National Council of Jewish Women of Australia
Dr Mushira Aboo Dia speaking at NCJWA (Vic). Photo: Peter Haskin
August 23, 2018, 5:09 pm
Medicine, the path to Arab–Israeli peace
"I SEE all women as women." Mushira Aboo Dia is an Israeli-Arab obstetrician and gynaecologist, practising at Hadassah Hospital and Bat Ami in Jerusalem. With deep divisions entrenched in a complex society, the maternity wards are no different. But there are also shared stories to be found, reflected Aboo Dia in conversation with The AJN. Aboo Dia is visiting as a guest of Hadassah Australia and addressed more than 40 women at the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (Victoria) on Sunday. 
By Rebecca Davis
Nik Djumin playing klezmer tunes for COA Sydney clients and staff. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
July 29, 2018, 12:01 am
$17k funding boost welcomed
IN a welcome funding boost, five Jewish-run not-for-profit organisations in Sydney's east have received $17,000 worth of Woollahra Council community, cultural and environmental grants to support important services and projects.
By Shane Desiatnik
ICJW delegates in the entrance of The Great Synagogue. Photo: Wendy Bookatz
June 13, 2018, 2:24 pm
Worldwide women gather in OZ
REPRESENTING 16 different countries and five Australian states, passionate female Jewish leaders gathered at the International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW) Quadrennial Convention in Sydney last week, at which the organisation's first Australian president, Robyn Lenn, completed her four-year term of presidency.
Victoria Nadel (left) and Sylvia Deutsch.
May 23, 2018, 11:11 am
Gett submission to Law Reform Commission
The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NCJWA) and Unchain My Heart have lodged a joint submission on gett (Jewish bill of divorce) to the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), which is conducting the first comprehensive review into the family law system since the commencement of the Family Law Act in 1976.
Dassi Erlich at the NCJWA brunch. Photo: Dean Shmideg.
May 10, 2018, 3:50 pm
Erlich behind the headlines
In October of last year, Dassi Erlich sat with her sisters, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper in a restaurant in Israel. Exhausted, they were grabbing a bite to eat between back-to-back media appearances and meetings. And then an ultra-Orthodox girl approached the trio, recognising them from the television.
By Rebecca Davis
Julie Bishop addressing the Celebrating Israel event in Canberra.
December 8, 2017, 12:00 am
Pollies mark partition anniversary
ISRAEL is "a beacon of democracy in a very troubled neighbourhood", Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on the 70th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) partition resolution which led to the establishment of the country.
By Joshua Levi
Stand Up Mitzvah Day volunteers with members of the Sudanese community.
November 26, 2017, 12:00 am
A marvellous Mitzvah Day
"Phenomenal" and "an outstanding success" were just some of the words used by organisers to describe Mitzvah Day held on Sunday.
By Rebecca Davis
October 4, 2017, 12:01 am
JCCV backs same sex marriage
THE Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) hasvoted to support same-sex marriage and called on the Federal Government to eliminate discrimination against same-sex couples.
By Joshua Levi
From left: Miri Orden, Marian Appel, Dorothy Jones, Bernice Bachmayer, Margaret McNiven, Natalie Gafen; (front row) Rhoda Abulafia, Elza Levin and Ethel Davis.
July 3, 2017, 9:39 am
Ladies lunch for a worthy cause
“WE all like to think that we put the ‘fun’ in ‘fundraising’,” Aqua Group member Margaret McNiven told The AJN this week.
By Yael Brender
From left: Victoria Nadel, Shmuel Ben-Shmuel, Rysia Rozen, Sylvia Deutsch.
July 2, 2017, 12:01 am
Changing of the NCJWA guard
FORMER AJN Canberra correspondent Sylvia Deutsch and Sydney’s Victoria Nadel were jointly appointed to lead the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NCJWA) at the organisation’s annual plenary in Canberra this week.
By Yael Brender
From left: Victoria Nadel, Professor Tsvia Walden, Miri Orden, Rebecca Dreyfus, Barbara Ford, Sharon Davis and Sandy Hollis.
March 20, 2017, 12:01 am
Walden wows in Sydney
PROFESSOR Tsvia Walden, daughter of the late Shimon Peres, last week addressed a large crowd at the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NCJWA) NSW Council House.
By Yael Brender
Alex Ryvchin, Samantha Khavin, Victoria Nadel, Julie Nathan and Vic Alhadeff. Photo: Wendy Bookatz.
September 9, 2016, 12:00 am
Tackling anti-Semitism
When confronted with casual anti-Semitism, “It is unfortunately our instinct to err on the side of saying nothing,” said NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) CEO Vic Alhadeff. That was the focus of the panel discussion held at the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NCJWA) in conjunction with the JBOD last week.
By Yael Brender
Doreen Beckwith's story will feature in the documentary 'Unchain My Heart'.
July 7, 2016, 12:00 am
‘Chained’ women in the spotlight
The plight of Jewish women who are refused a religious divorce by their husbands will be highlighted in Set Me Free, an ABC-TV documentary airing on July 10.
By Peter Kohn
Dr Elana Maryles Sztokman.
May 30, 2016, 3:37 pm
Elana Sztokman: Jewish, feminist and Orthodox
“JUDAISM is still a very patriarchal, sexist religion, which is based on ideas of gender difference and female servitude ... Judaism is still mostly a men’s club.”
From left: Brandon Srot, Rabbi Benjamin Elton, Justin Koonin, Dawn Cohen, Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio and Vic Alhadeff.
May 5, 2016, 12:00 am
Rabbis unite on LGBTI inclusion
IN what was described by one panellist as “monumental”, an Orthodox rabbi, a Reform rabbi, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) activists came together last Sunday to discuss the place of LGBTI Jews in the Jewish community.
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