Anzac Day
Photo: The Times of Israel
May 1, 2025, 8:52 am
Identity
No matter Saturday’s result, we’ll keep holding our heads high as proud Jewish Australians.
By AJN STAFF
Major General Jeffrey Rosenfeld, speaking at the VAJEX Anzac service on Sunday. Photo: Pinchos Cylich.
May 1, 2025, 8:00 am
Anzac service’s record crowd
Major General Jeffrey Rosenfeld described VAJEX as “more relevant than ever”.
By Bruce Hill
Major General Jeffrey Rosenfeld, patron of VAJEX.
April 24, 2025, 12:25 pm
VAJEX pivots to include younger generation
The Victorian Association of Jewish Ex & Servicemen & Women (VAJEX) has a new mission – renewal
By Bruce Hill
Julie Leder of VAJEX before Anzac Day in 2021, at Signalman Jacob Sorsky’s grave in Melbourne. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 24, 2025, 12:10 pm
Operation Jacob’s grave battle for justice
Since Operation Jacob was launched by Sydney's Peter Allen just before Anzac Day in 2021, it has tirelessly pursued the correct commemoration of deceased Jewish Australian servicemen and women. But as Shane Desiatnik reports, Stars of David are yet to be inscribed on the headstones of Signalman Jacob Sorsky and Pilot Officer Raymond Shaw.
By Shane Desiatnik
A Never Again Is Now billboard truck at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
April 24, 2025, 10:50 am
Campaign to honour Jewish Anzacs
The campaign will highlight the role of Jewish Diggers in all of the wars Australia has been involved in.
By Peter Kohn
Randwick Greens councillor Rafaela Pandolfini caused a stir by wearing a keffiyeh to the Anzac Day Dawn Service. Photo: Facebook/Randwick Council
May 2, 2024, 4:37 pm
Keffiyeh worn at Dawn Service
“I am deeply offended that a fellow councillor would wear a keffiyeh to a council Dawn Service event," says Liberal councillor Daniel Rosenfeld.
By AJN STAFF
Rob Lehrer.
April 28, 2024, 3:15 pm
Remembering a Jewish “digger” and Holocaust survivor with an unusual story
‘There is a necessity to take sides. I choose survival of the Jews and the survival of Israel’
By Robert Lehrer
Ex-Diggers, from left, Maurice Smith, Woolfe Lewis and Leon Bloom.
May 7, 2023, 6:38 am
Jewish ex-Diggers honoured
They are the oldest members of VAJEX and were recently honoured by the organisation for their bravery in combat during World War II.
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Yossi Friedman led the dawn service in Coogee on Anzac Day.
April 27, 2023, 12:01 pm
Rabbi Yossi ‘honoured’ to lead Coogee dawn service
"We're all united in service of our country, and our nation is only as strong as all of us are, provided we're united and working towards the same goals with the same values,"
By RACHEL TREISMAN
NSW Minister for Local Government Ron Hoenig lays a wreath. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
April 27, 2023, 11:58 am
A moving Jewish Anzac service
The service included moving tributes, a wreath laying by community members and politicians, and memorial candle lighting.
By Shane Desiatnik
April 27, 2023, 9:58 am
Israel at 75
Photo: Kataca Rix/Dreamstime.com
April 27, 2023, 9:07 am
Why we commemorate the past
What is the purpose of memory? Why do we recall the terrible wars, why do we mark Anzac Day and stir up agonising recollections and tortuous questions?
By Rabbi Ralph Genende
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