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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...

Staying in love with Israel

Julian Resnick My relationship with Israel goes back a long way. As I write this from my temporary home in the Upper East Side of...

Ohr Somayach The Light Fantastic

Rabbi Abramson with Chief Rabbi Goldstein, dancing with the Torahs through a sea of children. For the last ten years, Ohr Somayach Cape Town has been...

Glendale Fish Braai

Bernard Zive and a crew of volunteers ready to serve up. On Sunday, 6 February, the aroma of freshly braaied salmon attracted scores of people...

Love and Luggage

Joanne Fedler Food, eating and cooking are almost inherent to Jewish DNA, leading to an intense relationship with food. Equally, emigration is woven into Jewish...

Friends of the UJC

  Michael and Nina Kovensky, Robert Kaplan, Wulf and Moira Utian, Milton and Tamara Levine, Graham Rogoff and Denny Harris, Susan and Roy Peires. On 23...

The Lieberman Doors

Editor Tali Barnett at the Lieberman Doors In the December issue of the Chronicle, we wrote about Mayor Hyman Lieberman. The story continues with a...

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