(Author: Azila Reisenberger, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Abstract Religious education in South Africa is at a turning point. No longer may religious instruction in a particular tradition be accepted as a matric (final year) subject. Instead, religious education takes the form of general
(Author: Maurice Skikne, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Jews enjoy an almost world-wide reputation for being able to laugh at themselves. We have been doing this from time immemorial, it is said even from Biblical times. Not only that, but we have that very
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) A tragic by-product of the Civil War that broke out in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 were the numerous pogroms that occurred. It has been estimated that as many as 160 000 Jews died
(Author: Alan Jacobs, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Feature image: Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman (Zionist Record, 2 February 1977) Klezmer is Yiddish Music par excellence. It is the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and fears,
(Author: Isaac Reznik, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) “Growing up in a small Jewish country community on the Highveld of the then Eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga, Johannesburg in the minds of both adults and children – had the image of the quintessential big city,
(Authors: Paul Eidelberg, William E. Morrisey, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Last year marked the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the debates between the then-great American senator Stephen Douglas and an obscure Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln. A single election campaign for one seat
(Author: Mary Kropman, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Feature image: The old King Williams Town synagogue After his barmitzvah, my Father worked in my Zeida’s trading store in Ngwenya, Eastern Cape. He mastered the Xhosa language and would converse with the customers about their
Peter Austin, Sandra Braude, Tarryn Cohen, Jenna Moch, Tamar, Ben Wilensky, John Yarbrough I am I am kind and caring. I wonder if there is ever going to be world peace I hear birds chirping. I see trees swaying back and forth. I want there
(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Mrs. Weinburg lived in a flat on the second floor of a block that stood right opposite my grandmother’s house. They had both been immigrants, both spoke Yiddish and English (with a slight accent), both kept
(Author: Lana Jacobson, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) On 25 May 2009, the Spiegel/Stein-Lessing Wing for African Art in MuseumAfrica will be dedicated to honor two distinguished German Jewish pioneers of African art. After their marriage in the mid-1940s, Dr. Maria Stein-Lessing and Leopold