Rabbis condemn bill to allow doctors to help mortally ill patients die quicker; comic John Safran wins prize for his first book.Read More
Greek Fascists get permission to visit Australia; a new film about a Jewish partisan.Read More
Lecture series by visiting Jewish historian Steve Zipperstein at Monash University; fighters in Sobibor rebellion are honored by the Polish consulate; an exhibit of Yosl Bergner’s sculpture art.Read More
Principal of an Orthodox girls’ school in Melbourne is arrested in Israel for alleged sexual abuse against female pupils; an attack on the Australian business office of Israeli company Elbit.Read More
Commemorating two tragic anniversaries: 72 years after the liquidation of the Medem Sanitarium, remembered now at Monash University, and the 70th yahrzeit of the Lodz Ghetto liquidation, marked at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum and Research Center.Read More
Two events dedicated to Jewish culture; a musical evening in memory of the Jews of Białystok.Read More
A second graduate of Yavneh College is wounded in Gaza as a soldier of the Israeli forces; Jewish day school in Perth is vandalized; demonstrators in Melbourne burn the Israeli and Australian flags.Read More
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The Melbourne Film Festival will screen a documentary about the Nazi death camps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Jewish hero of WWII is mentioned at the Australian War Memorial.Read More
Ruderman Family Foundation awards 5 organizations worldwide for their efforts to include people with disabilities in the Jewish community; 2 young men sentenced for attacking religious Jews in Bondey.Read More
Adelaide signs on to London Resolution against anti-Semitism; Bnei-Akiva condemns anti-Palestinian Facebook comments made by the organization’s general secretary.Read More