Charlotte Cohen, Honey Gluckman, Rodney Mazinter On certain nights the hills of Jerusalem stop singing. The evening cups the ears of all who sleep –and God sits on the hills surrounded by the whisper of small wings. On that night the secret notes in
(Author: Rodney Mazinter, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) …[W]e have now entered a new era of global antisemitism.1 The continued scapegoating of Israel and of European Jews by multiple groups simultaneously, the systematic shedding of Jewish-Israeli blood, has reached a dangerous, contagious
(Author: John Yarbrough, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) Mr. Thomas said it was ok if I sat in the corner of his neighborhood grocery and read comic books as long as I was careful not to bend the pages so they looked
(Reviewer: David Saks,Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) The South African Jewish Orphanage, better known as Arcadia after the premises it occupied in Parktown for most of its existence, has been a vital part of the Jewish communal fabric for over a century.
(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) At a launch of this book in Johannesburg, the author Tony Leon said that, if nothing else, it would prove useful for throwing at an intruder. On the Contrary – Leading the Opposition in a
(John Yarbrough, Laurie Reznik, Peter Austin) The Summer When I Was Ten I sat on the creek band Watching the other kids swim Splashing and laughing They called me a chicken But if I took my pants off They’d see the bruises John Yarbrough
(Reviewer: Robert Schwarz, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) From time to time, the media have been warning the public of the peril of losing a number of animal species which had not even been on the endangered list for any length of
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) Over the past two decades Jack Bloom, a senior member of the DA caucus in the Gauteng Legislature, has acquired for himself a well-founded reputation as an astute, incisive thinker, one whose views are
(Author: Bernard Levinson, Vol. 64, #3, Chanukah 2009) Group 4. It sounds like a high powered enclave of politicians meeting in the Swiss Alps, deciding the fate of the world… At the end of the Nineteenth Century, certain like-minded Impressionists met at the same