(Author: Babs Barron, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) While acknowledging that he contributed much to the study of the human psyche, I am not a disciple of Freud. That being said, I believe that his notion of the eternal conflict between the two
(Author: Benji Shulman, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Feature image: Establishment of Center of Excellence in Agriculture near Kigali, Rwanda, in support of Rwanda’s national plan to modernize its agricultural sector, stimulate agricultural growth and alleviate rural poverty, July 2016 (Source: MFA, Israel). In
(Author: Hazel Frankel, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Feature image: Pre-war bochrim of the Baranovitch Yeshiva Hazel Frankel is a Johannesburg-based novelist, poet and educator. She has recently completed a PhD on the South African Yiddish poet David Fram. Sarah Levine, née Polonetski, was
(Author: Gloria Sandak-Lewin, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Feature image – taken from the cover of the Penguin edition of The Family Moskat, 1981 This is the first of a four-part essay on I.B. Singer’s great epic work, The Manor (1967), its sequel,
(Author: Allen Jacobs, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) During World War I, Lithuanians voted Vilna as the capital of their newly liberated country. There were about 65 000 Jews in Vilna at the time. The vibrant Jewish life there gave birth to numerous publications
(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) When Anne and her family had taken the cable car up Table Mountain in Cape Town for the first time, it had been an exciting adventure. “D’you think there are snakes at the top, Mom?” Jon
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Most people by now automatically accept unquestioningly the notion that there is an irreconcilable and unbridgeable gulf between ‘Religion’ and ‘Science’ (sometimes tellingly replaced by the respective terms ‘Faith’ and ‘Reason’). It is also by
(Author: Gita Gordon, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Pesach … the family sitting around the table …. on one side the boys Jack, David, Joseph, Samuel and Isaac. The girls sat opposite. Frieda, Bertha, Ethel and Rose. At the head of the table,
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Simon Sebag-Montefiore’s acclaimed and bestselling history of Jerusalem is an intriguing read, full of interesting lesser known facts, personages and new angles. At times, it reads like a well-paced novel, and is as hard to
(Author: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) More than sixty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: How could a state-sponsored terror that took the lives of millions of men, women and children happen? Eichmann’s Men,