New conversation for B’nai B’rith and ECAJ
May 13, 2015 by J-Wire
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and B’nai B’rith’s Alfred Dreyfus Anti-Defamation Unit successfully launched their “In Conversation” series in Sydney last week. Read more
Hakoah gets its big guns
May 11, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Calling all game-changers
December 21, 2014 by Roz Tarszisz
B’nai B’rith Alfred Dreyfus Anti Defamation Unit and JNF Australia are calling for nominations for their annual National “Game Changers” Awards. Read more
Seasons of Peace
December 21, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Over 100 people came together as religious leaders celebrated Chanukah and Christmas at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more
Dismay at flyers distributed in Sydney
August 26, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
Homes in the Sydney suburbs of Double Bay and Bondi have been targeted in a campaign to spread racial hatred against Jews. Read more
Successful Writers Festival
August 25, 2014 by Sharon Berger
The Sydney Jewish Writers Festival has reinforced its place at the forefront of innovative cultural and intellectual Jewish programming in Sydney. Read more
New President at the Board
August 21, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Jeremy Spinak has replaced Yair Miller as the president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more
Sandler Farewell
December 2, 2013 by Lauren Finn
Over 150 people attended a communal farewell for JCA’s Chief Executive Officer Ian Sandler. Read more
NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 6
Day 6 of our Mission saw us off in the bus to Honest Reporting Headquarters – Jerusalem Israel, where Simon Plosker, Managing Editor, gave us a crash course in ‘Understanding Media Bias’. Read more
Drawing by Judy Cassab at 12 on show at Jewish Museum
November 27, 2013 by Jessica Kostera
The first drawing renowned artist Judy Cassab ever committed to paper is currently hanging in the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more
Journos report back
November 27, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The journalists who participated in the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ recent Journalists Mission to Israel will address a public meeting in Sydney next week. Read more
NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 5
The NSWJBD joint mission to Israel with Honest Reporting has a Canadian member. Alan Perlmutter from London, Canada files the report on Day 5… Read more
NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 4
Today was a day for true ‘honest reporting’…writes Diane Shteinman Read more
A Doctor in the Kitchen
November 26, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Our Big Kitchen’s CEO Rabbi Dovid Slavin has attained a PHD from Sydney University for a twenty year study of Jewish yeshiva life in Poland between the two World Wars of the 20th century – “Successful Innovation to Preserve Tradition”. Read more
James Valentine in fashion @ the SJM
ABC radio personality James Valentine recently moderated a panel at the Sydney Jewish Museum on “Does the Media Fashion Fashion”. Read more
JCA Eastern Suburbs Communal Event and Awards Night
J-Wire Photo Gallery of the JCA function on Sunday night in Sydney…were you there? Check the pix from Giselle Haber.
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JCA Honors Volunteers
June 3, 2013 by Lauren Finn
Three long serving volunteers have been honoured at Sydney’s JCA’s Communal Event. Read more
Inter-community Seder
March 21, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Over one hundred future leaders from a broad cross-section of faith, ethnic and political communities came together at a unique Passover dinner in Sydney on Wednesday night. Read more
Inter-community Passover dinner
March 11, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
100 young leaders from a broad cross-section of faith, ethnic and political communities will participate in a unique Passover dinner next week. Read more
How Israel Investigates War Crimes
March 5, 2013 by Community Editor
The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies plenum will receive insights as to how Israel investigates allegations of war crimes from a member of the investigating committee later this month. Read more
Fashion panel at the museum
March 3, 2013 by Community Editor
Two new B’nai B’rith Retirement Villages team members
March 3, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s B’nai B’rith Retirement Villages recently welcomed two new members on its Management team. Read more
Shalom scholarships for outstanding Jewish students
March 1, 2013 by Community Editor
Sydney’s Shalom college has offered for the first time scholarships to Jewish students on the basis of their academic record and leadership potential. Read more
Israeli trip motion in NSW Parliament
February 27, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Nationals Whip in the NSW Legislative Council Rick Colless will move a motion in parliament following what he described as “a successful trip” to Israel recently. Read more
Foreign correspondent draws record crowd
Award winning Australia foreign correspondent and author Irris Makler was guest speaker at the Sydney Jewish Museum on Sunday at the Turning Pages Book Club. Read more
Secord reports on Israel visit
February 17, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
NSW State Shadow Minister for Water Walt Secord has reported on his recent visit to Israel organised by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more
How language shaped our culture
February 1, 2013 by Community Editor
Language is one of the deepest identity markers. To unravel the development, transformation and integration of a community’s languages is to follow subtle signposts that lead to the very heart of that community’s culture. The 25th Australian Association of Jewish Studies annual conference ‘Jewish Languages, Jewish Cultures: The Shaping of Jewish Civilization’ will explore this idea in depth. Read more
Plenum goes to Shul
January 29, 2013 by Community Editor
The first-ever NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum to be held at Southern Sydney Synagogue will be held there next month in honour of the synagogue’s 70th anniversary. Read more
Auschwitz remembered and enter Generation 3
January 28, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Holocaust survivor Olga Horak told her Holocaust story at the 68th anniversary commemoration of the liberty of Auschwitz in Sydney yesterday… followed by her grandson who spoke about the Holocaust from a third generation survivor’s perspective. Read more
Our Big Hero
January 25, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Rabbi Dovid Slavin, the founder of Our Big Kitchen situated in the basement of the Sydney Yeshiva Centre in Bondi, has been named Waverley’s Local Hero of the Year. Read more
