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SBS Jewish update: a call to unvaccinated Melbourne Jews to get vaccinated, comparison between Sydney & Melbourne communities & more stories

Woman proud to have received vaccine

Woman of indian ethnicity is proud to have been vaccinated and shows off her band-aid at the hsospital Source: Digital Vision

SBS Jewish update: a call to unvaccinated Melbourne Jews to get vaccinated, comparison between Sydney & Melbourne communities & more stories from the Australian Jewish community, with Shane Desiatnik senior journalist at the AJN and Nitza Lowenstein


Leading Jewish, Victorian, medical experts are again warning unvaccinated members in the Jewish community to get vaccinated, citing the fact that Covid-19 is in the Jewish community and hospitals are predominantly having to save severely ill patients who have not been vaccinated.

A Comparative Study of the Impact of Covid-19 on the Melbourne and Sydney Jewish Communities, by Prof Suzanne Rutland, has proposed that the latter has dealt better with the outbreak than Melbourne because of Sydney’s more centralised system of fundraising, planning and management.


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