Iran Nuclear deal – Netanyahu not happy

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken to US President Barack Obama and expressed Israel’s strong opposition to the framework agreement with Iran which poses a grave danger to Israel, the region and the world. Read more

Al-Taqwa College asked to explain

Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne has issued a please explain to the principle of Al-Taqwa College, in Melbourne’s outer west. Read more

Jewish Agency at work in the Ukraine

Dozens of Jews from war-torn eastern Ukraine who will be immigrating to Israel in the coming days celebrated the upcoming holiday of Passover at a simulated seder (ritual meal) held at The Jewish Agency for Israel’s refugee center outside the city of Dnepropetrovsk. Read more

Red Rattler: Apology accepted

A Sydney theatre which refused to consider a booking from a Jewish organisation has apologised…and the apology has been accepted. Read more

Hakoah Board has its say

The Hakoah Board has its say about White City… Read more

Hakoah: Balkin responds to Singer

David Balkin representing a group offering an alternative plan for Sydney’s Hakoah Club’s White City site has responded to comments made by David Singer, a Hakoah member for many years…but not a member of its Board. Read more

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: JTAFV has iits say

The Jewish Taskforce Against Family Violence Inc. has commended the courage of those victims who came forward to give evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Read more

A message for Copenhagen

The Australian Jewish community stands with in solidarity with the Jews of Denmark following the attack on a Copenhagen synagogue claiming the life of a Jewish security guard. Read more

The Leader is You…writes Rabbi Laibl Wolf

Leadership today is under attack – and for very good reason. It doesn’t lead. Read more

The one who got away

As a barrister, Kinsgley Davis did not find receiving letters from Government House to be a special event. Read more

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse : Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia

The Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia –  their statement: Read more

Royal Commission Day Two – Zephania Waks

Zephania Waks is the father of Manny Waks who appeared at the Commission yesterday. Zephania Waks has three sons who were abused at Melbourne’s Yeshivah College. Read more

Waikato Jewish community shocked by antisemitic graffiti

The Waikato Jewish community has issued a statement detailing antisemitic graffiti daubed on Hamilton’s Cenotaph. Read more

Major Israeli honour for former NSW Governor

The Technion in Israel is to award a Doctor Honoris Causa, the Technion’s highest recognition for scientific and humanitarian contribution to former NSW Governor, Professor Dame Marie Bashir Read more

Australia Day Awards – did we leave anyone out?

If you know of someone within the community who received an Australia Day award and did not appear on our list, email us at [email protected]

Paris: a message from the rabbis and the embassy

The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia has spoken out following the murderous attacks at Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher supermarket in Paris…as has Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand. Read more

Charlie Hebdo: Another Jewish victim

The only woman killed in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris was Jewish. Read more

Gaby Berger responds

Former board member of Sydney’s Montefiore Home Gabby Berger has responded to a reference to him being dismissed from the Board for “misconduct” being featured in a circular sent to the Home’s members. Read more

The Montefiore AGM – special announcement

Urgent communication from the Board of Management of the Montefiore Home Sydney. Read more

Stirring the memories

Holocaust survivor Frank Lowy formally introduced German Chancellor Angela Merkel who delivered a lecture to the Lowy Institute founded by the co-founder of the Westfield shopping centre empire. Read more

Ask the rabbi….orthodoxy

Q. What is the state of Jewish Orthodoxy today? Read more

NSW Government’s gift for harmony

NSW Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello today announced the NSW Government’s funding of $20,000 to Sydney’s annual Harmony Walk, an initiative to promote fairness and harmony. Read more

Sydney woman spends Yom Kippur in Israeli jail

A 27-yr-old Sydney woman spent Yom Kippur in a military jail in Israel following her arrest for draft evasion. Read more

Funding withdrawn from Mt Sinai

State Labor Member for Heffron and Shadow Minister, Ron Hoenig has today expressed his outrage at the Federal Liberal Government cutting the school counsellor from Sydney’s Mount Sinai College, in the wake of the recent antisemitic attack of Jewish school students on a school bus. Read more

Recognition for the NCJWA’s Melbourne branch

The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia’s Victorian section has yet again been recognised by the Victorian Multicultural Commission for its commitment to enriching the multicultural fabric of Victoria through the delivery of its programs and in particular its Caring Mums program. Read more

Open your hearts and roll up your sleeves

Baking Challah will be an integral part of next month’s Shabbat Project. Read more

Promotion for Secord

The Deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel Walt Secord has been promoted to NSW Shadow Minister for Health. Read more

Rosh Hashanah greetings from the JCCV

Nina Bassat, president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria sends her message for Rosh Hashanah… Read more

Jewish community in support of Christian community

Sydney’s Jewish community has voiced support to the Maronite community in the city’s west whose church was targeted with death threats from a passing car flying the Islamic State flag. Read more

Pope gets honey cake ahead of Rosh Hashanah

Pope Francis has received a delegation of 40 international Jewish leaders at his residence in Rome ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins next week. Read more

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