Australian Defence Force
Photo: Peter Haskin
December 17, 2020, 12:00 am
‘Bringing light into dark places’
By Rebecca Davis
Private Greg Sher.
December 3, 2020, 12:00 am
‘Sanity has prevailed’
Felix Sher said if ADF Chief General Angus Campbell wanted his son’s citation back, he could ­“collect it himself from my son’s gravestone”.
By Peter Kohn
Keynote speaker at the NAJEX Jewish Remembrance Day service, Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
November 8, 2018, 12:01 am
Reflecting on Armistice centenary
SYDNEY'S Jewish Remembrance Day service is always deeply moving, but it held even more resonance in its latest chapter at the Sydney Jewish Museum last Sunday – almost 100 years to the day since the guns fell silent at the end of World War I, and 95 years since General Sir John Monash officially opened the NSW Jewish War Memorial.
By Shane Desiatnik
Rabbi Ralph Genende speaking at the unveiling of the new statue of General Sir John Monash. Photo: Fiona Silsby
July 19, 2018, 12:00 am
Monash: An example to us all
Australian War Memorial director Dr Brendan Nelson not only focused on Monash's Jewishness, but attributed his character and leadership to his embodiment of Jewish values.
Paul Weingott reading the wartime diary of Lance Corporal Samuel Weingott, who was killed in action at Gallipoli, aged 22. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
May 6, 2018, 12:01 am
Governor Hurley leads Jewish service
AN emotional and solemn Communal Anzac Day Service at the Sydney Jewish Museum on April 29 featured a reflective speech on the sacrifice and toll of war by NSW Governor David Hurley, and Paul Weingott's reading of excerpts from the diary of his grandfather's first cousin, Samuel Weingott, who died on June 5, 1915 from gunshot wounds sustained in the Gallipoli trenches. 
By Shane Desiatnik
Artist's impression of the new Australian Jewish War Memorial.
May 3, 2018, 12:01 am
National Jewish war memorial to open in August
THE dedication ceremony of the new Australian Jewish War Memorial in Canberra will be held on Sunday, August 12 to coincide with the commemoration of the Centenary of General Sir John Monash's knighthood, the ACT Jewish Community's secretary Dr Merrilyn Sernack has announced.
By Shane Desiatnik
French PM Edouard Philippe (left) and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull with a bust of General Sir John Monash at the opening of the Sir John Monash Centre. Photo: Pascal Rossignol, Pool via AP
May 3, 2018, 12:01 am
‘Our greatest general’
OPENING the new Sir John Monash Centre in northern France on April 24, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull paid tribute to Australia's greatest citizen soldier and to the 11,000 Diggers who fell in France during World War I and have no graves.
By Peter Kohn
Private Greg Sher.
February 9, 2017, 12:00 am
Shers’ hate mailer behind bars
The jailing of Amirah Droudis for murdering the ex-wife of Lindt Cafe gunman Man Haron Monis has closed a chapter for the family of fallen digger Greg Sher.
By Peter Kohn
From left: VAJEX president Judy Landau, vice-president Julie Leder, Major General Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Squadron Leader Peter Meehan, bugler Tim Williams, chaplain Rabbi Dovid Gutnick and Major General Jim Barry.
May 9, 2016, 12:00 am
Honouring our Anzacs
SENIOR military figure Peter Meehan chronicled the heroism of Australian soldiers during World War I in a passionate, sometimes emotional address to an Anzac Day commemoration service held by the Victorian Association of Jewish Ex & Servicemen and Women (VAJEX).
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton at the NAJEX commemoration. Photo: Alan Shaw
November 16, 2015, 12:00 am
Recalling our diggers
MORE than 150 people attended the NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women’s (NAJEX’s) Remembrance Day service at the Sydney Jewish Museum on Sunday, November 8.
By Gareth Narunsky
August 12, 2013, 12:00 am
Rabbi reaches for the skies
RABBI Yossi Friedman, who last week became the newest chaplain for the Australian Defence Force (ADF), said he’s excited to meet the people that put their lives on the line to defend our country.
By Joshua Levi
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