Gus Lehrer solves a 75-yr-old mathematical question

The Australian Academy of Science has honoured University of Sydney academic Professor Gustav Lehrer from the School of Mathematics and Statistics who among other achievements solved a 75-yr-old mathematical problem.
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Victoria: a change at the top

Jennifer Huppert is the new president of The Jewish Community Council of Victoria taking over from Nina Bassat. Read more

Israel experience a game changer

The Zionist Council of Victoria and the Zionist Federation of Australia have hosted Prof Leonard Saxe and Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Social Policy at Bradeis University who spoke on the subject of how the Israel experience is a game changer for Jewish continuity. Read more

Melbourne’s Jewish Care holds AGM

Melbourne’s Jewish Care has listed its activities for its last operational year…including 124,000 hours of home and personal care. Read more

Ron Proser addresses the U.N.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations has made a significant speech to the international body. Read more

In the Senate – Har Nof

Western Australia Senator Joe Bullock has addressed the Senate in the Australian Federal parliament analysing the aftermath of the Kehilat Bnei Torah Synagogue massacre in Jerusalem. Read more

Focus on Adass

Mint Pictures, the documentary production company responsible for ABC-TV’s Walkley-nominated “Code of Silence” which focused on Melbourne’s Yeshivah community is now turning its lenses towards Adass. Read more

The Montefiore AGM – special announcement

Urgent communication from the Board of Management of the Montefiore Home Sydney. Read more

Commemoration the expulsion of Jews

From the middle of the 20th century Arab nationalism and Islamism began their continuing ascent resulting in the expulsion of 860,000 Jews from Arab lands…resulting this year in the establishment of a world day of remembrance. Read more

Thessalonike – a Greek city once known as Madre Yisrael

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ president Jeremy Spinak – recently attended a ball celebrating the the Greek city of Thessalonike. Read more

Melbourne’s Jewish centre promised an upgrade

As this weekend’s Victorian State election approaches, the Labor Party, currently in opposition, has promised a $500,000 grant to upgrade Melbourne’s Beith Weizmann Community Centre. Read more

Succession at the Monte

At the upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home, which will be held at the Hunters Hill campus on Sunday, 7 December 2014, the Home’s much respected and much admired Honorary Secretary, Max Kahn, will not be seeking re-election to the Board. Read more

An award for Nadine

The MUM FOR MUM program run by the  National Council of Jewish Women of Australia [NSW] has won the Wellbeing Award from the Sydney branch of the Australian Psychological Society. Read more

The Change Addict

I still recall a time when people kept things new and forever. Read more

My Old Lady – Five Double Passes

J-Wire has five double passes to give away for “My Old Lady” starring Maggie Smith and Kevin Kline. Read more

Four-year-old attacked in Auckland

A four-year-old boy wearing a yarmulke and tzitzit was hit on the head while walking home from school with his mother in Mt Eden, Auckland. Read more

The Chief Rabbi visits Moriah

After an overnight flight from Perth, the Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogues of the Commonwealth, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis went from Sydney airport directly to Moriah College in Queens Park to address high school students and to make presentations to the Jewish day school’s kindergarden class. Read more

Palestine – Continuing Jew-hatred Must Extract A Heavy Price

The slaughter of four Rabbis with axes, knives and guns whilst praying in a synagogue along with the serious wounding of six other Jews caught in this horrific blood bath – and the murder of a Druze police officer who went to their rescue – is the end result of endemic Jew-hatred…writes David Singer Read more

Thessaloniki mayor to visit Melbourne Holocaust centre

Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, the mayor of Thessaloniki in Greece, is set to visit Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust centre on Sunday, November 23. Read more

Don Pasquale…an opera review by Michelle Coleman

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, in the tradition of opera buffa, is a comic masterpiece that is brought to life with wit and charm in Opera Australia’s 2014 Spring season. Read more

Take Your Pick

The carnage this week in a synagogue in Jerusalem when Arab terrorists shot and hacked to death worshippers during morning prayers, elicited four responses from media and politicians alike…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Another U.N. scandal

The latest release of a documentary by the Israel Resource News Agency exposes the ongoing scandal of how UNRWA, the organization established to deal with Palestinian Arab refugees, continues to not only perpetuate the problem but is itself the prime culprit in helping to foster hate and incitement against the Jewish State. Read more

Miller appointed CEO of UIA [NSW]

Former NSW Board of Deputies president  Yair Miller has been appointed CEO of the NSW branch of the United Israel Appeal. Read more

Who’s blocking a two-state solution?

Does Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas want peace with Israel?…asks Lawrence Grossman/JNS.org Read more

The First Signs of Chanukah

It may a little early to break out the dreidels, but Chanukah candles were lit yesterday at NSW Parliament House. Read more

Overlooked Palestinian terror group returns with a vengeance

The older I get, the more my childhood memories fade, but I still vividly remember the morning of Sunday, July 4, 1976…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org Read more

Celebrating Israel and remembering the vote

The  National Council of Jewish Women of Australia NSW, Hamoadon HaIsraeli, The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Zionist Council of NSW and Betar will host the10^th Anniversary of NCJWA Celebrating Israel. Read more

NZ Candidate posts antisemitic image

Corie Haddock, the Labour Party candidate who stood against New Zealand Prime Minister John Key in the recent NZ election, has posted an antisemitic image on his Facebook page. Read more

Israel recognises Pole who saved Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto

The Israeli Embassy in Canberra has hosted a ceremony to honour the late Roman Talikowski, a Polish Catholic merchant who risked his life saving Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. Read more

Jerusalem Prize awarded to Philip Chester

Melbourne community icon Philip Chester has been awarded the prestigious Jerusalem Prize.

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