News & Events

Congratulations to longstanding volunteer Lea Portrate OAM, on her much deserved Australia Day Honours for her service to the Sydney Jewish Community across multiple causes.  Lea has been a volunteer at Montefiore since 1983, but feels like she’s been a “Monte person” her whole life. Lea’s father, Israel Green, was involved in the land purchase […]

CEO Robert Orie on the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality & Safety. In October 2018 the Federal Government established a Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, in response to media reports at the time exposing examples of abuse and substandard care in residential aged care facilities. After more than […]

Read the Pesach 2021 issue of Montefiore Life magazine online now. In our Pesach issue, you’ll find stories about some of our inspiring residents, wonderful volunteers and dedicated staff. Read about the latest innovations in dementia living, the importance of positive ageing with CHeBA, discover more about life in the M by Montefiore retirement community, […]

Celebrate Passover with a delicate walnut cake, topped with rich chocolate ganache. This feather-light treat, scented with cinnamon and orange, will appear on our special Passover Seder menus in Residential Care dining rooms this year.  “For Seder at Montefiore, we’re making individual cakes sprayed with a glossy chocolate finish, but this version to share, iced […]

Help at Home offers trusted support and care, whilst promoting your independence to live in the community, as well as residential and respite care. Throughout the past year, Help at Home by Montefiore has successfully adapted not only to the many additional precautions and procedures necessitated by COVID-19, but to the changing needs of its […]

Family and friends of the late Lionel Green gathered to honour the memory of the staunch Montefiore supporter at a dedication of a building in his name at the new M by Montefiore development in Randwick this week. President David Freeman AM, on making the dedication, remarked: “Lionel Green exemplified the best of our Montefiore […]

Continuing our Moments in Time series, Shirley Margolin of Montefiore Randwick shares some significant memories and treasured mementoes. Remembering the war I was born in London in 1934. I was five years old when the war started. I was on a beach with my family, and I remember hearing the air raid siren. I ran […]

Continuing our Moments in Time series, Klara Gamarnik of Montefiore Hunters Hill spoke to us through a Russian interpreter to share some of her significant memories. Growing up in the Soviet Union I was born in the Soviet Union in the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1930. I had a good life growing up, my parents […]

Continuing our Moments in Time series, Del and Paul Tomchin of Montefiore Woollahara share their significant memories and treasured mementoes from 60 years of marriage. A whirlwind romance Del: I worked in my brother in law’s deli and he told me: “There’s a guy who comes in on Saturday or Sunday afternoons and loves his […]