Two Canadian Jews win the Australian National Poker Festival, a Jewish film-festival will take place in Canberra, two Mengele twins celebrate their 90th birthday, “Buchenwald Boy” retires, a large family reunion will take place in Melbourne, a Sephardic family in Melbourne organizes a trip to Spain,Read More
Victorian Jewish schools are the most expensive private schools in the state, an eight-year-old Jewish chess champion is the best chess-player in his age group in all of Australia and the United Jewish Appeal is organizing a fundraiser for Israel.Read More
15 Australian Jews honored on Australia-day, Jewish day-schools end their summer break, Australia’s foreign-minister defends her belief that Israeli settlements are not illegal, Oxfam criticized for criticizing Scarlet Johansson, the Australian Prime-Minister met with Netanyahu in Davos, Switzerland and Jewish youth-groups participate in a gay-pride parade.Read More
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The Jewish museum in Melbourne has announced its schedule, an alumnus of Melbourne’s Bundist youth movement is running for city government, anti-Semitic attackers in Sydney will soon face a judge and Jewish comedian John Safran publishes his first mystery novel.Read More
A London-based Klezmer band is touring Australia, the Jewish Museum of Australia will have a free visitor’s day, a reform synagogue in Melbourne is organizing an LGBT friendly Shabbat, and the Sydney and Melbourne based kosher-certification are not recognizing one another’s meat as kosher.Read More
Vic Alhadeff, the director of the Jewish community of New South Wales has been appointed as the new chairman of the provincial government’s Community Relations Committee.Read More
The former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard received the “Jerusalem Prize” for her support of Israel, the number of anti-Semitic attacks in Australia decreases, Australian Jewish groups criticize the western nuclear agreement with Iran and a man accused of sexual abuse of children is allowed to return to Los Angeles.Read More
Australia: Australian-Jewish pedatrician honored in Sweden, a blind 13 year old Jewish girl sings with Beyonce during her concert and the province of Victoria releases a report on the reactions of Jewish organizations to sexual-abuse allegations.Read More
Police in Sydney are considering the possibility that victims of sexual abuse had been paid to prevent them from reporting their abuse to the police.Read More