Alex Ryvchin
The makeshift memorial at Bondi Pavilion after the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, seen on December 15, 2025. Photo: Nadine Saacks
June 14, 2026, 8:36 am
Bringing light to dispel the darkness
'We are determined to be the change, to live the change in the form of national pride, community pride and to live lives worthy of those who were taken from us'
By Alex Ryvchin
Alex Ryvchin addressing media in Washington, DC.
March 12, 2026, 11:47 am
Two requests of the United Nations
Have you done all you can to drive this evil from the world?
By Alex Ryvchin
A protester holds up an offensive sign during Sunday's so-called "March for Humanity". Photo: Facebook
August 7, 2025, 11:16 am
Bridge battle was lost, but we’ll win the war
'There is no evidence to suggest, and much to the contrary, that a rally of this sort wins over new supporters or leads to material policy outcomes'
By Alex Ryvchin
PM Anthony Albanese and Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney on July 10. Photo: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts
July 17, 2025, 8:24 am
Envoy’s plan to begin the fightback
Extreme anti-Israel activists are not freedom fighters or peaceniks. They are a threat to us all.
By Alex Ryvchin
ECAJ CEO Alex Ryvchin delivers the B'nai B'rith Human Rights Oration at Glen Eira Town Hall in Melbourne. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 10, 2025, 11:09 am
Zionism our connection to the Jewish story
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin delivered the 2025 B’nai B’rith Oration and accepted the Human Rights Award
By Alex Ryvchin
ECAJ co-CEO Alex Ryvchin at Emanuel School's prize giving night.
January 9, 2025, 10:40 am
The seven living truths
I want to talk to you about seven truths. Seven guiding principles that I have observed in my life, and particularly over the past 14 months.
By Alex Ryvchin
Alex Ryvchin. Photo: Giselle Haber
November 21, 2024, 11:43 am
Saving others to save ourselves
With our help, they will hang on and live with pride and dignity knowing that they too are worthy of being saved.
By Alex Ryvchin
Alex Ryvchin marches with the Dayenu flag. Photo: Supplied
March 28, 2024, 12:51 pm
Why I marched at the Mardi Gras
I realised how detached I had been from a segment of my own community, and the commonalities of gay and Jewish identity.
By Alex Ryvchin
A child wears an Israeli flag at the "Lights of Hope" event last in Sydney last Thursday night. Photo: Vicki Lauren Photography
December 14, 2023, 10:53 am
This Chanukah, live proudly as a Jew
The outcome of this war will determine whether a Jewish state, capable of preserving Jewish life and contributions to humanity, can long endure.
By Alex Ryvchin
The train station at Sobibor. Photo: Jacques Lahitte/Wikimedia Commons
April 27, 2023, 9:06 am
The nobility and anguish of Jewish resistance
'Why did everything come so easily to the enemy?'
By Alex Ryvchin
The vista of Jerusalem. Photo: Jacek Sopotnicki | Dreamstime.com
March 19, 2023, 5:59 pm
What are we fighting for?
Defending Israel, its right to peace and security and to freely engage with the world, also means defending an idea. It is the idea that dispersed, colonised peoples can be free
By Alex Ryvchin
Alex Ryvchin speaks to WJC president Ronald Lauder at a reception for the Spanish Foreign Minister.
October 18, 2022, 9:00 pm
Advocacy and Representation is our path to victory
Whether we like it or not, the UN still carries immense moral weight.
By Alex Ryvchin
The graffiti spotted at the University of Melbourne. Photo: Plus61J Media
July 21, 2022, 11:59 am
How we’re fighting back against antisemitism
'The antisemitism we face today is of an entirely different character and severity'
By Alex Ryvchin
Alex Ryvchin visiting the site of Babi Yar in 2016.
September 29, 2021, 7:02 pm
‘It is the duty of every Jew to know their story’
Over the course of just two days, on September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 Ukrainian Jews were shot to death at Babi Yar. Eighty years on, Alex Ryvchin discusses his personal connection to the massacre and his reflections on its anniversary.
By Alex Ryvchin
A woman lays flowers at a menorah monument close to the Babi Yar ravine where tens of thousands of Jews were killed during WWII. Photo: AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky
April 1, 2021, 3:43 pm
Why we honour the martyred Soviet Jews
'Through these acts of remembrance, we have thwarted the killers who sought to obliterate not only Jewish life but any memory that our people ever lived and died'.
By Alex Ryvchin
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