Community News

More than food: How our Foodbank supports the Community

Our JCS Tikvah Foodbank exists to help ensure that no one faces hunger alone. Through the generosity of donors, volunteers and community partners, we collect, sort and distribute food...

Remembering a community connector 

The Cape Town Jewish community has lost one of its great connectors and cultural entrepreneurs with the passing...

A Jewish pioneer of Spanish dance 

The internationally acclaimed Spanish dancer Enrique Segovia, who passed away in late June, was born Geoffrey Neiman to...

Tikkun Olam: Get involved to help support those affected by xenophobia 

Our country has been ravaged yet again by horrific xenophobic hatred, leaving thousands of people displaced. Cape Town’s...

The Truth shall set you free – that’s if you believe in the truth… 

By DANIEL BLOCH  The week of 15-19 June will certainly be remembered, at least by me, as one filled...

Throwing down the challenge

Individuals could influence public opinion in the “war of legitimacy” being waged against Israel, Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based...

SA Holocaust Foundation to establish centre in Johannesburg

The Board of Trustees of the South African Holocaust Foundation (formerly known as the Cape Town Holocaust Centre Trust) has appointed a committee...

Annapolis here they come?

As the vital behind-the-scenes negotiations between Israel, the Palestinians and the Americans continued over the past weeks in advance of the Annapolis summit, one...

From SAJBD National Chairman Zev Krengel

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CAPE COUNCIL I begin by congratulating our Cape Council on an outstanding conference, as well as the newly elected committee. In my...

It is a day of new partnerships

A lunch meeting with Professor Malcolm Hedding, international executive director of the International Christian Embassy based in Jerusalem, is always a ‘must’. Listening to...

A Board Perspective

Just before Rosh Hashanah the Board was engaged in the latest round of its extended battle against Radio 786 when the Constitutional Court considered...

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