South Africa's National Lockdown Status

Since the first case in the Western Cape, the Western Cape Jewish community and the Cape SAJBD in particular have stepped up to guide our response and provide resources to our communities.

Communal responses have come in the forms of meetings, guidelines, posters, forums, social media campaigns and fundraising for various segments of the community. More below.

Latest Local Updates

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Details on CSO’s COVID-19 Monitoring Programme

CSO Cape Town launched its Wellness Monitoring Programme in response to the local COVID-19 outbreak. The programme was developed alongside Hatzolah Medical Rescue to enable the organisation to monitor local

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Decision on Cape Synagogues to Follow

As of 1 June, all the synagogues in the Cape will remain closed. The Cape SAJBD, the body that is steering the communal COVID-19 workstreams, will be meeting with all

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Resources

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Local Organisations You Can Support

Understanding the importance of gemilut chesed and tzedakah, which motivates us to give back to our own community, we have identified a list of organisations who are helping other vulnerable communities and are in need of support too.

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COVID-19 Poster 8

Cleaning, Disinfecting, Sterilising – Become a mean, clean COVID-19 fighting machine

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