The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies condemns the unrest that has broken out in KZN and Gauteng. South Africa’s people will only be safe when we accept the…
As the representative spokes body of the Western Cape Jewish community, Cape SAJBD will engage with Local Government to protect and advance the rights, status and welfare of the Western…
We are excited to announce the launch of our new #ReportHate Hotline. The community will now be able to report antisemitism and hate speech to an operator who will capture…
The Institue for Jewish Policy Research and the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town in March 2020 released their findings after surveying the Jews of…
PRESS RELEASE as released by the Gesher Small Business Relief Fund on Wednesday 6 May 2020. Today, Philanthropists from the Jewish community in South Africa announce the establishment of the…
This special personal narrative was shared with the Cape SAJBD ahead of Workers’ Day 2020, when trade unionists and political activists Leon and Lorna Levy will celebrate 58 years of…
To all our community members, We appreciate the good you are doing for our community during this extraordinarily difficult time. Without your support —be it through donations or volunteering— many…
By Tyla Dallas It is almost ironic to celebrate Freedom Day today when our freedoms are so severely restricted under this national lockdown. The Constitution cements —inter alia— that we…
By Gwynne Robins It is 19 August 1901 and Moses Zuckerman has called a general meeting for Jewish women in the Masonic Hall. "By 1901," writes Marcia Gitlin, "Zionism…
By Gwynne Robins The first Zionist society in Cape Town was the short-lived Bnei Zion Society which had been established on 27 November 1897 by Reb Yehuda Leib Schrire, the…
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