Arts & Features
Around 1000 people gathered outside Victoria's Parliament House listening to a speech about antisemitism from 15-year-old Sophie Basist. Photo: Peter Haskin
August 7, 2025, 11:23 am
Teen activist launched into spotlight
While most teenagers are posting selfies and TikTok dances, Sophie Basist is posting about geopolitics and planning her path to the Lodge. At 15, she's already thinking like a prime minister – she just needs to finish year 10 first, writes Bruce Hill.
By Bruce Hill
Kesher children thanking some of the volunteers.
July 31, 2025, 9:33 am
The Kesher effect
For the Kesher team in Australia, the connection with Israeli children and families goes both ways. Jessica Abelsohn spoke to Talia Bernstein, founder of Kesher, about why she set up the school and what the impact has been.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Michael Gawenda at the launch of his book.
November 9, 2023, 4:28 pm
Michael Gawenda’s Jewish journey
In his new autobiography My Life As A Jew, Michael Gawenda writes how the left, in which he once felt kinship, increasingly came to demonise Israel.
By Peter Kohn
Richard James Allen in Cut. Photo: The Physical TV Company
November 8, 2023, 7:09 am
Contradictory ideas coexisting in complex ways
“It’s a piece for me that is born out of my own complexity and contradictory feelings, and I hope to share some of that feeling and some of the hope that I have found.”
By AJN STAFF
Alexander Gavrylyuk. Photo: Marco Borggreve
November 5, 2023, 6:50 am
Final Live at the Great to honour those lost in Israel
Gavrylyuk also explains his connection to Israel thanks to the Arthur Rubenstein International Piano Master Competition which he won in 2005. Since then, he has been to Israel almost every year to perform.
By Jessica Abelsohn
October 23, 2023, 6:35 am
Third-generation impact
While she tries to live a “normal” life, she finds herself weighed down by the unspoken grief of her grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.
By Jessica Abelsohn
October 15, 2023, 7:23 am
Sharing Sasha’s story
When The AJN ran a story about a young Sydney filmmaker, we never anticipated that it would spawn a beautiful filmmaking relationship with an author in Melbourne. Lexee Gordoun and Anita Selzer have teamed up to produce Sasha’s Game, which follows the story of how Anita’s father survived the Holocaust. The AJN spoke to both the filmmaker and the author about how the film came to be and what they hope the future of the film holds.
By AJN STAFF
Year 12 student Rosie with her Jellyfish artwork.
October 12, 2023, 12:35 pm
Artist Anna Blatman opens 2023 Art Exhibition
The exhibition showcased the creative skills and thought processes of students from prep to year 12, highlighting their talent across different areas of visual arts, design, visual communication and media.
By Carol Saffer
Action! Film and War exhibition lead curator Daniel Eisenberg.
October 6, 2023, 6:06 am
Film-focused exhibition coming to Sydney
“Film footage about war makes it real and emotive, and it connects and places people into another world – a place that hopefully most of us never have to be.”
By Shane Desiatnik
Ziggy Resnick in rehearsal. Photo: Phil Erbacher
October 3, 2023, 6:48 am
Understanding ourselves through stories
Girls in Boys' Cars follows Asheeka and Rosa, two funny, sharp, adventurous young women who end up on a Thelma and Louise-esque road trip in Western Sydney...
By Jessica Abelsohn
Amy Winehouse in 2004. Photo: Paul Bergen/Redferns/Getty Images
October 2, 2023, 7:07 am
Amy Winehouse’s Jewish moments and photos
...the Winehouse clan has faithfully chronicled Winehouse’s childhood and young adult years, when she attended a Jewish kindergarten, went to bat mitzvahs and enjoyed singing Jewish spiritual music in her free time.
By Mira Zylali
October 2, 2023, 7:06 am
Running off to Jerusalem in search of love
"People think of the ultra-Orthodox as black and white, and depressing," said Triest. "They don't know about them being fashionable or into sex."
By AJN STAFF
September 11, 2023, 6:53 am
Jewish-themed documentaries on your TV
This series, clocking in at six hours, is a detailed patchwork of archival footage cut with interviews with historians and survivors, all held together by Burns’ regular narrator Peter Coyote. It’s unmissable television at its very finest.
By Erin Rosenberg
Sammi Cohen (left) and Sunny Sandler on the set of You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah. Photo: Scott Yamano/Netflix
September 11, 2023, 6:42 am
The makings of an authentic Jewish film
"We really wanted to be careful and represent things authentically and check ourselves. So we had a lead rabbi that was consulting, and then a couple of other rabbis that we would send everything to."
By Lior Zaltzman
September 11, 2023, 6:39 am
From head to sole, and heart to soul
With a profound appreciation of the significance of family and community, her music honours these bonds while infusing her performances with a sense of shared humanity and interconnectedness.
By AJN STAFF
Load More

Enjoy Unlimited Access To The Australian Jewish News Website And All Our Online Content For AUD$18/month Or Just AUD$120/year.

Subscribe Now
Already have an account? Click here to log in