Rabbi, I’m ashamed… you have lost me

An exchange of letters between Sydney’s Rabbi Levi Wolf and one of his congregants. Read more

A message from Sydney rabbis

Members of Sydney rabbinical community have recorded a message to victims of child sex abuse and their families. Read more

Feldman resigns

In light of recent statements and views expressed by Rabbi Yosef Feldman, The Yeshiva Centre has accepted his resignation as a Director on the Board of Management of The Yeshiva Centre, which includes his administrative responsibilities. Read more

Feldman out on a limb

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry had distanced the community from Rabbi Yosef Feldman, the spiritual head of the Southern Sydney Synagogue who has completed giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse  hearing in Melbourne. Read more

Member of the Jewish community makes top 100 in The Algemeiner

President of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Robert Goot has been named by publication The Algemeiner as one of the top 100 people who influenced Jewish life in 2014. Read more

The Kashrut Commission of Enquiry: the K-A’s initial take

The NSW Kashrut Authority has made its first comment on The Kashrut Commission of Inquiry’s report. Read more

OurCrowd MD to speak in Sydney

Sydney-born venture capitalist Dan Bennett has brought the start-up nation home to Australia. Read more

Kashrut in NSW

The Kashrut Commission of Inquiry established by The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has released its recommendations. Read more

Living side by side…

In 2001, Polish-American historian Jan T. Gross published a controversial monograph entitled Neighbours in which he described the destruction of the Jewish community in the Polish city of Jedwabne at the hands of the local Polish population. Read more

Holocaust anniversary acknowledged by Aboriginal community

The Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney’s Redfern has acknowledged the 70^th anniversary of the liberation of Jews from the Auschwitz death camp. Read more

Learn online about the Holocaust

To mark the  International Holocaust Memorial Day, FutureLearn, a social medialearning platform, has launched free online courses exploring the history and ongoing scholarship of the Holocaust…one created by Tel Aviv University and the other by Yad Vashem. Read more

Presidents will not meet

Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin is currently in the United States but hopes that a meeting with U.S. president Barak Obama might be arranged will not be realised. Read more

This was no ordinary tour – UIA Australia in Israel

Miriam Lewin reports on a recent UIA study mission to Israel…
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Anti-Defamation Commission takes issue with President Carter

The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission  has severely criticised as wrong and offensive comments by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter last week that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was one of the contributing reasons for the heinous murders in Paris. Read more

Bus hate youth tours the Sydney Jewish Museum

A youth who was a member of a group who boarded a bus transporting Jewish schoolchildren and verbally abused them has toured the Holocaust section of the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

Moving out?

Hundreds of French Jews have attended a Jewish Agency for Israel Aliyah (immigration to Israel) information fair under tight security in central Paris. Read more

Supermarket victims to be buried in Israel

The four Jewish victims of the terrorist attack on the Parisian Kosher supermarket will be buried in Israel. Read more

Canberra and Paris

A memorial ceremony has been held outside the French Cultural Centre, the “Alliance Francaise”, in Australia’s Capital city Canberra  to pay tribute to those killed and injured in the recent terror attacks in Paris. Read more

Supermarket victims named

The names of the four Jews murdered during the siege of a kosher supermarket in Paris have been named…and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with one of the survivors. Read more

Israel’s 2014 tourism figures

Despite Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, the number of tourists in 2014 remains similar to that in 2013, thanks to the significant increase in the first half of 2013. Read more

Liberman on the UN Vote

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on the failure of the UN Security Council vote to establish a Palestinian state. Read more

Israel and the UN Vote

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement on the defeated UN vote on a draft resolution for the establishment of a Palestinian state. Read more

Child victims of terrorism celebrate Bar and Bat Mitzvahs

Israel’s President Reuven and First Lady Nechama Rivlin, have held a Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebration, at the President’s residence for 50 children… victims of terrorist attacks. Read more

Israeli-Palestinian peace hopes – the latest poll

58% of Palestinians believe that Israel wants to extend its borders – 37% of Israelis believe the Palestinians want to conquer Israel.  Read more

ALP on an Israeli study mission

In the first mission of its kind, the Australia Israel Labor Dialogue has hosted a group of eleven members and officials of the Australian Labor Party on a Study Mission to Israel. Read more

ADC slams EU decision re remove Hamas from its terror list

B’nai B’rith International and The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission have condemned the decision by the EU Court of Justice to remove Hamas from the EU terror list. Read more

Australian becomes president of the International Council of Jewish Women

Robyn Lenn is the new President of the International Council of Jewish Women. Read more

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