Gabrielle Upton

May 22, 2019, 11:41 am

NSW govt provides $2m for communal security

Vaucluse MP Gabrielle Upton joined NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman and Minister for Multiculturalism John Sidoti to present the community with a $2 million cheque.

By Evan Zlatkis

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.

December 14, 2017, 12:47 pm

Section 20D: What went wrong?

It's important now that the community does not give up and that we continue to fight for it (Section 20D) to be amended.

NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has promised to strengthen racial vilification laws if Labor is elected in the 2019 NSW election.

December 14, 2017, 12:00 am

NSW government snub over 20D

Jewish communal leaders are furious that after a lengthy campaign supported by a coalition of faith and ethnic groups, the NSW government is not making expected changes to Section 20D of the Anti-Discrimination Act, despite an admission from former attorney-general Gabrielle Upton that the legislation as it currently stands is not working as intended.

By Joshua Levi

JewishCare president Allan Vidor with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at JewishCare’s 80th birthday celebration on December 11. Photo: Noel Kessel

December 15, 2016, 10:00 am

Turnbull makes history at JewishCare

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wished JewishCare a happy 80th anniversary on December 11, saying he always feels like "a part of the wider mishocha" there.

By Shane Desiatnik

Monica Kleinman and Brian Nebenzahl, representing NAJEX, pay their respects to our fallen. Photo: Shane Desiatnik

November 11, 2016, 12:00 am

Community remembers our fallen Diggers

A touching address about the human cost of war, by Jillian Skinner, was one the highlights of the Communal Remembrance Day Service at Sydney Jewish Museum.

By Shane Desiatnik

Sydney's Gidon Goodman, 13, presents his petition for hospital parking fee regulation to NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner with Vaucluse MP Gabrielle Upton at NSW Parliament House on October 11.

October 21, 2016, 12:00 am

Fee fight taken to the top

It was one small meeting, but one giant step in 13-year-old Gidon Goodman’s campaign to reduce exorbitant hospital parking fees affecting thousands of Australians who, like him, require regular and ongoing hospital visits.

By Shane Desiatnik

NSW MLC Scott Farlow, Dr Kieran Le Plastrier, NSW Minister for Mental Health Pru Goward, Coogee MP Bruce Notley-Smith, Jewish House CEO Rabbi Mendel Kastel and NSW MLC Walt Secord at the Interventionist Program launch at Parliament House on September 29. Photo: Shane Desiatnik

October 14, 2016, 2:00 pm

New addiction treatment in the House

A family oriented drug and alcohol addiction treatment program with a 90 per cent success rate in America for helping users to seek further treatment is being offered by Jewish House in Bondi.

By Shane Desiatnik

NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton with Vic Alhadeff (on left) and Jeremy Spinak.

June 9, 2016, 12:00 am

Labor pushes for tougher hate laws

The NSW Labor Opposition has introduced legislation to stop hate speech in NSW, and accused the state government of sitting on its hands instead of fixing the state’s “broken” anti-vilification laws.

By Evan Zlatkis

Gabrielle Upton with surf life savers Royi Levi and Barak Davidovits. Photo: Noel Kessel

March 18, 2016, 12:00 am

From Bondi to Beersheva

THE Australian chapter of Surf Life Saving Israel (SLSI) was officially launched on Sunday afternoon at Bondi Beach, attended by 120 guests and 80 members of local surf life saving clubs.

Front row (from left): The Hon. Justice Arthur Emmett AJA, The Hon. Julie Ward JA, The Hon. Justice Tony Meagher JA, The Hon. Justice Margaret Beazley AO and The Hon. Gabrielle Upton MP. Photo: Giselle Haber Photography

February 19, 2016, 9:30 am

Legal eagles in shul

IT was less a case of appearing before the jury than appearing before the Jewry last week as Sydney’s top legal minds turned out in force at the Great Synagogue for the annual service and dinner to mark the opening of the law term.

From left: co-president Gary Cohen, Rosie Batty, Nora Goodridge, co-president Roger Clifford and Rabbi Mendel Kastel at the gala dinner. Photo: Nadine Saacks

December 11, 2015, 12:00 am

A gala affair for Jewish House

A RECORD amount was raised for Jewish House at the organisation’s annual gala dinner last week, with more than $300,000 to go towards the Bondi crisis centre, which supports the homeless and the disadvantaged, with a strong focus on families affected by domestic violence.

By Evan Zlatkis

Gabrielle Upton
presents
a cheque
to Maccabi NSW
president Danny
Hochberg.
Photo:
Evan Zlatkis

December 1, 2015, 12:00 am

$12,000 for Junior Carnival

MACCABI has received a $12,000 grant from the state government for its Junior Carnival event in Sydney next January.

By Evan Zlatkis

NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione chats to Central Synagogue president Danny Taibel, alongside NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff, and Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas.
Photo: Henry Benjamin

October 30, 2015, 12:00 am

Props to our cops

THE third annual Police Remembrance Service hosted by the NSW Jewish community was held last Friday night at Central Synagogue.

By Gareth Narunsky

October 22, 2015, 10:08 am

‘A historic reform’

NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has publicly admitted for the first time that Section 20D of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act is not working and she will introduce legislation by May to fix it.

By Evan Zlatkis

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