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Harold BehrThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Do you by any chance remember vinyl records? Of course you do, especially if you are already in your eighties or approaching them. I was given a few...
Satan was getting bored. He had spent several weeks idly twirling his globe of the world, noting with glum satisfaction the number of countries which...
The British Museum in London has postponed, at short notice, a lecture on ancient Jewish history which was to have been given by Paul Collins, the...
The British Jewish community has become understandably edgy about the spate of antisemitic attacks in recent months. This edginess is now spilling...
I was born into the South Africa of the apartheid era, where every white child was educated in two spoken languages – English and Afrikaans. The...
My mother being a piano teacher and my sister an accomplished pianist, I grew up to the sound of classical piano music. However, my own attempts to...
My woodwork teacher in a Johannesburg high school, Mr Richards, a small, blond-haired man with a ginger moustache, occasionally admonished the boys...