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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...

Matrics talk

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Both Jewish day schools in Cape Town, Cape Town Torah High and Herzlia High, recorded solid results for the 2024 matric class. The Cape...

Identity

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During the recent end-of-year holiday, I found a fascinating podcast series aired on BBC Radio 4 called ‘The Gift’. The gift of the title...

Are you ready?

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Connect, Collaborate, Community By DANIEL BLOCH, Executive Director, Cape SAJBD Does anyone ever wake up on January 1st and think to themselves, “This is going to...

May the Maker of peace make peace

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Consider This By RABBI GREG ALEXANDER If I say the words “Oseh Shalom,” I have a pretty good idea of what tune you are humming right...

There are no words… Yet we should never stop talking!!!

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JULIAN RESNICK writes from Israel Almost a year and a half into this awful war. Remember the responses in the early days? Most significantly the...

From Dreyfus to Amsterdam

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JULIAN RESNICK writes from Israel In the 1890s Theodore Herzl was the Paris correspondent for the Viennese newspaper the Neue Freie Presse. What a wonderful...
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