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1 week ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
Barry Lipp will not only be competing for Australia as a masters athlete at his fifth Maccabiah Games in Israel this July, but he will also be Australia’s head of delegation. Having those dual roles at a Maccabiah Games is a first for Australia. “It’s a unique situation and I very much thank Maccabi Australia for allowing me the opportunity to do this,” Lipp told The AJN last week.
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1 week ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
“There was lots of excitement and anticipation among all our teams,” Maccabi NSW Netball Club president Michelle Samuel told The AJN, courtside at Heffron Reserve last Saturday, during a memorable first round of the 2025 Randwick Netball Association season. With Maccabi fielding six Net Set Go (U8 and U9) teams, 16 junior teams, an intermediate team and two adult teams, Samuel said the Jewish club is in great shape, “and we’re continuing to grow across all the age divisions”.
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1 week ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
VAFA ROUND 3Players from both AJAX and Prahran footy clubs observed a minute’s silence while standing alongside 14 Holocaust survivors, friends, and families, in a moving pre-game ceremony on April 26 at Princes Park that commemorated Yom Hashoah.
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1 week ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
Talent, determination, a willingness to put in the hard work, and a proud family history in his chosen sport, have all played a part in Sydney teenager Cal Fingleson’s dream of earning a US college baseball scholarship come true.
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1 week ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
The future of Jewish weightlifting at the elite level in Australia reached new heights last month when, for the first time, three Jewish teens from Melbourne represented Australia at an international competition – the 2025 Oceania Youth and Junior Championships in Melbourne – and all won gold medals.
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1 week ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
At the time of going to press, it was far from certain which of the two main candidates for the northern Sydney federal seat of Bradfield would be elected. With 86.1 per cent of votes counted on Wednesday morning, Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian had come back from behind to edge in front of independent teal candidate Nicolette Boele after preferences, by 50.1 per cent to 49.9 per cent – a lead of just 182 votes.
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1 week ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
Two speeches from the heart deeply moved an audience of 200 at last Sunday’s NSW Association of Jewish Service and Ex-Service Men and Women’s (NAJEX) 2025 communal Anzac Day service. South Sydney High School captain Deborah Shatari spoke of her great uncle Private Joseph Rovkin, who died on service in New Guinea in November 1942, when only 16. He’d enlisted in the Australian Army under the surname Rorkin, and the religion Greek Orthodox, to avoid antisemitism in case of capture.
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2 weeks ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
Yoni GarfieldAge: 40 From: MelbourneMade aliyah on: August 8, 2024, with wife Dafna and children Eitan (12), Ora (10), Benny (7) and Noam (7). Currently living in: Ra’ananaThe idea of living in Israel was ingrained from home from an early age, however the decision to make aliyah became more realistic, having studied in Israel for two years and when I got married.
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3 weeks ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
This Anzac Day, Australians will again be rightfully taking a moment to remember and honour the servicemen and women who lost their lives to defend the freedom we enjoy today. Jewish Australians will particularly remember the more than 350 Jewish Diggers who have Died on Service. But not all of them were buried in known or marked graves, or if they were, not all had what their next of kin wanted engraved on their headstones – a Star of David.
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1 month ago | 
australianjewishnews.com | Shane Desiatnik
Kingsford Smith holds an estimated margin to Labor of 13.3 per cent and Matt Thistlethwaite has been the local MP since 2013 and is also currently the Assistant Minister for Immigration. He told The AJN last Friday that he doesn’t take the seat for granted. “I was raised in Maroubra, I’ve lived all my life here [in the electorate] and I have a longtime and very respectful relationship with the Jewish community.
