(Author: Paul Trewhela, Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) If a painter’s “hands are tied”, what happens to the painter, and the painter’s work? The phrase is Marc Chagall’s, writing about himself. Standing alongside Picasso and Matisse, no artist of Chagall’s international
(Author: Simon Berg, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) . “And even if we had an autograph copy of, say, the Book of Ezra, it would not answer all our questions, for it was created at a time (2400 years ago) when writing
(Author: Naomi Dison Kaplan, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) In the course of my research for my thesis on Hebrew laments, I came across a poem, Al Mot Yehudah Leib Schrire – “Upon the Death of Yehuda Leib Schrire” – by Benjamin
(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) The conversation was intelligent and stimulating. Spoken quite casually, and despite the fact that I had never heard it used in a sentence before, one word seemed to fit perfectly. The word was ‘anthropomorphic.’
(Author: Maurice Silbert, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) To tell or not to tell, particularly when it applies to breaking news to a patient regarding an illness feared to be serious or life threatening, has always been a controversial issue in medical
(Author: David Solly Sandler, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) Seventy-one years ago, an historic UN General Assembly resolution was passed to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The voting took place late on Saturday night on 29 November 1947, South African
(Author: Azila Reisenberger, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Abstract Religious education in South Africa is at a turning point. No longer may religious instruction in a particular tradition be accepted as a matric (final year) subject. Instead, religious education takes the form of general
(Author: Maurice Skikne, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Jews enjoy an almost world-wide reputation for being able to laugh at themselves. We have been doing this from time immemorial, it is said even from Biblical times. Not only that, but we have that very
(Author: Alan Jacobs, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Feature image: Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman (Zionist Record, 2 February 1977) Klezmer is Yiddish Music par excellence. It is the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and fears,
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) Chanukah has another name – the Festival of Lights – and if you are lucky enough to walk around the streets of Jerusalem on Chanukah evenings, you can certainly see why. Everywhere, the lights of