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Opposite Mandela

Opposite Mandela

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(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 69, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2014)   Tony Leon requires little introduction. A lawyer and attorney, he lectured in Constitutional Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, and served on the Johannesburg City Council before entering parliament. There he served for
South Africa’s Freedom Struggle in the Context of the Pesach Narrative – Perspectives from the 2014 SAJBD Freedom Seder

South Africa’s Freedom Struggle in the Context of the Pesach Narrative – Perspectives from the 2014 SAJBD Freedom Seder

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By: Johnny Copelyn, Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein, Zev Krengel, Vol. 69, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2014) Editor’s Note: On 3 April 2014, as part of a series of events to mark twenty years of democracy in South Africa, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies hosted
Liberation Diaries

Liberation Diaries

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(Reviewer: Naomi Musiker, Vol. 69, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2014) Liberation Diaries: Reflections on 20 Years of Democracy is a collection of essays by fifty diverse South Africans ‘from all walks of life’ who reflect on South Africa’s process of democratization and transformation since the
Life Under Water

Life Under Water

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(Reviewer: Marcia Leveson, Vol. 69, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2014) Ken Barris has written an extremely satisfying novel of life in the 1960s in Port Elizabeth. It is seen through the eyes of the three young Machabeus brothers, living a suburban life in a middle
Rabbi Dr Dennis Isaacs

Rabbi Dr Dennis Isaacs

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(Vol. 69, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2014) Rabbi Dr. Dennis Isaacs - HaRav David Meir ben Yitzhak, of Blessed Memory - was born and educated in Johannesburg. After matriculating, with distinction in Hebrew, he attended the Rabbi Zlotnick Avida Teachers’ Seminary of the SA Board
What we learn from ‘Nusach Anglia’: South Africa and its threatened Anglo-Jewish heritage

What we learn from ‘Nusach Anglia’: South Africa and its threatened Anglo-Jewish heritage

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(Author: David Sher, Vol. 69, No. 1, Pesach 2014) Judaism has a largely heterogeneous array of prayer rites. These are distinguished primarily by different liturgical traditions such as the composition of the thrice-daily services and the Amida (the primary Jewish silent devotion). However, alongside these