Once it was a synagogue serving Jewish immigrants in a remote Australian mining town. Today, it’s a reminder of a history many have forgotten.

‘Jews were people of the land before we were people of the book’

For Australia’s small but growing Jewish community in Tasmania, celebrating Sukkot poses some unique obstacles

In the Southern Hemisphere, feeling out of sync on a day of communal mourning

An educational program in Australian schools trains a new generation to teach children about the Holocaust

A squad of rowdy fans shows up every year to cheer on Jewish tennis players—especially veteran Israeli competitor Dudi Sela

Australia’s Hachshara ‘Hebrew Training Farm’ prepared a generation of young Zionists for life in Israel

How Australian Jews became blood marrow donors to the world

An Australian children’s entertainer tries to cultivate the ceremonial fruit for Sukkot

The black, yeasty spread is a tough sell for most consumers. But for Jews in Australia—and Aussies living abroad—it’s a kitchen staple.

For 20 years, Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia has been connecting with Jews in unexpected places—far from Melbourne and Sydney

In the wake of Kristallnacht, an Aboriginal man led a protest to the German Consulate in Melbourne, Australia. It took decades for most Australian Jews to learn what he had done, and even longer for the Germans to apologize for turning him away.

How the language gained an enduring foothold in Melbourne

In the Southern Hemisphere—from Australia to South Africa to Latin America—Jews celebrate the Festival of Lights in the middle of summer, so it can look a little different than it does up north. Fewer icicles, more sand between your toes.

Australia was as far from the horrors of Europe as she could get, and yet that wasn’t far enough