World War I
Rabbi Yossi Friedman led the dawn service in Coogee on Anzac Day.
April 27, 2023, 12:01 pm
Rabbi Yossi ‘honoured’ to lead Coogee dawn service
"We're all united in service of our country, and our nation is only as strong as all of us are, provided we're united and working towards the same goals with the same values,"
By RACHEL TREISMAN
Captain John Einfeld (front) and Chaplain Rabbi Lazarus Goldman (right) leading a Jewish New Year service in Lae, New Guinea, in 1944. Photo: Australian War Memorial
September 6, 2021, 2:30 pm
High Holy Days on the battlefield
Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur were observed in the most challenging of circumstances by Jewish diggers serving in World War I and World War II.
By Shane Desiatnik
October 13, 2019, 8:06 am
‘Perpetrated by a warped mind’
The gravestones of Commonwealth soldiers, including 15 Australians who died during WWI, were defaced in Haifa.
By Joshua Levi
Millington's grave at Sidcup Cemetery in Britain.
August 2, 2018, 12:01 am
A righteous Tasman?
A BRITISH archivist is campaigning for an Australian mariner who is said to have saved Greek Jews during the Holocaust to be considered for recognition by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.
By Peter Kohn
Leonard Keysor.
August 11, 2015, 2:35 pm
Honour for Lone Pine hero
LEONARD Keysor, a Jewish World War I hero who received a Victoria Cross medal for his efforts during the Battle of Lone Pine, has been recognised with a community cottage in his name from Defence Housing Australia (DHA).
By Phoebe Roth
Curator Deborah Rechter holds a shell casing that was transformed into trench art during World War I. Photo: Peter Haskin
July 2, 2015, 11:53 am
Jews on the front line
A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia highlights the profound impact of World War I on the Jewish soldiers caught up in it, and on the fledgling community back home.
May 1, 2015, 12:00 am
‘Edelman saved my life’
By Joshua Levi
June 16, 2014, 12:00 am
Hailing Monash’s World War I endeavours
A NEW memorial centre to be built in France commemorating the tens of thousands of diggers who lost their lives on the Western Front during World War I is to be named in honour of Australia’s Jewish military leader General Sir John Monash.
November 20, 2013, 12:00 am
WWI veteran honoured
A SPORTING oval on the University of Technology, Sydney campus at Lindfield is set to be named in honour of Jewish Victoria Cross (VC) recipient Leonard Keysor.
November 12, 2012, 12:11 pm
Beersheva charge redux
FIVE years short of a century since the thunder of horses’ hooves across the desert near Beersheva helped change the face of the Middle East, the famous Australian Light Horse charge has been re-enacted.
By Peter Kohn
August 8, 2012, 12:00 am
DNA matching for World War I diggers a race against time
SYDNEYSIDER Peter Allen is widening a search for families of Australian Jewish soldiers lost in the bloody World War I Battle of Fromelles in France, and believes he has found evidence of another Jewish digger.
By Peter Kohn
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