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 chapter for the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre

By Jakub Nowakowski, CTHGC Director Twenty-five years after the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC) pioneered Holocaust education...

New Vintage: The surprising revival of Paarl and Stellenbosch Jewry

By Julia Coscia Decades after congregations dwindled across the rural Western Cape, Jewish life in Paarl and Stellenbosch is...

Apples, honey and a mighty sting

By DANIEL BLOCH, Exec. Director Cape SAJBD Can you believe it’s already time for apples dipped in honey? Where...

One email, one people, one heart 

By SIMONE SULCAS, Chairperson Cape SAJBD This Rosh Hashanah again feels different in our house.For the past four years,...

On the set of the movie ‘Defiance’

When 38 year old former Herzlian and specialist scenic artist Elaine Seidel got a call from a French production designer asking if she would...

Q: Who always gets his man? & A: Avron Kaplan

Avron Kaplan with ‘Q and A’ author Vikas Swarup and his wife Aparna.Since establishing his ‘Living Newspaper’ in June 1987 Avron Kaplan has single-mindedly,...

Temple’s Tachlis Hold ‘Em a tremendous success

Teri Jedeikin (TISA co-ordinator), Dean Sandler, Anne Marx (Jewish Community Services Social Work Manager), Rabbi Greg Alexander, Roy Fine, Eric Beswick (Executive Director, Temple...

Cape Town marks anniversary of Xenophobia attacks

Members of the Herzlia Africa Society stand with BOD and community members.“Tonight we reflect on the suffering of the many refugees and others from foreign...

New Kaplan Centre Oral History Project to be launched

The Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town is about to embark on a new Oral History Project,...

Yom Hashoah Vehagevurah at Pinelands 2 — 21 April

Standard bearer SAJEX Captain Howard Shagom stands in front of the 1500 Capetonians who turned out to commemorate Yom Ha Shoah this year.As Owen...

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