From Hot Cross Buns to Crossword Puzzles: The SA Jewish Board of Deputies as an information resource
From Hot Cross Buns to Crossword Puzzles: The SA Jewish Board of Deputies as an information resource
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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 79, #2, Summer 2024) Most people associate the South African Jewish Board of Deputies with tackling antisemitism and taking on the Government when its irrational pro-Hamas and pro-Palestine platform interferes with the Constitutional right of the Jewish community
Barnard, Schrire, heart surgery and family connections
Barnard, Schrire, heart surgery and family connections
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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 78, # 1, Summer 2023) One finds when growing older that what is general knowledge to one person is unknown to those younger. This I discovered when I spent some time recently in Cape Town’s Chris Barnard Hospital. Suspended from the high-ceilinged
Johannesburg’s longest-practicing optometrist
Johannesburg’s longest-practicing optometrist
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(Author: Steven Mark Katzew, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) But for the advent of the Covid 19 pandemic, my father-in-law Harold Levy would still have been practicing as an optometrist in his 91st year. The unexpected termination of a lifetime commitment to
‘A Ceylon of the Cederberg’: Benjamin Ginsberg and the commercialisation of Rooibos Tea
‘A Ceylon of the Cederberg’: Benjamin Ginsberg and the commercialisation of Rooibos Tea
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(Author: Boris Gorelik Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) The beginnings of the rooibos trade, one of the youngest tea industries in the world, were undistinguished. South Africans saw rooibos as an ersatz tea for the lower classes. Its quality was inconsistent,
Jacob William Behr – Teacher and Hebrew scholar
Jacob William Behr – Teacher and Hebrew scholar
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(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) I have often felt that the passing of my father, Jacob William Behr, deserved to be marked by more than just the statutory notification plastered on the notice board of his apartment
A tribute to David Susman
A tribute to David Susman
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(Author: Suzanne Belling, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Whenever I had the privilege of interviewing David Susman, z”l, – first in the 1970s and in subsequent years for various publications – the phrase that always came to mind was: “an officer and
Episodes in the Life of a Jewish Prosecutor
Episodes in the Life of a Jewish Prosecutor
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(Author: Norman Sher, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Feature image: The author (self portrait) Early in June 1964, I arrived at the entrance of the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court to commence my first day as a public prosecutor. It was a day of trepidation.
Adcock Ingram and the Tannenbaums
Adcock Ingram and the Tannenbaums
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(Author: Arnold Tannenbaum, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) When Charles and Tilly Tannenbaum settled in the small town of Roodepoort in the late 1800s, their name was anything but synonymous with pharmacy. They ran a general store. It was their four sons1 who
A glimpse into the role of Jewish farmers in the South African economy
A glimpse into the role of Jewish farmers in the South African economy
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(Author: Eli Goldstein, Vol. 71, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2016) Feature image: Emil Lazarus Training Farm, Bethal Rather than following the style of a historical treatise, this article aims to briefly show how Jews have contributed to and continue to play a role in