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Save me a seat!

By Shelly Korn | Founder, Sunset Care Last Rosh Hashanah, for the first time, my father-in-law was unable to join our celebration. His care needs made it impossible for us...

Apples, honey and a mighty sting

By DANIEL BLOCH, Exec. Director Cape SAJBD Can you believe it’s already time for apples dipped in honey? Where...

One email, one people, one heart 

By SIMONE SULCAS, Chairperson Cape SAJBD This Rosh Hashanah again feels different in our house.For the past four years,...

The other side of repentance

Growing up, Rosh Hashanah meant the warmth of family. Aunts and uncles, cousins and the occasional friend would...

A new season, a new beginning

By Shelley Trope-Friedman, President, WIZO SA  How is it Rosh Hashanah already? There is something about this time of...

Lindy with a why – Why not making mistakes is the biggest mistake of all

Last month I clean forgot the birthday party of a good friend’s child. The party had been finished for a full hour before I...

Lindy with a why – Why akrasia, covert racism and the single story are breaking our country

New Year’s Resolutions. Many of us create them in the fresh-eyed optimism of a new year, only to relegate them, dusty and unfulfilled to...

Lindy with a why – Why not rocks and paper?

I had trouble deciding which part of the last two weeks to write about in my final column for 2015. I sit here looking...

As the Nakba comes to Washington, a wasted opportunity

For two weeks in June, Washington, DC will play host to a group of pro-Palestinian activists who have assembled an exhibit about the dispersion...

The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s continuing impact on Cape Town

Despite disquiet and doubt, a Jewish community thrives "Decades before the launch of the internet, let alone Facebook, the Lubavitcher Rebbe put into place a...

‘On the brink of possibilities…’

Furrow-browed, white-whiskered, impossibly eloquent; Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’ sentences emerge fully formed, his cadence rising and falling as he shifts effortlessly from Rimbaud...

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