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From left: Genevieve Goldman, Rivka Hirschowitz, Sophie Puterflam and Ariella Rev with their HSC First In Course certificates. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
December 12, 2018, 5:23 pm
Six Jewish students top their HSC courses
Six NSW Jewish students from five different schools are feeling on top of the world after finishing first in the state in a 2018 HSC subject.
By Shane Desiatnik
Keynote speaker at the NAJEX Jewish Remembrance Day service, Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
November 8, 2018, 12:01 am
Reflecting on Armistice centenary
SYDNEY'S Jewish Remembrance Day service is always deeply moving, but it held even more resonance in its latest chapter at the Sydney Jewish Museum last Sunday – almost 100 years to the day since the guns fell silent at the end of World War I, and 95 years since General Sir John Monash officially opened the NSW Jewish War Memorial.
By Shane Desiatnik
Year 12 Moriah College students.
October 28, 2018, 12:00 am
Students knuckle down for HSC exams
An ambitious 15-year-old Masada College student, Brad Neimann, is one of 69,383 students expected to complete their Higher School Certificate (HSC) this spring.
Wendy Barel.
September 27, 2018, 12:01 am
Tributes flow for Wendy Barel
WORDS of comfort, love and support have been shared by family members, friends and colleagues of Masada College's former principal Wendy Barel, who passed away on Sunday, aged 65.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull arrive at Admiralty House. Photo: Noel Kessel
August 30, 2018, 12:01 am
‘I feel very much at home in the Jewish community’
FORMER PM Malcolm Turnbull has paid tribute to the Jewish community for its support as he reflected on his 15 years in Parliament in an interview with The AJN.
By Gareth Narunsky
From left: Rejhan Prohic, Aviva Fox and Egon Sonnenschein with the Righteous accolade bestowed by Yad Vashem.
August 9, 2018, 12:01 am
Muslim saviours honoured
FOUR members of a Muslim Bosnian family have been recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for hiding Sydney resident Aviva Fox during the Holocaust.
By Gareth Narunsky
Paul Weingott reading the wartime diary of Lance Corporal Samuel Weingott, who was killed in action at Gallipoli, aged 22. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
May 6, 2018, 12:01 am
Governor Hurley leads Jewish service
AN emotional and solemn Communal Anzac Day Service at the Sydney Jewish Museum on April 29 featured a reflective speech on the sacrifice and toll of war by NSW Governor David Hurley, and Paul Weingott's reading of excerpts from the diary of his grandfather's first cousin, Samuel Weingott, who died on June 5, 1915 from gunshot wounds sustained in the Gallipoli trenches. 
By Shane Desiatnik
Malcolm Turnbull at the opening of the Sam Moss Library. Photo: Noel Kessel
April 24, 2018, 2:15 pm
PM unveils new library
PRIME Minister and Wentworth MP Malcolm Turnbull reflected on the indelible contribution of Holocaust survivors to modern Australia at the opening of Kesser Torah College's (KTC) new Sam Moss Library last Friday.
Alan Dershowitz with Colonel Richard Kemp. Photo: Giselle Haber
March 1, 2018, 3:10 pm
Dershowitz inspires thousands in Sydney
ANY event with Professor Alan Dershowitz as a keynote speaker is bound to be special, but the 2000-plus audience at UIA NSW's gala event in Sydney last Sunday were, unexpectedly, treated to much more than an inspirational speech.
By Shane Desiatnik
Masada College, which celebrated its 50th birthday last year, could be hit hardest by Gonski 2.0 funding if the proposed plans are passed by the Senate.
June 22, 2017, 12:00 am
Gonski to hurt Masada
MASADA College is the only Jewish school that will lose funding if the Gonski 2.0 proposals are passed by the Federal Senate.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman.
March 30, 2017, 12:00 am
Feldman ‘dropped the ball’
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman admitted last week that he had “dropped the ball” because he still didn’t know the details of Sydney Yeshiva Centre’s child protection policies.
By Joshua Levi
Kesser Torah College primary school students Bayla Gourarie (left) and Liorah Kessel.
March 3, 2017, 12:00 am
Quiz stars bound for New York
Kesser Torah College students Bayla Gourarie and Liorah Kessel are “absolutely ecstatic and over the moon” to have qualified for the finals of the Chidon Sefer Hamitzvos, said KTC Jewish studies teacher Rabbi Yehuda Straiton.
By Yael Brender
Sydney Grammar School HSC graduate Sam Cass receiving his First in Course certificate (for French Extension) from NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli.
December 22, 2016, 12:00 am
Jewish students’ HSC success
Moriah College has once again outperformed other Sydney Jewish day schools in the HSC, coming in at 27th in the NSW All Merit List.
By Yael Brender
The late Rabbi Mendel Itkin. Photo: Noel Kessel
December 18, 2016, 12:00 am
Tributes flow for beloved rabbi
Chabad communities in Sydney and the US are mourning the loss of influential Rabbi Mendel Itkin, who died from ill health last week, aged 61.
By Shane Desiatnik
Storm damage at Kesser Torah College. Photo: Noel Kessel.
June 10, 2016, 12:00 am
Kesser Torah College suffers storm damage
SYDNEY'S Kesser Torah College was extensively damaged during last weekend’s storms and flash flooding.
By Yael Brender
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