COURAGE to Care NSW raised almost $100,000 at a successful fundraising gala, which was a lunch held at the QVB Tea Rooms earlier this month. Read more » »

Courage to Care Victoria will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a jam-packed week of events starting on May 25. A project of B’nai B’rith, Courage to Care is a not-for-profit organisation providing education programs across Victoria that reach over 150,000 students and, in recent years, hundreds of adults across the community. Read more » »

“It is time for change.” That was the opening address of newly-elected B’nai B’rith Victoria president Professor Peter Schattner at his first meeting at the helm of the Victorian B’nai B’rith Council. He replaces Dr Benny Monheit who had a very successful four-and-a-half-year term as president of the organisation. Read more » »

THE Kabbalah Exhibition, which opens at the B’nai B’rith Centre in Kensington on March 13, will be the first of its kind in Australia. Organised by B’nai B’rith NSW, the exhibition will offer a unique overview of the 2000-year social history of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah. Read more » »

Jewish Care Victoria Talking point: The importance of mental health literacy Cassandra Barrett is Jewish Care Victoria’s program manager for Healthy Communities, manager of its Mental Health Education Response and the recipient of the inaugural Read more » »

Recent weeks have seen violent objections by Bedouin residents of the Negev to tree-planting projects that even involved uprooting of newly-planted saplings that were part of an afforestation project desperately needed in that part of our land. Read more » »

RAOUL Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jewish lives in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust, is being commemorated this Sunday for his bravery and heroism – marking 77 years since his disappearance. Read more » »

AFTER an outcry and a rebuke from the University of Toronto president, the student union at a satellite campus modified a proposed ban on kosher foods in any way affiliated with Israel, but a Jewish group said the change made matters worse. Read more » »

THE annual Mitzvah Day comes around this Sunday, providing an opportunity for members of the community to perform a good deed for those who need it. It’s also a great opportunity to reconnect as we emerge from months of lockdowns. This special day brings the Jewish communities of Australia together in all their diversity. Read more » »

Inspired: Episode 1 – Natan Sharansky – The Australian Jewish News  Australian Jewish News Read more » »