UNESCO resolution: the ECAJ writes to the Foreign Minister

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has written to Australia’s Julie Bishop following the UNESCO resolution denying Jewish connection to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. Read more

JIFF 2016

The 2016 Jewish International Film Festival’s Lindy Tamir speaks to Henry Greener…a video presentation. Read more

NSW State Parliament debates condolence motion for Shimon Peres

The NSW Parliament’s Legislative Council has debated a condolence motion in honour of the late-Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres.  Read more

Newspaper column Goers beyond the pale

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council has expressed concern after columnist and ABC radio host Peter Goers published an inflammatory anti-Israel piece in Adelaide’s Sunday Mail on October 9. Read more

Rosh Hashanah message from Bill Shorten and Tony Burke

Bill Shorten, Leader of the Opposition & Tony Burke, Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Australia for Rosh Hashanah have sent a Rosh Hashanah message to the Jewish community. Read more

Portrait exhibition at The Great

Sydney’s The Great Synagogue will present thirty selected highlights from the collection of historical and contemporary portrait paintings from its AM Rosenblum Museum. Read more

Almost a meeting….

If anything demonstrates the totally dysfunctional nature of Israeli advocacy this incident proves it. Read more

The five mems…writes Asher Kozma

The latest UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) figure shows the number of refugees worldwide as 13 million. Read more

The former SS soldier who fell in love with a Jewish woman

Traumatised and nearly starved in the aftermath of WWII, former SS soldier Hans Post was brought back to life by two women. ABC Producer William Verity discovers Hans’ transformation and the love of his Jewish wife, Gina Behrens. Read more

Jewish day school supports marriage equality

Melbourne’s Bialik College has become the first Australian K-12 school to support marriage equality. Read more

Meet The Technion’s man in Australia

Ron Lazarovits heads The Technion Society in Australia, representing the oldest university in Israel, based in Haifa…he talks with The Shtick’s Henry Greener. A video presentation. Read more

A solemn moment at a joyous event

For a few moments, the dancing and music at the lighting of  a the giant Menorah in Sydney’s Martin Place turned to silence as heads bowed and silence dominated as families, and religious and political leaders stood in silence to remember Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson who died in the Lindt Café siege last year…close by to where the Menorah stands. Read more

Australian reporters report on their trip to Israel

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Silent no more

Billed as a night for reflection, understanding, healing and regret, Silent No More is Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre’s response towards the widespread child sexual abuse which has existed in the school system since the 1980s. Read more

Journalists’ report card

Journalists who participated in this year’s NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ annual Journalists Study Mission to Israel will report to the community at a public meeting in Sydney next week. Read more

World’s Jewish leaders send condolences to France

Top Jewish community professionals from 40 countries world-wide have met in Lisbon  for a two-day conference organized by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and sent a combined message of condolence to the France’s Prime Minister. Read more

A new burial ground consecrated

A Jewish section has been consecrated at the Moss Vale Cemetery in the Southern Highlands 130 kms south of Sydney offering the community the option lower plot costs. Read more

Rabin memorial in Double Bay

Nestling in the shade of an olive tree sits a memorial to the late Yitzhak Rabin….not in Israel but metres away from the hustle and bustle of Sydney’s busy Double Bay. Read more

Israeli colonel to visit

IDF Colonel Shaul Arieli will visit Australia for the first time this November. Read more

Racial vilification on the NSWJBD plenum agenda

NSW Attorney General Gabrielle Upton MP will discuss ’Racial vilification’ and the options for legislative reform when she addresses this month’s NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum.  Read more

New leadership for AUJS

Michael Fisher, a commerce/law student at Melbourne’s Monash University, and the AUJS National Treasurer in 2015, has been elected as National Chairperson for 2016. Read more

Gourmet Kosher restaurant – for one night only

Sydney’s InterContinental Sydney Double Bay has announced another of its popular pop-up kosher restaurants for the Jewish community. Read more

Julie Bishop responds to Danby

Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has called comments made by Federal Labor MP Michael Danby in a statement demanding a reversal of the Government’s Iran policy “juvenile”. Read more

Teenage leadership plan

The Zionist Federation of Australia has hired Ellie Golvan to implement the Diller Teen Fellowship in Australia. Read more

A special man, a special chumash

Wearing a yarmulke and holding a Chumash given to him by the late Sir Zelman Cowen, Josh Frydenberg was sworn in this morning as Australia’s Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia. Read more

Commemorating Yitzhak Rabin

The Melbourne Jewish community will gather next month to remember his life and legacy of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin z”l.  Read more

Inaugural Youth Parliament of World Religions

Over five hundred young people from across NSW gathered in Sydney last night for the inaugural ‘Youth Parliament of World Religions ’ with two  AUJS leaders, Elenore Levi and Avia Madar addressing the packed gathering. Read more

Another student starts proceedings

Melbourne’s The Age newspaper has reported that a second former student has commenced proceedings against the ultra-orthodox Adass Yisroel School following this week’s judgement awarding over $1 million to a former student who allegedly suffered sexual abuse. Read more

Australia plans tax treaty with Israel

The Australian Government has announced its intention to enter into tax treaty negotiations with Israel. Read more

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

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