(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) Feature image: Scuola Grande Spagnola Synagogue Venice The history of Italian Jewry (and more particularly Roman Jewry) is of unique interest as it spans over twenty centuries and more than half a dozen
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(Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) JA: You embarked on your political career in the early 1990s. Could you tell me a little bit about your background and activities prior to that? RR: I was born Ruth Zilibowitz in Springs. My parents, like
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) Early travelers’ tales often have to be taken with a pinch of salt. That pinch must be added to a kernel of truth, wrapped in a shell of plagiarised information and covered with a
(Veronica Belling, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) The commandment to care for the widow and the orphan, the most vulnerable members of society, is one of the most basic precepts of Judaism. Although the oldest Jewish organisation in South Africa, Cape Town’s
(Author: Naomi Dison Kaplan, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) In the course of my research for my thesis on Hebrew laments, I came across a poem, Al Mot Yehudah Leib Schrire – “Upon the Death of Yehuda Leib Schrire” – by Benjamin
(Author: Wendy Kahn, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) “Giving the Holocaust-denying Ahmadinejad a platform to lecture the world about racism is like inviting Bernie Madoff to head a global conference on business ethics”. This was one of the choice quotes doing the
(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) The conversation was intelligent and stimulating. Spoken quite casually, and despite the fact that I had never heard it used in a sentence before, one word seemed to fit perfectly. The word was ‘anthropomorphic.’
(Author: Barbara Brown, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) Editor’s note: During the 1950s, a little remembered trio of Jewish Labour Party MPs – Alex Hepple, Hyman Davidoff and Leo Lovell – vigorously opposed the mounting tide of apartheid legislation. Lovell’s life and
(Author: Dorothy Kowen, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) My mother, the daughter of a rabbi in Germany, had escaped from Nazi Germany to Rhodesia and had married a Lithuanian Jew. My mother and father did not communicate much, so the telephone became my