Dershowitz packs Central

Human rights lawyer Alan Dershowitz addressed a full house at Sydney’s Central Synagogue last night. Read more

$400 for a soccer card

Ebay is auctioning a 1963 Scanlens soccer card of 1960s Hakoah superstar Rafi Levy with the opening bid set at $399. Read more

Issy Smith V.C. – not forgotten

Issy Smith was the first Jew to receive the Commonwealth’s highest military order, the Victoria Cross…and his bravery and life were remembered at a ceremony in Melbourne to mark his 70th Yahrzeit. Read more

Sukkot in Luna Park

Romy Teperson is a regular performer at Sydney’s Luna Park…but yesterday she found herself shaking the lulav and the etrog. Read more

Yom Kippur 1937 – crossing the line

Yom Kippur coinciding with major sports events has often created a dilemma for athletic-minded members of the Jewish community…and 1937 presented one such problem with a unique solution. Read more

Normal service resumed

The recent earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand,  was responsible for no Rosh Hashana prayers for the Canterbury Hebrew Congregation for the first time in 147 years. Read more

Isabelle Shapiro elected Mayor of Woollahra

Isabelle Shapiro is the first-ever identifying Jewish woman to have been elected  mayor of Woollahra, the Sydney municipality which includes some of the city’s most prestigious suburbs. Read more

Getting to know you

Leader of the NSW Opposition Barry O’Farrell has visited The Jewish House in Sydney. Read more

Flotilla funds meeting flounders

A public meeting to raise funds and support for the Kia Ora Gaza group’s flotilla campaign has ended in a debacle. Read more

Yom Kippur overflow service…to Monday!

Victoria’s South East Water was set to switch off supply on Erev Yom Kippur to the Elsternwick area…until the Jewish Community Council of Victoria intervened. Read more

Close call for Chabad House

The original Chabad House has not survived the Christchurch earthquake…but its replacement is now fully operational. Read more

Davening for the Dogs

As his players spend Saturday finalising preparations for the AFL preliminary finals, the Western Bulldogs president will be davening in Shul hopeful for a victory. Read more

New home-grown musical opening this week

A brand new musical will open at Sydney’s Parade theatre this week…the brainchild of one of Sydney’s Jewish showbiz personalities. Read more

Sir Nicholas Stern at Dunera anniversary

The man dubbed as “the rock star of climate change”, Sir Nicholas Stern, is the son of a Dunera boy…and he has attended the 70th anniversary functions of the Dunera Association.
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A Torah of Their Own

For over five years, Sydney’s Kesser Torah College has been using a borrowed Torah…but yesterday the last letters were inscribed on a Torah of its own. Read more

Christchurch – business as usual

Sunday school in Christchurch’s synagogue took place as normal this morning…recent repairs to the building appear to have saved it from serious damage in yesterday’s earthquake…but no-one knows the state of Chabad House. Read more

Dershowitz for the Central

World-renowned U.S. civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz is set to speak at Sydney’s Central Synagogue next month. Read more

Early reports from Christchurch say community is fine

Dunedin-based Rabbi Shmuly Kopel has been in touch with his Chabad counterpart in the earthquake hit New Zealand city of Christchurch. Read more

ABC Perth radio sees little wrong in child dressing as Hitler

ALP member takes on the ABC Perth when broadcasters see nothing wrong about a Perth primary student dressing up as Hitler. Read more

Off the hook – party time in Adelaide!

In June, 39 charges of fraud against Chabad Rabbi Yossi Engel and his wife Chana were dismissed in an Adelaide court…and last weekend was party time to celebrate the Adelaide Chabad leader’s vindication. Read more

Writers’ Festival packing them in

The Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival has been a huge success.   Read more

Special guest for MAIGS Board Meeting

The Maccabi Australia International Games board meeting this week was privileged to receive counsel from Eyal Tiberger, Director-General of Maccabi World Union. Read more

A Shule is Born

Sydney’s North Shore Chabad will hold its first service in its new complex in St Ives this evening…a complex destined to be a jewel in the crown of the city’s North Shore community. Read more

Interfaith at work

Sydney’s The Jewish House has joined forces with the Rev Bill Crew’s Exodus Foundation to collect and distribute food for the needy…irrespective of faith, colour or creed. Read more

Frydenberg – first ever Jewish Liberal in the House of Representatives

Josh Frydenberg, the newly elected Member of Parliament for the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, is the first ever Jewish Liberal politician to represent his constituency in the House of Representatives. Read more

Frydenberg wins Kooyong – three Jewish Members of Parliament

Josh Frydenberg has become the first Jewish Liberal Member of Federal Parliament since 1991. Read more

Big Cheque for Our Big Kitchen

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally visited Our Big Kitchen at the Sydney Yeshiva Centre yesterday and came with a gift from the State of $20,000. Read more

Alexander Jacob Gutman campaigns in Manly

Alexander Jacob Gutman is the name on the list of candidates for the seat of Warringah…but Australia know as him as Austen Tayshus. Yesterday he went campaigning on the Corso at Manly. Read more

Visiting Prince of Wales Hospital? Kiss the Mezuzah

Jewish patients being admitted to Sydney’s Prince of Wales Private Hospital will now have the opportunity of kissing a Mezuzah on arrival. Read more

Miracle on the North Shore

Within one week of exchanging contracts on a $5.9 million dollar property zoned for educational purposes, Chabad learned that the land had been rezoned for residential usage effectively almost doubling its value. Read more

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