Richard Kemp on zoom with AJA

Colonel Richard Kemp will be the featured guest on Australian Jewish Association’s last zoom for 2020. Read more

Ancient oil lamp workshops discovered in Israeli neighbourhood under construction

Excavations during the construction of a new neighbourhood in Ramat Beit Shemesh unearthed dozens of pottery oil lamps, two bearing the symbol of the Temple menorah. Read more

2020 Cohort graduates from UIA Philanthropy Fellowship

UIA NSW has concluded its inaugural Philanthropy Fellowship with the Australian Jewish Funders recently with an inspiring ‘Night of Giving’. Read more

Australia takes big step on road to Maccabiah 21 with team managers and coaches inductions

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Thousands celebrate Chanukah at the Zoo

Sydney community organisations Jewish House and JNF NSW united to host around 2,000 families and individuals at a family day out at Taronga Zoo. Read more

Observers say EU-funded review of Palestinian textbooks reeks of ‘incompetence, concealment’

In a ground-breaking move and in response to the lack of change in the Palestinian Authority school curriculum and the continued insertion of antisemitism, hate and incitement to violence and martyrdom in its textbooks, the Norwegian parliament endorsed a complete cut last week in aid to the P.A. Read more

Hasmonean-era oil lamp found in Jerusalem

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a candle-holder from the Hasmonean period in the City of David in Jerusalem. Read more

Israeli airlines plan daily flights to Morocco

Israeli airline El Al is planning to operate at least one daily flight to Morocco, Israeli business daily Globes reported on Friday. Read more

Morocco to become first Arab nation to teach Jewish history, culture in schools

Trailblazing change, Morocco on Sunday announced that its schools will soon begin teaching Jewish history and culture as part of the official curriculum—a first in the region and in the North African country, where Islam is the state religion. Read more

Boomerang menorah

Chabad North Queensland has lit up a giant boomerang menorah on the Cairns Esplanade. Read more

Chanukah thoughts

Rabbi Raymond Apple shares some Chanukah thoughts. Read more

What are you doing on Tuesday evening?

Tune in at 7.30pm tomorrow night for a free digital concert performed by AWO colleagues and two stellar visual artists. Read more

Building at M by Montefiore dedicated to Lionel Green

Family and friends of the late Lionel Green gathered to honour the memory of the staunch Montefiore supporter at a dedication of a building in his name at the new M by Montefiore development in Randwick this week. Read more

Israel says hi to Morocco, Bhutan, Dubai and goodbye to Ashrawi

Another momentous week has seen President Trump broker diplomatic relations between Israel and Morocco – whilst Bhutan and Israel established diplomatic ties and Israel’s first commercial flight to Dubai occurred. Read more

Morocco and Bhutan: The 4th and 5th countries to announce full relations with Israel in five months

Israel celebrated another two significant diplomatic achievements over the weekend when the Kingdoms of Morocco and Bhutan became the fourth and fifth countries to announce the full normalization of relations with the Jewish state in just five months, as more countries are expected to come. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Extending the light Read more

Shirley Lowy passes away

Lady Shirley Lowy passed away in Israel last Wednesday at the age of 86. Read more

A very special night in with Jewish House

Jewish House brought together more than 1,000 community members online with an evening of entertainment and insight. Read more

The Shamash and COVID-19

When reflecting upon the miracles of Hannukah, the logical decision should be that the menorah should have eight candles as the miracle lasted for eight days and we light one candle for each day of the miracle of the light. Read more

Rabbi Yaakov Glasman chats with Henry Greener

Rabbi Yaakov Glasman of the St Kilda Shule zooms in to tell us about the virtual events that he and so many other congregations and organisations created to keep the community connected over the time of COVID. Read more

On the other hand

This week it was announced that Israel will be returning to the moon. Read more

UN targets Israel in seven different resolutions

The U.N. General Assembly targeted Israel on Thursday with seven different resolutions. Read more

Beautiful spot, ugly message

The pop-up Sukkah on Melbourne’s Birrarung Marr has been defaced with the slogan, “Is this where they practised blood libel on kidnapped children.” Read more

Shuli does it again

Former Sydneysider Shuli Briggs will make history when she boards El Al’s inaugural commercial Israel-Dubai flight today with husband Ari and three of her five sons. Read more

Funds needed to combat prejudice

The multi-faith educational organisation Together For Humanity (TFH), has launched its inaugural Giving Together Day in a bid to raise funds to combat prejudice and increase interfaith and intercultural understanding in schools. Read more

Parliament ends and Chanukah starts

On the last sitting day of the Australian Parliament for 2020, Chabad ACT hosted the traditional “Chanukah on the Hill” ceremony in the Great Hall of Parliament House attended by Members of Parliament and Senators including  Government Ministers and Shadow Ministers. Read more

A conversation with Austen Tayshus

From Melbourne, Henry Greener interviews Austen Tayshus on Zoom in his home in Sydney, revealing the mature, intelligent man, reminiscing about some highlights of his brilliant career as a humorist, satirist, filmmaker and provocateur extraordinaire. Read more

Side effects known and unknown

“No action is without its side effects.”

This quote by the late Barry Commoner, an American cellular biologist, university professor and politician, succinctly sums up the situation we find ourselves in these days. Read more

Fourth candle for survivors

The President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)  Gideon Taylor has announced International Holocaust Survivors Night, to be held globally on Sunday, December 13. Read more

Benjamin Netanyahu lights the first candle

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara lit the first Chanukah candle – shown via Zoom – with the World Zionist Organization (WZO) and representatives of Diaspora Jewish communities. Read more

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