Professor Suzanne Rutland
Professor Leon Mann (left) and Margaret Price at the memorial benches dedication ceremony at Broken Hill Synagogue. Photo: AJHS
August 24, 2023, 11:49 am
Huge crowd honours shule’s history
On the Sunday morning of the event, more than 100 people gathered in the shule’s forecourt for the dedication ceremony of two memorial benches.
By AJN STAFF
Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
November 12, 2021, 9:50 am
COVID: NSW Jewry coped better than Vic
"One of the key messages is that Melbourne's lack of a united communal structure meant that it was less well prepared to deal with the challenges that COVID-19 raised."
By Gareth Narunsky and Peter Kohn
Effi Eitam in March 2017. Photo: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90
November 26, 2020, 12:00 am
Outrage over proposed Holocaust memorial head
'The reputation of Yad Vashem as a world-renowned centre of teaching, research and remembrance will be eroded and diminished'.
By Gareth Narunsky
From left: Elly Brooks (JHC executive member), Warren Fineberg (JHC executive director), Sue Hampel (JHC co-president), Lisa Phillips (JHC director of education), JHC director of education, Jayne Josem (JHC curator & head of collections) and Norman Seligman (Sydney Jewish Museum CEO).
November 20, 2017, 12:00 am
Holocaust organisations unite
A REGIONAL body to coordinate Holocaust commemorative and educational organisations in Australia, New Zealand and south east Asia, has been launched at a landmark conference.
By Peter Kohn
Avril Alba (left) and Suzanne Rutland.
July 20, 2015, 12:00 am
Alba to succeed Rutland
A PROMINENT academic with special interest in the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish history, Dr Avril Alba, will take over from Professor Suzanne Rutland in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney from the second semester of this year.
By Phoebe Roth
June 10, 2015, 12:00 am
Demography in focus
17-5-15. From left: Greg Barton, Suzaane Rutland, Sam Lipski. Book launch of "Let My People Go" at Beth Weizmann. Photo: Peter Haskin
May 27, 2015, 12:00 am
Refusenik campaign recalled
By Peter Kohn
May 15, 2015, 12:00 am
A must-read book
By Evan Zlatkis
May 8, 2015, 12:01 am
Refusenik campaign recalled
By Peter Kohn
April 3, 2014, 12:00 am
Jewish education failing to make the grade
A GROUNDBREAKING study highlighting weaknesses in the way Hebrew and Jewish studies are being taught at Jewish schools across Australia has been welcomed by Australian Jewish educators, who agree with the findings that Australian Jewry has entered a “new era” and curriculums must be revised accordingly.
By Timna Jacks
January 30, 2013, 12:00 am
Conference explores language and culture
THE role that language plays in identity and culture will be a central theme at this year’s Australian Association of Jewish Studies (AAJS) conference being held next month.
By Gareth Narunsky
November 4, 2011, 12:00 am
Academic exchange in spite of protests
DESPITE calls for its cancellation, the University of Sydney’s Israel Research Forum went ahead as scheduled on Monday, with local experts and Israeli scholars exchanging ideas on everything from water scarcity to tissue regeneration.
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