Emanuel Synagogue

April 30, 2019, 4:21 pm

Israeli, Palestinian diplomats in conversation

ISRAELI ambassador Mark Sofer will be in conversation with the Head of the General Delegation of Palestine Izzat Abdulhadi this Sunday, in what Emanuel Synagogue's Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins calls an “historic opportunity” for the community.

By Gareth Narunsky

Front from left: Jewish LGBT+ World Congress president Frank Giaoui, Dayenu president Kim Gotlieb and Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah with Congress members at Emanuel Synagogue. Photos: Shane Desiatnik

March 31, 2019, 12:00 am

Historic conference packs a punch and a party

FROM a "queer tour" of the Sydney Jewish Museum and more than 20 small group seminars by 24 presenters from around the world, the 25th Jewish LGBT+ World Congress proved to be a colourful celebration of inclusivity.

By Shane Desiatnik

Ilan Buchman and Oscar Shub hold their ketubah in front of the Sydney Jewish Museum's marriage display. Photos: Sophie Deutsch

March 18, 2019, 12:01 am

‘Inspiration to follow the kind of life that we have’

Nearly one year after Ilan Buchman and Oscar Shub married in Australia’s first official religious same-sex wedding, they spoke with Sophie Deutsch about the significance of tying the knot after 47 years together, and the inspiring example their enduring love has set for others.

Members of Dayenu and the Jewish LGBT+ World Congress at the recent 2019 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

March 18, 2019, 12:00 am

Sydney to make Jewish LGBT+ history

Get ready to learn, discover, pray and, of course, party … because the 25th Jewish LGBT+ World Congress is coming to Sydney from March 21-24 – and you are invited!

By Shane Desiatnik

Dr Kerryn Phelps (second from left) with her wife Jackie and three other members of Dayenu at the 2019 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

March 14, 2019, 12:00 am

From a protest to a celebration

I hope this Congress helps LGBTQI Jewish communities around the world to succeed in their struggle for equality and social justice.

By Kerryn Phelps

January 3, 2019, 12:01 am

Rabbinate reform urged

IT has been revealed that Sydney’s Orthodox rabbis were told they were prohibited from attending the communal funeral service of former NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) Jeremy Spinak, who died at the age of 36 last year, because it was being held at “a Reform Temple” .

December 6, 2018, 11:29 am

A Jew is a Jew?

December 6, 2018, 12:01 am

Graduate’s son not welcome

A MORIAH College graduate is outraged that he can't send his own kids to the school because he married someone whose mother converted to Judaism through the Emanuel Synagogue.

By Joshua Levi

From left: Jewish House board member Ron Hirsch, Rabbi Mendel Kastel and Gabrielle Upton in 2016.

December 3, 2018, 12:00 am

Grants boost for Sydney Jewish organisations

The Jewish community has received a $130,000 Chanukah present from the NSW government, with six organisations – predominantly in the Vaucluse electorate – successfully being awarded funding in this year's round of the Community Building Partnership program.

By Gareth Narunsky

Tuvia Kastel reciting tehilim at Chabad North Shore. Photo: Noel Kessel

November 1, 2018, 12:01 am

Sydney shules show solidarity

AS Pittsburgh faces its darkest days following the worst antisemitic attack in American history, Jewish communities around Australia are paying heartfelt tributes to the victims, their loved ones and the broader Pittsburgh community.

September 28, 2018, 12:07 pm

Shir Madness sure to be a success

An eclectic festival celebrating Jewish music through the ages, the Shir Madness Jewish Music Festival returns next month as a mega line-up of musicians take to a new venue in Emanuel Synagogue's recently renovated premises. Sophie Deutsch reports.

July 10, 2018, 12:00 am

Leeser to deliver Human Rights address

Federal politician Julian Leeser will examine the singling out of Israel by the international community and the role of international human rights when delivering the 2018 B’nai B’rith Human Rights Address in Sydney on July 15.

The opening of the new sanctuary at Emanuel Synagogue.

May 23, 2018, 10:42 am

New Emanuel Shule sanctuary opens

Australia's first lady and respected businesswoman Lucy Turnbull said she was struck by the beautiful injunction – "do not separate yourself from the community" – inscribed on the wall of Emanuel Synagogue's new sanctuary, which was officially inaugurated on May 14 in the presence of nearly 600 people.

Ilan Buchman and Oscar Shub tied the knot at Emanuel Synagogue in Australia's first same-sex religious marriage. Photo: Robert Klein

May 11, 2018, 12:01 am

SSM in shule makes history

SAME-sex partners Ilan Buchman and Oscar Shub used to wear broken black commitment rings inscribed with the words "until we all belong". Last week, those rings became part of the couple's past when the pair exchanged two full circle wedding rings at Emanuel Synagogue in what is believed to be the first official religious same-sex wedding in Australia.

Professor Anthony Luder examines an infant at Ziv Hospital in Israel.

March 23, 2018, 12:06 pm

Healing hands for Syrian kids

Syrian children injured in the bloody civil war tearing apart Israel's northern neighbour have found healing, caring hands in northern Israel, as they undergo treatment at the Ziv Hospital in Tzfat.

By Peter Kohn

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