(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol 78, #2, Winter 2023) Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. With these words Henry Longfellow, the American poet who
Goldie Goldsmith, who died in Johannesburg in November 2022, worked for the SA Jewish Board of Deputies in various capacities for over forty years, primarily as administrative secretary of Jewish Affairs as well as of the SAJBD’s Afrikaans language publication Buurman which appeared during the
(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
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 77, #4 Summer 2022) When he arrived in Johannesburg in 1892 to take up a position with the newly established Johannesburg Hebrew Congregation, Reb Yehuda Leib Schrire would certainly have been aware that standards of religious observance would not be on
(Auther: Mickey Glass, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) I am often asked – why interfaith? Why is it necessary for different faith communities to work together? Surely, it’s perfectly OK for each of us to do the best we can within our own circle,
(Author: Margaret Green, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) A ghost is starting to speak: “Marginke, fahr vos bist du tsu farnumen mit azay fihl alte mayses? [You’re young – enjoy your life!”] “I’m 80 Mom.” “Tahke?” [Really?] “Un der naye mayses bin niet
(AUTHOR: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) This is the first part of a story chronicling the experiences and events during World War II (1939-1945) during which three uncles of the sisters Arlene Rubin (nee Egnal) and Denise Buxbaum (nee Egnal), were soldiers
(Vol. 77, #2, Autumn-Winter 2022) A Liliesleaf Boyhood Editor’s Note: From December 1961 until July 1963, Paul and Nicholas Goldreich lived with their parents Arthur and Hazel Goldreich on Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, then a largely rural suburb 20km north of Johannesburg. During
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) Once upon a time, there was a studious young Jewish immigrant who had to leave school at the age of 14 to go to work to support his family since the money-making ideas of
(Author: Solly Kessler, Vol. 77, #2, 2022) Having been allotted just a few minutes for an overview of the Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies’ past, I shall only speak of the last fifty years, during which I was personally involved in the