Solly Kaplinski, at The Blogs

Sep 4, 2024, 10:38 PM

A number of years ago, I bumped into a former Rondebosch High School student of mine, Brian, in a department store in Cape Town. If I recall correctly, he was at the time a lecturer at the University of...

Mar 19, 2024, 11:47 PM

G-d’s country?

G-d’s country? I really didn’t want to go. I felt I couldn’t leave Israel during these times especially with 3 grandchildren in the army, but my brother, Benny, was celebrating his 70th birthday and with my late mom z’’l, Sima’s...

Jan 3, 2024, 6:45 PM

Even a visually impaired person can see the light

“Silence like a cancer grows,” Paul Simon There are very few absolutes in life – the clichéd death and taxes being the obvious ones. But there comes a moment when everything seems to fall in place, where the situation is...

Apr 20, 2023, 4:38 PM

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About Me

Solly Kaplinski, a former Headmaster of Herzlia High School in Cape Town, also headed up Jewish Day Schools in Toronto and Vancouver. His Aliyah professionally has been bookended by working at Yad Vashem in the International Relations Department and at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) where he served for 17 years as the Executive Director of Overseas Joint Ventures. He is also the author of a novella, A world of Pains: A Redemptive Parable?