Chag Sameach from the Prime Minister

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull sends a Pesach message to the country’s Jewish community. Read more

Remembering Saul

Former Labor Deputy Prime Minister and former Australian ambassador to the United States Kim Beazley has taken out an ad to express his thoughts on Australian Jewish leader Saul Same who passed away in Melbourne a few days ago. Read more

ANZAC commemoration

Former MP Colonel Mike Kelly has told an ANZAC Day commemoration service in Sydney that “Israel’s enemies are our enemies”. Read more

Carer gets her visa

A Philippine woman who has looked after a 103-yr-old Holocaust survivor in Sydney for eight years has been granted a visa which will allow her to return to Australia to continue caring for him. Read more

Ukraine confirms appointment of Jewish prime minister

The Ukrainian Parliament has confirmed the appointment of the Jewish former mayor of Vinnytsia as the country’s new prime minister, following the resignation of prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Read more

UIA giant passes away

Saul Same, a former federal president of the United Israel Appeal, has passed away in Melbourne at the of 97. Read more

Waiting to be heard

The New South Wales Minister for Multiculturalism John Ajaka is seeking applications for a Youth Member for the Multicultural NSW Advisory Board. Read more

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

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

JCCV Drug and Alcohol Forum sees family and relationships as critical

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has held a Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Forum in order to seek direction on the most effective measures to reduce drug and alcohol abuse in the Jewish community, especially amongst young people. Read more

Yeshivah/Beth Rivkah colleges receive children program accreditation

Yeshivah – Beth Rivkah Colleges, Melbourne, is delighted to announce that its Colleges have recently attained an Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF) Safeguarding Children Program (SCP) Accreditation. 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

Of dingoes and wolves

Technion Australia through TSA Environmental Research Ltd (TSAERL) is funding groundbreaking research into apex predators…dingoes in Australia and wolves in Israel. 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

First-of-its-kind nuclear imaging machine installed at Israeli hospital

Israeli patients will be the first in the world to enjoy a first-of-its-kind hybrid imaging scanner, which was installed at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital this week. Read more

What real fans are made of

Alon Pajor, the sole Maccabi swimmer at the recent Australian Age Swimming Championships in Adelaide, thought that his father Richard and his coach Anthony Goodridge in the stands were the only fans cheering him on were. ..but he was wrong. Read more

Politicians and councillors learn about the community

State MPs Hong Lim, Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs, David Southwick Shadow Minister for Innovation, and the mayors of Bayside and Stonnington Councils, Cr Jamie Hyams from the City of Glen Eira, policy advisers and policymakers have participated in the Jewish Community Council of Victoria’s (JCCV’s) 2016 Politicians’ and Councillors Jewish Immersion Day. 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

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