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We must remember

With the memory of the events of October 7th 2023 still very fresh in our minds – and with the hatred unleashed since that day being seemingly ever-present –...
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Stand Up – Represent – Make Your Voice Count!

In May 2025, I will celebrate four years as Executive Director of the Cape South African Jewish Board...
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Who are we, now?

If we were in a room together and I was speaking, this is what I would say to...
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History repeats itself

The Editor Reading the English translation of the Yiddish words of the Partisan Song (Zog Nit Keynmol!) at the...
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Cater for locals, too

On a recent visit to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, I was struck by how popular this treasure of nature...

Freedom and…rules

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Israel: A Journey Making Meaning – Julian Resnick Chag Pesach Sameach. How wonderful it is to be a part of a people self-aware of the...

My buddy, Bishop Budde

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The world is truly scary right now. Gone are the days when people of differing views on political, social and economic issues could debate...

People can be nasty when they disagree with you!

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Connect, Collaborate, CommunityBy DANIEL BLOCH, Executive Director, Cape SAJBD We are all entitled to our own opinions. There are so many contentious issues at the...

Purim – the Jewish Mardi Gras

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By RABBI MALCOLM MATITIANI A well-known English proverb, “Clothes don’t make a person”, is understood to mean that appearances can be deceiving. What you see on...

The struggle

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Israel: A Journey Making MeaningJULIAN RESNICK writes from Israel I love guiding in Israel. I love teaching about Israel when I travel abroad and, more recently,...

The claim that Israel committed genocide in Gaza persists even in the unlikeliest of forums 

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By DOMINIQUE HERMAN, a freelance journalist who lives in Cape Town and Wiesbaden, Germany   I spent a weekend in Trier recently, which is Germany’s oldest city...
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