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B'nai B'rith Parents Home - Victoria

29/3/2022

 
B'nai B'rith Parents Home - Victoria
Chairperson:  Ralph Levy

The B'nai B'rith Parents Home (Vic) Inc owns 16 one bedroom flats and 2 two bedroom flats in Inkerman Rd, Caulfield built in the 1960s. The flats are managed as affordable independent living accommodation for older Jewish people with an onsite resident Caretaker. The Home is run by a hardworking and very capable committee of volunteers, predominantly B'nai B'rith members.

Residents are charged a reasonable ingoing fee and a small monthly maintenance fee.

Whilst flats do not become available often, the Committee maintains a register of expressions in interest.

To find out more, call the B'nai B'rith Office on 03 9523 0888 or admin@bbvic.org.au

Showcase: Fostering Jewish Musical Talent

16/3/2022

 
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What is B’nai B’rith Showcase: fostering Jewish musical talent?
Please be sure to read the Entrant Information booklet to review the guidelines for entries. 

B’nai B’rith Showcase provides a wonderful opportunity for young Jewish musicians to demonstrate their musical skills in a supportive and constructive atmosphere. Not only do Entrants receive feedback from highly accomplished adjudicators but they also gain valuable performance experience.
 
Now in its 30th year, Showcase is a highlight in the Victorian calendar of young Jewish Musicians and is open to solo musicians aged 8 – 25 across all instruments.  
 
We are excited to open Showcase to interstate Entrants as part of the 30th Anniversary. Over the last 2 years the competition, like everything else, adapted to the challenges it faced and as such has the technology and processes in place to accommodate interstate entries.
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Solo Instrument Sections:
Strings: Classical
Piano: Classical
Piano: Contemporary
Woodwind and Brass
Guitar
Percussion 

Solo Vocal Sections:
Vocal: Classical
Vocal: Contemporary
Vocal: Hebrew and Yiddish

It is recommended that Entrants have completed Grade 3 AMEB or its equivalent.

Own Composition
The ‘own composition’ section is intended to provide the opportunity for young composers / songwriters of all levels to have their original and unpublished works heard by professional, adjudicators and experienced writers Amy Howden and Pablo Cravzov.  Winning entries will be offered to publish their work more widely. 

Submissions will be judged on creativity, originality, melody, arrangement, lyrics (if any), overall likeability and performance. All genres of music are accepted in this category. Entering this Section does not exclude you from entering other Sections as well.

​The B'nai B'rith Showcase is a member of, and has accreditation with, the Association of Eisteddfod Societies of Australia Inc.

B’nai B’rith Showcase would like to extend an invitation to your students to enter the competition, receive adjudication and feedback from highly qualified adjudicators, and should they progress, to compete for the $1000 Grand Prize at the Finals Concert on 4 September 2022. 


Please be sure to read the Entrant Information booklet to review the guidelines for entries. 
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For more information please click on the Register button below or contact Showcase Chairperson Judy Firestone via showcase@bbvic.org.au. 
2022 ENTRY FORM
PictureISABELLA K 2021 OVERALL WINNER
​    2021 Showcase Finals Concert Winners:
      Overall Winner & Peter Krafel Memorial Prize for Classical Piano: Isabella K
      Lustig Memorial Foundation Scholarship for Strings: Gavriel Y
      Norman Corry Memorial Prize for Strings: Isaac I
      Aria Chava Glaubert Memorial Prize for Classical Vocal: Jodie S
      Elaine Blocj Jaffe Prize for Woodwind: Lily T
     Aria Chava Glaubert Memorial Prize for Contemporary Vocal: Tia P
 
   Thank you to the 2021 sponsors and supporters: 
    Flickers, Ian Sharp Jewellery, David Southwick, Josh Burns, JCCV, Eshel Catering, 
    Elias Rosenberg, Lowe Lippmann, Banner Papers, Nina Taylor, Access Inc. & CSG

2021 Showcase Finals Concert Video Highlights
Past Showcase Winners:
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MIRIAM ROTBLAT - 2020 OVERALL WINNER
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BENJI WALD - 2019 OVERALL WINNER, AND WINNER OF THE PETER KRAFEL MEMORIAL PRIZE
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CAMILLA BURROWS - 2019 CONTEMPORARY VOCAL WINNER
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2019 SHOWCASE WINNERS AND PRESENTERS

B'nai B'rith Victoria Menorah Awards

23/11/2021

 
CLICK HERE FOR THE NOMINATION FORM.
Applications close 15 August 2022.
The B’nai B’rith Victoria Menorah Awards were established in 1978. They are presented annually to worthy recipients who:

  • have worked for the welfare of the community, and
  • have not previously received a National or State Government recognition Award.
 
Eligibility:

  • Menorah Awards will be presented to individuals who have performed voluntary work of benefit to the community, usually over a long period.
  • Recipients will usually be members of the Jewish community. Members of other faiths, who have contributed significantly in relation to the Jewish community, may also be considered.
  • Nominations must be made on the Menorah Awards nomination form (CLICK HERE), obtainable from the B’nai B’rith Victoria office.
  • Nominators will be asked to suggest two referees that the Committee may consult. All nominations will be handled confidentially.
  • Nominees are not to be informed that they are being considered for an Award until after the selection process is complete. Only successful nominees will be notified.
Judging Criteria:

All nominations will be considered by the Menorah Awards Committee. Awards will be offered to individuals who
  • have furthered religious, educational and social welfare by their communal work, for which they have not previously been recognised, and
  • have performed such work on a voluntary basis, usually over a considerable period of time.
The Committee will assess each nomination in the frame of the above criteria, and it may seek additional information and/or clarification, either from the nominator or other sources, before advising successful candidates of the outcome of its deliberations.

General:
Nominators of successful candidates will be asked to  prepare the citation and a brief talk about the candidate for presentation at the Awards Ceremony in November. Prior to this they are asked to nominate a sponsor, who will prepare the citation for presentation at the Awards Ceremony in November.
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Jenny Goldberg Community Service Grant

10/8/2021

 
CLICK HERE FOR THE APPLICATION FORM.
Applications close 25 August 2022.
B’nai B’rith Jenny Goldberg Community Service Grant now in its 17th year is available again.
The $2,500 Grant honours the memory of the late Jenny Goldberg and acknowledges her untiring volunteering skills, which she gave to B’nai B’rith, the Jewish and the broader community at large.
Eligible applicants must be Jewish, under 35 years of age, reside in Melbourne, and have a history of volunteering in Jewish and wider communities.

Past winners have come from a range of Jewish organisations such as Little Dreamers, AUJS, Stand-Up, Flying Fox, Task Force against Family Violence, Chabad, Jewish musical theatre, and others. For more information, please contact the BBVic office on 9523 0888 or admin@bbvic.org.au

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Showcase - Entrant Information

25/5/2021

 
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Leibler Yavneh College
One of the schools that supported us last year.
1.Hebrew Ensemble 2. Junior Secondary Stage Band 3. VCE Boys Trio 4. Junior Quad Band 5. Year 10 Music Class 6. Jazz Ensemble



​Promo Video of BBVic 2020 Online Showcase
Highlighs of last year's Showcase

B'nai B'rith Victoria - Bernard J. Lustig Memorial Scholarship

22/2/2021

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Michaela Glass - 2020 Bernard J. Lustig Memorial Scholarship Winner 
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 A HISTORIC LUSTIG SCHOLARSHIP “PRESENTATION”

For the first time in its 65 year history, the winner of this year’s Bernard Lustig Memorial Scholarship was announced at a Zoom event earlier this month.

Michaela Glass is a brilliant law student, having graduated last month from Monash with a double degree in Arts and Law, with first-class honours. Winners in the scholarship’s Travel Grant category are judged not only on their academic results, but also on their proven ability to be a student leader. Her referees, foremost amongst them the Hon. Marilyn Warren AC, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Victoria, praised Michaela for her enduring efforts as a mentor to younger undergraduates.

Michaela was “present” at the Zoom meeting, but she wasn’t in Melbourne. She was in the Netherlands, on her way to Cambridge University. When the new northern university year begins, she will participate in a highly selective group of post-graduates in a course leading to the Master of Corporate Law Degree. She is interested in the issue of legal control of corporations, to ensure that proper attention is given to privacy and consumers’ rights.

The meeting was opened by BBVic President Dr Benny Monheit and hosted by Raoul Wallenberg Unit, one of the BBVic entities that are committed to major annual donations to the scholarship. Dr Paul Gardner AM, Chairman of the Scholarship’s Trustees, introduced the winner to the meeting. The Lustig family was well represented. Danny Lustig, the nephew of the late Bernard, is one of the Trustees; Eve Lustig, widow of Dr Lew Lustig, founding Patron and Trustee, Bernard’s brother, was also present. A pleasant surprise was to see another nephew, Bernard King-Smith, son of the late Ruth King-Smith, and named in memory of the uncle he had never known, logged in early in the morning from his home in the United States.​

Dr Gardner, whose friendship with the Lustig family goes back to his childhood years, told Preview, “The pandemic is an international disaster of the first magnitude, and its effects have not yet been fully felt. In the meantime, B'nai B'rith and its projects refuse to lie down and die. We do what we can to carry on. Giving up is not an option.”

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Bernard J. Lustig Memorial Scholarship

3/2/2021

 
Bernard J Lustig
Apply for the bernard lustig memorial Scholarship
Read the 2022 guidelines
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2020 Winner announced
2019 winner announced
2018 Winner Announced
SIXTY YEARS ON, A LIVING MEMORIAL REMAINS
It happened in 1955. Summer holiday period.  Hume Highway. Car, driver, two passengers.  The car swerved off the road and hit a tree.  A common event, a tragedy, more frequent then than today. Two young men died. The woman passenger survived. The accident ended the life of Bernard Lustig, a brilliant young barrister, winner of the University of Melbourne’s Supreme Court Prize. He was the older son of Adolf and Kate Lustig, German refugees from Nazism who fled to Australia before the war. As the war ended Adolf helped found the first B'nai B'rith lodge in Melbourne. 

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The Change Makers – Jewish Youth & Young Adults Achievement Awards

16/11/2020

 
B’nai B’rith NSW in partnership with both the JNF and Australian Jewish News have launched this year’s The Change Makers – Jewish Youth & Young Adults Achievement Awards which has been advertised in the JNews.

The age groups are:  Youth 14-18 years (though if you know of an outstanding youth who is younger than 14 - they will be also considered) and Young Adults 18-35.  Categories:  SUPPORT FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, SUPPORT FOR THE  AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY, LEADERSHIP  &  SUPPORT FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL. 

Please go onto the link below to find out in more detail about these categories.  This is a wonderful way to acknowledge the work of our youth and young adults - so if you know of someone who “fits the bill” don’t hesitate to nominate them. https://ajn.timesofisrael.com/changemakers/

Should you have any queries, contact Ernie Friedlander on:  
ernie.friendlander@bbnsw.org.au 

Nominations need to be received by Monday, 16 November. Every nominee will receive a Certificate of Participation and will be featured in the JNews.

Making a Difference – a Project of Melbourne Mitzvah Lodge

26/8/2019

 
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Making a Difference – a Project of Lodge Melbourne Mitzvah
​Making a Difference has been in operation since 1996. Our purpose is to support financially disadvantaged Jewish students in our community, whether they attend a State school or a Jewish school. We support students going into year 11 and year 12, as it was felt that it is these two years which are critical for students to achieve success.

​Money is raised through the support of our members, their families and friends. We receive donations when a variety of events are celebrated and we are grateful for each donation. Since 1996 we have donated over $220,000 to some 280 students. We welcome donations from all.

Our banking details are:
Melbourne Mitzvah Lodge ( MAD) - BSB 013-017, Account No 9001 28923

Click and Connect - English for Kids

1/7/2019

 

BBVIC - A New Community Service Project

Click and Connect (C&C) is a Melbourne-based organisation that got off the ground in 2016. Their project is already under way, helping students in four schools in various parts of Israel. 
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  • For more information about it, see its website, www.clickandconnect.org.au
  • C&C wants to expand its activities, not only in Israel, but here in Australia, by assisting students who need help with English.
  • C&C’s leadership approached B'nai B'rith seeking our support.
  • At its August executive meeting, BBVic agreed to explore ways in which we could assist them in their work. BBVic President Dr Benny Monheit endorsed the project, stating that “C&C’s vision of supporting community service in Israel and locally is strongly aligned with the aims of B'nai B'rith”.

Dr Paul Gardner AM has agreed to be the initial liaison between BBVic and C&C. Here are his thoughts about how B'nai B'rith might be able to assist:

“I have met with some of their leadership on two occasions and have been impressed by their vision and their competence. For them to grow, they require more resources, especially human resources.  This is a hands-on-the-internet-direct-help project, not a fund-raising exercise.
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So, here’s how you might become involved:
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Are you a retired teacher willing to spend an hour every fortnight on the internet with a particular child in Israel?

Or if not a teacher, would you enjoy having a conversation in English about any topics of mutual interest? (The aim is not to cover a curriculum, simply to encourage the kid to talk.)

Or, if direct conversation with kids is not your forte, would you be willing to provide volunteer assistance to C&C to help out with managing their project?

Do you know anyone in your circle of family and friends – they don’t have to be B'nai B'rith members – who might be interested in helping out in some way?

If the answer to any of these questions is YES!  -- and I would love to get some enthusiastic YES! responses – please contact me.”
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pgardner@bigpond.net.au      9578 4724        0412 275 623
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