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Palliative care – helping people live with comfort, dignity and meaning

Palliative care focuses on quality of life Palliative care is often misunderstood as being only about the final days of life. However, as Shelly Korn of Sunset Care explained during...

A new Torah for the Sephardi community

A joyous celebration at the Cape Town Sephardi Synagogue marked the donation of a new Sefer Torah to...

Save the date: Care Services AGM 2026

12 November 202616h30-18h30Venue will be emailed to you after online registration. REGISTER HERE

Two hours of your time. One community counting on us.

Every day of the year, there are organisations in our community quietly doing extraordinary work. Care for our...

Democracy is not a spectator sport

South Africans have far more power to bring about change than they may realise – but only if...

The ‘we’ generation and the Jewish community

My full disclosure upfront: This is written as an observer and participant over a few decades, without research on patterns and trends. In fact, one...

Healing a community from within

It takes one small step to make a difference, and when Bea Heymann visited the West Coast community of Mamre, she began a journey...

The Jews of District Six exhibition opens

After much anticipation, The Jews of District Six: Another Time, Another Place exhibition opened at the South African Jewish Museum on 11 November. The exhibition...

Remembering Cape Town Machalniks

Dear Editor, I refer to your August edition, and to your article ‘1948 heroes re-create history’ — Machalniks as we are referred to. Your two...

ORT Reading Programme is a catalyst for change

ORT SA CAPE has embarked on a Reading Programme (RP) in disadvantaged schools in the rural farm areas of the Cape Winelands. Nine schools...

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