Landau Up Close and Personal

Former diplomatic and managing editor of The Jerusalem Post and former editor-in-chief of Ha’aretz, David Landau, spoke to invited guests at a breakfast in Sydney today on behalf of the New Israel Fund Australia.

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Governor Visits the Great

The Governor of New South Wales, Professor Marie Bashir, joined the Great Synagogue’s Women’s Auxiliary in celebrating its 70th anniversary. Read more

Jack Vidgin tours Jewish House

Jack Vidgin is 14 years old and won this year’s “Australia’s Got Talent”.  Yesterday, he toured Sydney care centre and refuge Jewish House…an environment not unknown to this modest teenager who has spent most of his life receiving care himself. Read more

DJ appointed CG

Sydney-born DJ Schneeweiss has been appointed Israel’s next Consul-General in Toronto. Read more

Former Jerusalem Post editor at JNF gala dinner

David Horovitz, former of editor of the Jerusalem Post, has addressed the NSW Jewish National Fund Gala Dinner in Sydney. Read more

Doctors Clowning it in Israel

More than 250 participants from 22 countries have taken part in Israel’s first medical clowns conference. Read more

Four Children Fighting for their Lives

Four little Jewish children are desperately seeking a DNA match to save them from certain death and Gift of Life Australia is asking Victorians to help. Read more

Old partnerships revisited

Bobby Evans was one one of Australia’s top international bridge players who passed away in 2003.  Last night six of his former bridge friends won the Spring Nationals Seniors Championship taking home the trophy which bears his name. Read more

Elli’s Rescuers Remembered

Jo and Fritz Hakkens hid and protected a Jewish baby in their home town of Amsterdam during World War II. Their family have donated a trophy in their name to be awarded annually for humanitarian endeavour at New Zealand’s Kapiti College. Read more

Kids Learn Life is Not So Bad

A trip to Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen taught a group of disadvantaged youths without a family home that as tough as they think it is, life is not so bad. Read more

New Aussie Rabbis

Sydney’s Central Synagogue’s charismatic Rabbi Levi Wolff and Emanuel Synagogue’s popular Rabbi Paul Jacobson have become Aussies. Read more

Sydney turns out in force to welcome Shalit home

More than 1,000 members of Sydney’s Jewish community packed the Central Synagogue to watch Gilad Shalit make his historical return home to Israel after five years as a captive of Hamas.
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The Artful Donor

A Melbourne biochemist ranks in the top 25 nominated for Vegemite’s Toast of Australia award. Peter Schiff holds the Victorian record for blood donations. Read more

Happy Anniversary, Wolper

Sydney’s Wolper Jewish Hospital is celebrating 50 years of serving the community. Read more

New Mayor for Marrickville

Fiona Byrne, the Marrickville Greens mayor who led the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment drive against Israeli products being sold in the Sydney municipality is no longer wearing the ceremonial chain of office. Read more

Holocaust Concert in Wellington on Rosh Hashanah

The New Zealand School of Music will perform two works commemorating the Holocaust in Wellington Town Hall…on the second night of Rosh Hashanah. Read more

Aboriginal and Jewish communities celebrate 20 year project

The Rona Tranby Trust, a project linking Jewish and Aboriginal communities, has celebrated the 20th anniversary of its work archiving oral Aboriginal history. Read more

9/11 remembered in Sydney

The doleful tones of the shofar blown by Sydney’s Great Synagogue’s Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence resonated throughout the majestic St Mary’s Cathedral today…invoking the memories of that fatal day ten years ago when the horrors of 9/11 shocked the world. Read more

Yes We Can

Sydney’s The Jewish House has launched its annual drive to collect food for the needy with a record 25 Coles Supermarkets participating across Sydney…and has introduced a new parter, the al-Ghazzali Centre.  Read more

Parliamentarians visit the Sydney Jewish Museum

Greens MP Jamie Parker was one of many NSW politicians who visited the Sydney Jewish Museum today…and he was captivated by the stories of the Holocaust animatedly told by veteran guide Eddie Jaku. Read more

Melbourne support for Max

The Victorian Young Liberals organised a solidarity rally today at Melbourne’s Max Brenner Chocolate shop in the CBD followed by speeches from Liberal identities and Jewish community leaders on the steps of the State Library. Read more

Anat Makes a Difference

Anat Hoffman is hailed as Israel’s Erin Brockovich…a woman on a mission to make Israel a better place for its citizens. Read more

Former Israeli Ambassador to Australia expelled from Turkey

Turkey has expelled Israeli ambassador Gabby Levy in response to Israel’s refusal to apologise for the commando raid on the Turkish Gaza flotilla in which nine people were killed. Read more

Bernard Freedman 1924-2011

Bernard Freedman, one of the most popular Jewish journalists in the history of Parliament’s Press Gallery, has passed away in Canberra at the age of 86. Read more

Betar Says Sorry

Victoria’s Betar has apologised for an analogy published in their April newsletter in which Israel in the 1940s is described as flower whose growth was threatened by “Arab weeds”. Read more

Multicultural Hat-trick

First Sydney’s Peter Wertheim was made a member of the Australian Multicultural Council, then John Searle was appointed Chair of the Victorian Equal Rights and Human Rights Commission…with the week finishing off with Grahame Leonard’s appointment as a Victorian Multicultural Commissioner. Read more

Water, Gas and support at UN

Israel’s Minister for Infrastructure Uzi Landau has been on a visit to Australia which has taken him to Western Australia to view major gas projects, discuss water and has visited the Prime Minister in Canberra seeking support for Israel in next month’s UN vote to determine statehood for Palestine. Read more

Israeli Arab Journalist Addresses NSWJBD AGM

Khaled Abu Toumeh is a distinguished Arab Israeli journalist. Last night, he addressed the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies’ AGM. Read more

The Peace Team in Sydney

The AFL Peace team, 12 Israeli Jews and 12 Palestinian have arrived in Sydney to a busy first 24…a Harbour Bridge Climb and a welcoming breakfast. Read more

Meet Richard Wittman of The Knesset Forum on International Relations

Richard Wittman lives in a beautiful home set in idyllic surroundings in Ferntree Gully, Victoria….but for six months of the year he sits on the Knesset’s Forum on International Relations. Read more

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