Australia & New Zealand

She moved across the world to enrich the lives of Jews Down Under

Parent volunteers help make the program for Jewish children a success

In Sydney, Chabad emissaries discuss their work and aim to get new projects off the ground

An outpouring of love for Marina Muchnik, who did so much for others

Chabad centers also offer food, pet care and spiritual support

Chabad rabbi in Australia oversees a funeral, then a Bar Mitzvah, in a tide of unforseen events

Central Chabad Shule spurred by families from South Africa.

Chabad-Lubavitch couple brings together a widely scattered community

Jewish women from across Australia gathered in Sydney for the local Lubavitch Women’s Oragnization’s 17th annual conference.

Just when rebuilding efforts were starting to show encouraging progress in Christchurch, New Zealand, city dwellers got a rude awakening Friday afternoon when the ground starting shaking yet again.

Among their last acts before their scheduled winter break, legislators in the Parliament of New South Wales hosted a public Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony with leaders from the Jewish Board of Deputies and Rabbi Pinchus Feldman of Sydney’s Yeshiva Centre.

An intensive building campaign launched five years ago by the Central Shule Chabad in Melbourne, Australia, has achieved close to 90 percent of its goal towards establishing a community center that will benefit not only its congregants, but the entire local Jewish community as well.

State legislative leaders from both the majority and opposition parties unveiled a permanent display for the Parliament of New South Wales’ prized silver Chanukah menorah.

Buildings toppled yet again in Christchurch, New Zealand’s quake-prone – and second-largest – city in the wake of a series of powerful earthquakes that threatened to derail recovery efforts set in motion after February’s deadly temblor.

Just three months after inaugurating the Australian capital’s first Jewish ritual bath, Canberra’s local Jewish community is celebrating a new milestone: the purchase of a disused childcare center to house the city’s first Jewish preschool.