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Is Cape Town as welcoming as we think?

Cape Town has won its fair share of international accolades – for its extraordinary natural beauty, its lifestyle and, most recently, Time Out magazine’s Best City in the World...

What is restorative justice?

DANIEL BLOCH, Exec. Director, Cape SAJBD Restorative justice is an approach to conflict and crime that focuses on repairing...

Why I’m voting

I once asked someone whether she was going to vote and she replied, with great confidence, “I don’t...

Save me a seat!

By Shelly Korn | Founder, Sunset Care Last Rosh Hashanah, for the first time, my father-in-law was unable to...

Apples, honey and a mighty sting

By DANIEL BLOCH, Exec. Director Cape SAJBD Can you believe it’s already time for apples dipped in honey? Where...

To remove a President…

By Anton Katz Every country, state, province, city, company, sports club, religious community has a mechanism for removing unpopular or rogue leaders. The Constitution, 1996 contains...

Helping grieving parents – through an Israeli prism

By Allison Kaplan Sommer For ISRAEL21c A key element in Shanun-Klein’s ideas, which she calls the ‘Readjustment Model of Parental Bereavement’ is the assertion that...

Our friends in the Gulf

By Ben Cohen for JNS.org Gamal Abdel Nasser and Osama bin Laden must be turning in their graves. The decision by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United...

Why you can’t look on the bright side of someone else’s trauma

People often ask me how I come up with ideas for my columns. I dream about having a file on my desktop filled with...

Laughter is the best medicine

By Craig Nudelman When I was still living in Jo’burg, my family and I used to read a daily column in The Star by James...

So a woman sang….

By By Ben Rabinowitz and Gilad Stern A woman sang solo at Cape Town’s annual Yom Hashoah Holocaust Memorial ceremony in April. It hardly seems a...

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