Almost 200 members of Melbourne’s Russian-speaking Jewish community gathered on Sunday 10 September to celebrate and learn about Rosh Hashanah. The event was coordinated by Anna Maylis, the head of Kangarusski, the Zionist Federation of Australia’s Russian-speaking department. She explained the meaning of...
Did you see that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ticked off a long list of antisemitic conspiracies in a speech the other day? He told his learned crowd – and let’s not forget, he has a PhD in this field – that Hitler didn’t kill...
It has been an incredible couple of weeks with Rabbi Dr Donniel Hartman visiting our shores. After headlining at Plenary, he spent the next two weeks in Sydney and Melbourne, speaking to Jewish schools, Jewish uni students and youth movement leaders, educators and the lay...
The first week of September 2023 was huge for the Diller Teen Fellows as our eighth cohort graduated. The ceremony was organised by the teens and included speeches summarising their learnings, messages to the next cohort, thanking their families, musical performances and more. As they...
About the Organisation As the peak Australian Zionist representative body, the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) is dedicated to advocating for Israel within the Australian Jewish community and fostering strong ties between Australia and Israel. A core aspect of our mission is to inspire young Jewish...
Canberra Times opinion piece (original article here), by Bren Carlill Last weekend, the Victorian state Labor conference passed a resolution calling on the Albanese government to recognise Palestinian statehood. This came a couple of days after former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans published his case for doing the same. The...
1:00pm AEST, 12 May Important updates 803 rockets have been fired towards Israel over the past two days. An Israeli from Rehovot has been killed. There were two barrages yesterday evening in Israel, though no rockets have been fired for several hours. About 20 per cent...
Jeremy Leibler, The Australian, 20 February 2023 It’s telling to compare the fracas generated last year by Sydney Festival’s inclusion of a dance performance created by an Israeli and sponsored by the embassy of Israel with the scenario playing out at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week....
The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) is delighted to announce that the 12th Biennial ZFA Jewish Educators’ Conference will take place on 14-15 August at Mount Scopus Memorial College. This Conference provides Jewish educators from around Australia with the opportunity to listen, learn and interact with...
By Jeremy Leibler and Chaya Herszberg Jerusalem sits at the heart of Jewish consciousness, hope and meaning. For more than 3,000 years, Jewish people have prayed facing Jerusalem, yearning to return to their homeland. The eternal capital of Israel, it has always been and will forever remain...
In the first of its kind, 120 participants from all of the Zionist Youth Movements as well as from IBC travelled to the Arava in Israel’s south for a three-day seminar in the Arava. A joint effort of the Arava-Australia Partnership (AAP), the MASA Leadership...
21 March 2022 marks 20 years since my close encounter with a suicide bomber on a Jerusalem street. It was amidst the second intifada, which was both a colossal waste of Israeli and Palestinian life, and destroyed the prospects of Israeli–Palestinian peace for an entire...
By Jeremy Leibler This article originally appeared in the Australian Jewish News 26 November 2021 So much of what I’ve been reading of late bemoans the increasingly problematic relationship between American Jewry and Israel – a situation Daniel Gordis described in The New York Times as “the unravelling of...
By Dr. Bren Carlill This article first appeared in the Canberra Times on 22 September 2021 Israel has had a lonely time of it in the Middle East. After seven decades of existence, it only had full diplomatic relations with two Arab countries. The rest, in solidarity...
Much of the outrage sparked by barrister Julian Burnside’s recent tweet (since withdrawn) likening the treatment of Palestinians to that of Jews during the Holocaust hinged on the assessment that someone with his level of education should know better. ...
