Victorian Community Report

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) AGM  heard Dr Helen Szoke, Commissioner of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission speak about Human Rights and John Searle reflect on the achievements of the JCCV in his current presidency and aims for the future. Read more

Krispy Kosher Menorah

Every Chanukah, Rabbi Mendel Kastel dreams up a new menorah…and this year he will light a Menorah made from doughnuts. Read more

Australian Ambassador to Israel hosts Barmitzvah Ceremony

The Australian Ambassador to Israel, Ms Andrea Faulkner hosted a unique Bar Mitzva celebration at her residence last night for five children of the Kefar Chabad’s Or Simcha boarding school. Read more

Feet across the sea

The Sydney Maccabi Futsal club is on the way to Wellington to compete in the inaugural New Zealand National Futsal League…and they want to meet members of New Zealand’s Jewish community. Read more

Chabad New Year

Thursday evening marks New Year for the Chabad movement and Sydney’s Young Adult Chabad is hosting a farbrengen to celebrate the occasion. Read more

BJE students learn Havdalah

Academy BJE JETS students at Sydney’s Clovelly Public School were recently involved in a special Havdalah program with South Head Synagogue. Read more

Melbourne’s Jewish Care CEO Joins Aged Care Industry Board in Call for Change

In a move which further cements Jewish Care as an industry leader advocating positive change in the aged care industry, Jewish Care’s CEO Bill Appleby has been appointed to the Board of Aged & Community Care Victoria (ACCV). Read more

Guess who’s not coming to dinner

A planned Shabbat dinner for twenty ended with unexpected guests for Rabbi Pinchas Feldman and his family…members of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs Fire Brigades. Read more

Second nomination for Goldberg

Dan Goldberg’s documentary “Football United” screened on Foxtel has won a second nomination for the well-known journalist. Read more

Lamm at the Helm

Dr Danny Lamm is the new president of the The Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Read more

Anti-Semitism: report to the community for 2009/10

Reports of harassment and verbal abuse of Jewish Australians on their way to and from synagogue reached a record high in the twelve month period ending  September 30, as the total reports of all types of antisemitic racist violence was at 5% above the twenty-year average, expert analyst of antisemitism Jeremy Jones reported today.

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Back in Business

David Dinte, the new  NSW President of the Friends of the Tel Aviv University plans to raise the organisation’s profile within the community. Read more

Maccabi Australia International Games Update

Maccabi NSW talks to MAIGS Australian Team Manager Ellana Aarons tells us everything we need to know about next month’s Games. Read more

Paypal blocks NZ Shechita fund account

Paypal has blocked payments to New Zealand’s Shechita Donation campaign as it is not a registered charity within the United States. Read more

Potential in the Pool

A Maccabiah Masters swimming star has launched an initiative to develop new swim stars. Read more

Don’t Be an Angel – Your Weekly Message from Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

There are different ways that parents praise their children when they are being really good. One compliment I often hear parents give is: “you are such an angel.”

We use this form of praise because in our minds we have an image of angels as perfect holy beings that never do anything wrong. However, while it is true that angels are very special beings, calling someone an angel is not such a compliment. Read more

Numbers not on

B’nai B’rith Australia has attacked the Government for its continuing use of numbers instead of names in addressing asylum seekers, including children, in Australia’s detention centre on Christmas Island. For three years, the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) has petitioned the Government to change this humiliating treatment, but the Government has refused.

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Raizel wins Senate Essay Prize

Raizel Gutnick, a year 12 student at Melbourne’s Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah College has won the prestigious Richard Baker Senate Essay prize. Read more

Producer takes Shakespeare to the people

Producer Oliver Burton has created Shakespeare in the Park whic will perform in and around Sydney  in The Hills District, the Blue Mountains and city’s Botanic Gardens. Read more

Lest we forget

The Victorian Association of Ex-Servicemen and Women remembers those who gave their lives for their country… Read more

Seeking Nelson Mandela

The South African Jewish Board of Deputies plans to publish a coffee table book highlighting Nelson Mandela’s Jewish associations…and wants to hear from South African Jews living in Australia and New Zealand with personal Mandela tales to tell. Read more

Top Maccabi award for Procel

Harry Procel has been awarded Life Membership of Maccabi Australia.
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King of the Quill

Any self-respecting journalist dreams of becoming a famous novelist. However, they rarely turn out to be the Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway or Martha Gelhorn of their time. Freed from the restrictions of a newspaper many journalists create boring door stoppers, evoking James Joyce’s “Ulysses” – not necessarily because of the power of their language but rather from their heaviness and length of their tome. Not so the Sydney Morning Herald’s columnist Mark Dapin in his first book of fiction “King Of The Cross”: He wrote 308 racy pages of quirky humour, innuendo and wry comments on life, love and licentiousness. Read more

Vote at Gary Smorgon House

As every vote counts in the upcoming Victorian State Election, a mobile voting station will be stationed for residents at Jewish Care’s Gary Smorgon House. Read more

JCCV and the battle against teenage alcohol abuse

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has called on parents to be firm and supportive if they are dealing with their children’s alcohol abuse issues. Read more

Israel on Show

Last year, over 800,000 Australians visited the Eastern Mediterranean…and Israel features at the Eastern Med Travel Bazaar in Sydney. Read more

Anti-Semitism rife in Victorian Universities

In response to increased reports of antisemitism on campus and intimidation of Jewish students, the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) invited Jewish students in Victoria to fill in a questionnaire about their on-campus experiences. 68%  of respondents reported experiencing or witnessing some form of antisemitism. Written material, such as posters and signs, were the most common form of antisemitism, followed by verbal attack and prejudice. Read more

Sea Change – across the Tasman

Moriah College in Wellington is looking for a new principal… Read more

Waks – Rappaport

November 22, 2010

Mazal Tov to Rivkah Waks (Melbourne) and Dovy Rapaport (London) on their upcoming marriage in Melbourne! We wish them many years of happiness.

Intermarriage on the rise – assimilation a strategic threat to Israel

In a new report tabled to the Knesset, between 25% and 35% of Australian Jews are intermarrying. Read more

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