Podcast: L’Chaim to Life
April 18, 2024 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Aussies Avi and Raffi Feldman about their volunteering in Israel with SAR-EL on IDF bases in a logistical support role. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Michael Cashmore
April 16, 2024 by Features Desk
Michael Cashmore – a most important business, community, and family Melburnian from the early days Read more
Podcast: L’Chaim to Life
April 11, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Dr Ron Elisha, renowned and prolific playwright about “Rootless Cosmopolitans”, the most recent of his plays to be produced in Australia. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch
April 9, 2024 by Features Desk
Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch – businessman, property investor, and well-respected pioneer of the Sydney Modern Orthodox Jewish Community Read more
L’Chaim to Life – Jeremy Ungar
April 4, 2024 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Jeremy Ungar, the senior trade officer of the Israel Trade and Economic Commission, Embassy of Israel in Australia. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Philip Louis Frankel
April 2, 2024 by Features Desk
Businessman, mason, chazan, sportsman, and loyal Jew Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
March 26, 2024 by Features Desk
Sir Samuel Sydney Cohen KBE – an outstanding businessman, Jewish community leader and political activist Read more
From Australia’s past: Isaac Nachman Steinberg
March 19, 2024 by Features Desk
Isaac Nachman Steinberg – never-tiring political thinker, activist, and realist Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past: Caroline (Lynka) Isaacson
March 12, 2024 by Features Desk
Caroline (Lynka) Isaacson – a woman of gracious charm, warmth, and unfailing human generosity and a most talented journalist Read more
L’Chaim – To Life! A podcast featuring Dave Sharma
March 7, 2024 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Senator Dave Sharma, Liberal senator for New South Wales. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Harold De Vahl Rubin
March 5, 2024 by Features Desk
Harold De Vahl Rubin – grazier, philanthropist, and eccentric and colourful art collector Read more
L’Chaim – To Life: Senator James Paterson – PODCAST
March 3, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Senator James Paterson, Liberal senator for Victoria and Shadow minister for Cyber Security about a commitment by the Albanese Government to support Australian communities affected by the Hamas attacks on Israel and the on-going conflict. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Mark Rubin and Abraham Davis
February 27, 2024 by Features Desk
Mark Rubin, a pearl dealer and pastoralist – Abraham Davis – shrewd businessman and perhaps “a ghost’’. Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Dr Sheree Trotter
February 22, 2024 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Dr Sheree Trotter, Director of the new Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, and the 100th embassy in Israel, located at the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Bernard Rubin – racing driver and pilot
February 20, 2024 by Features Desk
Bernard was born in Carlton, Melbourne, on 6 December 1896. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past
February 13, 2024 by Features Desk
Zara Baar Aronson OBE – Sydney-based journalist, editor, welfare worker, feminist and restaurateur. Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Senator Simon Birmingham
February 9, 2024 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Senator Simon Birmingham, Liberal Party Senator for South Australia since May 2007 and is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. Read more
Australia’s Jewish Past: Barbara Nancy Brash – renowned artist and printmaker
February 6, 2024 by Features Desk
Barbara’s grandfather, Marcus Brasch, as we have known from last week’s story and that of Lena Brash, became the owner of the largest music business in Australia – Brashs. Read more
Mozart opera has its Sydney premiere
January 31, 2024 by Features Desk
Opera Australia and Victorian Opera’s exciting new co-production by Lindy Hume of Mozart’s Idomeneo will have its Sydney Premiere at the Joan Sutherland Theatre, opening on 20 February and running to 15 March. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Marcus Brasch – founder of the famous Brashs music stores
January 30, 2024 by Features Desk
Marcus Brasch, brother of Lena and Woolf, was born in Germany and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1848. Read more
Iconic Jewish Women
December 25, 2023 by Features Desk
The inspiring life stories of fifty-nine remarkable Jewish women from past and present come together to create the perfect gift for young girls on the precipice of their teenage years as well as the adults in their lives. Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Michelle Pearse – Silence no more: confronting antisemitism in Australia
December 24, 2023 by Features Desk
Michelle Pearse, CEO of The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), calls out this rampant spread of hatred that demands our collective voice and strong, decisive leadership. Read more
Podcast: L’Chaim to Life: Michael Gawenda – Journalists are thrashing their own brand
December 21, 2023 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Michael Gawenda, three-time Walkley award recipient, former editor and editor-in-chief of The Age and inaugural Director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism, at the University of Melbourne, about the current state in Australia of journalism and the way it is practiced by journalists, particularly with reference to the Israel-Gaza war. Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Senator Jacqui Lambie – Terrorists don’t care; so smarten up Australia
December 19, 2023 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Senator Jacqui Lambie, the Independent Senator for Tasmania, who does not hold back in calling out terrorism and the rising level of hateful antisemitism in Australia. Read more
L’Chaim – to Life: Rabbi James Kennard – Reflecting on 17 years at Melbourne’s Mount Scopus Memorial College
December 10, 2023 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Rabbi James Kennard, Principal of Melbourne’s Mount Scopus Memorial College, about his 17 years in that position, the changes in education over time and the challenges that technology – particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI) – bring for educators. Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Alexander Downer
November 30, 2023 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Alexander Downer, an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Andrew, Anne de Metz, and daughters – owners and educators of the first seminary for young ladies to the first Jewish day school in Sydney
November 28, 2023 by Features Desk
Andrew was born in 1771, having grown up in London, where he worked as a stockbroking agent. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: The Right Honourable Sir Matthew Nathan – an extraordinary life as a Colonial Officer
November 21, 2023 by Features Desk
Matthew was born on 3 January 1862 in Paddington, London. Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Michael Gawenda
November 16, 2023 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Michael Gawenda, about his recent book “My Life as a Jew”. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sir Albert Asher Wolff, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia
November 14, 2023 by Features Desk
Albert Wolff was born on 30 April 1899 in Geraldton, WA, and registered as Asher Albert. Read more
