Jewish Immersion Program

Jewish Community Council of Victoria

This program is for service providers, businesses, organisations and community groups. It explores the Victorian Jewish community’s diversity, characteristics, and contemporary challenges and gives participants practical tools to use in their work.

Teacher Professional Learning

Courage to Care

This program is for Victorian school teachers. It raises awareness of equality, diversity, racism, and discrimination, equipping teachers with tools to foster cultural and behavioural change in the classroom.

Student and Teacher education programs

Jewish Museum of Australia

These programs are for school students and are aligned with the Victorian Curriculum. They use museum objects, storytelling, and inquiry to teach Jewish history, culture, and people while fostering intercultural understanding and respect.

Adult Groups

Melbourne Holocaust Museum

The Melbourne Holocaust Museum offers a range of meaningful, interactive and transferrable programs for teams, leadership groups and whole workplaces. Our adult learning programs are bespoke to the needs and interests of your group.

The Space Between: Where understanding begins

Melbourne Holocaust Museum

This is a free immersive workplace program that helps organisations build connection and understanding through the stories of six Australian Jews, supported by Multicultural Affairs and Monash University.

Sephardi Heritage Museum of Australia (SHMA)

Sassoon Yehuda Sephardi Synagogue

This tour of the shule and museum is open to all ages and backgrounds. It explores Sephardi Jewish history and culture, including lesser-known traditions from the Middle East, North Africa, India, and Asia, as well as Holocaust stories from the Balkans and Greece.

Synagogue Tours

St Kilda Hebrew Congregation

This program is for the general public and school groups. It combines a tour of the Jewish Museum of Australia (JMA) with a synagogue visit to explore Jewish history and traditions. Bookings are through the JMA.

Places of Worship visit/Human Library

Together for Humanity

This program is for students and adult groups. It introduces Judaism through a synagogue visit, a Torah presentation, a Q&A with a Rabbi, and small group conversations with Jewish community members.

Tailored student programs

Together for Humanity

This tailored, interactive program is for students and explores identity, belonging, culture, stereotypes, and prejudice. It fosters empathy through storytelling, discussions, hands-on activities, and engagement with members of the Jewish community.

Teacher Professional Learning

Together for Humanity

This program is for teachers and school staff. It builds skills to address and counter antisemitism, racism, and prejudice while strengthening inclusive teaching practices and classroom management.