Vic Alhadeff
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff outside TAFE's Ultimo campus, where the incidents took place. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
May 23, 2019, 12:00 am
TAFE acts after Jewish student told to ‘burn’
A JEWISH TAFE student was left too scared to go to class after enduring two years of antisemitic bullying.
By Gareth Narunsky
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff (left) and Liberal candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma. Photo: Noel Kessel
May 15, 2019, 2:23 pm
Government commits $200k to JBOD
THE Morrison government has committed more than $200,000 in funding to the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD), it was announced on Wednesday.
Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane. Photo: Twitter
May 8, 2019, 2:23 pm
Outrage over Labor MP’s appointment
LABOR MP Shaoquett Moselmane, who described some Israel supporters as a "political lobby group that is cancerous, malicious and seeks to deny, misinform and scaremonger", has been appointed as assistant president of the NSW Legislative Council.
By Gareth Narunsky
From left: Waverley Liberal councillor Sally Betts, Liberal candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma, and NSW Jewish Board of Deputies acting president Isabelle Shapiro at the Bondi promenade where swastikas were daubed last week.
April 25, 2019, 12:00 am
Coalition’s CCTV pledge
THE Coalition will invest $143,000 in enhanced CCTV at Bondi Beach to fight back against a recent spate of antisemitic graffiti if re-elected next month.
By Evan Zlatkis
Jamie Parker (right) with Rabbi Mendel Kastel at the NSW Parliament Chanukah event in 2016. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
April 15, 2019, 12:00 am
Building Greens relationship
THE NSW Greens will host representatives from the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) at a lunch at NSW Parliament House later this month.
By Gareth Narunsky
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive Vic Alhadeff. Photo: Noel Kessel
April 10, 2019, 12:00 am
Alhadeff makes case for new cemetery
A NEW cemetery at Varroville in Sydney's south west is "the only viable option" to avoid the Jewish community from running out of burial space in five years.
By Gareth Narunsky
JBOD president Lesli Berger on stage with other faith leaders at St Mary's Cathedral.
March 21, 2019, 12:00 am
JBOD launches Christchurch crowdfunding campaign
THE New Zealand mosque massacres prompted the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) to launch a crowd-funding campaign in support of the Muslim community in Christchurch.
From left: Reverend Dr Stephanie Dowrick, Dr Paul Bauert, Dr Kerryn Phelps MP, Jackie Stricker-Phelps and Vic Alhadeff. Photo: Sophie Deutsch
March 15, 2019, 3:46 pm
‘No excuse for the harm that I’ve caused’
AFTER touring the Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM) on Tuesday, human rights advocate and paediatrician Dr Paul Bauert, who compared the suffering of refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to Holocaust victims at Auschwitz in an interview with Sky News, said he now has a deeper understanding of how his comments upset people.
Rhiannon Spinak (right) accepts husband Jeremy Spinak's award from Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Photo: Salty Dingo
March 7, 2019, 12:01 am
‘Another example of the legacy he leaves’
JEREMY Spinak's tireless work building bridges with diverse communities and spearheading the Keep NSW Safe campaign was posthumously recognised at the Premier's Harmony Dinner last week.
By Gareth Narunsky
Photo: Noel Kessel.
January 30, 2019, 4:24 pm
Vale Shula Endrey-Walder
By Gareth Narunsky
November 29, 2018, 4:18 pm
The fraught situation confronting Germany and German Jewry
Jeremy Spinak at the 2018 Yom Haatzmaut Cocktail Party. Photo: Noel Kessel
November 22, 2018, 12:01 am
‘A beautiful, unique young man of untold value’
JEREMY Spinak was one of the most influential and highly respected communal leaders in Sydney, but last Thursday morning at the age of 36 he succumbed to a rare form of cancer.
By Joshua Levi and Gareth Narunsky
Front row: Suzy and Phillip Wolanski, Elizabeth Daniels, Leo Shanahan. Back: James Madden, Simon King, Danielle Pogson, Adam Creighton, Vic Alhadeff, Kate de Brito, Nick O'Malley. Photo: Giselle Haber
November 21, 2018, 12:00 am
Rocket damage shocks Aussie journos
Participants of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies' 2018 Journalists' Mission to Israel returned home last month mesmerised by Shabbat in Jerusalem and shocked by seeing rocket damage in Beersheba.
By Shane Desiatnik
Vic Alhadeff.
August 22, 2018, 12:08 pm
Foley sorry after Vic barred
NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley personally apologised because a Jewish community leader was barred entry to the launch of the Labor Union Multicultural Action Committee on Monday night.
Students dressed as concentration camp prisoners and a Nazi guard. Picture: Instagram
July 8, 2018, 12:01 am
Students suspended
CHARLES Sturt University (CSU) has taken decisive action against students who dressed as Nazi guards, Jewish concentration camp prisoners and Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members at a post-exam party last month.
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