Adass documentary for SBS

April 21, 2016 by  

Filmmakers Dan Goldberg, Adam Kay and Danny Ben-Moshe have teamed together to produce a documentary for SBS television on an orthodox Jewish community in Melbourne. Read more

Let my people go

April 21, 2016 by  

A hi-tech haggadah from Israel’s The Technion. A video presentation. Read more

Australian chosen for prestigious leadership program

April 21, 2016 by  

The US-based Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation has selected 29 outstanding Jewish professional and volunteer leaders from around the world for the second cohort of the Schusterman Fellowship including Australia’s Brandon Srot. Read more

Bialik wins Technion first prize

April 21, 2016 by  

The Australian Government’s drive towards innovation took a major step forward with a first prize being awarded by Israel’s The Technion to Melbourne’s Bialik College…watch the video. Read more

Pre-Pesach Programs Brings Bar and Bat Mitzvah Happiness to 120 children

April 21, 2016 by  

In advance of the Pesach holiday, seventy Israeli Bar Mitzvah boys and forty Bat Mitzvah girls were invited to participate in a large celebration hosted by the Chesed Menachem Mendel program of the Colel Chabad charitable organisation.  Read more

A Pesach concert

April 21, 2016 by  

In the season of Passover, 100 Jewish choristers across Australia and New Zealand come together with some of the world’s best choir directors…an ABC Spirit of Things broadcast from Rachael Kohn. Read more

Freelander to stand for Macarthur

April 21, 2016 by  

Prominent NSW Jewish paediatrician and university lecturer, Dr Mike Freelander has been selected as the Federal Labor’s candidate in the marginal electorate of Macarthur in Sydney’s south. Read more

Quiet in Israel?…asks Emily Gian

April 21, 2016 by  

There is a superstitious belief within our office that it should never be said that things are quiet in Israel. Read more

Passover, our festival of freedom and miracles

April 20, 2016 by  

On the first night of Passover, the festive meal is preceded by the Seder, which chronicles our emergence from bondage into a nation and recounts the miracles associated with the Exodus from Egypt…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Labor’s plans for security upgrade in Melbourne

April 20, 2016 by  

A Shorten Labor Government will match the Victorian Government’s commitment to provide $500,000 for major security upgrades to the Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Melbourne. Read more

New Zealand Opposition leader samples Pesach

April 20, 2016 by  

New Zealand’s Opposition Leader Andrew Little got a taste of Pesach this week when he visited the Auckland Jewish Community Centre. Read more

Rising From the Ashes: Jewish Care Launches Holocaust Documentary Series

April 20, 2016 by  

As Melbourne is home to the largest number of Holocaust survivors per capita outside of Israel, Melbourne’s Jewish Care believes it was crucial to create this short film, in order to share the survivors’ stories to ensure that we will never forget.  Read more

Jerusalem bus bombing shatters relative silence on Israel’s terrorism front

April 20, 2016 by  

The smoke billowing from a burning bus. The sirens of the first responders. The smell of explosives. All of those came back to haunt Jerusalem on Monday when a bomb detonated on Egged Bus 12 as it made its way from the Talpiot neighborhood to the city center. Read more

Rivlin helps the needy

April 20, 2016 by  

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has  joined employees of the President’s Office as well as volunteers from the Leket Israel  in the main hall of his residence putting together Passover meal packages for needy families.

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Lauder lauds Putin

April 20, 2016 by  

A delegation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC), led by WJC President Ronald S. Lauder, has met with  Russian President Vladimir Putin. Read more

John Kasich: celebrate Passover by fulfilling God’s purpose for your life

April 20, 2016 by  

Ohio governor John Kasich is a Republican presidential candidate…and sends a Passover message. Read more

ADC slams Nazi comparison

April 20, 2016 by  

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC)has decried the comparison made by South Australian Liberal MP Adrian Pederick between allowing voluntary euthanasia in Australia and Hitler’s Nazi regime. Read more

Hay Fever: a theatre review by Deb Meyer

April 20, 2016 by  

There’s something terribly refreshing about a well written comedy, especially when it’s revived by a wonderful cast and given playful direction and a creative design team…writes Deb Meyer. Read more

ANZAC Museum cornerstone set in Beersheba

April 19, 2016 by  

The cornerstone for the ANZAC Museum in Beersheba has been set at a ceremony attended by JNF officials from Australia and the Australian ambassador to Israel. Read more

J-Safe launches in Melbourne

April 19, 2016 by  

Melbourne businessman Avi Yemini who runs self defence school IDF Training is behind a new Facebook page designed to protect the Jewish community in the city’s south-east. Read more

Newt’s News

Newt’s News on Freedom of Exodus, with Bob Hope, Info Wars, Italians and Jews, European Exodus, Gun Boats, Ethiopians in Israel, Yemen, Rabbi’s Lobster, Who Let The Jews Out ??…a video presentation. Read more

Meet Kosher caterer David Trakhtman

David Trakhtman is a Passionate Kosher Chef, making healthy, fresh home-made food, using natural ingredients…but watch the amazing Seder parody of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” preceding Henry Greener’s interview. Read more

Disabled children perform for Netanyahu

April 19, 2016 by  

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ‘deeply moved’ by a musical performance by disabled children at his annual pre-Pesach reception last week. Read more

McCully says two state solution “moving beyond reach”

April 19, 2016 by  

 

New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully has addressed the U.N. Security Council saying that trust between Israel and the Palestinians has been eroded.
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Shalom, Ian

April 19, 2016 by  

Sydney UIA supporter and communal stalwart, Ian Miller has become an Israeli citizen after officially making Aliyah two weeks ago. Read more

Man charged following synagogue stabbing

April 19, 2016 by  

A  man has been charged by Victorian police following a stabbing incident in a Melbourne synagogue last Shabbat following a dispute over food. Read more

Jeremy Jones attends Catholic/Jewish liaison meeting in Warsaw

April 19, 2016 by  

Jeremy Jones has returned to Australia after participating in the international Catholic Jewish Liaison Committee (ILC) in Warsaw, Poland.

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On line Pesach exhibition from Yad Vashem

April 19, 2016 by  

In advance of Passover,  Yad Vashem has uploaded a number of unique items related to and stories about Passover from before, during the Holocaust and in its aftermath. Read more

Leeser wins Berowra preselection

April 18, 2016 by  

Julian Leeser has won preselection for the strong Federal Liberal seat of Berowra in Sydney following the retirement of Philip Ruddock. Read more

Marriage equality

April 18, 2016 by  

Penny Sharpe has addressed The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Luncheon Club speaking on spoke about law reform and the planned federal Marriage Equality plebiscite and its repercussions. Read more

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