Arts & Culture

SOBREMESA – celebrating the life and legacy of Sir Geoffrey Neiman

The extraordinary life of Sir Geoffrey Neiman will be honoured by the dance community with SOBREMESA, a once-off performance curated to celebrate his far-reaching contribution to Spanish dance and...

A Spielberg movie never before seen in Cape Town!

While most people associate the name ‘Spielberg’ with acclaimed director Steven Spielberg, his younger sister Nancy Spielberg is...

Art bursaries changing lives

“Cape Town is the best place in South Africa for anyone interested in art.” That is the view...

The Catalogue that became a Book

BY MARC HOBERMAN About a year ago, Gavin Morris invited me for one of our favourite coffee catch up...

Enjoy the Jewish humour in earthside 

When I saw Candice Bernstein’s one-woman show, earthside, about a year ago, I was struck by how sad it...

Opportunities to learn more about the Jewish religion

Moves to create awareness and increase religious observance among Cape Town’s Jewish community have seen the introduction of two new initiatives: the establishment of...

Pikuach Nefesh

Repair was our theme for these High Holy Days. Many of our congregants joined us to enhance this theme by performing the mitzvah of...

Feast of history

Rosh Hashanah cooking demonstration By ESTHER SURDUT  Emunah Cape Town together with the SAZF Cape Council hosted a most successful Fundraiser: The Feast of History Rosh...

Bringing Israel to Cape Town

For the past 10 weeks, our Cape Town community was blessed to have two young schlichot, Amit Toledo and Hadar Bargev, working with the SAZF...

Siyabonga Garden established in Israel to commemorate anti-apartheid activists

The ‘South African Honour Garden’, dedicated to honouring activists who fought against apartheid and then made a contribution to Israeli society, was inaugurated in...

Small-town Jewish South Africa

With its large, lifelike cutouts of the suburb’s pioneers, the exhibition on the history of the Jews of Parow, Echoes of Parow, now on...

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