(Author: David Solly Sandler, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) Seventy-one years ago, an historic UN General Assembly resolution was passed to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The voting took place late on Saturday night on 29 November 1947, South African
(Author: Florrie Cohen, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) Feature image: Jewish youth on hachshara, near Berlin Every morning, the alarm clock would ring at 5.30 am and awaken me. Thus would my day begin on Hachsharah at the David Eder Training Farm
(Author: Cecil Bloom, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) “My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to say, before I say another word, that the reason I am interested in this movement is that I met one some two years ago who
(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) I remember well that first Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration in Bloemfontein. The most lasting memory I have is the prediction my mother made about the future. Other memories too, come flooding back. So, to
(Author: Mary Schrire, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) Both of my parents, Dr Louis and Mary Schrire, were keen Zionists. My late mother was the longest serving member of the Bnoth Zion Association-WIZO in Cape Town and my late father was named an
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.