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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...

Cape Town Limmud – A Family Affair

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This year’s Limmud conference is for the whole family, no matter what age the children. Parents are invited to take their children on a...

YAD gets ‘up close and personal’ …

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Over 350 people got up close and personal with the famous Goldfish at this year’s Yad Launch on 18 March at the Hellenic Club....

Former Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman brings tough message

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Melvyn Gordon, Dan Gillerman, Irit Barash and Marco Van Embden.The war in Gaza had sent out some very clear messages, former Israeli Ambassador to...

Israeli Colonel describes a uniquely humane IDF unit

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Colonel Yair Ben Shalom with Lilian Sarembock, Helen Gordon, and Leone Lasker.On Monday evening 6 April members of the Cape Town community were deeply moved...

Friends forever – Hyme Rabinowitz and Percy Sieff

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Last month saw the end of a friendship that spanned some 60 years, when two exceptional men, brilliant sons of our community, passed away...

A new year and a new chairman for BZA WIZO

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Tamar Lazarus, Li Boiskin, Moonyeen Castle, Barbara Flax, Lorraine Rosmarin, Eta Flax, Scher, Zee Bergman, Annette Price and Barbara Sandler. Bnoth Zion association WIZO held...
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