(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,
(Author: Kathy Munro, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) Art publishing impresario and photographer Helen Aron, who passed away in Johannesburg on 11 January 2020, was a unique Johannesburg character. A documentary and art photographer of Johannesburg’s disappearing past and a woman
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) . A recent gift to the Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies of a 1955 Jewish National Fund (JNF) charity programme has brought back memories of a forgotten part of South African Zionist history.
(Author: Juan-Paul Burke, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) This is a follow on from the bibliography presented in JA Pesach 2019 Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2018 & additions for 2014-2017. As the title suggests,
(Author: Clark Zlotchew, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) . When we were kids Grandma Rosie always cooked a big vat of chicken soup when we visited. I still remember the mouth-watering aroma, and the wonderful taste rolling across my tongue, and
(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) Let us presume ‘The Truth’ was represented by a statue. You stand in front of the statue. I stand behind it; and we both write down exactly what it is that we see.
(Author: Charisse Zeifert, Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) “This is true freedom: Our ability to shape reality. We have the power to initiate, create and change reality rather than only react and survive it. How can we all educate our children
(Author: Peter Houston, Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) Abstract Islamophobia and antisemitism are likened to two sides of the same coin. While there are considerable similarities in definitions, such as a fear-based response to the Other, the implications differ considerably between countries.
(Author: Brian Josselowitz, Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) Dr Egonne Roth, a lecturer at Bar Ilan University and biographer of Olga Kirsch1, was surprised to learn that Jennifer Friedman, author of the childhood memoir Queen of the Free State and