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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 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...

What a new Demographic Report by the Kaplan Centre tells us about Cape Town Jewry

By REVIVA HASSON Research Officer at the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research Is the Cape Town Jewish...

A new season, a new beginning

By Shelley Trope-Friedman, President, WIZO SA  How is it Rosh Hashanah already? There is something about this time of...

Rabbi Doron Perez: living with joy and brokenness

For Rabbi Doron Perez, the devastating loss of his son has deepened his understanding of a central idea...

Limmud South Africa and the disappearing middle of Jewish youth leadership

Daniel MackintoshThe longevity of our community is only as secure as its future leaders. Without young Jews who are seeking to take up the...

Maccabi Action Water Polo

15 Water Polo teams comprising over 80 players of both sexes took to the water in perfect weather conditions for the Maccabi Action Water...

10th Anniversary of Cape Town Holocaust Centre

The Cape Town Holocaust Centre opened its doors in August 1999. To mark its 10th anniversary year the Centre is planning a special programme...

Glendale’s Fish Braai

Despite the sweltering heat, Capetonians came out in their droves last month to support the 8th annual Glendale' famous fish braai. A social occasion...

Who was this ‘Two-Gun Cohen’

Despite the various accounts written of this powerful and colourful figure of the early part of the last century, few people have actually heard...

Hagai Segal on ‘After Gaza’

Conflict is over – maybe – but underlying causes remain as strong, and intractable, as ever A tense ceasefire has taken hold in Gaza,...

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