Commemoration
A Jewish group from around Australia at the Broken Hill Synagogue Museum.
September 21, 2023, 11:43 am
A weekend of commemoration
Among the highlights over the weekend were a capacity Shabbat service, a guided walk along Argent Street with its memories of Jewish shops and merchants, and a ceremony attended by over 100 people...
By Carol Saffer
Professor Philippe Sands. Photo: Screenshot.
November 15, 2021, 8:00 am
Encounters with Nazis’ offspring
Melbourne's Jewish community gathered online last week for the annual Betty & Shmuel Rosenkranz Oration.
By Peter Kohn
November 11, 2021, 10:00 am
Eddie’s moving final message
In his last-ever interview, played at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies' Kristallnacht commemoration, Eddie Jaku shared a message with the Australian Jewish community: “Be friendly, be kind. Love is a beautiful thing.”
By Evan Zlatkis
Eddie Jaku during his last interview.
November 4, 2021, 10:15 am
‘Broken glass, unbroken spirit’
“Eddie’s remarkable positivity reminds us that even when antisemitism threatens us today, we must not allow it to break us.”
By Gareth Narunsky
Orit Brand lights a candle for Hadar Cohen, an IDF soldier killed by terrorists in Jerusalem. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 15, 2021, 1:18 pm
‘The rawness of pain’
Australian Jewry this week paused to honour Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror on Yom Hazikaron.
By CARLY DOUGLAS
Sofia Parij lights a candle with her family. Photo: Giselle Haber
April 15, 2021, 9:38 am
Soviet victims remembered
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin – who is of Soviet descent – said what happened to Soviet Jews is one of the “least understood aspects” of the Holocaust.
By Gareth Narunsky
A woman lays flowers at a menorah monument close to the Babi Yar ravine where tens of thousands of Jews were killed during WWII. Photo: AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky
April 1, 2021, 3:43 pm
Why we honour the martyred Soviet Jews
'Through these acts of remembrance, we have thwarted the killers who sought to obliterate not only Jewish life but any memory that our people ever lived and died'.
By Alex Ryvchin
January 29, 2021, 6:30 pm
A date to commemorate
'With the passing of the survivors, greater attention and effort will be required to ensure that memory of the disaster is not lost'.
By Danny Hochberg
Rabbi Sacks at Moriah College in 2006.
November 17, 2020, 3:59 pm
Australian Jewry remembers Rabbi Sacks
'The event was a fitting tribute to a man whose teachings inspired a generation and will continue to do so for many years to come'.
By AJN STAFF
November 12, 2020, 2:55 pm
‘We stand with you’
On Kristallnacht, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian remarked, “We stand with you in remembering every single victim, every single Jew who experienced the worst in humanity.”
By Sophie Deutsch
From left: Dave Sharma, Ron Hoenig, Vic Alhadeff, Woollahra mayor Susan Wynne, Waverley Councillor Leon Goltsman, Mick Willing, Rabbi Mendel Kastel, Jewish House president Roger Clifford.
October 22, 2020, 12:00 am
Honouring our police
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mick Willing gave the keynote address at a police remembrance service at Central Synagogue last Friday.
By AJN STAFF
From left: Yitzhak Rabin, US president Bill Clinton and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony in September 1993.
October 2, 2020, 9:00 am
Remembering Yitzhak Rabin
'This is an opportunity to bring the lessons of the assassination and the importance of Rabin’s legacy to a new generation of Jewish youth'.
By AJN STAFF
Photo: Noel Kessel
October 1, 2020, 6:00 am
Babi Yar: ‘Pierce the silence’
On September 29-30, 1941, approximately 33,771 men, women and children were massacred by the Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators in a ravine on the northern edge of Kiev.
By Evan Zlatkis
Baruch Ben-Ygal and other family and friends mourn at the funeral of IDF soldier Amit Ben-Ygal on May 12, 2020. Photo: Yossi Aloni/Flash90
May 17, 2020, 12:00 am
Australian Jewry to hold memorial for slain IDF soldier
An online memorial service for slain Israel Defence Forces soldier Amit Ben-Ygal will be held on Sunday, May 17 at 6pm AEST.
By AJN STAFF and JTA
From left: Constable Glen Humphris, Senior Constable Kevin King, Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor and Constable Josh Prestney. Credit: Victoria Police
May 10, 2020, 8:58 pm
Jewish community honours fallen police
'To think that Lynette, Kevin, Glen and Josh were just doing their job … in an effort to keep our roads safe. They should have returned home to their loved ones and they didn't'.
By Rebecca Davis
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