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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...

SACRED The South African Centre for Religious Equality & Diversity

SACRED (the South African Centre for Religious Equality and Diversity) provides a progressive Jewish voice on relevant social, moral, ethical and religious issues in...

Sailing Together 2012

Jasmine Waynik sailing in Table Bay under the watchful eye of Bertie Phillips. The South African Jewish Maritime League invited Herzlia to participate in its...

Meeting the man behind the museum

Gavin Morris was recently appointed the new director of the South African Jewish Museum. We sat down with him to find out more about...

Your essential guide to Limmud 2012

With just over two months to go till Limmud Cape Town’s annual conference, here’s the information that you need to know. What is the Limmud...

Lessons learned from AIPAC

Being an effective pro-Israel activist in South Africa is no easy feat. Dan Brotman, ex-Capetonian AIPAC lay leader Clive Lipshitz, Congressman Steven Rothman of New...

Heartbreak, hope and healing

Marilyn May with a child at Atlantic Hope. “I believe that children are our future,” sang the late Whitney Houston. Yet in South Africa today,...

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