(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
(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 Simon, Vol. 64, #3, Chanukah 2009) After the Biblical hero Samson had been defeated and blinded by the Philistines, he lived in captivity in the humblest quarter of Gaza, and despite repeated requests by his comrades from Judaea, he constantly refused to
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) At the beginning of 2010, the author was interviewed by a graduate student at Wits University for a thesis on possible long-term solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Questions posed probed the notion that Jewish settlement
(Author: Adam Levick, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) “People resent the Jews for having emerged from their immemorial weakness and fearlessly resorted to force. They thereby betrayed the mission that history had assigned to them –being a people…that did not get tangled up
(Author: Mike Berger, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) I make no demands that others share this vision, though I know that it is widely shared, only that they desist from actively working for its demise. My ethnic identity must also share emotional and intellectual
(Author: Chuck Volpe, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) I wish to approach the matter of the delegitimisation of Israel in a slightly different way. Firstly, the metaphor of ‘a trial’ is an appropriate one to describe the structure of the delegitimisation project –
(Author: Babs Barron, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) While acknowledging that he contributed much to the study of the human psyche, I am not a disciple of Freud. That being said, I believe that his notion of the eternal conflict between the two
(Author: Benji Shulman, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Feature image: Establishment of Center of Excellence in Agriculture near Kigali, Rwanda, in support of Rwanda’s national plan to modernize its agricultural sector, stimulate agricultural growth and alleviate rural poverty, July 2016 (Source: MFA, Israel). In