Edgar Bronfman – A Personal Recollection from Isi Leibler

When Edgar Bronfman accepted the presidency of the WJC he told me he was doing this for a year as a form of secular Kaddish for his father. He enjoyed it so much that he retained office for 30 years. Read more

New bird watching centre near Tel Aviv funded by Australians

The ceremony to celebrate the laying of the foundation stone for the new Rosh Tzippor bird-watching centre to be established in the forest in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. Read more

Jewish education alive and well in the ACT

Jewish families in Canberra have celebrated the successful conclusion of the first term of Canberra’s new Jewish after school Educational program and the achievements of the first 25 students who attended. Read more

Moriah takes 22nd HSC spot in NSW

Sydney’s Moriah College has congratulated its students on achieving “outstanding results” in the 2013 HSC.  Read more

World Jewish leader passes away

The Australian and New Zealand Jewish communities join the World Jewish Congress in mourning the passing of its long-time leader Edgar Miles Bronfman, who died on Saturday in New York at the age of 84. Read more

Kesser Torah Proud of its Students

Kesser Torah is delighted to congratulate their HSC cohort of 2013, and to announce that Tikvati Lobel achieved First in Course as well as First Place in NSW in Classical Hebrew Extension with an ATAR of 94.45. KTC students scored 7 mentions on the Top Achievers and Distinguished Achievers Lists. Read more

Anti-Israel Outburst at Mandela Memorial

The President of the Indigenous Social Justice Association, Sydney, Ray Jackson has stood by hateful and anti-Israel comments made at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Sydney last weekend. Read more

Arnold Bloch Leibler turns 60 and look who came to the party

Leading Melbourne law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler recently celebrated its 60th anniversary with a cocktail party at which Prime Minister Tony Abbott was a special guest along with a plethora of VIPs including Israel’s ambassador to Australia. Read more

Short and very sweet

Short+Sweet Sydney boasts a number of Jewish artists again in 2014 – this time with actors, writers and singers taking centre stage at the biggest short-form performing arts festival in the world. Read more

Section 18C: The Ethnic Community Council has its say

The Ethnic Communities Council of NSW has written to all its members urging them to send letters to the Federal Attorney-General and to the NSW Attorney-General to support efforts to combat racial vilification. Read more

Child Sexual Abuse: A victim’s statement

David Cyprys has started an eight year jail sentence and will not see freedom for at least five and a half years. Manny Waks was one of his victim’s and has released his victim impact statement as presented  to Melbourne’s County Court…. Read more

Happy 90th Lotte

On of Sydney’s great characters Lotte Weiss has celebrated her 90th birthday at Sydney’s Montefiore Home in Randwick… Read more

Emanuel score well

Emanuel School once again achieved outstanding HSC results, ranking an impressive
25^th in the State. This places us in the top 3.7% of all schools in the State, a fantastic
result for the School and our students. Read more

Cyprys jailed for eight years

David Cyprys pleaded guilty to sexually abusing eight boys at Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre and was found guilty of by a jury of raping a 15-yr-old boy when he was involved with the Centre. Today he was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment with a none-parole period of five and a half years. Read more

Israeli Fashion Technology for Australia and New Zealand

The Israel developer of 2D and 3D CAD software for the fashion industry is opening an office in Hong Kong targeting the Australian and New Zealand markets. Read more

Victorian Jewish Schools Blitz VCE

Nina Bassat, President of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has congratulated the Victorian Jewish schools, their students and teachers for achieving outstanding results in this year’s VCE.  Read more

Rabbi Kluwgant retains RCV presidency

Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant has been re-elected to head The Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) in 2014. Read more

Gonski to chair ANZ

The ANZ Bank has announced that David Gonski will become its next chairman in May 2014. Read more

Melbourne’s Young Achievers

Melbourne’s Jewish Care’s Young Achiever Program mentors, mentees, alumni and donors have marked the end of a successful year with a celebratory dinner. Read more

New Freedom Commissioner

The Australian government appointed Tim Wilson as commissioner to the Australian Human Rights Commission. Read more

Australia’s ambassador to Israel supports peace campaign

Politicians welcome Alhadeff appointment

NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson has today welcomed the appointment of Vic Alhadeff as the new Chair of the Community Relations Commission. Read more

On Line Jewish Museum Launched in New Zealand

New Zealand’s first Jewish Museum and it’s only exclusively online Museum, The Jewish Online Museum (JoM) has opened its virtual doors to visitors after more than three years of planning. Read more

Melbourne’s Quiet Achiever

Melbourne-based Associate Professor Les Reti has deservedly been bestowed with a Health Lifetime Achievement Award for his tireless commitment to women’s and public health as a physician, innovator and advocator. Read more

Melbourne Establishes Moishe House

Co-founder and CEO of Moishe House, David Cygielman, recently visited Australia as a guest of Australian Jewish Funders (AJF) and Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) to share his journey about Moishe House evolving from one house in Oakland, California to 58 houses in over 14 countries. Read more

Simunic to miss World Cup

Croatian international Australian-born Josip Simunic has been suspended for ten official matches by FIFA, banned from entering the confines of the stadiums for those ten matches and fined CHF 30,000. Read more

First in Course

Mandela proposed to me

An ex South African Journalist now based in Sydney has spoken of her sadness at the death of Nelson Mandela following a friendship with him that spanned many years. Read more

Amnesty responds to complaints about unmoderated antisemitic comments

On Friday the 6th of December, Amnesty International posted an online petition “End the violent harassment of Nabi Saleh villagers protesting Israeli settlement” and removed a number of offensive, abhorrent and hateful antisemitic and anti-Palestinian statements which were made by individuals on our Facebook page in response to this online petition. Read more

Sir David Smith back at Old Parliament House

In 1975, Sir David Smith stood on the steps of what is now the Old Parliament House and read out the proclamation of the dissolution of the Whitlam Government…he has returned to the building which houses the Museum of Australian Democracy as a member of its Advisory Council. Read more

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