A ticket for your carer

The Companion Card initiative allows those in need of a carer a free pass for their helper at a variety of events. Read more

Beach Shabbat

Over 150 community members from many different cultures and backgrounds attended OBK’s Shabbat on Sydney’s Tamarama Beach. Read more

OurCrowd MD to speak in Sydney

Sydney-born venture capitalist Dan Bennett has brought the start-up nation home to Australia. Read more

B’nai B’rith in the running for Glen Eira award

B’nai B’rith Victoria has been selected as one of two finalists in the Glen Eira Community Group of the Year Award 2015.  Read more

Effective Relationship Program

The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Victorian Section is offering a nine session program to support single Jewish women improve their intimate relationships. Read more

NCJWA Caring Mums expands seeks volunteers.

Melbourne’s Caring Mums program run by the NCJWA is expanding its activities to the city’s northern suburbs. Read more

New Board for JewishCare

Sydney’s JewishCare has elected a new Board at its AGM. Read more

Gifted teacher

Rachelle Lever recently attended a Special Religious Education Celebration event held at Parliament House in Sydney, where she was one of 12 recipients of an award recognising their outstanding contribution for excellence, innovation and creativity in the way they deliver SRE to their students.  Read more

New website for Jewish Care

Melbourne’s Jewish Care has launched a new web site, Read more

Budding artists – in their golden years

Thirteen residents at Sydney’s Montefiore Home in Randwick entered their artworks to Moriah College’s Artbeat ’14 artshow. Read more

Rabin remembered

More than 200 people attended an event honouring  the life and memory of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Read more

A fair go at Moriah

Gift of Life volunteers and donors at Sydney’s Moriah College Fair have learned that a donation made at the same venue last year has proved positive and that a life-saving match had been found. Read more

The Monte Fete

More than 1500 community members visited the Montefiore’s 91st Annual Fete held at the Hunters Hill campus. Read more

Award for the Monte

Sydney’s Montefiore Home has been presented with a Better Practice Award for the  Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Nurse Practitioner Program.  Read more

Two ambulances from NSW

Thanks to the generosity of the New South Wales community, Magen David Adom now has two new ambulances in its fleet. Read more

New strata for Beth Din

The Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) Executive Committee has established a Melbourne Beth Din (MBD) Sub Committee. Read more

$80,000 raised at lunch

Over 270 members of the Melbourne  community attended Jewish Care’s Generations of Women Brunch. Read more

Jacob’s House gets a facelift

Jewish Care Victoria has successfully secured a grant of $12,642 from the Marian & EH Flack Trust to redevelop the external areas of the Jacob’s House, a shared supported accommodation for adults living with a disability, based in Carnegie. Read more

Big Time at Our Big Kitchen

Over the last few days, Bondi’s Flood St has been teeming with people in the successful search for no longer missing Michelle Levy and Our Big Kitchen across the road from search HQ at jewish House has been thanked by NSW Police for its backup support during the search. Read more

Three-legged care

To coincide with National Youth Mentoring Week,  Sydney’s JewishCare together with Raise and YWCA NSW and Australian Youth Mentoring Network staged a Guinness World Record attempt at the biggest 3 legged race. Read more

Eponymous award

Dr Peter Schiff has presented the 15th annual Peter Schiff Award to Associate Professor Mark Dean, senior staff specialist at Gosford Hospital in NSW. Read more

Café Monte Coffee Wins Bronze Award

At the Annual Golden Bean Coffee Roasters Competition, Montefiore’s Café Monte blend won a Bronze medal out of 1500 entries in the ’Milk Based (Latte)’ category.  Read more

Awards Honour Best of the Best at Jewish Care

Two upstanding community members have been honoured at Melbourne’s Jewish Care’s 2014 Staff and Volunteer Service and Excellence Awards. Read more

Cooking up a community

A LifeSkills Cooking Program for adults living with disability has done more than teach skills; it has helped to bring together a community. Read more

Change at the top for the NCJWA in Melbourne

Shirley Glance has been elected unopposed president of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia  (Vic) . Read more

Sydney Jewish Choir performs at festival

The Sydney Jewish Choral Society (SJCS) has performed at the Blackheath Choir Festival in the Blue Mountains. Read more

Soccer tragics kick a goal against epilepsy

A slew of soccer stars, ex-Socceroos and other football legends will join forces with communal identities in a unique celebrity ‘fun-raiser’ to aid Epilepsy Action Australia. It’s the Sydney Celebrity Football Charity Challenge. Read more

Rami Bar-Niv in New Zealand

Internationally acclaimed Israeli concert pianist, Rami Bar-Niv, is to perform in concert at Rotorua’s Civic Theatre on 19 August. Read more

Ambos at Our Big Kitchen

About fifty ambulance officers joined thirty members of the community combined at Our Big Kitchen (OBK) last week to cook for the homeless. Read more

Jewish House and the travelling Kosher Pickle Factory

The humble kosher pickle has been a crunchy staple on many a Shabbat table for centuries. Learn how to make your own. Read more

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