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Demi Putziger, a King David Victory Park (KDVP) matriculant in 2020, was looking forward to her gap-year programme this year and was devastated when, at the...
Whether spent in Israel or elsewhere, a gap year is considered a rite of passage by most Jewish youngsters just out of matric. Yeshiva, seminary, kibbutz,...
Matrics across the country didn’t expect the disrupted year they found themselves in. While some embraced online learning and extra study time with fewer disruptions, many...
“This was the year we were going to bring it home,” says talented first-team rugby captain, Joshua Pimstein, of King David High School Linksfield (KDHSL), lamenting...
Yeshiva College last week announced its new student leadership for 2021, with the positions of head boy and head girl going to Akiva Fox and Kayla...
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Time for Israelis to pray for South Africa
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Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng came out swinging in his...
Tony Leon shrugs off attack from anti-Israel lobby
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Student barred from gap year speaks out
Demi Putziger, a King David Victory Park (KDVP) matric...
Albie Sachs on the handshake that shook him
Justice Albie Sachs felt a real sense of liberation af...
Labia Theatre’s nine-year battle against anti-Israel film
It’s been nine years since Labia Theatre owner Ludi Kr...
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A young couple attempted to flee the scene of a botche...
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Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman once successfully searched fo...
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Jacob Zuma and his Jewish grandson
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Student barred from gap year speaks out
Demi Putziger, a King David Victory Park (KDVP) matric...
Wits protest an education in activism
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Wedding leads to a number of COVID-19 cases
Buffets of canapés and dessert, the sharing of snacks...
Kramer quits COVID advisory over “community flouting protocols”
One of the community’s top COVID-19 advisors this week...
Couple caught in crossfire of attempted mall robbery
A young couple attempted to flee the scene of a botche...
A life-saving friendship that lives on after death
A Johannesburg doctor is battling to come to terms wit...
Second wave surges over community
The second wave of COVID-19 is currently crashing over...
SA chiropractor in Melbourne jail pleads guilty to drug trafficking
A former head boy of King David Victory Park (KDVP) ha...
Student barred from gap year speaks out
Demi Putziger, a King David Victory Park (KDVP) matric...
Arsonists destroy family’s Mpumalanga bush hotel
When a group of marauding arsonists torched and destro...
Jews around the world call for Moshiach
For 3 000 years, Jews have been praying for Moshiach (...
Reverend Frank Chikane at centre of anti-Israel storm
Reverend Frank Chikane, an icon of the anti-apartheid...
