Supermarket victims named

The names of the four Jews murdered during the siege of a kosher supermarket in Paris have been named…and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with one of the survivors. Read more

Dotcom blames ‘Jewish’ Hollywood

Kim Dotcom has angered the New Zealand Jewish community after lashing out on Twitter over the FBI’s new legal move against his estranged wife Mona. Read more

Life at La Trobe

Jessica Cornish tackled intense anti-Israel sentiment at Melbourne’s La Trobe University. Read more

Slovakian Jewish Renaissance

A cache of family memorabilia connected to a Sydney family discovered in the Slovakian town of Presov has brought back memories for Jana Vytrhlik a member of the Sydney Jewish Museum’s curatorial staff. Read more

Haredim and the State: A Possible Turning Point

Although election fever currently dominates the national agenda, we should also recognise that today the state is at a turning point in its evolving relationship with the Haredim – undoubtedly the most significant long-term challenge to Israeli society…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

An attic reveals its secret

A roof in need of repair in the Slovakian city of Presov has provided a Sydney family with memories of a precious past…a cache of photographs, documents and personal effects hidden by a rabbi before he was transported to his death in Auschwitz. Read more

Little left of Cuban Jewry’s rich past

The new U.S. policy of rapprochement with Cuba, which was accompanied by the celebrated release of imprisoned Jewish aid worker Alan Gross, probably will give Jews greater access to a Jewish community with which few are familiar. But visitors will find that the years have not been kind to once-thriving Cuban Jewry. Read more

Bialik students interview the ambassador

Australian Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma has visited the Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI) campus in Hod HaSharon to speak to students from Melbourne’s Bialik College Read more

Twelve Acts of Kindness

A new Batmitzvah program will change the face of the simcha. Read more

Holocaust survivors and the President

President Reuven Rivlin lit Chanukah candles at the President’s Residence, together with survivors of the Holocaust. Read more

Promotion for Josh

Melbourne Liberal MP Josh Frydenberg has been appointed Assistant Treasurer in the latest Federal cabinet shuffle. Read more

Downton Abbey’s Jewish links

It is the last word in Englishness, the soap opera to end all soap operas, everyone’s guilty pleasure. Read more

Moriah rates 6th independent school in NSW

Moriah principal says that the its students’ success in the HSC is the culmination of their own effort, diligence and perseverance, combined with many years of outstanding teaching, care and individual attention from their parents and staff at the College. Read more

Scopus Shines

2014 has been an outstanding year for Melbourne’s Year 12 Mount Scopus students. Read more

Calling all game-changers

B’nai B’rith Alfred Dreyfus Anti Defamation Unit and JNF Australia are calling for nominations for their annual National “Game Changers” Awards. Read more

Seasons of Peace

Over 100 people came together as religious leaders celebrated Chanukah and Christmas at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

A Canberra Chanukah

For the first time ever, a menorah was lit in the ACT Parliament this week to celebrate the eight-day festival of Chanukah. Read more

Can the Chanukah light vanquish global darkness?

Never have we needed Chanukah, the Festival of Light, more than during a week when global news events have plunged the world into deep darkness…writes Rabbi Chaim Ingram. Read more

Emanuel on the ascent

Sydney’s Emanuel School ranked 18^th in the State based on 2014 HSC top band results, is continuing its upward trajectory. Read more

Menorah in Martin Place

The Chanukah celebration organised in Sydney’s Martin Place , the scene of this week;s siege, was cancelled in respect to this who lost their lives…but the giant menorah has been erected and carries a message to all Australians. Read more

Life goes on…writes Emily Gian

It is usually around this time of year that I write a piece summing up the year in Israel, filled with highs and lows, the difficulties and the triumphs. Read more

Chanukah on air

Melbourne Jewish radio station J-AIR will broadcast Chanukah festivities directly from Glen Eira Park on Sunday. Read more

Is Israel’s system to blame?

Many commentators have placed the blame for the seeming leadership paralysis in Israel on “the system”. Read more

Martin Place Chanukah cancelled

For the first time in almost thirty years, a Menorah lighting ceremony in Sydney’s Martin Place planned for tonight will not take place. Read more

The Wick…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

One of the many lessons of the Chanukah lights can be derived from a law that the flames must burn through a wick. Read more

Dr Leibler I presume

Mark Leibler, the senior partner of Melbourne law firm of Arnold Bloch Leibler has been awarded the University of Melbourne’s highest honour, the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa, conferred  by the Deputy Chancellor, Ross McPherson. Read more

Claims Conference visits Jewish Care

Senior Policy Analyst for the Claims Conference in New York, Dr Madeleine Tress has visited Melbourne meeting with Holocaust survivors and key community members. Read more

International conference on violence and abuse

Board members of The Jewish Taskforce Against Family Violence, Inc represented Australia at the recent International Conference on “The Jewish Community Confronts Violence and Abuse” held in Jerusalem. Read more

The good oil

The traditional art of olive making has been taught to young primary school children as they learn more about Chanukah. Read more

Waks welcome call to commission

A public hearing will be held in Melbourne on February 2 to examine the response of Yeshivah Melbourne and Yeshiva Bondi to allegations of child sexual abuse. Read more

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