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There were also numerical challenges, Cape Town's Jewish population had peaked at 25, 000 but had declined to 15, 000 as people opted for smaller families than generations before them. [18] In the face of these challenges, the decision was made to concentrate more efforts into making the synagogue into a vibrant community centre, a vision that ...
Islam is the city's second largest religion with a long history in Cape Town, [131] resulting in a number of mosques and other Muslim religious sites spread across the city, [132] such as the Auwal Mosque, South Africa's first mosque. Cape Town's significant Jewish population supports a number of synagogues most notably the historic Gardens ...
Since the Soweto Uprising in 1976, South Africa's Jewish population has declined due to emigration. [6] The top choice for Durban Jewish emigrants has been Israel, followed by the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. There has also been internal migration to larger Jewish population centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. [6]
The Muizenberg Shul, formally the Muizenberg Hebrew Congregation, is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Muizenberg, in Greater Cape Town, in the Western Cape region of South Africa. The congregation was established in 1924, and the synagogue was completed in the following year. [1]
In 1951, Cape Town quit the South African Union for Progressive Judaism and refused to return until 1963. [5] The arrival of the congregation and Reform Judaism in Cape Town was met with opposition from Rabbi Israel Abrahams, spiritual leader of the Gardens Shul. He arranged a series of meetings on the perils of the Reform tradition, and upon ...
In 2012, prior to the purchase of Independent Media South Africa, Sekunjalo entered into an agreement with the Gupta family (a family best known for their relationship with ANC president Jacob Zuma) owned Oakbay Investments to purchase 50% of the newspaper company after Sekunjalo had completed the purchase from the company's original owner ...
The Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research is an institute located in Cape Town, South Africa dedicated to Jewish studies. [1] It is an autonomous centre with its own governing body and located within the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town . [ 1 ]
The South African Jewish Museum is a museum of South African Jewish life, history and identity. The museum is situated in the downtown neighbourhood of Gardens in Cape Town . It is located in the grounds of Gardens Shul , and is in the same complex as the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Gardens Jewish Community Centre (which ...