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

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

$1m awarded to sex abuse victim

A woman alleged to have been sexually abused by the principal of a Jewish day school in Melbourne has been awarded $1 million in damages. Read more

AFL kicks community goals

Residents of The Manders Villas, Melbourne’s Jewish Care’s independent living units for people with disability, experienced a day at the football courtesy of the AFL and the Collingwood Football Club. Read more

A belated happy birthday

Israel’s 67th birthday has been belatedly celebrated in Melbourne at an event sponsored by the State Government of Victoria. Read more

A miraculous match

A Melbourne leukaemia patient has met the  Sydney donor whose stem cells have saved his life…and both men were originally from South Africa. Read more

A Bissel of Songs

Melbourne’s Jewish Care asked residents to sing their favourite songs, in any language. What they heard was a wonderful collection of tunes in Yiddish, Russian and Hebrew. Read more

B’nai B’rith Victoria turns seventy

In a turbulent, ever-changing world, for an organisation to survive seventy years and still be strong and vibrant is an impressive achievement. Read more

A place to eulogise

The Metaher House at Melbourne’s Springvale Cemetery has been restored giving mourners a place to hear eulogies immediately prior to the burial of loved ones. Read more

The Swiss Schindler

The incredible story of Swiss diplomat, Carl Lutz, who saved tens of thousands of persecuted Hungarian Jews from death during the Holocaust, will be screened in Australia for the first time this month. Read more

Henry Greener talks with David Southwick

David Southwick MP, State Member for Caulfield, talks to The Shtick’s Henry Greener about Medical Cannabis, Marriage Equality and other issues of interest…a video interview. Read more

A special work experience

A graduate from Melbourne’s Bialik  has spoken about the “incredible work experience” he had in Israel on a project which will impact on the future. Read more

Henry Greener interviews Gary Peer

Melbourne real estate icon Gary Peer is interviewed by the Shtick’s Henry Greener about his background, success and expansion as the housing market bubble inflates to breaking point…!!!? A video presentation. Read more

94-yr-old Melbourne woman honoured by Holocaust Centre

Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre has held a special function to honour Dutch-born Melbourne resident Constance Koster, who saved the lives of Jewish children during the Second World War. Read more

Maccabeats return to Melbourne

The popular Maccabeats, an a Capella group from Yeshivah University in New York, will return to Melbourne next month for their “return down under” concert. Read more

Andrew Blode appreciated

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria President Jennifer Huppert has presented Andrew Blode with a Certificate of Appreciation from the JCCV for his support, passion and leadership as Chair of the JCCV Child Protection Reference Group. Read more

Beth Weizmann’s security to be upgraded

The Victorian government has awarded a grant of $500,000 towards a security upgrade for Beth Weizmann, Melbourne’s central community facility. Read more

New president for Kadimah

The Kadimah, Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library, has elected its second female President in its 104 years’ history. Read more

Danby supports arrest and extradition

Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has told Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper that an Israeli woman should face charges of child sex abuse whilst employed in Melbourne if allegations of her doing so were true. Read more

Vibrant Balaclava

The Shtick’s Henry Greener was out and about at the recent Vibrant Balaclava Festival in Melbourne. Read more

Interview: Margarita Yerusalimsky

The Shtick’s Henry Greener interviews poet and personal injury lawyer Margarita Yerusalimsky…a video interview. Read more

A community centre for Melbourne

The members of the Caulfield Hebrew Congregation have formally endorsed the master plan for a Jewish community centre in the heart of Caulfield. Read more

Video Interview: Arnold Zable Part Two…in conversation with the Shtick’s Henry Greener

Melbourne author Arnold Zable tells us more about his shtick, being involved with Yiddish Theatre at Kadimah, post-war Jewish refugees, working with asylum seekers, his travels in Cambodia for Pen International and policy issues relating to off shore processing. Read more

Stand Up CEO selected for international leadership program

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JCCV disclaims Reclaim Australia

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) condemns the Reclaim Australia rallies advocating and inciting religious intolerance which took place over the weekend. Read more

The Buchenwald Ball released on line

To commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, the makers of The Buchenwald Ball is being re-released on demand with all proceeds from downloads going towards a new documentary about Holocaust survivor…set in Melbourne’s Holocaust Museum. Read more

Melbourne’s UIA Gala Dinner

550 donors recently filled Melbourne’s Grand Hyatt Savoy Ballroom to capacity for the UIA Gala Dinner featuring international guest speakers Colonel Richard Kemp and Lieutenant Colonel Chezy Deutsch. Read more

Melbourne YoungUIA events

Over the UIA Victoria campaign period, YoungUIA held a couple of successful events. Read more

Special helping hands

Josh Ferenbach and Ruthie Ben-Danan from Access Inc, recently worked in the Australian Friends of the Hebrew University-Vic office assisting with a bulk mail-out. Read more

JNF Victoria has shared presidency

Michael Carp will become Co-President of JNF Victoria together with Simone Szalmuk-Singer, the current Victorian President. Read more

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