Yom Hashoah in Sydney

Over 1200 people packed Sydney’s City Recital Hall to commemorate the passing of 70 years since the end of WWII and the liberation from the Nazi concentration camps. Read more

After the Royal Commission…

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies has established a Task Force on Child Protection that will focus on the welfare of children in communal institutional settings. Read more

Changing the world – one project at a time

A former Sydney Emanuel School student has taken on the challenge of tackling global poverty by promoting empowerment and autonomy for the women of Kenya. She will relate her remarkable story at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum next week. Read more

Passion8, the K-A and the KCI

In August 2013, Sydney caterer Passion 8 went into voluntary administration culminating ultimately, in liquidation, with unsecured debts in excess of $1,000,000, and owing the KA $73,981 Read more

OurCrowd MD to speak in Sydney

Sydney-born venture capitalist Dan Bennett has brought the start-up nation home to Australia. Read more

Kashrut in NSW

The Kashrut Commission of Inquiry established by The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has released its recommendations. Read more

School bus terror attack: youth to tour Holocaust museum

A youth who was a member of a group which boarded and terrorised Jewish schoolchildren on a Sydney bus in August last year will be taken on a special tour of the Sydney Jewish Museum on Monday. Read more

Drop your guard

An emotional plea for Jews to no longer require armed guards at the gates of synagogues and Jewish schools was the topic of discussion at the Central Blue Mountains Rotary Club in the Blue Mountains town of Wentworth Falls. Read more

Building bridges

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies will undertake its annual bridge-building tour of regional New South Wales next week when it visits the Blue Mountains.  Read more

Kristallnacht to be commemorated

The Sydney Jewish community will commemorate the ‘Night of Broken Glass’ – Kristallnacht – the event which foreshadowed Hitler’s campaign to annihilate the Jewish people. Read more

Alhadeff resigns from CRC

CEO of  The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Vic Alhadeff has resigned from his position as Chair of the NSW Community Relations Commission.

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Cop this Vic Alhadeff

A group of prominent community identities is taking part in a unique experience and learn what it is like to be a police officer. Read more

Media man’s take on the Middle East

Top media industry guru Rowan Dean will address this month’s NSWJBD plenum. Read more

Senior Journos Report on Israel visit

Four senior journalists who participated in the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ recent Journalists Study Mission to Israel reported on their experiences at a well-attended public meeting at Sydney’s Central Synagogue last night. Read more

Board in the Bush

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies charted new territory last week when it expanded its bridge-building work to the far-western Outback town of Broken Hill and to the State’s second city, Newcastle, for the first time in about 20 years. Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 6

Day 6 of our Mission saw us off in the bus to Honest Reporting Headquarters – Jerusalem Israel, where Simon Plosker, Managing Editor, gave us a crash course in ‘Understanding Media Bias’. Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 4

Today was a day for true ‘honest reporting’…writes Diane  Shteinman Read more

New Israeli political identity to visit Sydney

Naftali Bennett, one of the new faces and rising stars of Israel’s recently elected government, will address a public meeting in Sydney next month. Read more

75 years after Kristallnacht – a Sydney Commemoration

Seventy-five years ago, the first Nazi-legislated riots against Jews took place in Germany and Austria, resulting in mass arrests, killings and deportations, and the destruction of synagogues and Jewish-owned stores.  Read more

Record number of deputy nominations

120 people have nominated as General Franchise deputies on the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies…a record number. Read more

25 Years at the Board

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies has honoured a member of staff who has reached the 25 years mark with the organisation. Read more

Minister challenged over multi-cultural committees

Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Communities Guy Zingari has challenged his NSW Parliament counterpart Victor Dominello for details of 15 committees established to offer advice on multicultural issues. Read more

New Jewish cemetery for northern NSW

A Jewish section will be consecrated next month at a cemetery in the NSW country town of Kempsey…and a Holocaust survivor who lives close by will know that when she dies she will be buried according to Jewish law. Read more

Lunch with Tony Abbott…what was on the menu?

Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has addressed a luncheon with Jewish leaders in Sydney. Read more

NSW Community Leaders and the Racial Vilification Law

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Plenum goes to Shul

The first-ever NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum to be held at Southern Sydney Synagogue will be held there next month in honour of the synagogue’s 70th anniversary. Read more

Wentworth candidates address Board of Deputies plenum

The three major candidates contesting the seat of Wentworth in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, addressed the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies plenum last night…J-Wire filmed the event. Read more

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