Chief Rabbi meets the Rabbinical Council of Victoria

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the 11th Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, has met with members of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria for a private discussion. Read more

Bronfman returns and brings Mahler with him

He saw him rehearse the Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra…now Fraser Beath McEwing reviews the concert itself. Read more

Israeli Holocaust survivors tour the Negev

Three hundred holocaust survivors from Amcha social clubs all over Israel got together for a day trip to KKL-JNF sites in southern Israel…funded by a family from Melbourne. Read more

Historical record of Bar and Batmitvahs

The unique and innovative B’nei Mitzvah initiative, run by Jewish Care in partnership with the Pratt Foundation, is appealing to all members of our community to send in their cherished bar/bat mitzvah photos. Read more

KA: The year in review

The Kashrut Authority has reported on its 2014 activities…and its plans for 2015. Read more

Mount Scopus bridges the gap

A small group of Mount Scopus College students have been volunteering to visit Emmy Monash Aged Care once a month as part of the Bridging the Gap Program. Read more

Building bridges

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies will undertake its annual bridge-building tour of regional New South Wales next week when it visits the Blue Mountains.  Read more

Wolper announces community grants

A new President and Life Governor were appointed and community grants announced at the Annual General Meeting of Sydney’s Wolper Jewish Hospital. Read more

Victoria: a change at the top

Jennifer Huppert is the new president of The Jewish Community Council of Victoria taking over from Nina Bassat. Read more

In the Senate – Har Nof

Western Australia Senator Joe Bullock has addressed the Senate in the Australian Federal parliament analysing the aftermath of the Kehilat Bnei Torah Synagogue massacre in Jerusalem. Read more

Seminar on Israeli communities abroad

A seminar on Israeli communities abroad has been held in the Knesset in Jerusalem.  Read more

Shabbat under the stars

Our Big Kitchen will once again hosting this year’s biggest Shabbat dinner under the stars on Sydney’s Tamarama Beach. Read more

Russian speaking Limmud Australia bound

An American Jewish astronaut who learned to speak Russian while training with cosmonauts walks into a lecture hall filled with Russian-American Jews. No, it’s not a priest-and-rabbi-style joke, but a real-life event that exemplifies the spirit of the Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) educational conferences. Read more

Beersheba remembered

At the annual ceremony commemorating the 1917 Battle of Beersheba, the city’s mayor referred to a proposed project with the Australian government to establish a permanent museum in the city. Read more

Schools join forces

Two Melbourne Jewish schools have joined forces to consolidate numbers for VCE courses attracting low numbers of candidates. Read more

JIFF – Up and Rolling

The Jewish International Film Festival has opened its 2014 event in Sydney marking 25 years of bringing Jewish movies to screens in Australia and New Zealand. Read more

The first Challah Bake – Perth kickstarts the world

All over the world, women will be baking challah for the world-wide Shabbat Project.  Perth has kicked off the project! Read more

New President for Mount Scopus

Current parent and Old Collegian, Amy Hershan has succeeded Lisa Kennett as the new president of Melbourne’s  Mount Scopus College. Read more

Hebrew University at work on the reef

An expedition from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Carnegie Institute of Science has measured a roughly 40% reduction in the rate of calcium carbonate deposited in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in the last 35 years — a scenario that could damage the reef framework and endanger the entire coral ecosystem. Read more

Soccer tragics kick a goal against epilepsy

A slew of soccer stars, ex-Socceroos and other football legends will join forces with communal identities in a unique celebrity ‘fun-raiser’ to aid Epilepsy Action Australia. It’s the Sydney Celebrity Football Charity Challenge. Read more

Alhadeff resigns from CRC

CEO of  The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Vic Alhadeff has resigned from his position as Chair of the NSW Community Relations Commission.

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Thank you, Australia

The JNF is continuing to offer children and families from the south a range of activities that provide a brief respite from the tense security situation. Watch the video… Read more

JNF Australia provides respite

Twenty families from Shlomit, a community situated near the border with the Gaza Strip, left for a weekend of peaceful activities in natural surroundings at KKL-JNF’s Field and Forest Center at Lavie, far from the terrors of the rocket fire they have been enduring. This respite weekend was made possible thanks to donations from KKL-JNF’s Friends in Australia. Read more

Melbourne community holds outdoor rally

Thousands of Melbourne’s Jewish community members braved the cold yesterday morning to show their solidarity with Israel. Read more

We ceased, they fired…writes Michael Kuttner

As soon as the so called ceasefire was announced anyone with even a smattering of common sense could have and indeed did predict that this farce would not last longer than a snowball in hell. Read more

Aussies told to evacuate from Gaza…immediately

The Australian Department  of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra has issued a directive to all Australians currently in Gaza to evacuate immediately with the Australian embassy in Tel Aviv on standby to arrane travel plans to Amman in Jordan. Read more

A message to the Diaspora

A message to the world’s Jewish community from Naftali Bennett, Israel’s Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs. Read more

Tzedek welcomes Maccabi statement

J-Wire has published Maccabi Australia’s updated policy on protecting children in their care from sexual abuse…Tzedek has welcomed the new strategy. Read more

Ambassador gives diabetic aid to Fiji

Ambassador Shmuel Ben-Shmuel, the non-resident Israel Ambassador to Fiji, visited the island nation where he presented his credentials to President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau. Read more

Taglit at Tiberias

160 young adult members of the Australian Jewish community have arrived in Tiberias at the start of an educational tour of Israel. Read more

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