(Reviewer: Tamar Saks, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) The well-known South African journalist and Zionist activist Michael Belling has written a novel which is, according to the blurb, “both a tender love story and a story of Israel in its early years”.
Charlotte Cohen, Jeff Fine, Israel Silberhaft 10 WHOLE WEEKS! It would never happen to me! ‘Pa’ would live forever. Then the reality – cancer Panic, self-pity then denial, Hebrew – no go, Kaddish – never. This was me – what next? 10 whole weeks!
(Reviewer: Roy Robins, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012 Drastic Dislocations is a selection of poetry from Barry Wallenstein’s six previous collections – from Beast is a Wolf with Brown Fire (1977) to Tony’s World (2009) – and includes more than sixty new poems.
(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) Ambassador Yehuda Avner was born in Manchester, England in 1928. He was a founding member of Kibbutz Lavi in the Galilee, and entered the Israel Foreign Service in the 1950s. During his lengthy diplomatic
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) The pervasive myth of an all-powerful Israel lobby controlling American foreign policy has long dominated public discourse. In The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance that Undermines America’s Interests in the Middle East, Mitchell Bard
(Reviewer: Lionel Slier, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) 2011 could be called “The Year of Isaac Ochberg.” In the course of it, two memorial ceremonies in his honour, including the unveiling of commemorative plaques, took place in Israel and Johannesburg (see Appendix). The
(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) Born in 1943, R W Johnson describes himself as “a working class kid” who grew up “in a house overlooking the Mersey Docks”. He was educated at Natal and Oxford universities and was for 26
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) Do we really need yet another ‘Struggle’ autobiography, some might ask? After all, since the demise of apartheid, and indeed before that, a host of memoirs by former activists in the anti-apartheid sphere have appeared,
(Author: Naomi Musiker, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) Feature image: Inner City Housing Upgrade Trust AGM, 1997: Gerald Leissner (GM), Taffy Adler (CEO) and Gauteng MEC for Housing Dan Mofokeng. According to the Urban Management Department of the City of Johannesburg, the Inner City is