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
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sir Otto Frankel – world-renowned geneticist, plant breeder, cytologist and genetic conservationist
November 8, 2023 by Features Desk
Otto Herzberg-Frankel was born in Vienna on 4 November 1900, the third of four sons of a prominent and wealthy lawyer and his wife Therese. Read more
L’Chaim – to Life: Ilana Maizels – JNF Emergency Appeal for Israel’s South
November 2, 2023 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Ilana Maizels, Executive Director of JNF Victoria. Read more
L’Chaim to Life – a podcast: Shay Klein – The A-Team feeding the IDF in the South
October 26, 2023 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with his cousin Shay Klein in Israel, who with hundreds of volunteers and donors, has joined Tzachi Kafri and “The A-Team” setting up a temporary food station to feed and provide some comforts for the IDF soldiers preparing for the incursion into Gaza. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Aaron Bolot – award-winning architect from the 1930s to 1960s
October 24, 2023 by Features Desk
Aaron Bolotinskiy, later known as Bolot, was born on 14 February 1900 in Crimea – near the Black Sea – and, together with his family, migrated and settled in Brisbane in 1911. Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Rambam, Israel’s health care campus of the North
October 19, 2023 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Adi Rozen, operational manager of the Australian Friends of Rambam. Rambam is a 1,100-bed hospital, the major tertiary (referral) medical centre for all of Northern Israel, serving more than 2.5 million residents and others referred from all over Israel. Podcast Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Percy Joseph Marks
October 17, 2023 by Features Desk
A leading light in Sydney’s Jewish community, and one of Australian Judaism’s great historians. Read more
L’Chaim – to Life: Eddie Tamir and JIFF
October 12, 2023 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with JIFF Artistic Director Eddie Tamir, about JIFF 2023, which opens on October 23 and will be screening 55 Australian premieres of films and TV series from around the world. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Ernest Samuel Marks CBE – sportsman, Sydney’s first Jewish Lord Mayor; wool buyer, politician, and community identity
October 3, 2023 by Features Desk
Ernest was born on 7 May 1871 in West Maitland, New South Wales. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past: Johanna, George and Judit Korner – a family international beauty business
September 26, 2023 by Features Desk
Johanna was born on 21 July 1891 at Fogaras, Hungary (Romania) to Alfred Adler, a photographer, and his wife Helena. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Lillian Daphne de Lissa – leader in the Montessori early childhood education
September 19, 2023 by Features Desk
Lillian was born on 25 October 1885 in Darlinghurst Sydney, the sixth child of Montague de Lissa, a merchant and his wife Julia. Read more
Podcast: L’Chaim to Life – Jason Steinberg – Brisbane’s Queensland Holocaust Museum and Education Centre
September 14, 2023 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Jason Steinberg, President of the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies and Board Chair of the recently opened Queensland Holocaust Museum and Education Centre, about the history and aims of the museum. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Rosalind Philippa Phillips (Linda Phillips) – Composer, journalist, music critic and musician
September 12, 2023 by Features Desk
Linda was born in Melbourne on 8 June 1899 to Joseph – of Russian descent – and Augusta Phillips. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joan Mavis Rosanove – a trail blazing Australian lawyer
September 6, 2023 by Features Desk
Joan was born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 11 May 1896 to Mark Lazarus, a barrister and solicitor, and his wife Ruby. Read more
New York style with Jewish specialities
September 4, 2023 by Features Desk
Lenny Briskets, a New York-style Deli Diner Bar in Sydney offering Jewish staples all year round. Read more
L’Chaim – to Life: Lt Col (res) Sarit Zehavi – Hezbollah’s escalation of flagrant violations
August 31, 2023 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Lt Col (res) Sarit Zehavi, founder and President of ALMA Research and Education Centre, dedicated to researching the security challenges on Israel’s northern borders. PODCAST Read more
