(Author: Steven Mark Katzew, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) But for the advent of the Covid 19 pandemic, my father-in-law Harold Levy would still have been practicing as an optometrist in his 91st year. The unexpected termination of a lifetime commitment to
(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) In the early years of the British Mandate, two Jewish men who had become part of the British establishment found themselves on opposing sides when they entered what was then Palestine. They were
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) The untimely passing last November of veteran journalist, author and Jewish communal professional Suzanne Belling was yet another sad loss for South African Jewry in a year that had already seen – whether
(Author: Dominique Malherbe, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) The following extract is taken from 23-27 of Searching for Sarah: the Women Who Loved Langenhoven by Dominique Malherbe, Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021. JA thanks Tafelberg for permission to include here. One of
(Author: Ivan P Kapelus, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) Introduction I crave your indulgence! I would like to start this discussion in the middle, as it were, by quoting from a four thousand-word article by Dr H F Verwoerd (later National
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) The rise of Assyria, destruction of Israel and siege of Jerusalem The opening verse of the Book of Isaiah places the life of the prophet Isaiah in its historical setting, which is the
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) Of all South Africa’s minority groups, the Jewish community is “among the most thoroughly dissected and psychoanalysed” observes Irwin Manoim at the beginning of Mavericks Inside the Tent – The Progressive Jewish movement
(Author: Irwin Manoim, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) On a Tuesday afternoon in early May this year, Rabbi Andre Ungar, aged 90, settled down for his afternoon nap. He never got up, dying peacefully in his sleep. Due to Covid19 lockdown
(Author: Boris Gorelik Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) The beginnings of the rooibos trade, one of the youngest tea industries in the world, were undistinguished. South Africans saw rooibos as an ersatz tea for the lower classes. Its quality was inconsistent,