Mahler, Bruch, Ashkenazy and Zukerman serve up a rich cocktail

Two major works, two superb musicians and an orchestra playing at the top of its game made for an exciting and satisfying SSO concert, writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read more

Amaze in Taste has its Herchser

Rabbi David Rogut and Rabbi Pinchus Feldman will represent the rabbinical council under which caterer Amaze in Taste will offer Kosher catering to the NSW Jewish community. Read more

Ambassador meets the King of Tonga

Ambassador Yosef Livne of the State of Israel, recently presented his letter of credentials to the King of Tonga, His Majesty  ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho at Tonga’s Royal Palace. Read more

Victoria Community Awards

More than 250 people from across the Jewish community, and representing a wide range of affiliates of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) gathered on Remembrance Day 2013 for the JCCV Community Recognition Awards. Read more

Gatekeepers nominated

The Israeli film “The Gatekeepers” has been nominated for the 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Read more

Bondi Attack: Juveniles in court

Two 17-yr-old juvenile males currently being held in detention on charges relating to the alleged assault on a group of five Jewish members of the Sydney community have appeared by video link in the Bidura Children’s Court in Glebe. Read more

Scouts in Action

As part of Scouts in Action Week, as well as earning  part of their Caring and Sharing badgework, the 3^rd Rose Bay(Judean) Joey Scouts recently visited Our Big Kitchen to make challahs for their own families as well as families in need. Read more

Anti-Semitic Bondi Attack: Fourth man charged

A fourth person has been charged over an alleged attack on a group of five Jewish people walking home after Shabbat dinner with friends on the night of October 25.

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Community against watering down of the Racial Hatred Act

The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council and The Executive Council of Australian Jewry have both expressed dismay at Attorney-General George Brandis’s stated intentions of watering down the Federal Racial Hatred Act. Read more

BJE Project Heritage Program

In term 3, The Board of Jewish Education Yrs 5 and 6 students from selected Sydney schools participated in the Project Heritage program. Read more

Farewell Fanny Faye

It is an extraordinary achievement for a foreigner to tread the boards at the Comedie Francaise in Paris, the legendary heart of French theatrical tradition. Fanny Faye, a gifted actress and pianist, spent an exhilerating year in dramatic productions in that internationally renowned theatre, generally cast as aristocratic characters , reflecting her natural elegance and refinement, in roles such as the baroness in Un Chapeau de Paille D’Italie by Eugene Labiche. Read more

Learning disorder expert to visit Australia

Emanuel School’s Wolanski Family Specialist Learning Centre is delighted to host  ‘An evening with Barbara Arrowsmith Young’  Read more

New Israeli political identity to visit Sydney

Naftali Bennett, one of the new faces and rising stars of Israel’s recently elected government, will address a public meeting in Sydney next month. Read more

Royal Commission publishes new Australia-wide private session dates

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has published the dates and locations of the private sessions to be held throughout Australia for the remainder of 2013. Further dates will be published subsequently. Read more

The BDS movement and the opportunistic exploitation of self-denying Jews…writes Philip Mendes

Australian and other western Jews are just as divided as the Israelis themselves on potential solutions to the Middle East conflict. Read more

Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner addresses Kristallnacht commemoration

Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Tim Soutphommasane told a Kristallnach Commemoration: “The Holocaust didn’t begin with violence. It began with words. And it began with indifference.” Read more

Kristallnacht 75th Commemoration – Melbourne

The Jewish Holocaust Centre (JHC) and Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) have co-hosted a commemoration of the 75^th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Read more

Palestine – Kerry Destined for Political Scrapheap

US Secretary of State – John Kerry – has again succeeded in muddying the waters with the following headline-grabbing sentence uttered by him after meeting PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem this week: “Let me emphasise that the position of the United States is that we consider now, and have always considered, the settlements to be illegitimate”…writes David Singer. Read more

No Illusions Concerning the Obama Administration…writes Isi Leibler

Israel is heading for what could be its most severe confrontation with the United States, despite reassuring words from the Obama administration to the contrary. Read more

Liberals go easy on pets

Importation of pets from Israel into Australia will be easier in 2014 thanks to a 20 day reduction of the quarantine period announced by the Federal Government. Read more

The Individual and the Whole…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

The holiest Jewish object is the Sefer Torah – the Torah scroll. In this scroll there are six hundred thousand letters. For a Torah to be kosher every letter must be carefully written. Each letter is a critical part of the whole Torah. If one letter is missing the entire Torah scroll is invalid.   Read more

Red Carpet in Melbourne

In a night to rival Hollywood, over 500 guests strolled down the red carpet into Melbourne’s Classic Cinema’s foyer in Elsternwick to mark the opening of the Jewish International Film Festival. Read more

October: Anti-Israel activity in Australia

A report from The Executive Council of Australian Jewry reveals there has been a decline in anti-Israel protests in Australia. Read more

ZCV Report Card

The Zionist Council of Victoria, its affiliates and members of the community will hold their Annual Assembly and year in review later this month. Read more

Warm memories from a battlefield

Down to one tank and facing total defeat at the infamous Valley of Tears tank battle in the Valley of Tears during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, commander Avigdor Kahalani invoked an ancient Aramaic code to fool the Syrians into believing he had 41 tanks in the hope that his communications commander would understand he was down to one…both got the appropriate message and in Sydney last week Kahalani met the daughter of his communications commander for the first time. Read more

Sydney Theatre: Atomic

Swastikas on tram stops

The Mebourne-based  B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission in Melbourne has expressed its grave concern about a significant increase in antisemitic graffiti in the city and has deplored these disturbing acts of bigotry. Read more

Apples and Pears: Sydney Theatre

Hiding from the criminal mate he betrayed, lonely chess-mad Max hatches a winning plot to defeat his rival. Read more

Make the most of Mitzvah Day

On Sunday November 17, members of Australia’s Jewish communities will work together for a variety of worthy causes in celebration of Mitzvah Day. Read more

New Oral History website at the Hebrew University

Marking 75 years since the Kristallnacht attacks of November 9-10, 1938, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Oral History Division launched a new website where the public can search and access 900 previously unavailable Holocaust-related voice recordings and transcripts. Read more

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