Community Organisations

CSO (Community Security Organisation)
CSO Cape Town offers safety, emergency medical response and training initiatives to empower the community, with the aim of creating a safe and sustainable future for every Jewish Capetonian.
Physical
Emotional

Cape Jewish Seniors Association
For the seniors – by the seniors – adding life to years. Any Jewish person over the age of 55 is welcome to attend and join in the daily activities that we offer our members in a home from home environment.
Social
Emotional

Chabad on Campus
Your Jewish student community in Cape Town.
Social
Spiritual

Eliot Osrin Leadership Institute
Top class leadership programmes, workshops, masterclasses, and short courses for personal, professional, and communal development.
Intellectual
Financial

Glendale Home
Providing care services, dignity and hope to Jewish neurodivergent adults
Emotional
Social

Highlands House
Highlands House is an aged and dementia care facility and home to the parents, siblings, relatives and close friends of Cape Town's Jewish community.
Physical
Social

Jewish Community Services
Jewish welfare organisation offering a full range of services to people across all age groups within our community.
Emotional
Financial

Koleinu SA
Protecting our community from abuse by supporting victims, raising awareness, educating the public, and advocating for meaningful change. Contact Melanie Uranovsky
melaniedebs29@gmail.com | 074 1805687
Emotional
Physical

Melton / Midrasha Adult Education Institute
Strengthening and enhancing different facets of Jewish life through text-based study relating to Israel and Jewish History, Life Cycle,Ethics, Philosophy and more.
Intellectual
Spiritual

Mensch
Mensch supports and develops social change-makers, facilitates volunteering, and builds bridges between people, to bring about positive transformation in South Africa.
Financial
Social

Nechama | Comforting the Bereaved
Nechama is a volunteer-based organisation which provides emotional support and counselling for persons of the Jewish faith who have suffered a bereavement.
Emotional
Spiritual

Staffwise
Facilitating Career opportunities in the Jewish community: offering career advice & recruitment resources; promoting profiles & services; listing work opportunities connecting people.
Financial

Synagogues and Temples
A list of the synagogues, temples, and shuls in the Western Cape
Spiritual
Social

The Kesher Project (Kayla Vardi)
We match guests with hosts for Friday night Shabbat dinners and other Chagim meals.
Social
Spiritual

Union of Jewish Women
Enduring Jewish values, belief in the unique and positive power of woman, to protect, assist and empower the vulnerable in our own and wider communities
Social
Emotional
