Omer Shem Tov tells his story of faith, survival and unbreakable hope

UIA Australia will welcome Omer Shem Tov and his mother Shelly for a special visit to Sydney and Melbourne in November, where they will share their remarkable story of courage, faith and love that captured the hearts of the Jewish world. Read more

Over 40,000 send flowers for Shabbat to ‘COVID-19 heroes’ as part of Shabbat Project

Thousands of bouquets of flowers were delivered in time for this past Shabbat, including to Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, doctors, frontline healthcare workers, volunteer first responders, Lone Soldiers, elderly people who are isolated during the pandemic, and others. Read more

Annual Shabbat Project sees unprecedented participation in US, Israel and worldwide

The seventh annual international Shabbat Project reached 1,685 cities and 106 countries across the world this year, attracting record numbers of participants in many of those cities. Read more

A record-breaking Shabbat

Over 1 million Jews in over 1,500 cities around the world participated in the global celebration of Shabbat that is The Shabbat Project. Read more

Shabbat is trending! Get ready for the Shabbat Project 2019 in Sydney

Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Karli Kloss and Troye Sivan have all extolled the virtues of Shabbat as a chance to carve out time to disconnect. Read more

The Shabbat Project – redefining community

More than 2,500 members of Sydney’s Jewish community participated in the concluding event of the Shabbat Project…celebrating Havdallah at the conclusion of Sydney’s involvement in the wold-wide Shabbat Project. Read more

The first Challah Bake – Perth kickstarts the world

All over the world, women will be baking challah for the world-wide Shabbat Project.  Perth has kicked off the project! Read more