Category: January 2023

“There’s an awful lot of people who don’t agree with the BDS movement, including us. I don’t agree with the cultural ban at all, along with JK Rowling, Noam Chomsky, and a long list of others.” Celebrities Who Have Resisted BDS By: Ilan Preskovsky Pullquotes: “There’s an awful lot of people who don’t agree with the BDS movement, including us. I don’t agree with the cultural ban at all, along with JK Rowling, Noam Chomsky, and a long list of others.” “I was approached by different groups and political bodies…

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“Anxiety is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” Finding light in this plague of darkness By: Paula Levin I look around me and everyone I talk to is struggling. And not just with usual day-to-day stress of business or family challenges. With big stuff. There’s the barrage of bad news from Ukraine, Turkey, and Syria – human tragedy on a mass scale. An uptick in terror attacks in Israel, leaving shattered families in its wake. Closer to home, South Africa’s…

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A Half Shekel, A Whole Heart By: Rabbi Dovid Samuels Whereas Chanukah is a festival celebrating open miracles that happened to the Jewish people against our enemies, the Purim miracle was of a completely different nature. Woven into ‘normal’ and explainable events, Hashem’s Hand brought about the salvation of the Jews in a way that, without Megillas Esther, we might have attributed to ‘chance’, or good luck. Starting with Vashti’s execution at the royal banquet, which saw the palace doors opening for Esther; then Bigsan and Teresh’s assassination attempt, which…

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The Joy of Not Knowing By: Rabbi Moishe Schnerb Indeed the special holiday of Purim is almost upon us. In fact, many of us have already invested quite a lot of time and effort and even expense into thinking about how we are going to experience this year’s Purim. What should we dress up as? Maybe a ninja turtle? Perhaps this is the year to get our Tinker Bell costume out of mothballs? Or maybe it would be really creative to dress up as the broken Machine that is supposed…

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Finding your future on an urban farm By: Chandrea Serebro Greg Sacks[1] graduated from school and even managed to study towards a higher degree, but somehow nothing worked out for him. Academically, he didn’t make the grade and the life of a student did not agree with him. In a world where young matriculants largely follow a predictable path after school, Greg found himself lost, alone, bored, and unmotivated, without a vision for his future. As soon as Greg heard from his Life Coach about a farm in the thick…

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A Perspective From Those Who Recently Finished it By: Ilan Preskovsky For those in the midst of their final year of high school – and for those about to enter it – matric really does feel like the be-all-and-end-all of life. Well, for most people. Frankly, I only really noticed it when my second prelim results were, for most subjects, much too close for comfort. For most matric students though, they are confronted with exams (and portfolio work, if that’s still a thing) that, they are told, will determine not…

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We asked the 2022 matrics about their school career By: Chandrea Serebro Megan Gruzd, King David Victory Park My special subject would be: Film-making and digital animation because I am passionate about storytelling. I love expressing myself creatively and aspire to learn how to combine my artistic abilities with high-tech computer skills. Especially with the constant use of social media in today’s environment, impactful content creation is an essential part of the future. What I would change about school: I know this is almost impossible but if I had a…

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