Yeshiva still on the hook

May 27, 2015 by  
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Reports that Waverley Council is expecting to write off a $10,000 debt owed to it by the Yeshiva Centre have been rebutted by Mayor Sally Betts. Read more

UIA Young Families launched in Sydney

May 20, 2015 by  
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Israel came to Sydney as UIA’s new division, Young Families, celebrated their launch event at the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park on Yom Yerushalayim. Read more

Yom Ha’azmaut celebrated in Sydney

May 8, 2015 by  
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More than 600 people have joined in a belated celebration of Israel’s 67th birthday in Sydney at which NSW Premier Mike Baird was guest of honour. Read more

Slezak turned down by Limmud-Oz

May 1, 2015 by  
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Associate Professor Dr Peter Slezak’s application to present at next month’s Limmd-Oz’s Festival of Jewish Ideas in Sydney has been rejected by the organisation’s board. Read more

Breaking the 18-minute rule…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

March 26, 2015 by  
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In just over a week we will celebrate Passover, which begins with the Pesach Seder. One of the important Mitzvot of the Seder is the eating of Shmura Matzah. Read more

The Road to Realisation

March 25, 2015 by  
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More than 180 people attended at the AGM of Sydney’s Hakoah Club despite there being no election and were “walked through” the Hakoah proposal for the redevelopment plans of the White City site. Read more

TV duo receive two Logies nominations

March 24, 2015 by  
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Sydney-based Mint Pictures, run by Dan Goldberg and Adam Kay, has received two nominations for the Logies.

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Sydney theatre rejects Jewish production

March 22, 2015 by  
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A Sydney theatre has refused to rent its premises to a Jewish group on the grounds that their policy “does not support colonialism/Zionism”. Read more

Hakoah: Differences resolved

March 22, 2015 by  
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The incumbent board of Sydney’s Hakoah Club will hold its AGM on Tuesday free of any threat to its immediate future. Read more

Award for Cremorne

March 20, 2015 by  
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Sydney’s Cremorne Synagogue has been awarded the prestigious Supportive Employer Award for 2015 for support to Rabbi Yossi Friedman,  NSW RAAF chaplain. Read more

JCA not involved “in any way”

March 20, 2015 by  
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JCA  president Stephen Chipkin has written to J-Wire to dispel rumours that the community organisation is involved in “the current dispute” with the board of the Hakoah Club. Read more

Sydney University Disruption: B’nai B’rith has its say

March 19, 2015 by  
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The president of B’nai B’rith NSW has written to Sydney University in the wake of the protest which disrupted a lecture being delivered by Colonel Richard Kemp. Read more

Hakoah: A letter from Frank Lowy

March 18, 2015 by  
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Frank Lowy, former president of Hakoah and currently the club’s patron and one of its Life Governors,  has sent a letter to the club’s members…in favour of the incumbent Board. Read more

Hakoah: She said…he said..he said

March 17, 2015 by  
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The future of Sydney’s Hakoah Club is the focus of intense campaigns by both the incumbent board and a group focused on a different plan for the development of the sporting organisation’s White City site.  David Singer responds to Andrew Boyarsky and Victor Grynberg joins the debate. Read more

The EU peddles diplomatic immunity…writes Ari Briggs

March 13, 2015 by  
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The Jerusalem Municipality has demolished an illegally built structure just moments away from the Hebrew University campus. Read more

After the Royal Commission…

March 12, 2015 by  
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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

March 12, 2015 by  
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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

Rabbi Selwyn Franklin: NORA and the K-A

March 11, 2015 by  
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Rabbi Selwyn Franklin is the interim president of the New Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia and the vice-president of the NSW Kashrut Authority…a situation which The Executive Council of Australian Jewry finds questionable. Read more

UIA Major Donors: Sydney

March 10, 2015 by  
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Did you attend this years United Israel Appeal’s Major Donors function is Sydney?…Check this photo gallery… Read more

Board asks for action on inflammatory video

March 10, 2015 by  
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The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has written to Stepan Kerkyasharian, the president of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board seeking action to prosecute two Sydney men appearing in an inflammatory video stating “tomorrow you Jews will see what will become of you”. Read more

Dayenu on parade

March 8, 2015 by  
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Dayenu’s float at Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was accompanied by almost eighty participants. Read more

Holocaust Film Series Giveaways

March 5, 2015 by  
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J-Wire has six double passes to give away for the Holocaust Film Series Read more

Pop-up Kosher Nosh

March 3, 2015 by  
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Sydney’s newest luxury hotel, InterContinental Sydney Double Bay will transform its Stockroom into its first pop-up kosher restaurant on 11 March 2015, delivering a spectacular three-course dinner for the local Jewish community. Read more

The Changemakers

March 3, 2015 by  
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B’nai B’rith & JNF will acknowledge those whose contributions have helped society. Read more

New faces at the Beth Din…and a move

February 27, 2015 by  
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The Sydney Beth Din is both delighted and proud to welcome the Sephardi Synagogue’s Rabbi Michael Chriqui as Associate Dayan. Read more

Parisian Jewish family finds a new home…in Sydney

February 26, 2015 by  
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As thousands of French Jews flock to Israel in the wake of terrorist attacks, one Parisian family has made a new home for itself…in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs. Read more

Top speakers for UIA

February 26, 2015 by  
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The NSW United Israel Appeal has a bumper line up of speakers and defenders of Israel to headline its 2015 Campaign. Read more

Blood brothers – and sisters

February 25, 2015 by  
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A team of eight Moriah College Year 11 students has reached the International finals of a prestigious Future Problem Solving Competition.  Read more

Melton in Sydney

February 23, 2015 by  
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2015 promises to be Melton’s most successful year yet since its move to the University of Sydney.  Read more

Award for Helene Gonski

February 23, 2015 by  
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Sydney’s Montefiore Home has announced that volunteer Hélène Gonski recently won the 2015 Woollahra Council Senior Citizen of the Year Award. Read more

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