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...

Collecting our communal culture

Andrew Goldman, DirectorSA Jewish Museum I happen to be writing this article on an El Al flight from Johannesburg to Tel Aviv. Airplane seats always...

Group 18 – initiatives for dialogue

Group 18 supporting the Israeli ice hockey team. It’s a year since Group 18 was established in June 2010. In the past year we have... • Supported Bridges...

Iran and Israel: Exploring the antagonism

Ben Levitas, chairman SAZF (Cape Council); Chris Eden, national director Bridges for Peace, and Meir Javedanfar, Iranian-Israeli Middle East analyst. The president of Iran is “anti-Israel, anti-Semitic...

Murder, mystery and making sense of it all

The author of Killing Kebble speaks to the Cape Jewish Chronicle Mandy Wiener “Killing Kebble is not about Brett Kebble, it’s not about Brett Kebble’s murder...

The David Susman Community Foundation — ensuring the future

The David Susman Community Foundation is named after the late David Susman, a man who throughout his lifetime displayed unwavering commitment to the South African...

Pesach and parties at Highlands House

Esta Levitas, Helene Rabinowitz, Paula Cohen (organising committee) Barbara Flax and Jackie Roy. Esther Surdut, Tessa Scher and Myra Osrin (hostess).

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