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This Chanukah, we partnered with Chabad Cape Town to bring the spirit of Chanukah to our Country Communities! We delivered Chanukah boxes which contained a Chanukiah, candles and a dreidel,…
Press Release 08 March 2021 | 24 Adar 5781 The Cape SAJBD is saddened to learn about the vandalism that has taken place at the Hermanus Jewish Cemetery. The…
The regulations which came into effect on Tuesday 29 December 2020 imposes stringent conditions for people attending burials and visiting City Cemeteries.
The Cape SAJBD and its Country Communities Subcommittee invite you to the Sub-Saharan African Channukah of Unity event, co-hosted by the African Jewish Congress (AJC) and the Small Jewish Communities…
by Gwynne Robins What do the High Holy Days mean to most of us? The 2019 Kaplan Centre Survey on the Jews in South Africa found that 72% attended…
![[Update] Oudtshoorn Jewish Cemetery badly vandalised, families sought](https://www.capesajbd.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Oudtshoorn-2.jpg)
The Chevra Kadisha in Oudtshoorn this week discovered the Oudtshoorn Jewish Cemetary to have been vandalised, with a number of gravestones damaged in the process. Family members of those buried…
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…
The report details Jewish identity, community, society and demography, and was compiled by Dr David Graham, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London and Honorary Associate at the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney.
On 22 May, a team of gardeners completed another clean-up operation at Montagu Cemetery. This and other cemetery upkeep initiatives are supported by the Cape SAJBD, but we could use…
An infographic detailing Cape Town Jewish life, based on the Kaplan Centre at University of Cape Town's Jewish Community Survey, published early 2020.
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