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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...

Scatterlings of Africa

“The Jewish people have always had a presence in Africa, making some of these communities the oldest in the world,” says photographer Jono David,...

Revolution is in the air!

<tdYouth Shul founding members Chanan Suiza, Josh Berkman, Aaron Weinstein, Ben Rubin, Aidyn Breiter, Jess Spiro and Levi Todes. It all began in January 2011,...

YAD Business Breakfast

Grant Israel, Anthon Gillis, Arthur Gillis, Darryl Sher and Martin Dibowitz.</ The YAD Business Breakfast on 5 December was the last of a series of...

Conscription and Community

Glen Biderman-Pam Young local actor Glen Biderman-Pam will soon appear in the play Somewhere on the Border at the Baxter Theatre. He discusses the production,...

Technology as a common language

Like everyone else I know, I have a cousin in Israel. He is 14 years old, cute, clever and told me that his favourite...

SA Jewish Museum hosts Herman Wald exhibition

'Monument to the Six Million’ at Westpark cemetery in Johannesburg. Many South Africans will be familiar with the work of the Jewish, Hungarian-born sculptor Herman Wald...

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