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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...

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,...

Herzlia High School Prizegiving

Principal Marianne Marks presents the Rossouw van Zyl Memorial Trophy in recognition of Academic Excellence in Grade 12 to an unprecedented number of 9...

Israel’s 60th anniversary year 5767/5768

The Dudu Fisher ConcertThe Western Province Zionist Council commenced Israel’s 60th Anniversary celebrations with THE DUDU FISHER CONCERT. This outstanding performer entertained a full...

New UHS award for Ivor Joffe

Brian Goldberg, chairman UHS, and Ivor Joffee, the first recipient of the Chairman's AwardAt this year’s Herzlia High School Valedictory UHS Chairman Brian Goldberg...

The glory and grandeur of the Gardens

“It’s like we’ve gone back in time.” “I feel like in the old days.” “The crowd just kept growing ...” “The energy and excitement...

Helping the stranger

Cape Board and WPZC members protest against xenophobia outside St. George's CathedralThe spate of xenophobic violence that started in Gauteng spread to Cape Town...

Jewish and Muslim students ‘break the mould’

Strolling together through the Bo-KaapOn Sunday 23 November, in an unusual ‘first’, 35 young university students, Jews and Muslims, spent the day together sharing...

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