No dramas at the Australian Islamic Peace Conference
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria campaigned to support multiculturalism in order to avoid antisemitism, religious intolerance or racial vilification from speakers at last weekend’s Australian Islamic Peace Conference. Read more
JCCV Appeal Underway
March 20, 2013 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has launched its annual fundraising appeal at its inaugural campaign. Read more
Turkel Observer Praises Israel
March 6, 2013 by David Marlow
Professor Tim McCormack has complimented Israel on being the only country in the world to conduct an extensive independent inquiry into its military justice system, and said that it had broken new ground in terms of analysis of international law. Read more
Purim – Sobering Thoughts
February 22, 2013 by Community Editor
The Rabbinical Council of Victoria has issued a warning about the overindulgence of liquor during Purim…and so has The Jewish Community Council of Victoria. Read more
JCCV reaffirms support for multiculturalism
February 20, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Community council of Victoria has voiced concern about the visit to Australia of Dutch MY Geert Wilders…with the full support of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Read more
New man in charge
February 1, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
David Marlow will attend his first plenum as the new executive director of The Jewish Community council of Victoria next week. Read more
Hitler as a meal guest? – no way says the ADC
January 30, 2013 by Geoffrey Zygier
The Melbourne-based B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has had a positive outcome to its complaint to local radio Nova 100 FM following a recent breakfast show segment in which Hitler was suggested as a suitable person to join in a mealtime conversation. Read more
Keeping sexual abuse at bay
December 7, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Protecting children and young people from the risk of abuse is a communal imperative. Yet the Jewish community is not immune to the occurrence of child abuse in organisational settings. Read more
New Executive Director for the JCCV
June 20, 2011 by J-Wire
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) have appointed a new executive director. Read more
Victoria calls for community awareness
October 6, 2009 by Geoffrey Zygier
John Searle, president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, has asked the community to help those in need. Read more
Israeli interfaith group speaks in Melbourne
August 25, 2009 by Geoffrey Zygier
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) had the pleasure of co‐hosting a number of speaking events for a mixed faith delegation from the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel.
JCCV – sanitised terrorism would be counter-productive
August 12, 2009 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has slammed the State’s Police “Lexicon of Terror” project stating that the sanitising of language to appease the Muslim community would not reduce radicalisation. Read more
