July 2020 – Jewish Affairs

The Balfour Declaration: Its Genesis, Birth and Historical Significance

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(Author: Rodney Mazinter, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) On 2 November 1917, one year before the conclusion of World War l, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing his government’s support

“One World and one Human Race” – A Message for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2017

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(Author: Marlene Bethlehem, Vol. 72, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) It is an honour and a privilege to have been asked to address you today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. We gather here in Germany, to witness, to remember, to ask what we can do

Family Business

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(Author: Eugenie Freed, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) It was in 1955 that Boris received the call. The unknown man on the line spoke with a strong Yiddish accent. “Boris Aronstam?” “Yes, and who am I speaking to?” “Are you Sam Aronstam’s son?”

Beyond Religious Tolerance

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(Author: David Nossel, Vol. 72, #3, Chanukah 2017) There are great challenges facing society in general. One of the greatest, if not thegreatest, is overcoming differences in religious affiliations and practices. This challenge has a long history - I will refrain from suggesting which event

Indian Jewry and the First World War

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(Author: Anthony N Pamm, Vol. 72, No. 3, Chanukah 2017) At the time of the First World War, Indian Jewry1 comprised four basic component subgroups, two of them going back to ancient times and two of comparatively recent origin. The older groupings were the

Child of the Concentration Camp (Part II)

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(Author: Don Krausz, Vol. 72, #3, Chanukah, 2017) I have carefully arranged all the fairly innocuous experiences of Westerbork together. We will now come to the real purpose of that camp, starting with a glimpse into the future. For several weeks I had the job

Can Jewish civilization save the West?

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(Author: Chuck Volpe, Vol. 72, #3, Chanukah, 2017) Abstract The West is in retreat, if not in decline. The free and democratic world so dearly achieved, can no longer be taken for granted. If hope lies anywhere, it lies with the people who despite

Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist

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(Reviewer: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) In this autobiography, Dr Debbie Weissman describes the events in her life that turned her from a child born to secular Zionist parents living in America during World War II into the Shomer Shabbat woman

Poetry, Rosh Hashanah 2017

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VIE! Vie Ken men spatzirren oif aza heilike Erd Vu zeks miljonnen hobben leben batzholt! Far die ‘Zind’ tsu zain a Yid? Der ganze Europa is a bes-oilem Do liggen Miljone brider und swezters Zair ash in zamd un blotte eingevekelt! Maurice Skikne [HOW!

The Ochberg Orphans and the horrors from which they came (Vol. II)

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(Reviewer: Lionel Slier, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) In 2011 the name Isaac Ochberg became well known in local Jewish circles. The main reason was that year, David Sandler from Perth, Western Australia, issued a book about Ochberg, a Capetonian who in 1921

The Balfour Declaration: Its Genesis, Birth and Historical Significance

“One World and one Human Race” – A Message for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2017

Family Business

Beyond Religious Tolerance

Indian Jewry and the First World War

Child of the Concentration Camp (Part II)

Can Jewish civilization save the West?

Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist

Poetry, Rosh Hashanah 2017

The Ochberg Orphans and the horrors from which they came (Vol. II)

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