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As technicians prepare to colour the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge purple tomorrow as part of the Jubilee celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth's 70 years on the throne, Australia and New Zealand's Jewish communities will be spectators only. Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of which…
Get email notification for articles from Gabrielle Briner Follow Jun. 1, 2021 1:55 PM A scandal at a leading Jewish organization in Melbourne has once again thrust the issue of equal gender representation in the top levels of Australia’s Jewish community into the spotlight – an aspiration female community members have been working tirelessly to achieve for years. Last December, Keren Zelwer was a leading candidate to join the executive of community organization Mizrachi Australia. In a secret ballot, however, she was unanimously rejected by the executive members, all of whom were male. T...
Follow Mar. 10, 2021 Purim 2021 was the first holiday Melbourne’s Jewish community celebrated together in nearly a year. After the southeastern Australian state of Victoria imposed a snap five-day lockdown early last month, following an outbreak of the hyper-contagious U.K. variant at a Melbourne hotel, Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann at the Ark Modern Orthodox synagogue started researching the halakhic validity of a Zoom megillah reading. But the state government lifted the lockdown on February 17 and Kaltmann hastily prepared for a hamantaschen bake, two megillah readings and a Purim party – all s...