Jeremy Spinak

Mike Kelly previously addressing a NAJEX Anzac commemoration. Photo: Noel Kessel

August 20, 2020, 8:00 am

Mike Kelly: ‘We have to be on our guard’

Former federal MP Mike Kelly, whose son Ben Sakker Kelly was elected as a deputy, was the guest speaker at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies annual general meeting earlier this week

By Sophie Deutsch

The late Jeremy Spinak with his twins Michael and Grace. Photo: Supplied

August 6, 2020, 6:39 pm

Jeremy Spinak doco to air this Sunday

Produced and directed by filmmaker Mitzi Goldman – Spinak’s first cousin – Jez follows the former NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president in the last five months of his life.

By Gareth Narunsky

Lia Levi with daughter Lara and Mount Sinai principal Phil Roberts.
Photo: Gareth Narunsky

July 30, 2020, 5:24 pm

Josh Levi buddy bench at Mount Sinai College

Principal Phil Roberts, who taught Josh in primary school, recalled his devotion to the Raiders and how he would come into class mimicking how the commentator would call the game.

By Gareth Narunsky

March 13, 2020, 9:53 am

Doco honours Jeremy’s legacy

Facing his mortality, the late Jeremy Spinak asked a filmmaker to document the final months of his life 'so that [my] children will know who I am'.

By Gareth Narunsky

Jeremy Spinak at the 2018 Yom Ha'atzmaut cocktail party. Photo: Noel Kessel

November 22, 2019, 6:00 am

Honouring Jeremy a year on

'What a mensch, what an enormous loss': the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) dedicated its November plenum to its former president, the late Jeremy Spinak.

By Gareth Narunsky

Rhiannon Spinak (right) accepts husband Jeremy Spinak's award from Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Photo: Salty Dingo

March 7, 2019, 12:01 am

‘Another example of the legacy he leaves’

JEREMY Spinak's tireless work building bridges with diverse communities and spearheading the Keep NSW Safe campaign was posthumously recognised at the Premier's Harmony Dinner last week.

By Gareth Narunsky

January 3, 2019, 12:01 am

Rabbinate reform urged

IT has been revealed that Sydney’s Orthodox rabbis were told they were prohibited from attending the communal funeral service of former NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) Jeremy Spinak, who died at the age of 36 last year, because it was being held at “a Reform Temple” .

November 22, 2018, 12:01 am

‘A beautiful, unique young man of untold value’

JEREMY Spinak was one of the most influential and highly respected communal leaders in Sydney, but last Thursday morning at the age of 36 he succumbed to a rare form of cancer.

By Joshua Levi and Gareth Narunsky

Leslie Berger, Gladys Berejiklian and Jeremy Spinak. Photo: Giselle Haber

August 23, 2018, 12:01 am

‘I am no statistic’

JEREMY Spinak upstaged Premier Gladys Berejiklian at an emotional NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) annual general meeting (AGM) on Tuesday night.

NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman. Photo: Noel Kessel

June 7, 2018, 12:01 am

‘A line in the sand’

UNDER new laws to be introduced in the NSW Parliament, any individual who incites or threatens violence against the Jewish community could face three years in prison.

NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley at the JBOD plenum. Photo: Noel Kessel

February 22, 2018, 12:01 am

Foley’s pledge on 20D

NSW Opposition leader Luke Foley began his guest address at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) plenum on February 20 in dramatic style, holding a poster produced and circulated by Antipodean Resistance as an example of how "weak, inadequate and broken" Section 20D of the NSW anti-discrimination Act is, before restating his promise to "fix it within 100 days" should Labor be elected to government in 2019.

By Shane Desiatnik

Andrew Casey, who died suddenly last week.

February 8, 2018, 12:00 am

Mourning community stalwart Andrew Casey

Tributes have flooded in for community stalwart Andrew Casey, who died suddenly at the age of 64 last week. Casey came to Australia as a refugee, was a journalist, media adviser, political activist, trade unionist and proud Jew.

Sydney couple Dr Kerryn Phelps (left) and Jackie Stricker-Phelps at their New York wedding.

December 17, 2017, 12:00 am

Jewish chuppas booked for same sex weddings

The first two same-sex Jewish weddings in Australia to be solemnised by a rabbi will take place next year, as Jewish community leaders applauded the legalisation of same-sex marriage, while high-profile gay Jewish Australians expressed joy at the landmark change.

By Shane Desiatnik and Peter Kohn

November 23, 2017, 12:00 am

Injection of youth for JBOD

TWENTY-two people under the age of 35 have been elected as NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) general franchise deputies.

By Joshua Levi

Shmuel Ben-Shmuel with JBOD chief executive Vic Alhadeff. Photo: Mark Zworestine

October 27, 2017, 12:01 am

L’hitraot Shmuel Ben-Shmuel

AFTER four years in the role, outgoing Israeli ambassador to Australia Shmuel Ben-Shmuel told the NSW Jewish community's leaders how sad he is to be heading home.

By Joshua Levi