Purim
Photo: Iranian Australians and their supporters rally at Hyde Park.
March 5, 2026, 8:00 am
Purim echo in today’s conflict with Iran
Purim echoes through the Iran conflict as hopes rise for freedom, peace and a new future for the region.
By AJN STAFF
Queen Esther. Photo: Kveller
March 4, 2026, 12:12 pm
Esther’s blueprint for combatting antisemitism in Australia
Change is needed across all sectors of society, and strong, moral clarity from leadership is critical.
By Andrew Wallace MP
: Detail of an illustrated megillah, Ancona Italy, 1815. Photo: Sothebys
February 27, 2026, 8:00 am
A paradigm of Jewish life in exile
Purim is the most joyous of festivals, but its lessons of discrimination and possible genocide and our reaction thereto are as relevant today as when the megillah was first written.
By Yossi Aaron
Queen Esther. Photo: Kveller
February 5, 2026, 11:17 am
A story of belonging
John Irving's new book Queen Esther reimagines identity and history through one of the strongest Jewish heroines. Jessica Abelsohn explores the author's 16th work of fiction.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Photo: Purim Spiel
March 7, 2025, 5:00 pm
Laughter is essential and therapeutic
'If you’ve never wedged yourself into seat E14 between Mrs Goldberg and Mr Finklestein at the Phoenix Theatre, you don’t know what you’re missing'
By TALIA BOLTIN
Canadian First Nations delegation members visiting Newtown Shule.
March 30, 2023, 12:50 pm
Members drawn by events done the inner west way
More than 80 congregants attended the dinner reception, as well as Biripi elder Aunty Alice Golding, and Indigenous leader William Cooper’s great-great-grandson Michael McDonogh
By AJN STAFF
Jarod Rhine-Davis (centre) in The Phantom of the Babka.
April 3, 2022, 11:35 am
Phantom adds fun to Purim Spiel
Under the helm of producer Talia Boltin and the direction of Eitan Meyerowitz, the show was a great success with laughter from the audience throughout.
By Mia Gardiner
High vis and hot dogs at Bialik College.
March 29, 2022, 2:17 pm
Purim sameach to all!
Eve Clifford at Mount Sinai College.
March 29, 2022, 2:12 pm
Purim parties prove popular
Rabbi Gutnick leads a Purim Megillah reading at the MCG.
March 24, 2022, 9:18 am
Rabbi leads Megillah reading
Rabbi Dovid Gutnick led a group of about 40 participants in reading the Megillah during halftime at the AFL.
By Peter Kohn
March 24, 2022, 5:00 am
A viral kind of Purim
Purim may have been last week, but Masada College is still celebrating with their viral video.
By AJN STAFF
March 22, 2022, 12:00 pm
Finding true meaning in what we do
"Meaning is subjective and arbitrary. Everyone decides for themselves what’s meaningful. For one person it’s acquiring knowledge, for another it’s protecting the environment and for a third it might be helping others..."
By Rabbi Mendy Ajzenszmidt
March 20, 2022, 1:31 pm
Phantom of the Babka
An original musical comedy with a good mix of classic Yiddish humour, current affairs and political satire thrown in.
By AJN STAFF
March 18, 2022, 11:02 am
As the countdown begins
Moshe established for Israel that “shoalim v’dorshim – they ask and expound” matters to do with a festival – traditionally thirty days before its onset. (Megillah32b; Shulchan Aruch Ohr Hachayim 429:1)
By YOSSI ARON
Photo: Aleksandr Koltyrin/Dreamstime.com
March 17, 2022, 11:16 am
Purim was the one day I wasn’t in disguise
From Purim to the Pride March.
By Dassi Herszberg
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