Coming to shule on Shabbat is a different experience to coming to shule on a weekday. It’s a family affair: for many people, the entire family comes – Mum, Dad and the kids. Every Jewish parent knows, if you want you children to grow up with a strong affiliation for shule, it’s ideal to start [...]

A very brief history of the empires and people’s who have ruled in the Middle East.

Only one week to go, to the advocacy seminar and public lecture at the Jewish Centre. It’s one thing to get upset about anti-Semitic comments by leaders or attacks on Israel or our community, and to discuss these amongst ourselves, but the best response is to get up and DO something about it yourself. Learn [...]

The article below is an exceptionally relevant piece of commentary, that is well worth taking the time to read.  Michael Freund is a well known Jewish leader who has worked to bring isolated Jewish communities in remote diaspora locations to Israel and reconnect them with Jewish tradition.  He also worked for Netanyahu’s Likud administration as [...]

I didn’t want to write this post.  Midway through last week Jewgle Perth received a comment about an alleged “scandal” at Carmel School.  We were challenged that if we considered ourselves to be a credible source of media about events in the Jewish community of Perth, we were obliged to report this information.  If we didn’t [...]