From Australia’s Jewish Past: Emanuel Phillips Fox impressionist painter and teacher First published in J-Wire November 22, 2022 Emanuel Phillips Fox was born on 12 March 1865 at Fitzroy, Melbourne, the seventh child of Alexander Fox, a Jewish photographer from London, and his Sydney-born wife Rosette, née Phillips. Emanuel matriculated from school aged fifteen and […]
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Abraham and David Benjamin were successful businessman on either side of the Tasman. Abraham established the Benjamin Jewelery Company in 1880. It is still trading on Collins Street today. David Benjamin, who changed his surname to THeomin, after his father’s family in Prussia, established the Dresden (renamed Bristol) Pianoforte Company in Dunedin NZ.
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Melbourne’s Yeshivah Beth Rivkah Colleges (YBR) closed following confirmation that a teacher has tested positive for the coronavirus
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Also first female Governor of Victoria
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Similar established in Sydney, Ayelet HaShachar. Services loosely based on the Humanistic Jewish movement in USA and the musical-prayer group Nava Tehila in Israel.
Polish Jewish migrant created the multibillion-dollar Visy packaging empire
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(1913-2009), industrialist, innovator, philanthropist and family patriarch. Arrived with no English from the Ukraine at age 14.
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