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

Rob Klein — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:05:06 +0000

A Rainbow Seder held in Melbourne ahead of Pesach has drawn a strong response from attendees, with many describing the evening as both deeply Jewish and personally meaningful. More than 70 people gathered at Temple Beth Israel last Friday, March 27. The event was the first Seder organised by Jewmos, a Melbourne-based queer Jewish community […]

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

J-Wire News Service — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 02:21:37 +0000

This year, the Jewish People are fighting for our very survival. Thousands of our people have been displaced, injured and killed in our homeland. The war is not over and a state of emergency continues. Let all who are hungry come and eat כל דכפין ייתי ויכול, Kol dichfin yeitei v’yeichol This Pesach, instead of […]

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Idan Raichel hit song performed by 900 Emanuel voices

J-Wire News Service — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 06:41:44 +0000

Sydney’s Emanuel School has produced a special rendition of Idan Raichel’s hit song – Shevet Achim Ve’achayot, a Tribe of Brothers and Sisters. The whole-school recording, comprising over 900 voices of students from Pre-school to Year 12, parents, grandparents and staff, affirms our connection with the Jewish people, our tribe of brothers and sisters […]

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Chag Sameach from Anthony Albanese

J-Wire Newsdesk — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:01:19 +0000

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sends a Pesach message to the Australian Jewish community. Chag Pesach Sameach. The traditions and rituals of Passover have been a cherished part of Australia’s story for over two hundred years. Today, Jewish Australians will gather around the seder table to reflect on the enduring values that Passover brings to light: […]

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Shabbat Metzora – Shabbat HaGadol: Elijah

Jeremy Rosen — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:42:33 +0000

“Behold I will send you Elijah (Eliyahu) the prophet before the great awesome Day of God and he will reconcile fathers to children and children to fathers” (Malachi 3:24). This is part of the Haftarah for Shabbat HaGadol, the Shabbat before Pesach. It is just one of the many reasons we have for why we call it Shabbat HaGadol. And it sounds […]

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

Pesach Benson — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 07:43:57 +0000

Despite security tensions with Palestinians on the Temple Mount, “about half a million people” visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during the week-long holiday of Passover. “We conclude the holiday with great appreciation for the Israel Police and the security forces who worked day and night to protect the citizens of Israel and those visiting […]

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Police allow Jewish visitors ascend Temple Mount

Pesach Benson — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 08:09:25 +0000

Israeli police allowed Jewish visitors to enter the Temple Mount on Sunday morning after the conclusion of Muslim dawn prayers. Visitors entered the hilltop plaza in groups of around 20, escorted by police. For several nights, including Saturday night, Islamist Palestinians have barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque with a stockpile of stones and firecrackers. […]

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Freedom isn’t possible without a nation

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 04:55:37 +0000

It’s the most popular Jewish holiday of the year. Though the fastest-growing and perhaps soon to be the largest sector of American Jewry is the one demographers call “Jews of no religion,” Passover is still the one holiday that is widely observed. Surveys show that more of those who identify as Jewish—regardless of their belief […]

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Real freedom

Jeremy Rosen — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 04:46:32 +0000

America is obsessed with slavery and its ramifications and rightly so. But it is less concerned with the idea of freedom and what that means. Both these ideas, slavery and freedom are crucial to the significance of Pesach or Passover as it is more commonly known in English. They are two sides of one coin, […]

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A passover message from Anthony Albanese

J-Wire Newsdesk — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 22:35:27 +0000

It gives me great pleasure to offer you the greeting that has been a shining thread through the centuries: Chag Pesach Sameach. Passover is nothing less than part of our cultural bedrock. With its themes of suffering, salvation, liberation and redemption, the story of Moses leading the Jews out of slavery and their forty-year journey […]

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