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Jayne Josem heads the newly-named Melbourne Holocaust Museum. As the Museum Director, CEO and Senior Curator, Jayne has been overseeing the reconstruction of the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Selwyn Street Elsternwick. In the forthcoming week, Holocaust Remembrance will be commemorated at several events in Melbourne, beginning with Yom HaShoah, Keeping Alive The Stories of Survival,…
After numerous cancellations due to COVID-19, including one cancellation only hours before the musicians were set to go on stage in October 2021, “Kaveret Hozeret” finally took place at Memo Music Hall in St Kilda on Wednesday and Thursday evening, presented by Habayit, Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) and Zionism Victoria. The performances, which featured…
Share Esther Charlesworth, founder of humanitarian organisation Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) and a professor at RMIT University’s school of architecture and urban design, is the youngest child in a family of seven. She's got quite a story of her own. But over a 90-minute meal in which she travels from 1980s Melbourne to Harvard Uni, through the troubled Balkans and Africa, then back to a women's refuge in Melbourne's Preston, it becomes apparent that although she's making her own mark on the world, she's doing so in the shadow of her siblings. Charlesworth, and her twin sister, are th...