NSW to review inciting violence laws over Gaza tensions

Concerns from some community groups that laws in NSW prohibiting incitement of violence don’t go far enough have prompted a legal review. Read more

Rabbinical heads meet the Premier

NSW Minister for Local Government Ron Hoenig has introduced two leading members of Sydney’s rabbinical community to Premier Chris Minns. Read more

Remote but not forgotten

Last week 60 Jews from as far afield as Perth and Gold Coast gathered to bring in Shabbat in the Broken Hill Synagogue in the first service since Melbourne’s Ark Congregation’s visit in March 2018. Read more

Vic Alhadeff honoured in NSW parliament

NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay has hosted a morning tea at State Parliament House with Labor Party shadow ministers and MPs to honour NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff, who has announced his resignation. Read more

Farewell Julian

NSW MP Heffron Ron Hoenig has paid a farewell tribute to outgoing Maroubra Synagogue Administrator Julian Cass, who has stepped down after almost eleven years in the role. Read more

Promotion for Ron Hoenig

Labor Member for Heffron Ron Hoenig has been appointed Shadow Minister for Emergency Services in a NSW Opposition frontbench reshuffle following the announcement that Member for Macquarie Fields and former Opposition Minister for Health, Dr Andrew McDonald, would not be contesting the next State Election. Read more

Re-use Jewish graves? No way says Ron Hoenig

The NSW State Labor member for Heffron Ron Hoenig MP has spoken out against the State Government’s plans to reuse Jewish grave sites slamming it as “unethical and a betrayal of Jewish religious beliefs.” Read more

Labor candidate visits Jewish school

The Federal Labor candidate for Kingsford Smith, Matt Thistlewaite, visited Mount Sinai College in Maroubra yesterday with State Shadow Minister for Energy and Ports, Ron Hoenig MP, and State Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Communities, Guy Zangari MP.  Read more

Auschwitz remembered and enter Generation 3

Holocaust survivor Olga Horak told  her Holocaust story at the 68th anniversary commemoration of the liberty of Auschwitz in Sydney yesterday… followed by her grandson who spoke about the Holocaust from a third generation survivor’s perspective. Read more