(Author: Rodney Mazinter, Vol. 71, No. 3, Chanukah 2016)   Respected commentator and senior journalist Benjamin Pogrund has mastered the art of dissecting received opinion and exposing the truth beneath. His political views while deputy editor of the now defunct Rand Daily Mail, a liberal

(Author: Rodney Mazinter, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017)   On 2 November 1917, one year before the conclusion of World War l, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing his government’s support

(Author: David A. Sher, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) . One of the most inspiring structures lining Jerusalem’s undulating King George V Avenue (Street)1 is the stately Jerusalem Great Synagogue, situated at number 56. The road was opened on 9 December 1924 by

(Author: Cecil Bloom, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017)             Foreign Office, November 2nd 1917. Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist

(Author: Lyonel Fliss, Vol. 74, #1, Pesach 2019)   When World War II ended, the horrified world and the traumatized survivors believed that the lessons from the Holocaust would be learned and that such a monstrous human tragedy would never, ever be repeated. Over seven

(Author: Yanir Grindler, Vol. 74, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2019) The author introducing the Women Wage Peace delegation. From left, Yasmin Rubin-Cooper, Hyam Tannous, Manar Abu Dahl and Vered Eyal-Saldinger.  Coinciding with South Africa’s Women’s Month, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies recently hosted a delegation