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...

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...

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...

Partnership 2000 in action

Aunique aroma of Israel’s ethnic flavour wafted through Cape Town during two glorious weeks in August. Eight talented, warm and wonderful ethnic cooks; ambassadors...

Habitat for Humanity Build

The UJW of Cape Town built two houses simultaneously in Mfuleni as part of the Habitat for Humanity project, which is designed to expedite...

Joint Statement – SAJBD (Cape Council) and WPZC in response to Human Rights Delegation visit to Israel

Joint statement by the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape Council) and Western Province Zionist Council in response to the Human Rights Delegation visit...

Community bids farewell to popular shaliach Moshe Lederman and his family

Jewish Agency representative Moshe Lederman arrived in South Africa at the end of 2005 with his wife, Booky and daughter Yuval, to fill the...

Lehitraot to the bachurim of the Yeshiva of Cape Town

From Constantia and Muizenberg, from Tableview and Milnerton, from Claremont and Sea Point, the community flocked to bid farewell to the bachurim of the...

A Big Talk with South Africa’s leaders of tomorrow

MaAfrika Tikkun’s COO Mark Gamble, chairman Moonyeen Castle and Amanda Blankfield (MaAfrika Tikkun Gauteng) with Colin Brown of sponsor Deutsche Bank.There is a clear...

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