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Limmud FSU founder and chairman Chaim Chesler. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
October 22, 2018, 12:00 am
Russian speakers flock to festival
THE UNSW Roundhouse Centre turned Russian on October 14, as more than 250 Russian-speaking Sydney Jews enjoyed food, music, art and seminars at the Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) Australia festival.
By Shane Desiatnik
Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver.
September 18, 2018, 12:01 am
Pulver appointed key Indigenous leadership role
SHE cites co-founding the Shalom Gamarada Scholarship Program for Aboriginal students at UNSW as one of her proudest achievements, and currently serves as Western Sydney University's Pro Vice-Chancellor of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership, but Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver will soon return to where everything started for her - the University of Sydney (USYD) - to begin an important new role.
Shalom Gamarada scholarship recipient Tahlia Mckee. Photo: Nadine Saacks.
August 22, 2018, 12:34 pm
Bipartisan support for Indigenous scholarships
The statistics alone for the Shalom Gamarada Indigenous Residential Scholarship Program are worth celebrating - 41 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander graduates since 2009, including 23 doctors.
By Shane Desiatnik
Ari Hershkowitz in his religious days. He will share insights into his journey leaving the world of Orthodoxy, as revealed in Netflix doco One of Us.
May 30, 2018, 10:54 am
Yom Limmud set for Sydney
Across one immersive day of thought-provoking sessions set for Sunday, June 17 in Sydney, Yom Limmud will celebrate Jewish identity, raise difficult questions and provoke stimulating discussion.
Diane Armstrong, Fiona Harari, Paul Drexler and Chana Raizel Friedman are some of the speakers at this year's Yom Hashoah commemorations.
April 8, 2018, 12:01 am
Commemorations will shine a spotlight on survivors’ new lives in Australia
"REBUILDING Lives" is the powerful theme for this year's NSW Jewish Board of Deputies' (JBOD) Yom Hashoah commemorative events.
From left: Holocaust survivors Susan Warhaftig, Agi Adler, Peter and Yvonne Halas, Dasia Black Gutman and Charlotte Vidor. Photo: Giselle Haber
April 27, 2017, 12:02 am
Sydney remembers the six million
“THE single most important thing that the Jewish community does is remember the victims of the Holocaust,” said NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president Jeremy Spinak at the Yom Hashoah communal commemoration.
By Yael Brender
The first members of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Sydney chapter.
August 26, 2016, 10:35 am
Jewish fraternity opens its doors
IN 1913, a Jewish economics student Charles C. Moskowitz established Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), the Jewish fraternity that has now expanded to Sydney.
By Yael Brender
Annika Hernroth-Rothstein will be a guest speaker at Yom Limmud. Photo: Facebook.
June 5, 2016, 12:00 am
A day of learning in Sydney
Israeli-Palestinian relations, the glass ceiling of Jewish community leadership and what exactly is going on with Donald Trump are just some of the 18 topics that will stimulate discussions at Limmud-Oz Sydney on July 3.
By Yael Brender
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