Sep-16 Sydney: Live at Yours – James Morrison Quartet

July 19, 2024 by  

Live at Yours are switching venues from The Great Synagogue to the City Recital Hall for a pop-up concert featuring James Morrison. Read more

Jul-21 Sydney: Women of Worth 2024

July 12, 2024 by  

Sydney’s The Great Synagogue: It’s about women. For women. By Women. Read more

Jul-17 12:30pm SBS-Viceland: Marry me, Marry My Family

July 12, 2024 by  

Iranian Australian Pariya has found her perfect match in Macedonian migrant, Viktor. Read more

Jul-18 3:40pm SBS-World Movies: Menashe (in Yiddish)

July 12, 2024 by  

Performed entirely in Yiddish, a language not used in cinema for many decades, MENASHE follows a kind, hapless grocery store clerk as he struggles to make ends meet and responsibly parent his young son, Rieven. Read more

Aug-8 Sydney: JNF Business Forum

July 12, 2024 by  

Enjoy breakfast listening to David Shein. Read more

Aug-4 Sydney: JNF Mezuzahs and Mimosas

July 12, 2024 by  

A women’s event to raise funds to help traumatised Israeli children. Read more

In heated interview, Roger Waters denies Hamas rapes

July 4, 2024 by  

Roger Waters has ignited a firestorm of controversy for denying that Hamas terrorists raped Israeli women during their brutal onslaught on Oct. 7, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Read more

Payman laments ‘injustice’ as she slams door on Labor

July 4, 2024 by  

A teary Fatima Payman has vowed to work through death threats and anger from Labor colleagues to push for Palestinian rights after she quit the party. Read more

War with Hezbollah? Don’t bank on Australian support

July 4, 2024 by  

The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council has voiced its concern that news reports claim that Israel’s ambassador to Australia was advised by the Australian deputy foreign minister that there would be no support if a war breaks out with Hezbollah. Read more

A chance to hear Josh Frydenberg

July 2, 2024 by  

Former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s documentary on Sky, “Never Again,” was watched across Australia. Read more

A chance to hear Josh Frydenberg

July 2, 2024 by  

Former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s documentary on Sky, “Never Again,” was watched across Australia. Read more

AIJAC calls for nullification of Sydney University’s agreement with protestors

June 25, 2024 by  

AIJAC has railed against the agreement made between Sydney University and pro-Pastelinian protesters. Read more

Netanyahu: No compromise on total victory over Hamas

June 25, 2024 by  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night reiterated his commitment to total victory in the ongoing war against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip. Read more

Seinfeld roasts anti-Israel heckler at Sydney comedy show

June 18, 2024 by  

A Sydney audience on Sunday cheered comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s response to a heckler who interrupted his stand-up show with shouts of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Read more

Shavuot greetings from Peter Dutton

June 11, 2024 by  

On behalf of the Coalition, I extend my warmest wishes to our more than 100,000 strong Australian Jewish community as you observe Shavuot.   Read more

Federal minister joins Middle East crisis talks on Gaza

June 10, 2024 by  

Australia will join Middle East emergency talks over the deteriorating situation in Gaza after hundreds of Palestinians were reportedly killed in an Israeli rescue mission. Read more

The Evolution of Shavuot

June 7, 2024 by  

Shavuot, more than any other festival, illustrates the ongoing way in which a Biblical festival and, indeed, many Biblical laws have evolved in unusual, unpredictable ways. It reinforces the reality (much disputed) that Jewish Law and custom are constantly renewing, evolving and changing. Read more

ilana dayan

June 5, 2024 by  

Stories of heroism and healing related to the events of October 7 and its aftermath moved the packed audience at the Bar-Ilan University 2024 Honorary Doctorate Conferment Ceremony. Read more

Jun-28 9:55am SBS-World Movies: Fill the Void

June 4, 2024 by  

Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv and is about to be married off to a promising young man. Read more

Jun-23 9:30pm SBS-Viceland: WWE Legends – Goldberg

June 4, 2024 by  

How did a nice Jewish boy from Oklahoma become an unstoppable WWE Superstar, earning an unprecedented record of 173-0? Read more

Coalition will cancel anti-semitic overseas students’ visas

May 28, 2024 by  

A Coalition Government will use provisions of the Migration Act to cancel the visas of any student protestors found to be involved in spreading anti-Semitism or supporting terrorism. Read more

Melbourne community in shock over Mount Scopus daubing

May 26, 2024 by  

The president of The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has spoken out on the daubing of “Jew Die” on the perimeter wall of Mount Scopus College. Read more

Jun-15 5:35pm SBS-TV: Cheating Hitler – Surviving The Holocaust

May 22, 2024 by  

Three Canadian Holocaust survivors journey to hometowns, killing sites, archives and hiding places in search of clues to unanswered questions from their pasts. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

May 7, 2024 by  

Moritz Gotthelf – Prominent Commercial Businessman and Community Stalwart Read more

PM ‘concerned’ by social cohesion after uni protests

May 6, 2024 by  

Anthony Albanese is concerned about rising tensions on university campuses as student protesters clash over war in the Middle East and the foreign minister warns Israel against another ground invasion in Gaza.
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Cairo talks continue but hopes for Gaza ceasefire slim

May 5, 2024 by  

Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appear slim as Hamas reiterates its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly rules that out. Read more

Two more Israeli Oct 7 victims declared dead

May 5, 2024 by  

Two more Israeli victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre were declared dead late last week—Elyakim Libman, 23, a security guard at the Nova dance music festival presumed to have been taken hostage but whose body was found in Israeli territory, and Dror Or, 49, who was kidnapped to Gaza from Kibbutz Be’eri. Read more

Holocaust Day

May 3, 2024 by  

Next Monday, we will observe our Yom HaShoah. We may hear the cliché “ Never again” and realize it means nothing to the majority of people in the so-called civilized world. Read more

Jerusalem awaiting Hamas’s response to hostage-deal proposal

May 2, 2024 by  

Jerusalem was still waiting on Thursday morning for a response from Hamas to the latest hostage-deal proposal, which U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday features “very important compromises” by Israel. Read more

May-16 4:55pm SBS-World Movies: The Scarlet and The Black

May 1, 2024 by  

Based on the humanitarian works of Irish-born Vatican priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who saved thousands of escaped prisoners of war, Jews and Italian Resistance families in occupied Rome during the World War Two, by hiding them in the church. Read more

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