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Cape Town Jewry was exposed to what experts have called “terrorism” for the first time in many years when an improvised explosive device (IED) was thrown...
“The Jewish community has always played an invaluable part in making Cape Town a city of hope,” said Cape Town Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, speaking at...
On 5 October 2024, a parade of moral degradation took place in the streets of Cape Town. Under the misleading banner of a “March for Palestine”,...
Cape Town Jewry, supported by allies and dignitaries, came out in numbers to attend a multifaceted memorial commemorating the lives lost and shattered on 7 October...
The South African Police Service has deployed heat-sensing drones, police tracker dogs, divers, and search and rescue teams to locate missing Capetonian Robert Schroder (58), but...
When artist Shani Judes saw the empty spaces on the Milton Road ablution blocks on the Sea Point promenade, she knew she had to fill them...
Three Cape Town Jewish schools: Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School (PJJDS); Sinai Academy; and Cape Town Torah High (CTTH) have come together to create South Africa’s...
In the Boland – or across the “boerewors belt,” if you will – there’s a community that still has regular minyanim. The community is Paarl –...
Chabad makes a point of ensuring that Jews feel welcome around the world and encourages a Jewish way of life. Now, Rabbi Chezkin Yehudah Malka and...
“I’ve never experienced such vile violence and antisemitism in my life,” said Jonathan Cohen*, who was attacked on the Sea Point promenade last Sunday, 12 November....
More than 10 000 people filled the streets of Cape Town on Saturday, 11 November, seething with animosity towards Israel, the local Jewish community, and the...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has allowed the UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (UCT PSF) to express its support openly for terrorist organisations Hamas, Palestinian Islamic...
Many Capetonian Jews woke up on the morning of Saturday, 14 October, grieving the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists exactly a week earlier. On Shabbat, and...
Anyone driving or walking along the Southern Cape Peninsula may do a double take when they notice that the St James Retirement Hotel now proudly flies...
The holidays of two Israeli families visiting Cape Town turned into living nightmares when their vehicles were stoned in the chaos of the taxi strike that...
The taxi strike that brought Cape Town to a standstill this week, interrupting the economy, service delivery, healthcare, education, and even the food supply chain, has...
Two young brothers, aged nine and 11, shovel earth onto their mother’s grave, then stoically say kaddish. The rabbi leads the congregation in a rendition of...
It’s exactly 20 years since Cape Town teenager Ashley Kaimowitz picked up a camera to make a film that would reverberate to this day. At the...
The United States government was behind the restoration of the “oldest physical representation of Jewish life in South Africa”, known as the “Old Shul’” which forms...
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has had enough of anti-Israel protests that are now clearly threatening Jewish life in the Mother City....
A swastika spraypainted onto an electricity box near Stellenbosch was available for all to see, but it was a Cape Town rabbi who stepped up to...
In recent months, the Cape Town Jewish community has been confronted by provocative anti-Israel protests, whereas Johannesburg, with a much larger Jewish community, hasn’t experienced the...
Johannesburg teenager Isaac Moritz was on a family holiday in Cape Town in December 2021 when his life changed forever. He followed his friends into the...
There was a pervasive air of excitement as more than 600 literary enthusiasts attended the Jewish Literary Festival at the Gardens Community Centre in Cape Town...
How to build a world-class city! with Chris Pappas of uMngeni & Geordin Hill-Lewis of Cape Town Our cities are crumbling, money is missing, there’s no...
When Chanti Martin (23) noticed tingling in her fingers in 2021, she didn’t think much of it. But this symptom would send her into a confusing,...
Samuel Gawronsky didn’t allow being dyslexic to get in his way of finishing matric earlier than he was meant to. And he did it as well...
Small business may be the backbone of the South African economy, but it’s bearing the brunt of the energy crisis. Paying for generators, fuel, and inverters,...
Jews come from all over South Africa and the world to be a part of the Lion’s Head Minyan in Cape Town in December, climbing Table...
When Jews first arrive in a new place and hope to establish a congregation, the first thing they do is to get land for a cemetery....
No amount of preparation and training could prevent the fire that brought runners like Steven Berman to a halt in the 100km RMB Ultra Trail Cape...
Though some may have lost hope in the future of South Africa and the Jewish community, others are looking to the next 180 years and beyond....
Speculation surrounds the death of a 40-year old Israeli Arab man, Abdel Fattah Nassar, shot dead in Cape Town at about 01:30 on Sunday, 30 October....
Koleinu SA is making its voice against abuse and domestic violence even louder by expanding to Cape Town. Koleinu SA, which translates as “hear our voices”,...
For Gauteng residents considering emigration, “semigration” to Cape Town can offer new hope within South Africa’s borders. So said Cape Town Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and...
Debby Silver and Kashiefa Mohammed may come from different religious, social, and economic backgrounds and live in different parts of Cape Town, but when they work...
Though the Johannesburg Jewish community faces the perennial question of whether it’s time to “pack for Perth”, the Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape...
“Sadly, I’ve spent a lot of time in ambulances, but this was by far the best ride I’ve ever had.” These are the words of American...
Josh and Michelle Hayman are young parents with busy careers, but in between it all, they have managed to create a range of Jewish gift cards,...
Jessie Zinn is only 28 years old, but she’s already achieved what most filmmakers dream of: recognition and global reach. Zinn reached this apex moment when...
