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Rainbow Seder in Melbourne offers queer Jews a place at the table

A Rainbow Seder held in Melbourne ahead of Pesach has drawn a strong response from attendees, with many describing...

UIA e-cards gives all the opportunity to celebrate Passover with dignity

This year, the Jewish People are fighting for our very survival. Thousands of our people have been displaced, injured...

Idan Raichel hit song performed by 900 Emanuel voices

Sydney's Emanuel School has produced a special rendition of Idan Raichel’s hit song – Shevet Achim Ve’achayot, a Tribe...

Chag Sameach from Anthony Albanese

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sends a Pesach message to the Australian Jewish community. Chag Pesach Sameach. The traditions and rituals of...

Shabbat Metzora – Shabbat HaGadol:  Elijah

“Behold I will send you Elijah (Eliyahu) the prophet before the great awesome Day of God and he will reconcile fathers to children and...

Half a million people visited Jerusalem’s Western Wall despite tensions

Despite security tensions with Palestinians on the Temple Mount, “about half a million people” visited the Western Wall in...

Police allow Jewish visitors ascend Temple Mount

Israeli police allowed Jewish visitors to enter the Temple Mount on Sunday morning after the conclusion of Muslim dawn...

Freedom isn’t possible without a nation

It’s the most popular Jewish holiday of the year. Though the fastest-growing and perhaps soon to be the largest...

Real freedom

America is obsessed with slavery and its ramifications and rightly so. But it is less concerned with the idea...

A passover message from Anthony Albanese

It gives me great pleasure to offer you the greeting that has been a shining thread through the centuries:...

Shabbat Metzora and Shabbat HaGadol: A Special Shabbat

The Shabbat before Pesach is called Shabbat HaGadol, the greatest or very important Shabbat. According to tradition, the Children of...

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ Pesach message

With Pesach approaching, I would like to send my very best wishes to the Victorian Jewish community.

The Seder

For some of us, every minute of the two Seder nights is an absolute delight. Even the preparation and the cleaning – the anticipation. There is no other occasion in the festive year quite like it.

Exploring the connection between Pesach and refugees

Young adults in their 20s and 30s joined the New Israel Fund Australia, Stand Up, Habonim Dror and Netzer youth movements to learn more about the refugee situation in Israel and Australia and its relevance to the festival of freedom, Pesach.

President’s Pesach

Israel's President Reuven Rivlin has been preparing for Peach...with the help of his grandson.

Ask the Rabbi about Pesach

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes about the ten plagues, chametz and the invisible Seder guest...

Breaking the 18-minute rule…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

In just over a week we will celebrate Passover, which begins with the Pesach Seder. One of the important Mitzvot of the Seder is the eating of Shmura Matzah.

Pesach recipes: a link to the past

Does memory have a taste? Anyone who has tried to replicate their favourite family dishes without a recipe will tell you it does.

How Pesach’s four cups of red wine can save your life

Research, released by researchers from the University of Leeds, UK, reports that resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine, may halt Alzheimer’s disease progression.