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September 2026

Inside our September edition: Rosh Hashanah greetings, the revival of Jewish life in Paarl and Stellenbosch, a new chapter for the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, and one...

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...

Lunch with Danny

By KAREN MILLER I arrived at Ladles of Love’s warehouse in Epping Industria expecting to interview the founder of...

Rosh Hashanah Greetings

May 5787 bring hope, strength and unity to us all, and may we be inscribed and sealed for...

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...

From bees to business: an empowering project takes flight

It felt like an early Rosh Hashanah for a group of Cape Town women – and two men – when they dipped apple in...

August 2026

In our Women’s Month edition, we focus on local women doing extraordinary things – in the medical field, as authors, in filmmaking and in...

Women’s Month 2026

The month of August in the South African calendar provides an encouragement for us to turn our attention to the position of women in...

Changing the future of maternal mental health

By EDITOR For more than two decades, Associate Professor Simone Honikman has dedicated her career to helping women and their families navigate the mental health...

Podcast review: Episode 310. DAVID BADDIEL

Recommended by Matthew Berman, a World War II history enthusiast British Jewish writer and comedian David Baddiel has explored Jewish identity extensively in his work....

An unexpected homecoming: a Kaufhaus Galliner ashtray returns after 92 years

By JEANINE HACK In 1909 my great-grandparents, Emil and Martha Galliner, opened Kaufhaus Galliner, a department store in Finsterwalde, Germany. Twenty-five years later, in 1934,...

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