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Be Proud to Be Jewish On Campus

Be Proud to Be Jewish On Campus

‘It is at university where our Jewish identity gets placed into our own hands.’
Preparation for university for most students looks like having to consider what courses they need to take, figuring out where their lecture halls are and meeting new people

The University of Melbourne Adopts The IHRA Working Definition

The University of Melbourne Adopts The IHRA Working Definition

JEWISH organisations and the wider community have applauded a decision by The University of Melbourne to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, becoming the first
Australian university to do so.

AUJS Spectacular Triple Gong

AUJS Spectacular Triple Gong

THE Australasian Union of Jewish students (AUJS) won three prestigious awards at the World Union of Jewish Students (WUIS)
annual congress in Jerusalem in
late December.

Leadership Training Summit 2022

Leadership Training Summit 2022

Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) leaders from across Australia’s major states and New Zealand made their way to Safety Beach in Victoria at the end of November for the AUJS leadership training summit….

Jewish Student & Antisemitism On Campus

Jewish Student & Antisemitism On Campus

“They should be putting forward preventative measures. it’s only reactive, and reactive is insufficient”,
she said. The original UMSU motion acted as a catalyst for other motions around Australia, such as the “From the River to the Sea” motion, passed by the University of Sydney….

A Diary Of A Jewish Student

A Diary Of A Jewish Student

The motion that started the fire
that has been burning all year
was the University of Melbourne
Student Union (UMSU) motion
in support of Palestine and BDS
(boycott, divestment and sanctions).

University Of Adelaide Student Union Acts

University Of Adelaide Student Union Acts

The University of Adelaide’s student union You X has stood down an editor who wrote ” Death to Israel” in student magazine ‘On Dit’ and taunted Jewish students with the chant at a subsequent student representative council (SRC) meeting.