Ernie shortlisted as the NSW Senior of the Year

Ernie Friedlander continues his stellar work within the NSW Jewish community and other ethnic groups. Now, he has been appointed as one of three candidates for the NSW Senior Australian of the Year award. Read more

Combatting racism with an award-winning program

‘Stop Racism Now’ has been awarded the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Award for Community Campaign of the Year. Read more

Holocaust film banned in Lithuania

B’nai B’rith Australia New Zealand (ANZ) is honouring documentary filmmaker Saulius Beržinis with a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the body of research, study, and documentation of Lithuania’s Jewish population during the Holocaust. Read more

Insect named for Hitler draws criticism from organizational, academic circles

Connections between the Nazis and Volkswagen Beetles are well known. Read more

Library named after Henry Wirth in Sydney

Family, friends and residents convened at Rose Bay B’nai B’rith Retirement Villages (BBRV) recently to celebrate the contribution made by Henry Wirth in over 20 years of service on the Board. Read more

Thank you, B’nai B’rith

Melissa Don Port, Executive Director NSW, JDC (The Joint) has presented a Certificate of Appreciation to B’nai B’rith NSW for their fundraising efforts towards the Ukraine Emergency Crisis Response. Read more

Three BBYO teens head for the States

Three BBYO (B’nai B’rith Youth Organisation NSW) teens will be travelling to Baltimore USA to attend the BBYO International Convention next week. Read more

A new president for B’nai B’rith NSW

Janine Zimbler has been elected as the new Council President of B’nai B’rith NSW. Read more

2021 Young Adult Changemaker Awards feature $5000 category honouring Joshua Levi

Nominations are now open for this year’s B’nai B’rith & JNF Youth & Young Adult Changemaker Awards program. Read more

KKL-JNF and B’nai B’rith mark heroism of Jewish Rescuers during Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony 

The B’nai B’rith World Centre in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) have held a unique joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah). Read more

Changemakers shine

Perth’s Carmel School graduate Talya Faigenbaum and current Year 12 student, Gila Cherny recently won in their categories at the JNF B’nai B’rith Jewish Changemaker Awards in Sydney. Read more

Human Rights in Australia under fire

Liberal MP Julian Leeser is to deliver the 2018 B’nai B’rith Human Rights Address in Sydney. Read more

B’nai B’rith Victoria turns seventy

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 call to Jewish artists

As part of the 2015 Day of Jewish Culture and Heritage Sydney’s B’nai B’rith and Newtown Synagogue are planning an exhibition of the work of Jewish artists and an art market… Read more

The Changemakers

B’nai B’rith & JNF will acknowledge those whose contributions have helped society. Read more

B’nai B’rith welcomes decision holding PLO liable for terror attacks

B’nai B’rith International and The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission have hailed and welcomed the decision by the jury in a New York federal court against the Palestinian Authority and the PLO holding them liable for terror attacks that killed 33 Americans and injured more than 450 during the Second Intifada. Read more

Dealing with online hate

The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has become the first Australian organisation to join the ADL’s Working Group on Cyberhate which includes YouTube, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter.   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

Calling all game-changers

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

Only if it becomes necessary

Over 1000 members of the Melbourne Jewish community attended this year’s ADC-Gandel Oration given by John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Read more

Melbourne’s B’nai B’rith Menorah Awards 2014

The Annual B’nai B’rith Menorah Awards now in the 37^th year, recognise volunteers who work quietly behind the scenes, giving many decades of service to the community. Read more

Melbourne Raoul Wallenberg Commemoration

The Raoul Wallenberg Unit of B’nai B’rith, together with the City of Port Phillip, has held the annual Raoul Wallenberg Commemoration marking the date on which he was arrested by the Russians in Budapest, Hungary. Read more

B’nai B’rith on Mitzvah Day

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.

B’nai B’rith and Hatzolah participate in drugs forum

More than 150 members of the Melbourne community have attended  a “Drugs Without Borders: Rethinking Responses”, forum organized by B’nai B’rith Victoria. Read more

Victorian teachers welcomed back

Fourteen Victorian educators have been welcomed back from the 2012/13 Holocaust studies course at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.  Read more

Wallenberg to Wallenberg

Melbourne’s B’nai B’rith Raoul Wallenberg Unit recently issued stamps commemorating the memory of the war hero selling them around the world…including to a collector in Raoul Wallenberg St, Haifa. Read more