Robert Goot

Laurie Rosenblum with great-grandchildren Eve and Noah Revelman.

March 5, 2020, 2:10 pm

'For more than 50 years Laurie Rosenblum was Queensland Jewry. He did everything he could to ensure Jews across Australia had a loud and thoughtful voice'.

By Gareth Narunsky

Yvonne Engelman, pictured with her son Michael, holds a candle during a
havdalah service in Krakow last week.

January 30, 2020, 7:00 am

‘I survived, so I am the victor’

Sydney Shoah survivor Yvonne Engelman returned to the very site where she lost her family, and almost her own life, as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

By Evan Zlatkis

Yvonne Engelman with her great-grandson Meir Simcha Rosenthal at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Photo: Giselle Haber

January 23, 2020, 9:27 am

‘A place of true hell’

Sydney Holocaust survivor Yvonne Engelman and her family will travel to Auschwitz-Birkenau to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nazi death camp's liberation.

By Evan Zlatkis

Rabbi Moshe Gutnick of the Sydney Beth Din. Photo: Ingrid Shakenovsky

March 28, 2019, 12:00 am

Sydney Beth Din to be investigated

THE Sydney Beth Din (SBD) has accused the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) of having a "history of effectively undermining the theological basis of Orthodoxy and halachah" after JBOD last week resolved to investigate it.

By Gareth Narunsky

Departing ECAJ president Robert Goot addresses the 2016 ECAJ conference in Sydney on November 27. Photo: Shane Desiatnik

December 1, 2016, 12:00 am

18C dominates ECAJ AGM

Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act dominated debate at the Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s 2016 conference on November 27.

By Shane Desiatnik

December 1, 2016, 12:00 am

Block takes up the mantle

Victorian Anton Block was elected the new president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry at its annual conference on November 27.

By Peter Kohn

November 24, 2016, 12:00 am

Furore over Jewish One Nation event

After a week of confusion and accusations of anti-Semitism, One Nation senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts have confirmed they will take questions from the community on December 4 at IDF Training in Caulfield.

By Joshua Levi

US President-elect Donald Trump. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

November 17, 2016, 12:00 am

Cautious welcome for Trump

Donald Trump’s historic election as the 45th US president has been met with mixed reactions from leaders of the Australian Jewish community.

By Evan Zlatkis

AIJAC executive director Colin Rubenstein.

November 10, 2016, 12:00 am

Caution urged over 18C inquiry

Communal leaders are cautiously welcoming a parliamentary inquiry into freedom of speech, but maintain sections 18C and 18D should remain untouched.

By Evan Zlatkis

Josh Weinberger sings Hatikvah at the Shimon Peres commemoration in Sydney's Central Synagogue on October 26. Photo: Shane Desiatnik

November 7, 2016, 12:31 pm

Moving tributes to Peres

Moving tributes to the late former Israeli president Shimon Peres were held at communal events in Melbourne and Sydney last week.

By Shane Desiatnik and Peter Kohn

Greens leader Richard Di Natale. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

October 20, 2016, 12:00 am

‘Graceless’ Greens leader under fire for Peres speech

Greens leader Richard Di Natale has delivered a speech about the late former Israeli president Shimon Peres, which has been condemned as “disgusting”, “rotten” and “hateful”.

By Evan Zlatkis

Yuval Rotem in 2013. Photo: Peter Haskin

October 20, 2016, 12:00 am

Top appointment for Rotem

Jewish community leaders have given a rousing welcome to news that Yuval Rotem, the former Israeli ambassador to Australia, has been appointed acting director-general of the Foreign Ministry of Israel.

By Peter Kohn

A view of the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images.

October 20, 2016, 12:00 am

Australia urged to protest UNESCO resolution

The Australian government has been urged to denounce a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) resolution that ignores Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and Kotel.

By Joshua Levi

AIJAC’s Jeremy Jones (left) met Shimon Peres in Jerusalem in 2007.

September 29, 2016, 10:25 am

Australian Jewish leaders mourn Peres

“Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives.” So said Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding generation of leaders.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Peter Haskin

September 22, 2016, 12:00 am

ScoMo talks tax

Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison has announced the country could sign a formal tax treaty with Israel in the first half of next year.

By Joshua Levi