The Northbridge History project has completed its work, and a wealth of archival resources are available on their website. The following letter was written by the project’s director: We have amassed an amazing collection about the history of Northbridge and, through it, the broader history of Western Australia. Although the administrative phase of the Project [...]

Statement issued by the Auckland Hebrew Congregation President Garth Cohen and Claire Massey, the Chair of the Wellington Jewish Community Centre: “The prospect of a permanent ban on shechita, resulting in no more kosher meat in New Zealand is very real. “New Zealand recently became the first country in the world to outlaw kosher slaughter [...]

The cliche “world class” gets thrown around with willful abandon at the best of times.  However you would be hard pressed to find anybody who attended yesterday’s concert at the Perth Hebrew Congregation not to agree that the description of this event as world class was entirely accurate.  Three world leading chazzanim,Yitzchak Meir Helfgot and the [...]

An edited version of this letter appeared in the Sunday Age, 10 October 2010: In his article “Silenced in court” (October 3), Chris Berg states, as one of his concerns about the use of the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, that the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs (AIJAC) threatened to take the Islamic Information and Services [...]

If there are 8,000 Jews in Perth, and the collective capacity of the Synagogues can accomodate approximately 3,000 people, and using the flawed assumption that during Kol Nidre, and possibly for the Rosh Hashana day one mid morning rush, that all our Shules were full, it still means that 5,000 Jewish people did not attend [...]