(Author: Marge Clouts, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) When retirement looms, the tricky problem of how to dispose of sentimental items, many of Jewish interest, presents practical and emotional difficulties. Children may not ‘have room’ for them, and the options of selling,
(Author: Leila Bloch, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) It is important to preserve memories while there are people around to share them with us. This is the function of the Jewish Digital Archive Project (JDAP), a community project sponsored by the Kaplan-Kushlick
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) When visiting Henia Bryer in her beautifully appointed apartment in Larmenier Retirement Village in Vredehoek, Cape Town, it is hard to believe that this beautifully groomed elegant lady has such a harrowing tale to
(Author: Ellie Isserow, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) When the call went out from to Jews all over the Diaspora to help build and defend the new-born State of Israel, 810 South Africans volunteered. I was one of them. We formed the
(Author: Audrey Benedict Meyersfeld, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) “There were many South African nurses amongst the ranks of Mahal. Perhaps the best known were Sisters Audrey (Bennie) Benedict and Marie Roux, non-Jewish theatre sisters whom Jack Penn had brought from home. Highly
(Author: David Solly Sandler, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) Seventy-one years ago, an historic UN General Assembly resolution was passed to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The voting took place late on Saturday night on 29 November 1947, South African
(Author: Florrie Cohen, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) Feature image: Jewish youth on hachshara, near Berlin Every morning, the alarm clock would ring at 5.30 am and awaken me. Thus would my day begin on Hachsharah at the David Eder Training Farm
(Author: Cecil Bloom, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) “My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to say, before I say another word, that the reason I am interested in this movement is that I met one some two years ago who
(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) I remember well that first Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration in Bloemfontein. The most lasting memory I have is the prediction my mother made about the future. Other memories too, come flooding back. So, to
(Author: Mary Schrire, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) Both of my parents, Dr Louis and Mary Schrire, were keen Zionists. My late mother was the longest serving member of the Bnoth Zion Association-WIZO in Cape Town and my late father was named an