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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…
Jewish Care Cape Chairperson Philip Todres honoured our Executive Director, Stuart Diamond with the Chairperson's Choice Award for Leadership at the JCC's virtual Annual General Meeting on 26 October 2020.…
Written for and originally published on DafkaDotCom on 5 August 2020 as part of the 'Communal Matters: Exploring the Concerns of the South African Jewish Community' series. Click for original.…
Over the last few months, the board has witnessed engaged debates and discussions among our community — about COVID-19 and what we should do about it, about PPE, about schools…
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…
Our conference includes a panel discussion and feedback about our year, as well as our Annual General Meeting.
![[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…
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…
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…
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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