Peter Gaspar’s remarkable story

Join the Melbourne Holocaust Museum on 18 June for a truly extraordinary opportunity to hear the firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor, Peter Gaspar. Read more

Limmud in Your Lounge Returns to Sydney

Sydney’s Jewish community will see the return of Limmud in Your Lounge, a highly anticipated event featuring thought-provoking discussions on Jewish ideas and culture. Read more

Cairns Jewish teens distribute toys to hospitalised children

Children in Cairns base hospital got a happiness boost on Monday when teens from Chabad North Queensland gave them bags filled with gifts. Read more

Vivaldi vs Piazzolla: Live at the Great

The Live at the Great series continues featuring one of Australia’s foremost violinists and a didgeridoo player. Read more

‘From the deepest hole to the highest mountain’

The view from atop the world’s highest peak was breathtakingly stunning. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Vaiben Louis Solomon

Vaiben was born on 13 May 1853 in Adelaide, the son of Judah Moss Solomon – nephew of Emanuel and Vaiben – and mother Rachel. Read more

Burst pipes or bad history? Wellington City Council’s new role as the arbiter of international conflicts

On 15 May, newbie Wellington City Councillor Nikau Wi Neera tweeted a photo of himself grinning like a schoolboy who has just been gifted a PlayStation and clutching a piece of paper. Read more

IsraAID heads guests at Sydney breakfast

IsraAID leaders Global CEO  Yotam Polizer and Chief Development & Communications Officer Tamar Kosky Lazarus will be guests at breakfast in Sydney sponsored by the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and Stand Up. Read more

Euphoria: an installation at the Melbourne Town Hall

As Gordon Gekko, in the 1987 Oliver Stone-directed hit film Wall Street, Michael Douglas said “greed, for lack of a better word, is good”…writes Alex First. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Love is Blind Read more

New Torah L’am scholarships on offer to Jewish women

The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia is to partner with leading Jewishly UK to offer the Torah L’Am Course. Read more

Why is black the colour associated with bereavement and mourning?

Ask the rabbi! Read more

Historian Martin Kramer cites paradox behind Israel’s judicial reform controversy

AIJAC’s latest webinar featured eminent historian Professor Martin Kramer, past Director of Tel Aviv University’s Middle East Centre and Fellow at the Washington Institute for Middle East Policy. Read more

Biden in bind as Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution turns 1

President Biden must be feeling decidedly uncomfortable as the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) approaches its first birthday – with Israel and Saudi Arabia negotiating to possibly implement its terms – mediated by Bahrain – not the US. Read more

The Biden administration’s anti-antisemitism travesty

What’s the use of the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance? Read more

Ahlam Tamimi’s 16th victim

Twenty-two years after a Palestinian suicide bomber devastated the Sbarro pizza restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, the 16th victim of that massacre succumbed to her injuries. Read more

The Egypt border attack: Key questions

There are several critical questions that the joint Israeli-Egyptian investigation into the deadly terrorist attack on the two countries’ shared border on Saturday must address. Read more

On the other hand

One of the funniest aspects of life in Israel, at least for English-speaking Olim, are the numerous bloopers that appear when Hebrew notices, signs and instructions are translated. Read more

Climbers – a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

It’s all good, clean, innocent, engaging, adventurous and flirtatious fun, until it isn’t. Read more

The World According to Dinosaurs: A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Having just sat through The World According to Dinosaurs, I am sorry to say I can’t really tell you much about the narrative, save for an extinction event.
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Divorce

Both in the Torah and in the Talmud, marital difficulties are the topic du semaine. Read more

ECAJ: Employment opportunity – Media Advisor

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the national representative body of the Australian Jewish community, is hiring. Read more

Deciphering the headlines

According to the Oxford language website, deciphering is defined as “succeeding in understanding, interpreting or identifying something.” Read more

Henry Greener discusses the Yes Vote with Jill Gallagher

Jill Gallagher AO leads the Australian community for a YES Vote in the highly controversial Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum. Read more

Shabbat Naso: Wine and Women 

The case of the Sotah, the woman suspected of adultery, is a very difficult issue to understand. Read more

Want to meet someone new in Sydney?

Head to Maroubra Synagogue on June 18. Read more

L’chaim – to Life: Making Aliyah easier

Morry Frenkel speaks with Ariela Cohen and Nancy Jacobs, co-founders and the power behind of Soft Landing, an Israeli company that aids those wishing to make Aliyah. Read more

Jacky – a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Racism, disadvantage, “the mob” and money collide in the incendiary new work from Declan Furber Gillick, five years in the making. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Abraham Abrahams

Abraham Abrahams was a highly respected businessman, a judge of art, a private philanthropist and a model citizen. Read more

Anti-Jewish incidents in Australia continue to rise in 2022

Each year, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), produces a Report on Antisemitism in Australia…writes Julie Nathan, Read more

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