THE CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD

For more than 150 years, Jewish Community Services (Cape), under a succession of names and in a rapidly changing society, has administered the needs of vulnerable individuals and families in crisis within Cape Town’s Jewish community. In that century and a half, the composition and profile of the community has changed profoundly, as a declining and ageing population has faced new challenges of families fragmented by emigration of the young, the social isolation of the elderly and the increasing impoverishment of individuals who find themselves trapped in a mire of inadequate pensions, illness and a deteriorating national economy.