Danny Lamm

June 4, 2021, 9:00 am

A step forward for Melbourne’s Mizrachi

At last week’s general meeting, treasurer David Brykman stepped up to the plate, replacing Danny Lamm as president.

By CARLY DOUGLAS

Jonathan Pollard following his release from prison in November 2015.
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP

May 6, 2021, 12:00 am

Mizrachi, CHC blasted over Jonathan Pollard invite

Mizrachi president Danny Lamm, who initiated the invite, said of his controversial guest, “He’s got an extraordinary story to tell.”

By CARLY DOUGLAS

Mizrachi in Caulfield North. Photo: Peter Haskin

April 23, 2021, 5:15 pm

Mizrachi report, letter from outgoing president

December 24, 2020, 12:00 am

Negative momentum mounts at Mizrachi

'There is no call here for affirmative action – just recognition that Mizrachi’s gender bias (conscious or otherwise) is real, it is dangerous, and it is contemptible'.

By Rebecca Davis

April 30, 2019, 12:00 am

JNF exit plans draw ire

TENSIONS have flared over a decision by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) Victoria to end its long tenancy at Beth Weizmann Community Centre.

By Peter Kohn

Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Peter Haskin

October 18, 2018, 12:01 am

PM considering embassy move

PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has denied that an announcement to look at moving Australia's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem is motivated by Jewish votes in this weekend's Wentworth by-election.

By Gareth Narunsky

October 5, 2018, 12:01 am

Leaders greet security funding

JEWISH community leaders have lauded Prime Minister Scott Morrison's confirmation, reported in last week's AJN, that Beth Weizmann Community Centre will finally get its much-needed federal government funding – as part of round two of the Safer Communities Fund scheme, under which Jewish institutions across Australia received a total of $4.1 million.

By Peter Kohn

Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the UN General Assembly last week. Photo: AP Photo/Richard Drew

October 4, 2018, 12:01 am

Bibi’s bombshells

THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has labelled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's United Nations General Assembly speech "compelling", identifying Bibi's revelation of a secret atomic warehouse in Tehran a "key moment".

By Gareth Narunsky

President Bill Clinton (centre), presiding over ceremonies marking the signing of the 1993 peace accord between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on September 13, 1993. Photo: AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

September 13, 2018, 12:01 am

Twenty-five years on

JEWISH community leaders in Australia have offered mixed reflections on the quarter century since the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians were signed in a ceremony on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993.

By Peter Kohn

Palestinian students outside a UNRWA school in Beirut. Photo: EPA/Nabil Mounzer

September 6, 2018, 12:01 am

Palestinian aid shake-up ‘welcome’

AUSTRALIAN Jewish community leaders have praised a move by the US to cut the entire American aid budget to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides aid to the Palestinians.

By Peter Kohn

Julie Bishop speaking at Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Melbourne last year. Photo: Ren Rizzolo

September 4, 2018, 9:35 am

‘Israel support to continue’

AUSTRALIA'S new Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne will continue to support the State of Israel, according to Liberal deputy leader Josh Frydenberg.

August 6, 2018, 12:01 am

Lamm wraps up presidency

AFTER 16 years of Jewish and Zionist leadership, Danny Lamm is on the home stretch of his second and final term as Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) president; four years as eventful as any in the four decades he has been active.

By Peter Kohn

Sderot residents survey the damage to a house caused by a rocket from Gaza. Photo: Sderot Municipality

July 19, 2018, 12:01 am

ABC coverage bombs

THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has lodged an official complaint with the ABC over its coverage of events in Israel and Gaza last weekend.

By Gareth Narunsky

Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. Photo: Noel Kessel

July 5, 2018, 12:01 am

Our tax won’t ‘pay to slay’

THE Jewish community has cautiously welcomed a landmark announcement by the Australian government ending direct aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) through the World Bank, amid growing concerns that Australia's tax dollars may be helping to fund terrorism.

By Peter Kohn

June 28, 2018, 12:15 pm

Abuse victims ‘distressed’ by event

THE Yeshivah Centre has come under fire for holding a 10th yahrzeit commemoration for Melbourne Yeshivah director Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner which ignored any reference to the coverups of child sexual abuse he was reportedly involved in at the organisation.