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  • Premier honour for Berger 12 May 2022
    Shane Desiatnik The Australian Jewish News May 12, 2022 IN his first keynote address at the annual Sydney Yom Ha’atzmaut cocktail reception – hosted by Jewish communal organisations at the Shangri-La Hotel on Tuesday – NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet presented a Premier’s Award to NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) president Lesli Berger and announced a major new ...
  • Spender ‘a lifelong friend of Israel’ 8 May 2022
    Liberal MP Dave Sharma address some of the NSW Jewish community in a federal election debate against independent Allegra Spender at Moriah College, Queens Park. Picture: Damian...
  • Katherine Deves visits Holocaust museum after backlash over comparing activism to Nazi resistance 6 May 2022
    Tom Stayner SBS News  May 6, 2022 Liberal candidate Katherine Deves appears alongside Executive Council of Australian Jewry representative Alissa Foster (left) and NSW Jewish Board of...
  • New non-identical twins research may unlock secrets of fertility, infertility 19 Apr 2022
    Jane Hansen The Daily Telegraph April 16, 2022   Mendel (left) and Aron Sufrin (right), 17, are non-identical twins and so are their little sisters Raizel and...
  • Ensuring Holocaust survivors’ stories live on 5 Apr 2022
    By Dane Stern Olga Horak OAM with the late Eddie Jaku OAM, Z"L. The theme of this year's communal Yom Hashoah commemoration on April 27 at 7pm...
  • Jewish & Hindu leaders welcome Nazi symbols legislation commitment 4 Apr 2022
    JBD CEO Darren Bark interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney: NSW to push anti-Nazi laws in parliament (AAP): https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7685211/nsw-to-push-anti-nazi-laws-in-parliament/ NSW to introduce ban on Nazi flags and swastikas (Daily Telegraph): https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/nsw-to-introduce-ban-on-nazi-flags-and-swastikas-as-treasurers-poster-defaced/news-story/89b6985d443ace71a7ae061dea2d0856 The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and Hindu Council of Australia have today welcomed NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman’s commitment to introducing new legislation to criminalise the display of ...