Alhadeff and Jones discuss Hizb ut-Tahrir

The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies’ CEO Vic Alhadeff has spoken on air with Sydney radio station 2GB’s Alan Jones about Hizb ut-Tahrir a group which has accused Jews “of corrupting the world”. Read more

A first Rosh Hashanah

Sydney’s Great Synagogue’s new Chief Minister Rabbi Dr Ben Elton was inducted less than a week before Rosh Hashanah…he tells J-Wire of his first Rosh Hashanah in Sydney. Read more

Malcolm meets AUJS

A delegation of 50 AUJS students from around Australia has visited Canberra to develop their political knowledge and skills, by meeting with many of the nation’s senior leaders in Parliament House…including Malcolm Turnbull days before he became Prime Minister. Read more

Anti-Israel MP elected new leader of U.K.’s Labour Party

Far-left U.K. parliament member Jeremy Corbyn, who has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric and a controversial association with a group run by a Holocaust denier, has been elected overwhelmingly as the new leader of his country’s opposition Labour Party. Read more

$1m awarded to sex abuse victim

A woman alleged to have been sexually abused by the principal of a Jewish day school in Melbourne has been awarded $1 million in damages. Read more

Community welcomes Malcolm

Australia’s new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is no stranger to the country’s Jewish community given that his federal seat of Wentworth is home to the majority of Jews living in Sydney. Read more

Rosh Hashana greeting from Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Prime Minister sends his Rosh Hashana greeting…a video message. Read more

Malki remembered through helping others

Sharon Zinger has told of her personal experience in taking care of a son with special needs during an event at the home of Australian Ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma. Read more

B’nai B’rith slams anti- Islamic stickers distribution

The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has denounced the distribution of racist and anti-Islamic stickers by Neo-Nazi group Combat 18 in a  children’s playground and shopping centre in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg.  Read more

Independent ARZA

The Australian Reform Zionist Association, ARZA, has become a totally independent association dedicated to representing the views of Progressive Jewish Zionists in Israel and in Australia. Read more

The communal launch of Y2i

Y2i, a project which offers every Jewish Year 10 student in NSW, the ACT and Queensland the opportunity to participate in an extensive study tour of Israel, has been launched in Sydney. Read more

Festival of Dreams

Thousands of people are expected to attend the Festival of Dreams this weekend in Sydney, with all proceeds going to Our Big Kitchen.  Read more

The Greater Synagogue

Sydney’s The Great Synagogue has celebrated the inauguration of its 7th Chief Minister in its 137 year history. Read more

Reducing the cost of burials

Married couples who elect to bury vertically in one grave, rather than in two graves side-by-side, will pay 42% less for their burials and gravesite. Read more

President Rivlin’s Rosh Hashanah message

Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin sends a video message for Rosh Hashanah. Read more

Cents for Senses reaches its target

Jewish Care Victoria’s first digital crowdfunding campaign, ‘Cents for Senses’ succeeded in raising the target amount of $21,530 within 30 days. Read more

40 years of Hebrew broadcasting

SBS is celebrating the 40th anniversary of SBS Radio, and 40 years as the voice of multicultural Australia. Read more

Respite centre for Melbourne

Melbourne’s Jewish Care will open the Coppel and Piekarski Family Disability Respite Centre in December. Read more

Eat, Pray, Naches alive on your screens

The Eat, Pray, Naches project has been launched by Sydney’s Waverley Council. Read more

A Rosh Hashanah message from The Greens

The Leader of the Australian Greens has sent a Rosh Hashanah message to Australia’s Jewish community. Read more

Lithuania’s Jewish cemetery project

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has promised that a government project to mark, memorialise and maintain Jewish burial grounds in his country would be completed by 2017. Read more

Aliyah up 13%

According to data compiled by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, around 29,500 immigrants arrived in Israel in the Jewish year 5775, representing a 13% increase over the 26,000 who came in 5774.  Read more

Yad Vashem: Online exhibition

Ushering in the beginning of the Jewish New Year, Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem has launched a special online exhibition. Read more

ECAJ welcomes refugee intake

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has welcomed the announcement today by the Australian government that Australia will resettle an additional 12,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Read more

A message from Inga Peulich

Victoria’s Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs Inga Peulich has a Rosh Hashanah message for  the Jewish community. Read more

A message from Josh Frydenberg

Federal Member for Kooyong and Australia’s Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg sends a Rosh Hashanah message to the Jewish community. Read more

Blessing the State of Victoria

Senior members of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) Executive, have  met  with the Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews. Read more

Hakoah’s DA lodged

Sydney’s Hakoah Club has lodged a Development Application with Woollahra Council for the redevelopment of its White City site. Read more

Jewish help for Syrian refugees

In light of tragic events involving a swelling population of migrants and refugees in Europe and the Middle East, the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief (JCDR) has acted to expand the scope and mandate of its Jewish Coalition for Syrian Refugees in Jordan to include refugees and migrants in Europe and the Middle East. Read more

Victoria’s Governor Linda Dessau welcomed by her shule

Linda Dessau, Governor of Victoria is welcomed by her synagogue in her capacity as the State’s first female and first Jewish Governor…a video report from The Shtick’s Henry Greener. Read more

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