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Friendship Bakery kneads a new home

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The Friendship Bakery will be leaving its home at the Mark Moran Vaucluse retirement village, but baker Ed Halmagyi...

Emanuel School brings generations together for Shabbat babka bake

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Emanuel School students have baked babkas alongside grandparents, relatives and family friends at an event celebrating Jewish tradition and...

Shabbat Chukat & Balak

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Alone There are two portions of the Torah that we, in the diaspora, will read this Shabbat. After the crisis initiated...

Light over darkness: Shabbat dinner to reclaim Bondi

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Waverley Council is inviting members of the public to register their interest by this Friday in attending a community...

Unity dinner brings faith communities together

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B’nai B’rith NSW will host “A Celebration of Unity” in Sydney next month, bringing together Jewish, Christian, multi-faith and...

Israeli chief rabbi urges leaders to back Trump’s Shabbat call

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Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi has urged the country’s leaders to support US President Donald Trump’s call for Jews to...

More than a meal: the Jewish Food Festival brings Sydney’s Jewish community together

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The Jewish Food Festival will return to Sydney this Sunday, 22 March 2026, bringing the community together for a...

Monday Morning Cooking Club is back with a book for the next generation

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The Monday Morning Cooking Club did not set out to build a publishing brand. It set out to save...

Shabbat Bo

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Mezuzah This week, we read about the Israelites' preparations to leave Egypt. “This month shall mark for you the beginning of...

Shabbat Miketz

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
More on Frailty The themes of human frailty continue. Last week, we read about Tamar and the way she dealt...

Shabbat Chayey Sarah

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Was Hagar Abandoned? Hagar was the maid servant that Sarai (later Sarah), the wife of Avraham, took as a surrogate...

JIFF launches with a deadly dinner party in “Bad Shabbos”

Movies Rob Klein -
The Jewish International Film Festival has opened with a lively farce in Bad Shabbos, a sharp, fast-paced comedy that...

Shabbat Eykev

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
CHOSEN It still amazes me how often I hear non -Jews claim that we Jews are so arrogant and exclusive...

Shabbat Behukotai: What am I worth?

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
As we reach the end of the book of Leviticus, we've run through a series of laws, ethical and...

Shabbat Bo: Lessons from the Exodus

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
There are two themes amongst the many in this week's Torah that stand out as being particularly relevant at...

Shabbat Vayakhel Pekudei: Repetition is Good

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
It is an interesting phenomenon that the major events of the Torah that play a crucial role in the...

Shabbat Ki Tisa: What does God look like?

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
The dominant theme of the Torah this Shabbat is the episode of the Golden Calf. Moses was up the...

Shabbat Vayigash: Negotiations

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Is there a set formula for negotiations? We see two examples in this week's reading from the Torah. It begins...

Respecting the Challah…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

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When we make the Friday night Kiddush the two Challot are covered. One of the reasons for this practice is about the treatment of the Challah.

Beach Shabbat

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A shabbat on the beach

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