Barkai, the Hebrew-language periodical published in Johannesburg by Jack Rubik from the 1930s to the 1970s, has been a uniquely valuable source for the Parow Project. Benyamin Lipshitz, Parow’s scholarly rabbi, developed an appetite for writing in his last decade and a half in Parow. His many contributions – translated into English here – on a wide range of topics tell us much about this intriguing figure and about the South African Jewish community he served, or at least his view of it.