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The Tu Bishvat Festival

The Tu Bishvat Festival

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(Author: Henia Bryer, Vol 74, #1, Pesach 2019)   Tu Bishvat is a somewhat forgotten and much neglected Jewish festival, especially outside of Israel. The etymology of the name derives from the letters ‘tet’ - number nine in the Hebrew alphabet - and ‘vav’ -
The Bible and Music

The Bible and Music

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(Author: Cecil Bloom, Vol 74, #1, Pesach 2019) . The Bible is full of references to music in the life of the early Israelites. When Laban reproaches Jacob in the Mountain of Gilead after Jacob had f led from him, he tells him he would
Our Johannesburg

Our Johannesburg

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(Author: Lionel Slier, Vol. 75, #2, Autumn, 2020) Feature image: Detail from Doornfontein Hebrew Congregation (Lions Shul): Watercolour by Jay Waronker Not long ago, I read an article in an Australian publication where the following informed guess was made about the number of Jews living

Back Then

Back Then

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(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol 75, #2, Autumn, 2020)   Doornfontein – the suburb of meaningful beginnings that grew into big happenings in the bustling city of Johannesburg. Businesses both Jewish and non-Jewish were established in this suburb, especially along the main thoroughfare of Beit Street
Reality

Reality

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(Author: Clark Zlotchew, Vol. 75, #2, Autumn, 2020)   The slim twenty-eight-year old man had finished his day of teaching at the high school and was ambling along Main Street, on the way to his Liberty Street apartment. It was 3:45 on a typical spring