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The now publicly accessible sports field leased by United Herzlia Schools (UHS) may soon be closed to the public either partially or totally, with the outcome awaiting a decision by the City of...
Cape Town Jewish seniors recently completed a mural containing the Cape Jewish Seniors Association’s logo at its centre in Sea Point. The group worked under the guidance of mosaic teacher Yvette Polovin. The association promotes the interests and...
“As mayor of Cape Town, and on behalf of our city, I want to say clearly that antisemitism has no place here.” These are the words of...
The Israeli flags waving above thousands of Christian protesters marching to Parliament in Cape Town last Thursday, 13 November 2025, represented a shared commitment to a...
The Cape southeaster may have blown the Cape Town Marathon off course, but it couldn’t keep the Jewish community away from the 7 October commemoration “A...
When Michael* looks out of his living room window in Vredehoek, he sees Lion’s Head rising above Cape Town’s skyline. It’s an enviable view, but it...
Avid cyclist Dennis Hammar (76) appeared physically fine after he was attacked by a vagrant near Cape Town city centre while riding on Sunday 27 July,...
Twenty-one Jewish mothers from Cape Town recently joined nearly 280 women from 15 countries across the globe as part of Momentum’s Journey of Growth, an eight-day...
South African-Israeli triathlete Susan Shaff refused to be dissuaded from running the Cape Town Festival of Running on 13 July while wearing a T-shirt bearing “Bring...
One of Cape Town’s most iconic and beloved shuls recently completed the first phase of its remodelling project. The Marais Road Shul, formally the Green &...
When a young man from Israel bent down on his prosthetic knee to propose to his girlfriend on top of Table Mountain in March, it was...
In a possible first for the City of Cape Town, children holding fake Kalashnikov and AK-47 rifles were seen on the streets of the Mother City...
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) member of the National Assembly, Mogamad Nazier Paulsen, has blamed the dearth of reasonably priced property in Cape Town on Jews. He...
Nearly six weeks have passed since an explosive device was thrown into the precinct of the Jewish communal offices in Gardens, Cape Town, and in spite...
Cape Town Jewry was exposed to what experts have called “terrorism” for the first time in many years when an improvised explosive device (IED) was thrown...
“The Jewish community has always played an invaluable part in making Cape Town a city of hope,” said Cape Town Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, speaking at...
On 5 October 2024, a parade of moral degradation took place in the streets of Cape Town. Under the misleading banner of a “March for Palestine”,...
Cape Town Jewry, supported by allies and dignitaries, came out in numbers to attend a multifaceted memorial commemorating the lives lost and shattered on 7 October...
The South African Police Service has deployed heat-sensing drones, police tracker dogs, divers, and search and rescue teams to locate missing Capetonian Robert Schroder (58), but...
When artist Shani Judes saw the empty spaces on the Milton Road ablution blocks on the Sea Point promenade, she knew she had to fill them...
Three Cape Town Jewish schools: Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School (PJJDS); Sinai Academy; and Cape Town Torah High (CTTH) have come together to create South Africa’s...
In the Boland – or across the “boerewors belt,” if you will – there’s a community that still has regular minyanim. The community is Paarl –...
Chabad makes a point of ensuring that Jews feel welcome around the world and encourages a Jewish way of life. Now, Rabbi Chezkin Yehudah Malka and...
“I’ve never experienced such vile violence and antisemitism in my life,” said Jonathan Cohen*, who was attacked on the Sea Point promenade last Sunday, 12 November....
More than 10 000 people filled the streets of Cape Town on Saturday, 11 November, seething with animosity towards Israel, the local Jewish community, and the...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has allowed the UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (UCT PSF) to express its support openly for terrorist organisations Hamas, Palestinian Islamic...
Many Capetonian Jews woke up on the morning of Saturday, 14 October, grieving the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists exactly a week earlier. On Shabbat, and...
Anyone driving or walking along the Southern Cape Peninsula may do a double take when they notice that the St James Retirement Hotel now proudly flies...
The holidays of two Israeli families visiting Cape Town turned into living nightmares when their vehicles were stoned in the chaos of the taxi strike that...
The taxi strike that brought Cape Town to a standstill this week, interrupting the economy, service delivery, healthcare, education, and even the food supply chain, has...
Two young brothers, aged nine and 11, shovel earth onto their mother’s grave, then stoically say kaddish. The rabbi leads the congregation in a rendition of...
It’s exactly 20 years since Cape Town teenager Ashley Kaimowitz picked up a camera to make a film that would reverberate to this day. At the...
The United States government was behind the restoration of the “oldest physical representation of Jewish life in South Africa”, known as the “Old Shul’” which forms...
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has had enough of anti-Israel protests that are now clearly threatening Jewish life in the Mother City....
A swastika spraypainted onto an electricity box near Stellenbosch was available for all to see, but it was a Cape Town rabbi who stepped up to...
In recent months, the Cape Town Jewish community has been confronted by provocative anti-Israel protests, whereas Johannesburg, with a much larger Jewish community, hasn’t experienced the...
Johannesburg teenager Isaac Moritz was on a family holiday in Cape Town in December 2021 when his life changed forever. He followed his friends into the...
There was a pervasive air of excitement as more than 600 literary enthusiasts attended the Jewish Literary Festival at the Gardens Community Centre in Cape Town...
How to build a world-class city! with Chris Pappas of uMngeni & Geordin Hill-Lewis of Cape Town Our cities are crumbling, money is missing, there’s no...
When Chanti Martin (23) noticed tingling in her fingers in 2021, she didn’t think much of it. But this symptom would send her into a confusing,...
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