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In Australia s Jewish community, drama over fight for gender equality

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. The decision created a strong public backlash. Local Jewish community organizations, including NCJWA (Vic), a separate arm of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia that operates independently in Victoria, slammed Mizrachi Australia (the umbrella body for religious-Zionist Jewry in Australia). 

Honor extended to Jonathan Pollard by Australia s Orthodox Jewish community stirs controversy - Jewish World - Haaretz | Israel news, COVID vaccine data, the Middle East and the Jewish World

Honor extended to Jonathan Pollard by Australia s Orthodox Jewish community stirs controversy - Jewish World - Haaretz | Israel news, COVID vaccine data, the Middle East and the Jewish World
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Looking up Down Under: How Australia s largest Jewish community coped better than most with COVID - Africa, Asia and Australia

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 socially distanced, of course.  “The atmosphere was electric,” Kaltmann told Haaretz after the hamantaschen bake launched the festive celebrations last month. “Everyone was so happy to be around other people.” 

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