Construction agreement signed for building of new Hakoah at White City
New hub for Sydney Jewish community
Community
Jeremy Spinak, dies age 36.
Immediate past president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies succumbs to a rare form of cancer.
Rabbi Benzion Milecki’s contract with South Head Synagogue is terminated and the shule placed into voluntary administration
In the weeks that follow, different factions attempt to gain the upper hand and a breakaway community is formed.
ECAJ president Robert Goot appointed co-chair of the World Jewish Congress Policy Council
Policy Council liaises closely with the Vatican on inter-religious issues
Irma Stahler, Australia’s oldest Jew, dies aged 107
Believed to be the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor
Leslie Caplan, former ECAJ president dies aged 74.
After being admitted five weeks earlier to Sydney’s Wolper Hospital with advanced Parkinson’s disease
Mark Leibler receives a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
For services to business, law and tax reform, Aboriginal reconciliation and the Jewish community.
Sabina Van Der Linden, addresses opening of the new Holocaust memorial in Berlin
Holocaust survivor living in Sydney,