Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025: The Safekeep
The Cape Jewish Chronicle brings you a regular book review by Cape Town bookaholic, Beryl Eichenberger. Please share your recommendations for good reads by...
Interesting fact: The King of American music
Many of our readers will recognise the name Carole King as an extremely talented songwriter and singer, who was active from the 1960s until...
A feast of literary treats at the 2025 Jewish Literary Festival (JLF)
From the moment the doors opened, the atmosphere was electric, brimming with expectation and bonhomie. What a festival this fifth Jewish Literary Festival turned...
Lessons for life
As mental health grows in importance, Rabbi Levi Y. Shmotkin shares timely and needed perspectives with South Africa’s Jewish community. On June 9, Shmotkin...
In Sacred Memory: Holocaust survivor experiences
In the years following the end of the Second World War, a number of Holocaust survivors found refuge in Cape Town, a city that...
The world according to Merle
The Western Cape was blessed in 2020 when the town of Stanford was chosen as home by a Jewish couple returning to South Africa...
