Monash University

Survivor Edith Gluck lights a memorial candle with her daughter Donna at
Secondary College's Holocaust Remembrance Service. Photo: Peter Haskin

November 19, 2018, 12:00 am

Shoah education program captivates Parkdale pupils

Parkdale Secondary College in Melbourne has hosted a Holocaust Remembrance Service, part of a federal government pilot program involving Monash and Deakin universities.

By Rebecca Davis

HP president and CEO Dion Weisler accepts his honorary Doctorate of Laws at Monash University.

June 13, 2018, 1:48 pm

Monash Uni honours for Weisler and Geminder

An Australian-born corporate executive has called on IT graduates to draw inspiration from his grandparents and father who escaped the Nazis.

By Peter Kohn

Szaja Chaskiel with Linda Dessau. Photo: Peter Haskin

April 9, 2018, 12:01 am

Survivors, Jewish Holocaust Centre honoured at Government House

Victorian Governor Linda Dessau and her husband Anthony Howard extended the hospitality of Government House to Melbourne's Shoah survivors last Thursday, with guides and staff from the Jewish Holocaust Centre (JHC) invited to a morning tea.

March 5, 2018, 5:29 pm

President strengthens ties

LAST November, Australian businesswoman and philanthropist Millie Phillips made a $20 million donation to Tel Aviv University (TAU) to expand scholarship offerings and bolster faculty programs and facilities.

By Shane Desiatnik

From left: Prof Mark Cooper, Miri Meydan, Prof Paul Zimmet, Moshe Meydan, Kelly O'Dwyer MP, Julia Banks MP and Greg Hunt MP. Photo: Gerard Hynes.

September 4, 2017, 12:01 am

Doyens of diabetes research

MONASH University has officially launched a new Department of Diabetes — and the Jewish connection is strong.

By Rebecca Davis

From left: Ron Finkel, Amos Oz and David Forbes.

June 11, 2017, 12:01 am

Trauma in the spotlight

AN Australian organisation has successfully staged the first international conference on trauma and mental health to be held in Israel, attracting 270 delegates from 16 countries.

Shoah survivors together with their families on stage.
Photo: Peter Haskin

April 27, 2017, 12:01 am

Melbourne commemorates Yom Hashoah

THE Jewish Community Council of Victoria’s (JCCV) annual Yom Hashoah Commemoration for 2017 was held on Sunday night with an estimated 1000 people in attendance.

A Holocaust denial flyer recently distributed at Melbourne universities.

April 25, 2017, 12:01 am

Flyers deny ‘Denial’ facts

HOLOCAUST denial flyers were distributed at the University of Melbourne and Monash University again last week.

Gabi Newman is developing prosthetic hands using 3D printing technologies.

January 13, 2017, 12:00 am

Creating helping hands

A biomedicine and engineering student at Monash University is using 3D printing to create prosthetic hands for children who have physical disabilities.

By Phoebe Roth

Among those lighting candles in memory of the six million victims of the Holocaust were Fred Antman and Maria Curtis. Photo: Peter Haskin.

May 12, 2016, 12:00 am

Melbourne remembers victims in Europe and beyond

THE Yom Hashoah commemoration at Monash University’s Robert Blackwood Hall was particularly poignant this year as the theme shed light on the impact of World War II on Jews and Jewish populations that are sometimes overlooked.

By ZOE KRON

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (left) and newly appointed chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel at Parliament House on Tuesday. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch

October 29, 2015, 12:00 am

Finkel named chief scientist

By Phoebe Roth

April 17, 2015, 12:00 am

Still dancing, 70 years on

By Phoebe Roth

September 8, 2014, 12:00 am

Uni deregisters Socialist Alternative

PROMINENT leftist group Socialist Alternative (SA) has been deregistered as a club at Monash University for discriminating against Jews at one of its recent events.

By Joshua Levi

August 15, 2014, 12:00 am

Jewish students victimised on campus

THERE are fears for the safety of Jewish students at universities across Australia, following a spate of verbal attacks and harassment, which resulted in at least one student being too scared to go to classes and the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) suspending activities at one institution.

By ZOE KRON and Gareth Narunsky

April 27, 2012, 10:00 am

Bid to muddy Monash water

A LEADING water conservationist has described a failed attempt by Students for Palestine (SFP) to undermine a major initiative between Monash University and a biofiltration project in Israel as “really awful”. A debate in the Monash Student Council (MSC) last week heard a motion from SFP calling for the Monash water-reclamation pilot project at Kfar Saba to be ditched because it involves the JNF. SFP called on MSC to “condemn Monash University’s collaboration with the Jewish National Fund [which] occupies land taken from Palestinians and then introduces greenwashing projects on land then only available to Jewish people”. Australasian Union of Jewish Students national chair Daniel Nash said the MSC meeting “descended into farce” after clashes between SFP members and university security, and the motion did not come up for a vote. A further motion calling for the MSC to adopt “neutrality” on Israel-related matters was also not voted on. After an SFP student leader pointed at a bloc of five or six Jewish students and called them “Nazis” and “racist”, the meeting ended and security escorted students from the premises, Nash said. The motion might be put up again at the next MSC meeting in a few weeks, he added. SFP is strongly backed by the far-left Socialist Alternative and both groups have been heavily involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activities against Israeli businesses in Australia. Professor Ana Deletic, director of Monash’s Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, told The AJN that any bid to sidetrack the research between Monash and the biofiltration project at Kfar Saba shows a fundamental lack of understanding, as the filtration pilot project, if adopted widely, will benefit both Israelis and Palestinians. “It doesn’t matter which side of the border you live on. An aquifer doesn’t go through a checkpoint. So if we put it in Kfar Saba, and it goes big scale and replenishes the water, it will have a good effect everywhere,” she said. Deletic said the Kfar Saba project has already attracted positive interest from the Palestinian Authority, with a delegation of officials from Ramallah visiting the project. “I’m not going to discuss any political issue. This is about whether the project is good for people ... and that’s why I was really offended because they [SFP] would not even engage in discussions on what this project’s about,” she said. Executive Council of Australian Jewry executive director Peter Wertheim slammed the attempt to force through the motion. “For decades, far-left groups have tried to impose their pet causes and beliefs onto an unwilling campus audience. The bullying, harassment and occasional acts of violence against students have been regular features of their tactics. Time and again, student representative bodies have rebuffed the attempts of anti-Israel extremists to put words in their mouths, but the extremists never learn.”

By Peter Kohn

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