Rosh Hashanah 100 years ago
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…
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Rosh Hashanah 100 years ago
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Cape SAJBD Conference 2020: Global Issues, Local Impact
Our conference includes a panel discussion and feedback about our year, as well as our Annual General Meeting.
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Cape SAJBD Conference 2020: Global Issues, Local Impact
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[Update] Oudtshoorn Jewish Cemetery badly vandalised, families sought
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…
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[Update] Oudtshoorn Jewish Cemetery badly vandalised, families sought
Election and Engagement in Community
Voting in public representatives is a unique opportunity for you, as a member of our community to engage, debate and decide who best will represent your views, fulfil the organisation’s…
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Election and Engagement in Community
UOS and Beth Din Encourage Arrangements with Stone Masons
Originally communicated in a UOS and Beth Din letter dated 16 July 2020. Dear Colleagues and Friends It is a Mitzvah to erect a monument over the graves of…
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UOS and Beth Din Encourage Arrangements with Stone Masons
Camps Bay and Hatikvah
by Gwynne Robins When the British took over the Cape in 1806, it took possession of Dutch properties including the shabby Camps Bay farmhouse bought from Von Kamptz, after whom…
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Camps Bay and Hatikvah
Cape SAJBD Public Ballot Nominees Brochure out now
Learn more about the final list of Public Ballot nominees — their careers and their motivations for standing in the Cape SAJBD Board Election 2020. Download the Public Ballot Nominees…
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Cape SAJBD Public Ballot Nominees Brochure out now
Cape SAJBD Public Nominees Brochure 2020
Learn more about the final list of Public Ballot nominees — their careers and their motivations for standing in the Cape SAJBD Board Election 2020.
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Cape SAJBD Public Nominees Brochure 2020
JPR-Kaplan report provides latest insights to South African Jewish life
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…
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JPR-Kaplan report provides latest insights to South African Jewish life
JPR-Kaplan Report: The Jews of South Africa in 2019, released March 2020
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.
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JPR-Kaplan Report: The Jews of South Africa in 2019, released March 2020