Ten ethnic communities release a statement on 18C

Ten leaders of ethnic communities throughout Australia have released a joint statement in the wake of the Federal government’s announcement of a “Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Speech” in the context of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more

Jewish delegation to Congress grows, in Senate drops by one

Election night brought mixed results for Jewish politicians vying for seats in Congress. In the House of Representatives, the Jewish delegation saw its best results, increasing representation from 19 to 23 seats, including the election of a rare Jewish Republican. Read more

Sydney commemorates Kristallnacht

More than 300 members of the Sydney community have commemorated Kristallnacht  the ‘Night of the Broken Glass’, remembering the violence Nazis inflicted on Jewish people, their homes and synagogues, businesses and schools.

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Jane Rapke to Leave Zionism Victoria

After five and a half years in the role, Jane Rapke has decided to step down as Executive Director for Zionism Victoria at the end of this year. Read more

Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Office: ECAJ

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has issued a statement following the Federal government’s announcement of a Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Speech to look at two issues of freedom of speech in the context of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more

Rutland and Lipski’s book wins the Prime Minister’s Literary Award

Let My People Go: The untold story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–89 has been awarded a joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award  for History. Read more

Sydney welcomes Spoons – a Kosher pop-up food venture

It was in the historic Jerusalem neighbourhood of Yemin Moshe that Hila Solomon’s kosher food business, Spoons, began. Read more

Melbourne pays tribute to Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres is remembered and recognised as the greatest Israeli to have lived at a memorial service organised by the main Jewish organisations in Melbourne. Read more

Eyeless in Gaza

Sydney businessman and owner of Polaris Films, Robert Magid has spent the past year working on a feature film – Eyeless in Gaza. Read more

Tasmania holds ANZAC Centenary remembrance service

Dozens of dignitaries joined thirty  international and interstate visitors  at the Anzac Centenary Remembrance Service of the Tasmanian Jewish Community. Read more

The Kadimah commemorates centenary of the death of Sholem Aleichem

The Kadimah is presenting three shows in Melbourne to commemorate centenary of the death of the famous Yiddish writer, Sholem Aleichem. Read more

The Fink Group announces launch of Bennelong Arts Foundation

The Sydney-based Fink Group has announced the launch of the Bennelong Arts Foundation with its first scholarships being awarded to performers from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Read more

UNESCO resolution: the ECAJ writes to the Foreign Minister

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has written to Australia’s Julie Bishop following the UNESCO resolution denying Jewish connection to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. Read more

JIFF 2016

The 2016 Jewish International Film Festival’s Lindy Tamir speaks to Henry Greener…a video presentation. Read more

WJC warns UNESCO of adopting ‘another inflammatory, one-sided decision’ denying Jewish link to Jerusalem

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has called on the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to refrain from adopting “yet another inflammatory, one-sided decision” that harshly condemns Israel and denies or downplays Judaism’s and Christianity’s connections to the holy sites in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Read more

Limmud Fest for Shalom

Next month, Limmud Fest provides a chance for parents to play and learn along with their kids. Read more

Newspaper column Goers beyond the pale

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council has expressed concern after columnist and ABC radio host Peter Goers published an inflammatory anti-Israel piece in Adelaide’s Sunday Mail on October 9. Read more

75 years after Babi Yar, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder praises ‘miracle of Jewish revival in Ukraine’

 On the 75th anniversary of the murder more than 33,000 Jews at Babi Yar, leaders of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) were in Ukraine to take part in events to remember the atrocity committed by Nazi Germany on 29/30 September 1941 near Kyiv. Read more

Montefiore Supports OzHarvest

Surplus food from Sydney’s Montefiore Home’s Jazz in the Grounds event was collected by OzHarvest food rescue charity on Sunday to provide much needed assistance to vulnerable men, women and children across Sydney. Read more

Rosh Hashanah message from Bill Shorten and Tony Burke

Bill Shorten, Leader of the Opposition & Tony Burke, Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Australia for Rosh Hashanah have sent a Rosh Hashanah message to the Jewish community. Read more

British Labour Party engulfed by convergence of the far left and antisemitism

Jewish leaders in the United Kingdom have voiced their displeasure with the Labour Party in the wake of a scandal on antisemitism within its ranks continuing to engulf the country’s second-largest party. Read more

Portrait exhibition at The Great

Sydney’s The Great Synagogue will present thirty selected highlights from the collection of historical and contemporary portrait paintings from its AM Rosenblum Museum. Read more

UIA giant passes away

Saul Same, a former federal president of the United Israel Appeal, has passed away in Melbourne at the of 97. Read more

Q+A with Jonathan Ornstein

Jonathan Ornstein has served as the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Centre of Krakow since its opening in 2008. A QandA with Toni Susskind. Read more

The five mems…writes Asher Kozma

The latest UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) figure shows the number of refugees worldwide as 13 million. Read more

The former SS soldier who fell in love with a Jewish woman

Traumatised and nearly starved in the aftermath of WWII, former SS soldier Hans Post was brought back to life by two women. ABC Producer William Verity discovers Hans’ transformation and the love of his Jewish wife, Gina Behrens. Read more

Jewish day school supports marriage equality

Melbourne’s Bialik College has become the first Australian K-12 school to support marriage equality. Read more

Meet The Technion’s man in Australia

Ron Lazarovits heads The Technion Society in Australia, representing the oldest university in Israel, based in Haifa…he talks with The Shtick’s Henry Greener. A video presentation. Read more

American position for Jerusalem-based ex-Sydney rabbi

Australian-born Rabbi Dr. Raymond Apple has been elected president of the Israel Region-Rabbinical Council of America. Read more

AUJS receives world-wide recognition

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has been recognised as Union of the Year at the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Congress Awards Ceremony in Jerusalem. Read more

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