AJHS Timeline

Cousin of Sir Moses Montefiore

One of the venture's backers is Sir Moses Montefiore.

Short-lived.

Constructed on land donated by Judah Solomon. Now the oldest synagogue in Australia and is still in use

Over 50 Jewish MPs served during the colonial period. 1849-1900

When government funding ended, both schools disband: in Melbourne in 1872 and Sydney in 1880.

Wooden construction.

Served numerous terms as NSW Treasurer and Post Master-General.

1790-1864. Australia's first tram fatality

Operated till 1882 when Government aid for denominational schools stopped.

Headed by Rabbi Samuel Herman of Ballarat.

Replaces York St synagogue

Second oldest ongoing synagogue in NSW - 3rd in Australia after Hobart and Launceston. Religious services at the home of Abram & Naomi Solomon

Declined to be sworn in "because of the hostility of the then current members of the bench"

A founding trustee and president of the trustees.

Term: 1.12.1899-8.12.1899

Isaac Isaacs, Vaiben Louis Solomon, Elias Solomon, Pharez Phillips, in the House of Representatives.

Protest (at the Czarist policies that promoted this pogrom) meeting held at Sydney Town Hall by concerned citizens of all faiths. Speakers included Abraham Pearlman, storekeeeper in Boggabri (NSW), born in Kishinev.

Closed 1962

Dowling and Napier Streets Paddington

Only General to survive unscathed

For bravery and gallantry in voluntarily rescued wounded men during the second batlle of Ypres. Later Member for Melbourne in the Australian House of Representatives.

Leads the Australian Corps through the victorious battles of the closing stages of the war.

1920-25. Earlier Governor of Gold Coast, Hong Kong & Natal, Chairman of the British G.P.O. and Chairman of the Inland Revenue.

Estimated 250,000 mourners attended state funeral.

1931-36

Later renamed the Australian Maccabi council, and in 1957 Maccabi Australia.

Australian representative, White says Australia would not undertake "any scheme of large-scale foreign migration". Sydney Morning Herald editorial condemns White's speech.

7000-9000 Jews able to take up the visas under the "Victims of Oppression" allotment before the outbreak of World World II stopped the program.

Aids the establishment of Temple Emanuel (now Emanuel Synagogue)

Proposal for settling Jewish refugees in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is a public issue.

568 Refugees incarcerated as enemy aliens in camp at Hay.

Now in East Hawthorn

Forerunner was the NSW Jewish Advisory Board founded in 1932 and comprising representatives of synagogues only

Recommends that post-war Australia should foster immigration from Britain and the European continent

Jewish migrants are excluded from all Australian government sponsored programs. 1947-52

including Konrad Kalejs, who serves as immigration officer in Bonegilla from 1950-53

This was "the first diplomatic mission of Israel for 2000 years".

Ultimately launching him to worldwide acclaim.

Later became Lord Mayor of Melbourne

With 11 pupils

Currently artistic director of the Komische Oper Berlin.

Recommendation by the Road Safety Committee chaired by Walter Jona MP.

Also made Knight of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1974. Also knighted by the Pope

Original name was Rapoport.

14 pupils

Minister for arts, heritage and the environment until 1987.

For contribution to international architecture.

Ian Bersten president. Similar entity in Melbourne (Julie Ruth)

Five synagogues attacked by arson in Sydney during the Gulf War

Claimant Eddie Mabo, a Murray Islander; represented by Ron Castan QC.

Served from 1992-2003. The first woman to become chief judge of any jurisdiction within the state of NSW.

Australian born. Nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton, Wolfensohn was only the third World Bank President to complete two terms, stepping down June 1st 2005.

4 Australian athletes killed and 60 injured

Served from 1998 to 2008.

Prayer shawls doused with kerosene and set alight

Melbourne-born

Ignoring order resulted in Toben being jailed in 2009

Amid charges of encouraging antisemitism.

First time in the electorate’s history that two Jews representing the major parties have come head-to-head.

For services to business, law and tax reform, Aboriginal reconciliation and the Jewish community.

At 33, the youngest JCCV president in Victorian history

First Australian author to win the prestigious prize

Central figure in Heather Morris' book.

Polish Jewish migrant created the multibillion-dollar Visy packaging empire

(1913-2009), industrialist, innovator, philanthropist and family patriarch. Arrived with no English from the Ukraine at age 14.

A fire on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, thought to have begun after a candle was left burning in the kitchen.

Welcomed by Jewish community leaders.

Position first held by Sir Isaac Isaacs nearly 100 years ago.

The document is later signed by MPs from both sides of Parliament

Hosted in every major city in Australia and more than 230 locations around the world

Policy Council liaises closely with the Vatican on inter-religious issues

First visit by a sitting NSW premier.

In the weeks that follow, different factions attempt to gain the upper hand and a breakaway community is formed.

Honoured at a state memorial service

Ilan Buchman and Oscar Shub married at Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue 5 months after Australia legalized gay marriage

When Scott Morrision elected Prime Minister

Defeating Dave Sharma and forcing Liberal government into minority

Gus Nosti, 57, financial controller at Moriah College in Queens Park between 2004 and 2016

Was a survivor of the Holocaust and one of the founding members of the Sydney Jewish Museum.

New hub for Sydney Jewish community