(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 78, # 1, Summer 2023) One finds when growing older that what is general knowledge to one person is unknown to those younger. This I discovered when I spent some time recently in Cape Town’s Chris Barnard Hospital. Suspended from the high-ceilinged
(Author: Clark Zlotchew, Vol. 78, No. 1, Summer 2023) Crimea has been in the news since Russia seized it from Ukraine and annexed it in 2014. Yet Crimea had been part of Russia since the Czar’s Empire conquered and annexed the Crimean Khanate, inhabited mostly
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 78, # 1, Summer 2023) Introduction & Background This article examines the history of the Jewish people from just before the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 BCE until around 400 BCE in Babylonia, Judah and Egypt. Reviewing the
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 77, #4 Summer 2022) When he arrived in Johannesburg in 1892 to take up a position with the newly established Johannesburg Hebrew Congregation, Reb Yehuda Leib Schrire would certainly have been aware that standards of religious observance would not be on
(Peter Austin, Charlotte Cohen) The Doctor The doctor who presided at the birth Wore cap and gown so white, had skin so clean That, watching him at work, you’d
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) Hindsight is good, foresight is better. Hindsight is cleverer but usually useless because it comes too late. Foresight, despite information and expert analysis, is rarely helpful. This became apparent when I was given a newspaper with
(Auther: Mickey Glass, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) I am often asked – why interfaith? Why is it necessary for different faith communities to work together? Surely, it’s perfectly OK for each of us to do the best we can within our own circle,
(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) Between November 1945 and until July 1946 the Haganah, Irgun and Lehi coordinated their operations against the British regime in the Palestine Mandate. It was during this time that the Lehi embarked on an operation against
(Author: Margaret Green, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) A ghost is starting to speak: “Marginke, fahr vos bist du tsu farnumen mit azay fihl alte mayses? [You’re young – enjoy your life!”] “I’m 80 Mom.” “Tahke?” [Really?] “Un der naye mayses bin niet
(REVIEWER: Angela Miller-Rothbart, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) Gita Gordon’s sweeping saga Full Circle will transport the reader back in time, into the shadow of memory and the familiarity of the homes of our grandparents. Under Gordon’s pen the legacy of stories which have been