Kristallnacht remembered

A packed auditorium in Sydney’s Jewish Museum commemorated the day in 1938 when Nazi Germany burned synagogues and books ahead of the most tragic period in Jewish history. Read more

Another election but within the NSW Jewish community

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I am My Brother’s Keeper

An exhibition is to be launched at Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre honouring Australian immigrants who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Read more

Cooking for mental health

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NAJEX Youth Leadership Awards

NSW Association of Jewish Service & Ex-Service Men & Women (NAJEX) has announced that at its communal Remembrance Day Commemoration and Wreath Laying on Sunday 5 November, it will inaugurate the NAJEX Youth Leadership Awards. Read more

Catch Tuvia Tenenbom at UIA Events  

United Israel Appeal will host Tuvia Tenenbom, best- selling author of ‘Catch the Jew’ at events in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane in November. Read more

Deepavali Festival in Sydney

The Jewish community represented at a Deepavali festival at Parramatta Park in Sydney. Read more

Sydney CBDChabad to launch mental health event

Mental illness now affects one in five Australians, meaning over a million people suffer from a form of mental health issue, most commonly depression and anxiety.  Read more

Sydney Eastern Suburbs local recognised for 50 years service as a JP

Member for Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton has presented five of the state’s longest serving Justices of the Peace (JP), Thomas Goldman, Emeritus Professor Leslie Koder, Paul Lowinger, Ivan Hincks and Kenneth Wolf with a certificate recognising their 50 years of service. Read more

Top Israeli singer Noa to visit Australia

Iconic​ ​Israeli​ ​singer​ ​Noa will​ ​be​ ​making​ ​her​ ​Australian​ ​debut this​ ​November in​ ​both​ ​Melbourne​ ​and​ ​Sydney ​courtesy​ ​of Temple​ ​Beth​ ​Israel​ ​(TBI)​ ​and​ ​the​ ​New​ ​Israel​ ​Fund​ ​(NIF). Read more

Merav Michaeli at the NCJWA

Did you attend the Habonim Dror at the NCJWA in Sydney featuring Israeli political Merav Michaeli? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more

Never to be forgotten

Every year close to Rosh Hashanah, the Sydney Jewish Museum conducts a Memorial Service called ‘The Sanctum Reading of the Names’.
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Making friends

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has held its third Jewish-African Friendship Dinner. Read more

Israeli human rights activist lawyer speaks in Melbourne

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, named one of the 50 most influential Jews by’ The Jerusalem Post’ in 2014, has spoken at Melbourne Chabad CBD. Read more

New eruv for Sydney

A new eruv has been completed linking Sydney’s Maroubra community with the existing eruv serving the Eastern Suburbs in the Bondi region. Read more

Worldwide Sukkah Directory enters 24th year of operation

The directory has been designed for Jews to locate a Sukkah near to them, so that they can go there to eat. Read more

Building Bridges through Interfaith at Scopus

As part of the ‘Building Bridges through Interfaith Dialogue’ program, Melbourne’s Mount Scopus College hosted 114 students from several different faith schools.

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Melbourne Beth Din to reviews its procedures

The Melbourne Beth Din Board has commenced a Strategic Review establishing a Steering Committee, with representation from the Rabbinic Council of Victoria, the Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Victoria and other members of the Jewish Community to oversee a review of its practices and procedures. Read more

Multicultural tour of Jewish Sydney

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ inaugural Bus Tour of Jewish Sydney gave a historic, demographic and geographic overview of the community. Read more

Kangarusski leadership conference

Kangarusski has held its inaugural Australian leadership convention for the Russian Speaking Jewish Community. Read more

Get paid to learn Judaism

An American philanthropist in America is generously donating funds to help university students connect with Judaism giving a $350 stipend to any student that completes a tailor-made eight session course on the fundamentals of Judaism. Read more

They risked their lives

The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Sydney, the Australian Society of Polish Jews and their Descendants and the Society of Polish Culture in Victoria have hosted an exhibition entitled “They risked their lives- Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust”, Read more

Australian neo-Nazis plaster posters at Melbourne schools

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has strongly condemned the vile racist and antisemitic posters plastered across two of Melbourne’s leading schools. Read more

Bina – Rabbi Gourarie tells its story

Bina is approaching its 20th anniversary in Sydney…a video from Rabbi Michoel Gourarie. Read more

iMatch – J-Wire Photo Gallery

CBDChabad Sydney hosted an evening of elegance and sophisitication for young Jewish adults in our community. Read more

Did you attend the Marriage Equality discussion at the NCJWA NSW – a J-Wire photo gallery

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Israel – Home only for some Jews?

The Alfred Dreyfus Unit of B’nai B’rith New South Wales in conjunction with the Australasian Union of Jewish Students will run its ‘In Conversation’ forum – ‘Israel – Home only for some Jews ?’ later this month. Read more

Sydney-born U.S. cantor to visit Emanuel

Cantor George Mordecai will visit Sydney in August and will participate in a range of events and services at Emanuel Synagogue.  Read more

Ambassador Dave Sharma to speak to the community

Former Ambassador to Israel David Sharma will give his first formal address to the community since the completion of his term at the combined NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum and AGM in Sydney this month. Read more

Judaism welcomes LGBTI Jews

Rachael Kohn talks to two rabbis, one orthodox and the other progressive, on how Judaism welcomes members of the LGBTI community. Read more

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