Religion, Arts & Culture – Page 7

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(Author: Berel Wein, Vol. 69, No. 1, Pesach 2014) Editor’s Note: 2013 saw the appearance of The Legacy: Teachings for Life from the Great Lithuanian Rabbis, co-authored by South African Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein and the world-renowned historian and lecturer Rabbi Berel Wein. Both

What we learn from ‘Nusach Anglia’: South Africa and its threatened Anglo-Jewish heritage

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(Author: David Sher, Vol. 69, No. 1, Pesach 2014) Judaism has a largely heterogeneous array of prayer rites. These are distinguished primarily by different liturgical traditions such as the composition of the thrice-daily services and the Amida (the primary Jewish silent devotion). However, alongside these

Life before birth – Lessons from the womb

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(Author: Bernard Levinson, Vol. 69, No. 3, Chanukah 2014) ‘There are many events in the wombof time, which will be deliver’d’ Shakespeare. Othello, 1, iii. Everything that makes my life possible and meaningful I learnt in my mother’s womb. An intense nine months

Talmudic Norms: Use and Abuse

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(Author: Aryeh Newman, Vol. 69, No. 1, Pesach 2014) By Israeli law the validity of Jewish marriage, divorce and Orthodox conversion is governed by halacha as determined by the country’s chief rabbinate. In recent years, however, the Israeli chief rabbinate has become increasingly dominated

Gastronomic Judaism, Tradition and Changes in Taste

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 69, No. 1, Pesach 2014) Jewish identity can be shown in different ways, of which one is Gastronomic Judaism - defined as ‘unattached Jews with an attachment to Jewish foods’. A good example is the poet Heinrich Heine who, having

The Little Black Dress: Gender, Judaism and the symbolism of dress

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(Author: Bev May, Vol. 69, No. 1, Pesach 2014) La mode n’est pas quelque chose qui existe dans les robes seulement. La mode est dans le ciel, dans la rue, la mode a à voir avec les idées, notre façon de vivre, ce qui

War Poet Isaac Rosenberg – The South African Connection

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(Author: Stephen Gray, Vol. 69, No. 3, Chanukah 2014) Stephen Gray is a distinguished South African poet, novelist, literary critic and academic. This article first appeared under the title “A ‘half-used life’ blasted to extinction” in the 4 July 2014 issue of the Mail &

Retrospective Recognition of German Jewish Artists – Local Connections

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 70, No. 1, Pesach 2015) Fame comes to some artists only after death. Van Gogh is a famous example. He only sold one painting in his lifetime. Now his works sell for millions of dollars. But what about those artists

Revealing invisible realms in the Spiritual Universe: The Art of Abigail Sarah Bagraim

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(Author: Ute Ben Yosef, Vol. 70, No. 1, Pesach 2015) Abigail Sarah Bagraim is a mystical painter whose Jewish identity is intrinsic to her art. It is this distinctiveness that makes it impossible to align her work with any other South African contemporary art

Hanukah with Shmuel and his family

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(Author: Alec Natas, Vol. 70, No. 3, Chanukah 2015) Editor’s note: The following is taken from Alec Natas’s Almost Yesterday – Memoirs of a Lithuanian Childhood (SA Jewish Museum, Cape Town, 2014), and is reproduced with the kind permission of the publishers. The memoir

Seeking Paths of Pleasantness

What we learn from ‘Nusach Anglia’: South Africa and its threatened Anglo-Jewish heritage

Life before birth – Lessons from the womb

Talmudic Norms: Use and Abuse

Gastronomic Judaism, Tradition and Changes in Taste

The Little Black Dress: Gender, Judaism and the symbolism of dress

War Poet Isaac Rosenberg – The South African Connection

Retrospective Recognition of German Jewish Artists – Local Connections

Revealing invisible realms in the Spiritual Universe: The Art of Abigail Sarah Bagraim

Hanukah with Shmuel and his family

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