- Statement from NSW JBD President David Ossip in the Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism 10 Jul 2025
We strongly welcome today’s plan from the Special Envoy on Antisemitism, which provides a pathway to ensuring that antisemitism truly has no place in Australian society.
Many of the Envoy’s recommendations will rely on state governments and their agencies, and we look forward to working closely with the NSW Government on these matters.
The focus on education ...
- New Jewish Cemetery Consecrated at Macarthur Memorial Park 29 May 2025
The NSW Jewish community marked a historic milestone ending uncertainty about the future of Jewish burial in Sydney with the consecration of a new Jewish burial section at Macarthur Memorial Park in Varroville.
The site has been established through years of advocacy and collaboration led by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, in close partnership with ...
- NSW JBD Statement: Shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum 22 May 2025
We are closely monitoring and awaiting further details about the reported shooting at an event for young Jewish professionals at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC.
The senseless act of violence has cost at least two Israeli embassy staff their lives. People everywhere will rightly be shaken by the likelihood that this violent act was ...
- NSW JBD Submission to the Inquiry into Antisemitism in New South Wales 19 May 2025
The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to this inquiry on antisemitism in NSW.
The JBD is the elected, representative roof body of the NSW Jewish community. The JBD has 56 major communal organisations as its constituents, which encompass tens of thousands of members of the Jewish ...
- Statement on forthcoming retirement of Police Commissioner Karen Webb 7 May 2025
On behalf of the NSW Jewish community, we extend our thanks and appreciation to NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb who has today announced her forthcoming retirement. We congratulate Commissioner Webb on a historic career of public service.
In particular, we recognise the Commissioner’s work ensuring that the Jewish community was supported through the spate of antisemitic ...
- Statement on Hate speech on the University of Technology Sydney Campus 27 Mar 2025
Statement from Michele Goldman, Chief Executive of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies
Thursday, 27 March 2025
The comments captured in this video make plain what we already knew, activists are working hard to make Jews uncomfortable on campus.
That anyone thinks saying this out loud is acceptable demonstrates how big the problem is on our university campuses.
Calls ...
