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Camilla and Marc at VAMFF. Photo: Peter Haskin
March 14, 2019, 12:34 pm
The fashion flurry
The Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (VAMFF) took centre stage last week. Rebecca Davis reports on the Jewish players.
By Rebecca Davis
Artwork: Adriana Alvarez
March 8, 2019, 1:56 pm
Women who wow
Today is International Women's Day. Rebecca Davis and Sophie Deutsch celebrate a few remarkable women of the community. 
By Rebecca Davis
The driving force behind Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (from left) producer Colin Callender, writer Jack Thorne, author J K Rowling, director John Tiffany and producer Sonia Friedman at the London premiere in 2016. Photo: Dan Wooller
January 31, 2019, 1:01 pm
Bringing Harry Potter to the stage
Getting British author J K Rowling to agree to a new Harry Potter stage play was a coup for two British Jewish producers. After successfully opening in London and New York, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child has its Australian premiere in Melbourne on February 23.
Jesse Lubitz (left) and Lior Albeck-Ripka at the Melbourne Recital Centre where they will hold next year’s music festival. Photo: Peter Haskin
November 28, 2018, 10:39 am
New Jewish music festival
The Shir Madness music festival in Melbourne is passing the baton to a new event for 2019.
From left: Alfred (Uncle Boydie) Turner, activist Leon Saunders and Abe Schwarz at a 2012 commemoration of William Cooper's walk.
October 30, 2018, 12:00 am
Melbourne to mark Cooper’s protest march
Marchers plan to converge on Melbourne's CBD on December 6 to commemorate the walk of Aboriginal human rights advocate William Cooper to the German consulate 80 years ago on that date with a protest note from his Australian Aborigines League over Kristallnacht.
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein.
August 22, 2018, 12:56 pm
Feuerstein headlines ZFA Educators’ Conference
Rabbi Professor Rafael (Rafi) Feuerstein, a well-known Israeli authority in teaching children learning skills, addressed the 2018 Zionist Federation of Australia Educators’ Conference in Melbourne this month.
By Peter Kohn
Comedian Josh Glanc
March 27, 2018, 12:25 pm
Stand up for laughs
It’s the season for laughs as the Melbourne International Comedy Festival gets under way for 26 days from March 28 with the line-up including Jewish comedians from Australia and overseas.
CAMILLA AND MARC Ira Coat. Photo: Lucas Dawson Photography.
March 15, 2018, 2:48 pm
The shmatte stories: Behind the seams of the Melbourne Fashion Festival
By Rebecca Davis
Football action from the 2017 Maccabi Junior Carnival.
January 5, 2018, 1:00 pm
Melbourne set for Maccabi carnival magic
Final preparations are being made in Melbourne to host the biggest Maccabi Junior Carnival since Sydney 2016, with more than 350 participants.
By Shane Desiatnik
US Holocaust scholar Mark Weitzman delivers the Betty and Shmuel Rosenkranz Oration at a Kristallnacht commemoration in Melbourne.
November 17, 2017, 12:00 am
Melbourne reflects on Night of Broken Glass
On November 9, Melbourne's Jewish community commemorated the 79th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass, when a Nazi pogrom against Jews swept through Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland.
By Peter Kohn
Maccabi Junior Carnival - state vs state, but all good mates. Photo: Kym Sher
November 9, 2017, 12:49 pm
Anticipation builds for Maccabi Carnival
Preparations for Maccabi's 36th Junior Carnival are well underway, with several hundred participants, in year 6 - 9, expected to travel to Melbourne for the week-long event from January 14 to 21.
Ike Curtis has converted to Judaism through the Melbourne Beth Din.
July 14, 2017, 12:01 am
‘Compass’ takes on conversion
ABC TV’s Compass will present ‘Ike’s Conversion’ this week, telling the story of 21-year-old Melbournian Ike Curtis, and his journey to Orthodox Judaism through the Melbourne Beth Din.
A requirement of Orthodox weddings is that two Torah-observant male witnesses sign the ketubah.
July 13, 2017, 12:02 am
Couples’ ketubahs ‘not legitimate’?
One couple may need to have a second Jewish wedding ceremony and another wedding is being scrutinised amid claims the officiating rabbi failed to meet halachic standards.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant.
July 6, 2017, 12:04 am
Outcry over Adass appointment
THE Adass Israel School in Melbourne has come under fire after appointing Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant as its new principal.
leading geopolitics and terrorism expert Hagai Segal.
June 16, 2017, 12:01 am
Segal unlocks Middle East puzzle
WITH a topic as complex and rapidly changing as ‘The New Middle East and Why it Matters’, leading geopolitics and terrorism expert Hagai Segal began by saying, “I could talk about this for the next seven hours.”
By Shane Desiatnik
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