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The Jewish House is a community support organisation offering Sydney’s only refuge and is headed by Rabbi Mendel Kastel.
They hold a regular Shabbat dinner on the first Friday of each month featuring the Rebbetzin’s famous kugel open to all members of the community.
Contact details: 0413 098250 [Rabbi Kastel] or email to [email protected]
May 29, 2016 by J-Wire
Sydney’s Jewish House has joined Palliative Care NSW in supporting the Reflections of Care art exhibition. [Read more]
December 2, 2015 by David Sokol
Over 800 guests attended Sydney’s The Jewish House’s Gala Dinner at which 2015 Australian of the Year Rosy Batty spoke of her personal experiences of family violence. [Read more]
July 10, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Jewish House has appointed Dr Kieran Le Plastrier as its Clinical Director. [Read more]
December 2, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Over 350 guests sang Ma’oz Tzur as Jewish House CEO Rabbi Mendel Kastel lit the Menorah at the care organisation’s gala dinner. [Read more]
July 7, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Jewish House has honoured Rabbi Pinchos Woolstone by officially acknowledging that he was the care organisation’s first rabbi. [Read more]
Nov-21 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
Dec-29 11:20pm SBS-TV: Uri Geller’s Secret Treasures
Uri Geller, the man who bends spoons, reads minds, and can stop your watch. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
