(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: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021)   ‘ One name is missing from the history of the early struggle with the British for the creation of a Jewish state. It is that of Lord Arthur Balfour’s niece. Born Blanche Elizabeth

(Author: Honey Gluckman, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021)  In 1948, as a high school pupil aged 15 years, I read an article in a Jewish journal asking people to write to prisoners in camp Gilgil in Kenya. Since I was going through

(Author: Marge Clouts, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018)            When retirement looms, the tricky problem of how to dispose of sentimental items, many of Jewish interest, presents practical and emotional difficulties. Children may not ‘have room’ for them, and the options of selling,

(Author: Audrey Benedict Meyersfeld, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018)            “There were many South African nurses amongst the ranks of Mahal. Perhaps the best known were Sisters Audrey (Bennie) Benedict and Marie Roux, non-Jewish theatre sisters whom Jack Penn had brought from home. Highly

(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