JCCV Appeal Underway
March 20, 2013 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has launched its annual fundraising appeal at its inaugural campaign. Read more
Changing the guard
March 19, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
VAJEX Australia Incorporated recently held its Annual General Meeting in the presence of patrons patrons Patron in Chief, Major-General Jeffrey Rosenfeld and Patron Jack Smorgon. Read more
Turkel Observer Praises Israel
March 6, 2013 by David Marlow
Professor Tim McCormack has complimented Israel on being the only country in the world to conduct an extensive independent inquiry into its military justice system, and said that it had broken new ground in terms of analysis of international law. Read more
Victorian teachers welcomed back
Fourteen Victorian educators have been welcomed back from the 2012/13 Holocaust studies course at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Read more
Purim – Sobering Thoughts
February 22, 2013 by Community Editor
The Rabbinical Council of Victoria has issued a warning about the overindulgence of liquor during Purim…and so has The Jewish Community Council of Victoria. Read more
JCCV reaffirms support for multiculturalism
February 20, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Community council of Victoria has voiced concern about the visit to Australia of Dutch MY Geert Wilders…with the full support of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Read more
New man in charge
February 1, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
David Marlow will attend his first plenum as the new executive director of The Jewish Community council of Victoria next week. Read more
Hitler as a meal guest? – no way says the ADC
January 30, 2013 by Geoffrey Zygier
The Melbourne-based B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has had a positive outcome to its complaint to local radio Nova 100 FM following a recent breakfast show segment in which Hitler was suggested as a suitable person to join in a mealtime conversation. Read more
Keeping sexual abuse at bay
December 7, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Protecting children and young people from the risk of abuse is a communal imperative. Yet the Jewish community is not immune to the occurrence of child abuse in organisational settings. Read more
ADC heads to Parliament to discuss antisemitism on campus
October 9, 2012 by Agencies
The Anti-Defamation Commission of the B’nai B’rith will present a forum on antisemitism at university campuses at Parliament House later this month in a bid to help Victorian universities understand and respond appropriately to the scourge of antisemitism. Read more
Bernard Lustig Memorial Scholarship winner announced
August 17, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Monash Law student Melanie Koss is the winner of this year’s Bernard Lustig Memorial Scholarship, offered annually by B’nai B’rith Victoria. Read more
Wallenberg Centenary Dinner
A man whose father had been a colleague of Raoul Wallenberg has addressed the B’nai B’rith’s Raoul Wallenberg Centenary Dinner. Read more
VAJEX Remembrance Day Luncheon
November 27, 2011 by Harold J Karpin
I arrived early for the VAJEX Australia Day Remembrance Luncheon and found the hall had been dressed and looking lonely in its emptiness. Read more
Australia condemns attacks in Southern Israel
The Federal Government has condemned the attacks in Southern Israel. Read more
New Executive Director for the JCCV
June 20, 2011 by J-Wire
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) have appointed a new executive director. Read more
Museum Diary
February 5, 2011 by J-Wire
The current diary for Melbourne’s Jewish Museum… Read more
Hate law in Victoria – no prosecutions
March 26, 2010 by Agencies
The Racial and Religious Tolerance Act was passed in Victoria in 2001….and not a single prosecution since. Read more
New Israel Fund: Danny Lamm responds to Nathan Cherny
February 10, 2010 by J-Wire Staff
The President of the Zionist Council of Victoria, Danny Lamm, withdrew its sponsorship of a meeting in Melbourne at which NIF head Naomi Chazan was due to speak. His position was criticised by Melbourne-born Israeli Nathan Cherny. Danny Lamm responds… Read more
Victoria calls for community awareness
October 6, 2009 by Geoffrey Zygier
John Searle, president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, has asked the community to help those in need. Read more
Israeli interfaith group speaks in Melbourne
August 25, 2009 by Geoffrey Zygier
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) had the pleasure of co‐hosting a number of speaking events for a mixed faith delegation from the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel.
JCCV – sanitised terrorism would be counter-productive
August 12, 2009 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has slammed the State’s Police “Lexicon of Terror” project stating that the sanitising of language to appease the Muslim community would not reduce radicalisation. Read more
ZIonist Council of Victoria book launched in Israel
August 3, 2009 by Elly Shalev
It was standing room only for the launch of the “Building a Nation” anthology – a collection of our community’s personal contributions to Israel on August 2nd at the Beth Weizmann Community Centre. Read more
