’s difficult to imagine the depth of devastation and horror of last week’s inner-city fire in Johannesburg, in which 77 people including women and children were...
When I hear that Jewish people outside of South Africa feel sorry for us as they believe we’re all miserable, negative, and our lives are awful,...
When people take risks to save lives, they are heroes. They may escape public exposure or even the notice of their friends and family, but that...
Our minds are wired to avoid dwelling on the painful times in our past. It’s a relief on the one hand because it means we can...
Truth is inevitably stranger than fiction, and sometimes it’s so bizarre that it’s almost too difficult to believe. This week, when we were looking for stories,...
We all have our own way of doing good. You don’t have to be a multi-millionaire to help someone. You just need to be on the...
On Tuesday this week, at least four Israeli newspapers were distributed with jet-black front pages under their banner heads. The only words on the page were,...
“United we stand, divided we fall” is a commonly used phrase that goes to the very core of who we are as a Jewish people. This...
There was something quite magical in watching snowflakes fall in Johannesburg. It wasn’t a blizzard, so we could see each individual snowflake falling. It felt like...
When visitors leave, they often comment on the incredible strength of our community and how we band together to deal with adversity. They always comment on...
A colleague pointed out last week that after many successive publications with stories dominated by Israel, we had a recent period in which we didn’t publish...
I feel immense pride when I see young people standing up for being Jewish and not allowing our haters to get the better of them. We...
As we commemorate Youth Day and celebrate Father’s Day, it’s heartbreaking to learn that there are children in our community who can’t depend on their parents...
There’s something exciting about being first at anything. When it’s a competition and you have worked hard for it, it’s hugely satisfying. When you’re chosen to...
There’s so much going on around us right now, but what dominates our dinner table chitchat? Solar. We’re all focused on keeping the lights on in...
I’m tired of negativity, not least my own. It gets me and everyone around me nowhere. It helps nobody, and all it does is make a...
It’s truly astonishing how easily history is rewritten to suit people’s personal rhetoric, and the impact of bias on the value of life. Israel is still...
Do you remember how in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, we got so used to living with masks on that we felt naked without one?...
An esteemed medical expert was killed last week trying to ensure that nobody was hurt driving into a pothole in Sandringham that had been there almost...
I read on social media this week that on Yom Hashoah, we’re reminded of what happened when we didn’t have a Jewish state and Yom Hazikaron...
I have never witnessed as many people squirm as I did over the past week in Lithuania. They were reacting to talk of the Holocaust in...
Where in the world do people drop everything they are doing on a school or work night and spontaneously go out in their hundreds of thousands...
When something happens on your watch or on your property, can you refuse to accept responsibility for it because you weren’t intrinsically involved in it? That’s...
This week, we lost a giant in our community. Ann Harris was the tiniest giant I have ever come across. In her latter days, she looked...
The community was sucker punched this week with the government voting to downgrade the South African embassy in Israel to a mere liaison office. It’s true...
I love Israel deeply. More than anything, I want it to succeed as a country, a people, and, above all else, to be a light unto...
There’s a frightening split among Israelis right now that’s deepening and growing. Former allies are becoming enemies. While one group of people are celebrating as the...
When I heard that ZAKA South Africa was heading to Turkey on a search and rescue mission, I was overcome with pride. I had a sense...
When I heard news of the earthquake that hit Turkey earlier this week, my first thought was whether there were any Jews living there. Antakya –...
Setting aside my phone on Sunday night, I felt a chill run down my spine. I had just heard that a restaurant that my Israeli cousin...
As an adult, have you ever been asked how many distinctions you got for matric and what your marks were? I certainly haven’t, not since I...
We’re certainly living in interesting times, but for some, it could be a curse. What I find fascinating, other than just trying to make sense of...
Hearing Israelis discussing applying for foreign passports as a security blanket in case they want to leave the Jewish state was a shock for me while...
It’s that time of year – a time of miracles! I don’t know about you, but there’s something magical about December. It’s the month when we...
Seeing images of black, military-style vehicles driving through a deathly still Norwood on Sunday morning was disconcerting, to say the least. The Norwood strip is a...
Do you feel the heaviness, which has weighed us down for much of this year, lifting? Are you still feeling the darkness brought on by loadshedding?...
Having someone like international antisemitism expert Professor Deborah Lipstadt in our midst is eye-opening. Not only do we have access to the wealth of her expertise,...
When news broke last week that the United States government had warned of a planned terrorist attack scheduled to take place last weekend in Sandton, we...
As loadshedding continues unabated, we do our best to find ways to live with it. We also make a plan to survive those all-too-frequent times when...
As we wait for the lights to come on, it’s easy to contemplate our navels or, more seriously, consider where we’re at in our lives and...
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