Six generations at the shul
A long line of descendants of one of the founders of the Claremont Hebrew Congregation continues to honour the legacy of Reuben Newstead. Most...
Cape Town’s ‘Daddy Ochberg’ legacy
By Michel Levine, Human Rights Historian
In the early 1920s, thousands of Jewish children across Eastern Europe were left orphaned – victims of war, pogroms,...
Recording and preserving Holocaust survivor testimony
French-American journalist and filmmaker Leslie Benitah recently visited Cape Town to attend a family bar mitzvah. While here, she shared her documentary film, The Last Ones, at an event hosted...
Supporters of Israel stand together in public – Roar Lion, Roar!
Brave South Africans gathered peacefully in large numbers on Saturday, 7 March 2026, at the V&A Waterfront. They all stood strong and united in their support for Israel. They chanted...
Travelling off the map: a Cape Town family’s journey through Iraq and Kurdistan
For most travellers, Iraq sits firmly in the category of places not to visit. Decades of conflict, political instability and alarming headlines have kept...
From Iraq to Israel: the extraordinary journey of Noga and Zaki Sharon
By LIBA NEU-NER
For thousands of years, Jewish life flourished in what was once ancient Babylonia – modern-day Iraq. Jewish scholars composed the Babylonian Talmud...
