A rare opportunity to see one of Sydney’s top chefs in action
January 19, 2018 by Community Editor
Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue is providing an exclusive opportunity to see award-winning chef, Michael Rantissi demonstrate some of the delicious dishes from his new book and taste the results. Read more
AAJS conference in Perth
January 19, 2018 by Community newsdesk
The Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) will hold its 30th annual conference at Curtin University next month in Perth. Read more
UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Liberation of Auschwitz commemoration
January 18, 2018 by Community newsdesk
The Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants together with the Sydney Jewish Museum invite you to commemorate UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Liberation of Auschwitz. Read more
Date for November
January 10, 2018 by Rabbi Fred Morgan
Planning is already well underway for the Union for Progressive Judaism’s biennial conference in Melbourne in November 2018. Read more
Celebrate Israel’s 70th birthday with UIA
December 23, 2017 by Community newsdesk
UIA has announced that it will host six Israel missions in 2018 to celebrate the State’s 70th birthday. The range of missions on offer means there are options available for all ages. Read more
Montefiore Randwick’s Broadway in the Grounds a smash hit with community
December 22, 2017 by Danielle Oppermann
Sydney’s Montefiore Randwick campus threw open the gates to the community for its annual outdoor concert themed Broadway in the Grounds. Read more
A Kangarusski Chanukah
December 20, 2017 by Hayley Hadassin
Kangarusski friends and supporters joined together in Sydney to celebrate the miracle of Chanukah, the end of another good year and the spirit of our community. Read more
Who is JUNI?
December 15, 2017 by Community Editor
JUNI, an important project of Sydney’s Young Adult Chabad provides support for students on-campus with pastoral care, Sinai Scholars Society, Jewish festival awareness events and heritage stalls. Read more
Jewish House Chanukah in Eastgate Mall cancelled
December 13, 2017 by Community Editor
Sydney’s Jewish House’s Chanukah event scheduled for 4:30pm today, Wednesday 13 December, was forced to be cancelled when parts of the ceiling in Eastgate mall collapsed today. Read more
Festibayit for Habayit
December 13, 2017 by Hayley Hadassin
Festibayit is an annual event run by the Zionist Federation of Australia’s Habayit, the home of Israeli language and culture. Read more
You can ask me anything
December 7, 2017 by Ayal Tusia
Some topics of conversation are off limits…right? Not in this video. Read more
Kangarusski gives back
November 28, 2017 by Hayley Hadassin
Kangarusski organised fifty volunteers to meet at Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen to prepare food to deliver to people in need. Read more
Winners of Chamber Music to perform at The Great
November 28, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
After sell out performances at East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, Affinity Collective celebrates Jewish and Czech music at Sydney’s The Great Synagogue. Read more
Westpac banking on OBK
November 22, 2017 by Community Editor
Westpac has made a grant to further OBK’s work in the community. Read more
Yad L’Ezra iVolunteer Dinner in Melbourne
November 18, 2017 by J-Wire
Over 100 girls of Beth Rivkah High School of Melbourne volunteer weekly as part of Yad L’Ezra iVolunteer were honoured at their annual dinner. Read more
No Place to Lay One’s Head
November 17, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Françoise Frenkel was a Polish-born Jewish woman who owned a French-language book shop in Berlin in the 1930s. She was forced to flee after a Nazi raid and spent the war hiding in Vichy France, making several desperate attempts to reach Switzerland where her memoir was eventually published in 1945. Read more
The Feurstein Program shows its output
November 16, 2017 by Community newsdesk
Mount Sinai College and the Australian Friends of the Hebrew University will co-host an event at the college to profile a young Israeli student of Ethiopian origin, Zuresh Wabbe. Read more
Tanya Plibersek and her daughter speak at Montefiore
November 16, 2017 by Danielle Oppermann
More than 160 of Montefiore’s 500-strong volunteer base gathered at the Randwick campus for the annual Spirit of Volunteering event, which included an awards presentation and inspiring keynote addresses by Tanya Plibersek, Member for Sydney and Deputy Leader of the Opposition, and her daughter, who is a dedicated student volunteer at Montefiore Randwick. Read more
Art hopping in Sydney
November 16, 2017 by Arts Editor
Sydneysiders are invited to take a scenic tour from North Bondi to Vaucluse visiting artists in their studios and discovering the meaning behind each work. Read more
Researching for a new book
Vieslava Mataczynski and Timothy Scutt, co-authors of a new book under the working title: “Preservation of Life” bringing together memories both individual and collective, of the Jewish people contacted J-Wire in an effort to reach out to the wider Jewish Community in support of this work.
Rabbi Kastel joins the board of NCOSS
November 14, 2017 by Community newsdesk
Jewish House CEO Rabbi Mendel Kastel has been invited to join the board of The NSW Council of Social Service. Read more
Looking for relatives
November 13, 2017 by J-Wire
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US visitor discusses antisemitism, racism and Israel
November 10, 2017 by David Marlow
Mark Weitzman, Director of Government Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in New York was the keynote speaker at last night’s Betty and Shmuel Rosenkranz Oration in Melbourne. Read more
Generations of women look up
November 8, 2017 by Ayal Tusia
Now in its 21st year, the Annual Generations of Women Brunch saw 260 women attend the The International Brighton and hear guest speaker Fiona Grinwald encourage them all to “look up”. Read more
The Grand Lady of St Kilda
November 7, 2017 by Carmel Shute
St Kilda identity and RocKwiz host, Brian Nankervis, will launch Acland Street: The Grand Lady of St Kilda by award-winning historian, Dr Judith Buchrich later this month. Read more
I am My Brother’s Keeper
November 6, 2017 by Community newsdesk
An exhibition is to be launched at Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre honouring Australian immigrants who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Read more
Henry Greener in conversation with Philip Dalidakis
November 5, 2017 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Philip Dalidakis MP, Victorian State Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade, talks to Henry Greener at Melbourne’s Queen’s Hall just as the Courage to Care Exhibition is about to be dismantled. Read more
Montefiore launches new community biography series
November 4, 2017 by Danielle Oppermann
Family and friends of Mervyn Basserabie, the Sydney property developer and communal philanthropist, gathered at Montefiore Randwick for the presentation of his life story, Thinking Outside the Square. Read more
Senator tours Chabad centres
November 3, 2017 by Community Editor
Zed Seselja, Federal Senator for the ACT and Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs, has toured the Chabad run Jewish community centres in Canberra. Read more
Cooking for mental health
November 2, 2017 by Community newsdesk
