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On 26 November 2024, a Chabad synagogue in St Kilda, Melbourne was vandalised with pro-Palestinian and antisemitic graffiti. [8] The targeted synagogue in the December 2024 attack was the Orthodox Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne, located in Ripponlea, Victoria. It was built in 1965, designed by Ernest Fooks, [9] and opened on 19 September ...
An arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne last week is being investigated as terrorist incident, Australian officials said Monday, as the government announced it was establishing a new taskforce ...
Police say a fire that seriously damaged a synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, was very likely caused by arsonists in "a terrorist attack." Australia synagogue fire "likely a terrorist incident ...
The congregation was formed in 1857 [4] under the leadership of Reverend Moses Rintel following his leave from the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation. [5] Initially named Mikveh Israel Melbourne Synagogue, [6] it was provided with a government land grant in 1859 on the corner of Little Lonsdale Street and Stephen Street (today Exhibition Street) in Melbourne's City Centre.
The first Jews in Melbourne arrived around the time of the city's founding in 1835. Jewish High Holiday services were first held in 1839, [1] and in 1841 the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation was formed. The congregation's first synagogue building, located at 472 Bourke Street, was erected in 1847, with a seating capacity of 100. [2]
Arsonists caused extensive damage to a synagogue in the city of Melbourne on Friday in what Australia’s Prime Minister Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has condemned as an antisemitic attack.
Protesters hold signs and wave Israeli flags as others dance during a demonstration near the burnt Adass Israel Synagogue, calling for justice and unity in Melbourne after an antisemitic attack on ...
St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne designed by Joseph Plottel. This list of synagogues and Jewish congregations in Australia and New Zealand represents those known to have existed at some time in the history of Jewish communities in either the colonial or national periods of either countries.