In 1962 Igor Stravinsky, the Russian-born composer and conductor, went to South Africa to conduct the state ... lane to see if a certain imposing harp was used in the concert.

Smith, president of the South African Jewish Congress, died on Saturday, at the age of 77 after a long illness. (JTA) — Mervyn Smith, president of the African Jewish Congress and a major anti ...

The first thorough account of South African Jewish religious, political and educational institutions in relation to the apartheid regime. A fundamental fact underlies this provocative study: the Jews ...

Many Orthodox Jews, such as those who confronted Webster, have much more in common in terms of religious practices and day-to-day lifestyle with African Jews, who are often more devout than other ...

On Johannesburg's Long Avenue, a kosher deli sits right next to the kosher supermarket, across the street from a kosher burger restaurant. The nearest synagogue is only a few hundred meters away.

In this way, Silver has amassed a collection of rare phonograph records from the era of Jewish musical stardom in North Africa, a period roughly corresponding with the first half of the twentieth ...

She started taking Hebrew lessons and studying the Torah, and has said her Bat Mitzvah was a way to honour her African Jewish ancestors. Haddish has said that she hopes sharing her experience will ...

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Scores of Jewish South Africans congregated at the Houghton Great Park Forest in Houghton, Johannesburg, on Monday, to commemorate the first anniversary of the conflict that reignited between ...

The forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of two living African elephant species, the other being the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...