We provide: 1) A one session overview of Judaism, along with tips and free resources on maintaining a connection to and learning about Jewish history, Chagim and Jewish culture and religion. 2) A 10 week course teaching Jewish principles, Chagim, Jewish life cycle, Jewish religious principles, etc. This is in addition to tips and free resources on maintaining a connection Read more...

The Melbourne City Synagogue is your first stop for all your Jewish needs in Melbourne, Australia. We offer inspiring prayer services, engaging classes, open Shabbat dinners, tours, visitor services and many other activities. Easy walking distance from the city’s hotels, hospitals and universities. Read more...

Kehilat Nitzan is the only Masorti (Conservative) congregation in Melbourne, Australia. We are committed to Jewish tradition and law (halachah), Israel and Zionism, Jewish learning and the study of Torah. We offer traditional, egalitarian Shabbat and chag (festival) services and shiurim (study sessions) in a warm and friendly environment. We welcome and include everyone irrespective of age, gender, or sexual Read more...

Nearly a decade of research, which has brought dozens of family lines, shtetls, and stories of origin into the light. Specialties include: Lithuanian Jews, American Jews, Galician Jews, Ukrainian Jews, Holocaust research. Experienced with DNA and reuniting “fallen branches” which were split apart due to centuries of oppression and migration. Read more...

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...

The Australian Friends of the Hebrew University represents the Hebrew University in Australia. It supports the Hebrew University by – Raising funds for research and projects – Recruitment of Australian students to study at the Hebrew University – Promotion of collaboration between Australian institutions and the Hebrew University Read more...