[5][6] When Aaron Klug, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was growing up in Durban, his father, Lazar, regularly played chess at the club.
[6] In the 1950s, Israel Goldstein, the American-born Israeli rabbi, author and Zionist leader addressed several Jewish groups at the club.
Goldstein wrote about his visit in his memoirs: "The Durban Jewish Club, located near the seafront, was a large and impressive center of activity.
[9] The Goldene Medina celebrates "175 Years of Jewish Life in South Africa" was a special exhibition staged at the club in 2017.
[3] Talks for the congregation began in November 1947, with Rabbi Moses Cyrus Weiler addressing a meeting at the home of Mervyn Gild.
[11] The foundation stone was laid in August 1950 and for the next twenty years the congregation was served by rabbi Meyer Miller, who was from Brooklyn in New York City and a graduate of the Jewish Institute of Religion.