Community News

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...

Cape Town Jewry unite at the foot of the mountain for Sinai II

Like one man with one heart Psychologists, filmmakers, professors, historians, geopolitical experts, Rosh Yeshivas, mystics, musicians, survivors; an assortment of great minds and personalities rooted...

Keeping our neighbourhood safe

The Company Gardens — spectacular and safe. The Cape Town Jewish Community Centre has joined forces with a number of organisations to form the Gardens...

Stand with Israel conference

Delegates at the conference. On 25 April, a unique conference took place at the Albow Centre in Cape Town. In alliance with Rev Barry Isaacs, the...

YAD’s ‘peri-peri nice’ Business Breakfast

Jodi Sher (YAD Chairman), Alexis Gillis, Robert Brozin, Dale Smiedt, Fiona Sacks, Samantha Sher, Taryn Solomon and Anthony Jacobs. YAD recently hosted an exciting Business...

ORT SA Cape celebrates Grade R educators’ graduation

Susan Koegelenberg (ORT SA Cape facilitator); Dr Lydia Abel (Director of ORT SA Cape); and Grade R educators. ORT SA Cape celebrated the graduation of...

Remembering the fallen

Melissa Marcus (Youth Council Chairman), Josh Todes (Bnei Akiva), Sofi Zway (Netzer) and Mikaela Kagan (Habonim) at Yom Hazikaron. Yom Hazikaron is always a deeply...

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