(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – generally referred to by the august title of ‘Mahatma’ (Great Soul) – was unquestionably one of the towering personalities of the last century, not only for the pivotal role he played
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Most people by now automatically accept unquestioningly the notion that there is an irreconcilable and unbridgeable gulf between ‘Religion’ and ‘Science’ (sometimes tellingly replaced by the respective terms ‘Faith’ and ‘Reason’). It is also by
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Simon Sebag-Montefiore’s acclaimed and bestselling history of Jerusalem is an intriguing read, full of interesting lesser known facts, personages and new angles. At times, it reads like a well-paced novel, and is as hard to
(Author: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) More than sixty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: How could a state-sponsored terror that took the lives of millions of men, women and children happen? Eichmann’s Men,
(Reviewer: Cedric Ginsberg, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) The South African Jewish Community is unique among the communities in the Jewish world – and nowhere is this more evident than in the pages of this book. It is a relatively young community. It
(Reviewer: Tamar Saks, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) The well-known South African journalist and Zionist activist Michael Belling has written a novel which is, according to the blurb, “both a tender love story and a story of Israel in its early years”.
(Reviewer: Roy Robins, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012 Drastic Dislocations is a selection of poetry from Barry Wallenstein’s six previous collections – from Beast is a Wolf with Brown Fire (1977) to Tony’s World (2009) – and includes more than sixty new poems.
(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) Ambassador Yehuda Avner was born in Manchester, England in 1928. He was a founding member of Kibbutz Lavi in the Galilee, and entered the Israel Foreign Service in the 1950s. During his lengthy diplomatic
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) The pervasive myth of an all-powerful Israel lobby controlling American foreign policy has long dominated public discourse. In The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance that Undermines America’s Interests in the Middle East, Mitchell Bard
(Reviewer: Lionel Slier, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) 2011 could be called “The Year of Isaac Ochberg.” In the course of it, two memorial ceremonies in his honour, including the unveiling of commemorative plaques, took place in Israel and Johannesburg (see Appendix). The