25th anniversary of Clean-up Australia Day

In 2014 more than 572,406 volunteers including members of the Jewish community. removed an estimated 15,708 tonnes of rubbish from 7,140 sites across Australia,  Read more

Israeli university offering conflict resolution courses in English

Bar-Ilan University is to  launch Israel’s first academic international summer certificate program, taught entirely in English, in the field of conflict resolution.  Read more

Kiwi educators at Yad Vashem

A group of twenty New Zealand high school teachers and educators have been attending a course on Holocaust studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more

Australia Day Awards 2015

As normally happens, we missed someone in our Australia Day Honours List – Marcia Hatfield of Sydney received an OAM and has been added top the republished list. Mazel Tov and our apologies Marcia. Read more

Here we go again!…writes Michael Kuttner

The year has launched off with a flying start of outrageous terror, political hypocrisy and ramped up rhetoric. Read more

B’nai B’rith in the running for Glen Eira award

B’nai B’rith Victoria has been selected as one of two finalists in the Glen Eira Community Group of the Year Award 2015.  Read more

Effective Relationship Program

The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Victorian Section is offering a nine session program to support single Jewish women improve their intimate relationships. Read more

Holocaust anniversary acknowledged by Aboriginal community

The Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney’s Redfern has acknowledged the 70^th anniversary of the liberation of Jews from the Auschwitz death camp. Read more

Maccabi meets Montefiore

Participants in Maccabi’s Junior Carnival from across Australia converged at Jewish Care recently to participate in Maccabi-Jewish Care Community Day. Read more

The Holocaust remembered in New Zealand’s capital.

Due to the significance of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the commemoration of United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day was more extensive in New Zealand this year. Read more

Rabbis respond to Fairfax quotes

The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia (ORA) is deeply concerned about comments attributed to criminal lawyer Alex Lewenberg which have appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. Read more

Josh Frydenberg at Auschwitz

Among the world dignitaries attending the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was Australian Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Read more

Rabbis meet the Prime Minister

Tthe first ever delegation from Australia’s peak and preeminent Jewish religious leadership body – ORA – The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, has met with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra. Read more

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, victims and leaders mark 70 years since Auschwitz liberation

More than 300 Holocaust survivors along with world leaders gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Tuesday to commemorate the 1.1 million people killed there, as well as the millions of other victims killed during the Holocaust, as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more

Never Again?…writes Emily Gian

All four of my grandparents were Holocaust survivors. I heard snippets of their stories my whole life but it was always difficult for me to truly imagine how it all began, how it continued, and how it became the greatest human tragedy of all time. Read more

Those left standing

Around 160 Holocaust survivors accompanied by family, friends and carers commemorated 70 years of survival…when survivors were asked to stand only about 80 made their presence felt. Read more

My mother and other catastrophes

An all-star cast features in a new Australian black comedy about four generations of formidable Jewish women. Read more

Israel releases world antisemitism report

2014 marked a distinct shift in the level of antisemitism around the world, and especially in Europe according to the annual report on Anti-Semitism presented to the Israeli cabinet today by the Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, Naftali Bennett. Read more

An Australia Day story – friendship triumphs over hate

Each January 26, Czechoslovakian-born Holocaust survivors Eva Grinston and Ibi Wertheim have celebrated Australia Day as their national holiday and also as an anniversary with deep personal significance. Read more

This was no ordinary tour – UIA Australia in Israel

Miriam Lewin reports on a recent UIA study mission to Israel…
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Museum to Host Holocaust Remembrance Day

For the second year Auckland will  host the United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more

Turkey, terror, and tirades: what the Paris attacks reveal about Erdogan’s regime

On Monday, the European Union (EU) announced it is partnering on counter-terrorism projects with Middle East countries—including Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, and the Gulf states—in the wake of the Islamist terror attacks in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket. But is Turkey a suitable partner for that initiative? Read more

Melbourne JNF supporters tour the Negev

JNF supporters from Melbourne have toured the Negev and Gaza Border. Read more

Je suis parce que je pense…writes Rabbi Chaim Ingram

Jewish communities are still reeling from the events of eight days ago at Hyper-Cachere in Paris. Read more

On the beach

Following the success of previous Tamarama beach Shabbat experiences, Our Big Kitchen will again host this year’s biggest Shabbat dinner under the stars.  Read more

Deb Filler in Melbourne

Hilarious Antipodean comedienne and actress Deb Filler returns to Australia with her latest sparkling tour-de-force: I LOST IT IN KIEV – in two shows only on Saturday 28 February at Melbourne’s Theatre Works playhouse in St Kilda. Read more

Sydney Morning Herald cartoon breached Press Council’s Standards of Practice

The Press Council has deemed a controversial cartoon published in the Sydney Morning Herald in July last year during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza to have “emphasised religious persuasion rather than Israeli nationality” and had breached the Council’s Standards of Practice. Read more

‘This is your land,’ Netanyahu tells Birthright participants

The Taglit-Birthright Israel program has celebrated 15 years of bringing young Jews (ages 18-26) on free 10-day trips to Israel on Wednesday evening in Jerusalem. Read more

Supermarket victims buried in Jerusalem

The four slain victims of last week’s kosher supermarket siege in Paris have been buried in Jerusalem…and President Rivlin declared “Jewish blood is not worthless”. Read more

Canberra and Paris

A memorial ceremony has been held outside the French Cultural Centre, the “Alliance Francaise”, in Australia’s Capital city Canberra  to pay tribute to those killed and injured in the recent terror attacks in Paris. Read more

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