Jeremy Jones honoured

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Tributes to Jeremy Jones AM in the NSW Parliament

A pillar of the Australian Jewish community Jeremy Jones passed away last week at the age of 64 following a futile battle with cancer. Read more

Dr Colin Rubenstein addresses a minyan for the late Jeremy Jones AM

Dr Colin Rubenstein, Executive Director at the Australia /Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has addressed a minyan for the late Jeremy Jones held at Sydney’s Mizrachi Synagogue. Read more

Interfaith dialogue

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Relations between Australia’s Catholics and Jews

The 24^th Annual Conversation of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry focussed on the progress in relations between Catholics and Jews in Australia, and globally, over the past 30 years. Read more

Ambassador Jones

Jeremy Jones, Director of International and of Community Affairs for Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council was the 2022 Australia Day Ambassador for Gundagai NSW. Read more

Australian Jews, Christians and Muslims commemorate 20th Anniversary of 9/11 together

Within days of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York and Washington, Jewish, Muslim and Christian Australians arranged a well-attended multifaith service of prayer and reflection in central Sydney. Read more

The ECAJ condemns Taliban takeover

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has deplored the forcible take-over of Afghanistan by the Taliban. Read more

Jewish-Muslim activities “more important than ever”

Jeremy Jones, the Director of International and of Community Affairs for the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council says that meeting with, dialoguing with and engaging with Muslim communities is “more important than ever”. Read more

Interfaith work together to battle COVID

Sydney’s Paramatta Park hosted a special programme of prayer and music this week, as people from around Sydney gathered to support medical projects to assist the people of India to deal with the ravages of the Covid pandemic. Read more

Jeremy Jones represents Australia at highest level interfaith meeting

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A visit to Israel

Queensland Senator Anthony Chisolm and New South Wales’ newest voice in the Senate Kristina Keneally have shared their impressions of Israel at an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) event in Sydney. Read more

Shift trends in the West

Australian Jewry’s role as arguably the most successful diaspora Jewish community was included in discussions at the Jewish World’s most significant  think tank, the Jewish People’s Policy Institute, in Jerusalem recently. Read more

Jones takes Judaism to Java

Jeremy Jones, Director of International and of Community Affairs of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, has completed an intensive programme of dialogues, discussions, meetings and seminars in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia. Read more

Anti-virus Conference

Officially billed as the 5^th. Global Forum for combating Anti-Semitism this gathering of delegates from most parts of the globe took place last week in Jerusalem…Michael Kuttner reports. Read more

Malcolm Fraser: Community messages

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council have issued statements following the death of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Read more

Jones at World Culture Forum

Jeremy Jones, Director of International and Community Affairs for the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, was one of a small, select group of podium speakers at the inaugural World Culture Forum (WCF), an event eight years in the planning which host country Indonesia plans on making an equivalent to the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Rio de Janiero International Environment Forum (IEF). Read more

Australian Muslims and Jews attend Washington conference

Six Australians – three Jews and three Muslims – have participated in a mission to Washington designed to overcome prejudice and develop mutual projects for the common good. Read more

Australians prominent in global antisemitism Forum

Australians played a prominent role in the deliberations of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism, which took place recently in Jerusalem. Read more