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Anna KharzeevaPhoto: Giselle Haber
December 19, 2024, 9:59 am
Anna Kharzeeva wins inaugural book award
Author wins Wingate Award for Unpublished Manuscripts (Jewish Subject) for her manuscript Warm Walls: A journey from Moscow to Sydney, to self. A memoir with recipes.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Shir's Songs of Hope. Photo: Shir Festival Facebook
December 12, 2024, 11:54 am
An ongoing commitment to cultivating and supporting Jewish creatives
The past year was also the year that our community challenged itself to find new ways to support them and their work.
By Rabbi Alon Meltzer and Anna Stern
Photo: Giselle Haber
December 10, 2024, 9:51 am
‘A timely book’
'Kharzeeva’s memoir is not only the story of her own Russian Jewish family but an important history of the radical evolution of Russian Jewry'
By AJN STAFF
December 4, 2024, 10:46 am
Shortlist announced
Mazal tov to those announced on the shortlist for the The Wingate Award for Unpublished Manuscripts (Jewish Subject).
By AJN STAFF
Siblings enjoying their PJ library books.
November 23, 2023, 12:40 pm
Welcome packs and support for community
"The power of seeing yourself represented in a book can't be underestimated..."
By AJN STAFF
Photo: Pinterest
November 23, 2023, 5:30 am
Reflections from the Family Cookbook Society
Throughout the year, a group of family recipe enthusiasts came together to learn how to create and record family recipes, guided by Anna Kharzeva, a food writer and program manager at Shalom.
By Ilan Harris
David Bryfman, CEO the Jewish Education Project. Photo: Giselle Haber
July 23, 2023, 6:36 am
Exploring what Jewish education is good for
Bryfman, the current CEO of the Jewish Education Project and past Shalom staff member, shared his thoughts on the challenges, bright spots and innovations in holistic Jewish education.
By AJN STAFF
Selah Gregor receiving her Stories for Simon book.
July 5, 2022, 3:13 pm
Shalom families receive Stories for Simon
Stories for Simon speaks of love, understanding and the unification of two cultures through stories.
By RACHEL TREISMAN
February 13, 2022, 9:00 am
Our own Jewish version of Wordle
Fun with a dash of casual Jewish education thrown in
By AJN STAFF
From left: Jackie Elias, Mitch Burnie and Emma Rapaport.
September 19, 2021, 1:30 pm
Sauerkraut was ferment to be
This year’s crop at Adamama seemed to have been plagued, but nothing was going to stop the “Kraut Krew” making their Rosh Hashanah sauerkraut.
By AJN STAFF
Photo: Dreamstime.com
September 20, 2020, 9:50 pm
Shalom sorry for Black Lives Matter endorsement
Rabbi Alon Meltzer: 'We acknowledge that the BLM movement, as an official organisation, has a number of problematic stances – both antisemitic and anti-Israel'.
By AJN STAFF
Fiona Harari spoke at the Yom Hashoah commemoration.
April 23, 2020, 6:20 am
Shoah survivors inspire online
'We must strive to learn from the past, and to ensure that such atrocities are never again perpetrated'.
By Sophie Deutsch
Alexis Fishman (left) stars as Chaya, Lloyd Allison-Young plays Isaac, and Claudia Ware stars as his wife Shelley in The God of Isaac. Photos: Blumenthal Photography
September 11, 2019, 2:10 am
Isaac’s quest for identity
Join Isaac Adams as he embarks on a search to answer questions about his heritage and religion in Shalom’s annual play, The God of Isaac, opening at the Eternity Playhouse.
By Sophie Deutsch
A periscopic view from the succah designed by Scale Architecture.
September 1, 2019, 12:00 am
Succah by the Sea
REGULAR visitors to Sydney's iconic Sculpture by the Sea can look forward to something a little different this year.
Amos Oz. Photo: Omer Messinger/PA
January 3, 2019, 12:01 am
Oz remembered
ISRAEL and world Jewry have "lost a giant" with the passing of Amos Oz, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Peter Wertheim said this week.
By Gareth Narunsky
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