JCCV awards prizes for videos on the LGBTI community
December 2, 2015 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has awarded prizes this week to three young filmmakers for videos helping to communicate about issues affecting young Jews of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity. Read more
Human Rights Commissioner talks to the JCCV
December 1, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Henry Greener’s The Shtick presents Sandra Dubs introducing Kate Jenkins, the Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commissioner, speaking at the The Jewish Community Council of Victoria’s Annual General Meeting…a J-Wire video presentation. Read more
Zionism Victoria’s AGM
November 26, 2015 by Eileen Freed
Over 200 Zionism Victoria delegates and community members have attended Zionism Victoria’s 77th Annual Assembly. Read more
Commemorating Yitzhak Rabin
September 19, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Melbourne Jewish community will gather next month to remember his life and legacy of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin z”l. Read more
Multicultural leadership conference hosted by the JCCV
August 10, 2015 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has held its inaugural JCCV Community Leadership Conference. Read more
Two milestone events for JCCV
August 4, 2015 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) Plenum month plenum was a game changer for Melbourne LGBT community and for those members of the community with a disability. Read more
Courage to Care on the road
July 14, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Over the next two months, Melbourne’s B’nai Brith’s Courage to Care will take its award-winning travelling Educational Program and Exhibition to both Portland and Cranbourne. Read more
The industry of lies
June 26, 2015 by David Marlow
Israeli Journalist Ben Dror-Yemini explored the “Industry of Lies” targeted at Israel at a community event in Melbourne’s Lamm Jewish Library of Australia. Read more
Security plan escalated in Melbourne
June 17, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Melbourne’s Community Security Group has issued a joint statement with The Jewish Community Council of Victoria announcing that it has enacted its escalation plan following intelligence indicating that the community may be at rick of an attack. Read more
A belated happy birthday
June 16, 2015 by Eileen Freed
Israel’s 67th birthday has been belatedly celebrated in Melbourne at an event sponsored by the State Government of Victoria. Read more
B’nai B’rith Victoria turns seventy
June 16, 2015 by Garry Fabian
In a turbulent, ever-changing world, for an organisation to survive seventy years and still be strong and vibrant is an impressive achievement. Read more
A defribrillator for JCCV
June 14, 2015 by David Marlow
An automated external defibrillator (AED) unit has been presented to the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) as part of Hatzolah’s ‘Start the Heart’ project initiated and funded by Gandel Philanthropy. Read more
Living in harmony in Victoria
June 2, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Around 100 people have attended the Jewish Christian Muslim Association (JCMA) community forum on Social Cohesion at the Cardinal Knox Centre in East Melbourne. Read more
A culinary tour of Israel
June 2, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Zionist Council of Victoria and KOOK Kosher Community Kitchen are delighted to announce their inaugural culinary tour of Israel to take place the 8th-16th of October 2015. Read more
94-yr-old Melbourne woman honoured by Holocaust Centre
May 20, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre has held a special function to honour Dutch-born Melbourne resident Constance Koster, who saved the lives of Jewish children during the Second World War. Read more
Yom Yerushalayim trivia night
May 19, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Over 120 trivia buffs and Jerusalem lovers participated in the Zionist Council of Victoria’s Yom Yerushalayim Trivia Night. Read more
Andrew Blode appreciated
May 18, 2015 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria President Jennifer Huppert has presented Andrew Blode with a Certificate of Appreciation from the JCCV for his support, passion and leadership as Chair of the JCCV Child Protection Reference Group. Read more
70 years of B’nai B’rith
May 11, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Victoria’s B’nai B’rith will celebrate its 70th anniversary at the end of May.
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Rights for the elderly
August 26, 2014 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) Rights and Responsibilities of Elderly People Forum has been held in Melbourne. Read more
An early L’Shana tova
August 25, 2014 by David Marlow
The annual Rosh Hashanah Lunch with Victorian parliamentarians has been held at Melbourne’s Parliament House with over 40 State Members of Parliament and the leaders of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) and the Zionist Council of Victoria (ZCV). Read more
Billboard draws community attention
August 22, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission and The Jewish Community Council of Victoria have denounced a billboard in Melbourne equating Israel with the former apartheid regime in South Africa. Read more
Is anti-Zionism antisemitism?
August 18, 2014 by Brenda Segal
200 members of the Melbourne community have attended a panel discussion on – “Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?” Read more
Liberman not scheduled to visit Australia
August 17, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
A Jewish newspaper published an “exclusive” report that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman was “set for an Oz Tour” later this month. J-Wire can confirm he is not. Read more
B’nai B’rith on Mitzvah Day
November 29, 2013 by J-Wire
Beth Weizmann, the Lamm Library, the Zionist Council of Victoria and B’nai B’rith Victoria co-hosted a concert for senior citizens from Jewish Care produced by B’nai B’rith’s Esther Gross at Beth Weizmann on Mitzvah Day, Sunday 17 November 2013.
Music students from Sholem Aleichem College’s choir wowed the audience with songs from Broadway in Yiddish. Young violinist brothers, Nathan and Max Needleman from Bialik College played Chopin and Brahms to an astonished audience.
Fifteen-year-old Noa Opat, representing the King David School, sang from musical comedy.
Eight students from Leibler Yavneh College with Director of Music, Jonathan Skovron on guitar, sang in Hebrew; their ‘Yerushalayim shel zahav’ brought the house down!
Afternoon tea was kindly donated by ‘Cakes of Art’, ‘Eshel’, ‘Goldies Biscuits’, ‘Kosher Classique’, ‘Menorah Catering’, ‘Naomi’s Kitchen’, ‘Peter Unger Catering’, ‘ To Catch a Thief’, and ‘The Shook’.
The Concert was part of 61 Mitzvah Day activities Australia-wide, organised by inspirational co-ordinator, Judy Feiglin.
Judy Feiglin
Melbourne welcomes new ambassador
November 27, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Israel’s new ambassador to Australia Shmuel Ben-Shmuel has been welcomed by the Melbourne community. Read more
JCCV on Kramer sentencing
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has called for police intervention to protect children following the sentencing of David Kramer yesterday, convicted on charges of sexually abusing four boys at the Yeshiva College in Melbourne. Read more
Collectively protecting children
July 25, 2013 by Jo Silver
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV), in conjunction with the Australian Zionist Youth Council, Chabad Youth and Jewish Care, have joined forces to provide a free information session for community organisations to prevent and respond effectively to allegations of child abuse. Read more
Catholic/Jewish dinner
July 4, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) and the Ecumenical Interfaith Commission (EIC) have hosted the annual Jewish Catholic Friendship Dinner. Read more
Jewish Muslim Comedy Debate
June 3, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Muslim Comedy Debate held last night at the Melbourne Town Hall produced a hilarious evening’s entertainment. Read more
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
