$10,000 available for filmmakers through JIFF

The Jewish International Film Festival has a grant pool of $10,000 is available for the production of two short films incorporating a Jewish theme, character or story arc. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Myer Blashki – internationally acclaimed artist

Myer was born on 10 January 1871 in Carlton, Victoria and was the eleventh child of Philip, a jeweller, and his wife Hannah.   Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: The First Jewish Governor-General of Australia – Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG 

Isaac was born on 6 August 1855 in Melbourne, the son of Alfred and Rebecca. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Frances Barkman – a most selfless teacher and Jewish welfare worker

Frances was born in in Kyev Russia in March 1885.  Her father was a teacher of Hebrew. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Maximilian Hirsch – a leading light in the colony’s free-trade movement 

Max was born in Cologne in the German state of Prussia on 21 September 1852.   Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Nitsana’s David taking on the social media Goliaths

Maurice Klein speaks with Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Israeli attorney, human rights activist, and the founder of Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Centre, about the fight against terror and incitement of hatred on social media. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Moses Morris Moss – wine and liquor business identity and model citizen

Moses was born in 1819 in London and arrived in Australia in 1840, setting up home in Launceston, where he opened a business as a general merchant. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Sock boy Benjy Orwin Podcast

Maurice Klein speaks with Benjy Orwin, who at eight years old, decided he wanted to make a difference and help people in need. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joseph Jacobs – folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer

Joseph, the sixth surviving son of John and Sarah Jacobs, was born on 29 August 1854 in Sydney.  His father was a publican who had emigrated from London in 1837. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Senator Simon Birmingham

Maurice Klein speaks with Senator Simon Birmingham, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, discussing Australia’s Labor Government’s decision to reverse the previous Coalition Government’s recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, along with a number of negative anti-Israel voting backflips at the United Nations.  CAN ISRAEL TRUST THE ALBANESE GOVERNMENT? Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Rosa Smith  – her mission in life was only to help others

Rosa Smith was born Rosa Henriques in Port Maria, Jamaica, in 1853. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Dr Rick Hodes – caring for the sickest children in Ethiopia

Morry Frenkel speaks with Dr Rick Hodes, medical director of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC or The Joint), about his more than 30 years in Ethiopia caring for the sickest children in one of the world’s poorest countries. PODCAST Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: Lilian Leah Kloot – an inspirational community woman

Lilian, known as Leah, was born in England in 1886 to Spielman Solom Kloot and Rosetta Woolf Kloot. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Emanuel Phillips Fox – impressionist painter and teacher

Emanuel was born on 12 March 1865 at Fitzroy, Melbourne, the seventh child of Alexander Fox, a Jewish photographer from London, and his Sydney-born wife Rosette, née Phillips. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Constance Ellis – the first woman medical graduate in Victoria

Constance was born to Jewish parents on 2 November 1872 in Carlton, Melbourne. Read more

L’Chaim – To Life: Social media platforms’ hate speech prevention policy

Morry Frenkel speaks with Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) and a cyber security expert, about the recent Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Antisemitism meeting that he attended in Washington DC. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: Louis Pulver –  Heaven-born instructor of youth

Louis was the son of Isaac and Rosetta, who met and married in London in 1840. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Known as Australia’s first “muckraker’’

Maurice was born in Marggrabowa East Prussia (Poland) to Israel and Bella Brodzky on 25 November 1847. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Peter Wertheim

Maurice Klein talks with Peter Wertheim, Co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), about the recent National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) virulently anti-Israel, anti-Semitic resolution, along with the Albanese Labor Government, not recognising West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  PODCAST Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Rabbi Dr David Hailperin – A Colourful Tale

Among the many colourful Jewish figures to appear in the annals of Australia’s early history, David Hailperin remains unique. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Josh Burns MP – Education is the way to “never forget” and “never again”

Morry Frenkel speaks with Josh Burns, Labor’s Federal Member of Parliament for the seat of Macnamara, about the motion he introduced calling for all states and territories to follow the lead of Victoria and NSW, and make Holocaust education a mandatory aspect of their school curriculum. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Eddie “Mr Jewish Movies” and Lindy Tamir – Previewing JIFF 2022 – 2.0

Podcast: With the Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF 2022 – 2.0) hitting the big screens around Australia on October 24th, Maurice Klein catches up with JIFF Executive Director Lindy Tamir and JIFF Artistic Director Eddie Tamir, for a comprehensive Festival rundown, with 52 movies, documentaries, TV shows and short films from Israel and twenty countries. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joseph Hyams and Simon Lear – ‘’my son the dentist’’

As Jews, we are generally concerned about our health.  Jewish law tells us that we have a religious duty to look after our physical and mental well-being.  The medical and dental professions have always been popular amongst Jews worldwide. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Yom Kippur 1839 – Hobart Tasmania

The following is an extract from the article “The Jews” published in Hobart in 1839. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Prof Sharon Lewin – Leading the AUSiMED delegation to Israel to discuss each country’s COVID-19 response

Morry Frenkel speaks with Prof Sharon Lewin, inaugural Director of the Peter Doherty Institute, co-chair of the COVID19 Health and Research Advisory Council and member of the AUSiMED Board, about the recent AUSiMED delegation she led to Israel. Read more

NSW Shooters Party leader’s father interned in concentration camps

In 2013, NSW Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party leader Robert Borsak MP shocked participants on a NSW Jewish Board of Deputies-supported trip to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem when he told fellow parliamentarians that his late-father Czeslaw “Chester” Borsak was interned in Majdanek and Buchenwald concentration camps. Read more

Rosh Hashanah and two rabbis

Rabbi Moshe Kahn talks to podcaster L’Chaim – To Life, and Kew Hebrew Congregation’s Rabbi Shmueli Feldman takes to YouTube, both with messages for Rosh Hashanah. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: George Barron Goodman – the colony’s first professional photographer

George was born on 10 April 1815 in London.  He was the third son of a wealthy Jewish family who lived in  Regents Park. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Jeff Schneider – an update on Jews in Tasmania

PODCAST: Morry Frenkel speaks with Jeff Schneider, President of the Hobart Synagogue, the oldest Australian shule still in use. Read more

From Australia’s past: James Larra  – from convict to a most colourful personality

James Larra was born in 1749 in London.  His correct family name was Lara, and he was a descendant of a prominent Spanish-Jewish family. Read more

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