Blue & White Night: Melbourne’s Exciting New Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration

Zionism Victoria, in partnership with UIA, will hold a Blue & White Night, a completely re-imagined Erev Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration in Melbourne. Read more

The forgotten pogrom: commemorating the Farhud

While the Jews of Europe were facing death across Nazi Europe, the Jews of Iraq encountered brutality at the hands of former colleagues, neighbours and fellow citizens in a massacre known as The Farhud. Read more

Lilly Brett at Yom Hashoah

New York-based internationally acclaimed author Lily Brett will deliver the keynote address at this year’s major Yom Hashoah ceremony in Sydney. Read more

Melbourne lawyer banned from practicising

Melbourne solicitor Alex Lewenberg has been banned from practice for 15 months for rebuking a victim of child sexual abuse who cooperated with police on the basis that “Jewish people should not assist police investigating another Jewish person”. Read more

Do you belong to Glasgow?

A call has gone out to Jews world-wide either born in or with family connections to the Scottish city of Glasgow a city which once boasted a thriving Jewish community of over 14,000 and is now home to less than 4,000. Read more

Life membership for Sophie

The Australian Jewish Historical Society has presented Sophie Caplan a Certificate for Life Membership, bestowed on her “in appreciation of the service and commitment to the Society over many years.” Read more

IBT apologises to Rabbi Yossi Feldman

The International Business Times has apologised to Sydney’s Rabbi Yossi Feldman that the contents of an article published following the rabbi’s testimony at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse saying “one should not conclude that “he did not know that sexual touching of a child’s genital is not considered child sex abuse” may have caused him “hurt and embarrassment”. Read more

New face at AIJAC

Former Australian Jewish News journalist Gareth Narunsky has joined  the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council’s Sydney office as the organisation’s National Media Liaison officer. Read more

Memories of Israel

NSW Premier Mike Baird has returned to Sydney following an eight-day trip to Israel…the first time for him and the first time for a premier in office. Read more

Conversion before Aliyah

The Maslus project, designed to allow candidates eligible for Aliyah to begin their conversion studies in their countries of origin, has been launched in Kiev and Moscow funded by the Triguboff Institute headed by Sydney property mogul Harry Triguboff. Read more

Australia’s oldest Holocaust survivor risks losing carer

Australia’s oldest Holocaust survivor is pleading with the government to allow his carer to visit her daughter in the Philippines and be permitted to return to Sydney to continue tending for him. Read more

Einat Wilf addresses Labor activists in Sydney

Washington Institute Fellow, former Labour MK and foreign policy expert Einat Wilf recently addressed ALP activists and Jewish community members in Sydney on the status of the Israeli left, the US Presidential elections and the prospects for a Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Read more

Israeli partnership in genomics research to be established in Sydney

A new partnership between Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Israel’s Weizmann Institute will establish a new cellular genomics research centre with the support of the NSW Government. Read more

Facebook bans the offended

A Melbourne self-defence training school teaching methods used by the Israel Defence Force has been banned from posting on Facebook after highlighting ant-semitic comments posted on its own site by a detractor. Read more

Israeli simulator for Flying Doctor Service in Dubbo

NSW Premier Mike Baird has signed an agreement in Israel securing an Israeli-built flight simulator for the Royal Flying Doctor base in Dubbo. Read more

Online extension to the Haggadah

The New Israel Fund Australia has launched “The Other Haggadah”, a unique collection of stories to bring new insight and discussion to the Seder table. Read more

Agritech agreement between Israel and NSW

The Premier of New South Wales, Mike Baird today witnessed the signing of an agreement in Israel between the University of Sydney and the Agricultural Research Organisation of Israel to help agricultural innovation flourish in NSW. Read more

Call to ban lawyer from practicing

Victoria’s Legal Services Commissioner has called for lawyer Alex Lewenberg to be banned from practicing following a verdict finding the lawyer guilty of misconduct following his rebuking of the Jewish victim of child sexual abuse for cooperating with police. Read more

IsraAID team leader visits Sydney

Hagit Krakov headed the IsraAID team which helped rebuild the homes on the Fijian island of Ovalau devastated by Cyclone Winston in February. Read more

Centenary of Anzac to be commemorated in Adelaide

The Jewish Community Council of South Australia will hold a Commemoration as part of the national Centenary of Anzac Jewish Program.  Read more

Never again

NSW Premier Mike Baird has written in Yad Vashem’s guest book that “never again can we do nothing”. Read more

ADC condemns daubing

The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has condemned an act of antisemitic vandalism against the Maroubra synagogue in Sydney in which a swastika was spray painted on the front of the synagogue’s wall. Read more

Mike Baird visits Palestinian refugee camp

The Premier of New South Wales Mike Baird has taken time out of what is essentially a trade mission to Israel to visit a Palestinian refugee camp. Read more

Happy 100th Rose

Sydney’s Burger Centre has celebrated Rose Klass’s 100^th birthday this week. Read more

Ambassador Regev

Melbourne-born Mark Regev has presented his credentials as Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. Read more

Fury on Facebook

A Sydney rabbi has taken to Facebook to vent his anger following the daubing of his synagogue’s wall with a swastika. Read more

Making society more inclusive

Over 112 students and teachers from Aboriginal, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, state and private, city and country schools recently attended Together For Humanity’s first annual Inclusive Communities Youth Summit at NSW Parliament house presenting proposals for initiatives aimed at making our society more inclusive for minority groups and others.
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Melbourne lawyer guilty of misconduct

A Melbourne solicitor who rebuked a Jewish victim of child sexual abuse for helping police prosecute another Jew has been found guilty of professional misconduct. Read more

An urgent art project

As Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust survivor numbers decline, a local artist has painted a series of portraits to commemorate their stories. Read more

University apologises for professor’s remarks

University of Auckland acclaimed hate crimes expert Professor Scott Poynting​ is to leave his job after comparing an Israeli company employing Palestinians to a German company employing Jews. Read more

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