When the global pandemic hit Melbourne in March 2020, Frances Prince resolved to spend her afternoons in lockdown reading to David, her 95-year-old father. The books they explored together revived David’s memories of his own Holocaust experience and his life as a Polish Jewish university student in postwar Munich. As the days passed, what began as a reading project to Read more…

Located at 7 Selwyn Street, the Jewish Arts Quarter is an architectural beacon that combines world-class arts and museum experiences, exciting language and programming opportunities to deliver a new destination on Melbourne’s cultural map. Read more…

According to Jewish law, before children reach a certain age, the parents are responsible for their child’s actions. Once Jewish children reach that age, they are said to “become” a bar or bat mitzvah, at which point they begin to be held accountable for their own actions. Girls come of age at 12, and boys come of age at 13, Read more…

The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young Slovakian women were deported to Poland on the second transportation of Jewish people sent to the Auschwitz concentration Read more…

A family friendly, Modern Orthodox shul with a vibrant kehilla, committed to strengthening their connection to Hashem. Community members make things happen, organise events, celebrate simchas and chagim together and care deeply about the shul and the people in it. Read more…

A spiritual experience; musical and thought provoking Read more…

Education is at the heart of our Jewish life. In Victoria, our community has built one of the world’s finest Jewish education systems. But a combination of powerful demographic, cultural and financial forces is threatening the future of our schools. Authoritative demographic projections show that over the next 20 years, the population of Jewish school age children in Victoria will Read more…

Australian Friends of Yad Vashem (AFYV) was established in March 2005 to coincide with the opening of the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Since then, thousands of Australians have visited the new museum, including several prominent families who have become major benefactors. The 1st wall of the Australian section of the Memorial Cave at Yad Vashem has Read more…

The Australian Jewish Psychologists Inc. was established to make a professional contribution to the Jewish Community primarily in the form of response and recovery in relation to critical incidents and to provide a forum for discussion of issues relevant to Jewish psychologists. All members must be an AHPRA registered Jewish psychologist.  AJP aims to provide: Availability to provide psychological support Read more…

Mitzvah Day is on the third Sunday of November. This year it is on Sunday 21 November 2021. Mitzvah Day is an annual fun day where people of all ages and abilities join together to spend one day volunteering in a variety of Projects (activities). The activities are intended to give others a little joy and sense of community belonging Read more…

Catchafire is an online platform for virtual, skills-based volunteering. Through Catchafire, professionals are able to directly support causes they care about by helping for-purpose organisations with projects that match their skill sets. And because projects can be completed from anywhere, Catchafire makes it possible for organisations and skilled volunteers to connect for good, from all around the world! The Australian Read more…