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Better healthcare for Palestinian kids – thanks to Australian interfaith group

Friday, May 24, 2013 at 12:06 am

Hundreds of Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip will have access to improved healthcare thanks to a unique multi-faith partnership based in Australia. Read more

British analyst briefs Sydney’s Inner West community

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 3:33 pm

British Israel analyst,  Alan Johnson has presented to Sydney’s Inner West Jewish community a cutting-edge update on the latest developments in post-election Israel. Read more

World Vision: Shurat HaDin responds

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 3:27 pm

Shurat HaDin’s Akiva Hamilton has responded to World Vision’s defence of “taxpayer funded support for UAWC”… Read more

Familiar names top the annual BRW magazine’s Rich 200 list.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 3:23 pm

Frank Lowy, Anthony Pratt, Ivan Glasenberg, Harry Triguboff and John Gandel all made the top 10 of the list, which was published on the magazine’s website on Wednesday afternoon. Read more

Claims Conference Leaders must Resign Now!…writes Isi Leibler

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 3:07 pm

Over the past few days, there have been additional mind-boggling exposures of further scandals, lack of transparency, cover-ups and ethical failures at the highest possible levels of the Claims Conference leadership and management. Unless these latest reports appearing in the Jerusalem Post and JTA are refuted, we must demand the immediate resignations of all those engaged in the subterfuges. Read more

South African educator to visit Australia

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 3:27 pm

The former principal of the King David School in Johannesburg will visit Australia later this week. Read more

Australian Muslim web site attacks Zionism

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 3:19 pm

An article published on a website “designed to bind together” Muslims in Australia calls Zionism a “colonial expansionist terrorist movement” and brands the occupation as “religiously racist” and “genocidal”. Read more

UK chair of coalition into combatting anti-Semitism hails Australian support

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 3:00 pm

The chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism has hailed the deluge of Australian state and federal MPs and Senators who have signed the London Declaration into Combatting Anti-Semitism. Read more

Victoria links with Israel in science and technology

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7:57 pm

Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher today announced a new program to connect Victorian science and technology companies with their counterparts in Israel to develop innovative R&D projects. Read more

NSW political leaders sign London Declaration

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7:35 pm

NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson and Premier Barry O’Farrell have today jointly signed the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism at Parliament House. Read more

World Vision Rejects Shurat HaDin’s Allegations

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 2:47 pm

The Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Centre) first wrote to World Vision Australia (WVA) in February 2012 claiming that our AusAID-funded agricultural development project with the Palestinian organisation – the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) – violated Australian and US counter-terrorism legislation because, they claimed, UAWC is an arm of the proscribed terrorist organisation the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Read more

MPs Find Trip to Israel “Life-changing”

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 12:44 pm

A parliamentary delegation recently returned from Israel has unanimously agreed that the trip was “life changing,” at an event hosted by the Zionist Council of Victoria. Read more

New Zealand coaching rugby in Ramallah and Jerusalem

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 10:45 am

New Zealand Foreign Minister has met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. He also addressed the US/NZ Pacific Partnership Forum announcing an offer of help to get both parties involved in the Israel-Palestine dispute back to the table. Read more

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Features and Articles

Sydney man addresses the Dutch parliament

Ari Briggs is a former Sydnesider now resident in Israel and active with Regavim, an organisation fighting to save Israeli land claimed by the Bedouin. He recently addressed the Dutch Parliament in defence of Israel… Read more

The Gonski View

Leone Hersh interviews David Gonski for j-junction Read more

Palestine – Turning Unreality Into Reality…writes David Singer

A TV show – “The President” – now being aired on Maan TV – a popular independent Palestinian radio station – presents an opportunity for the election-starved Palestinian Arabs to have their say on what they would do on a variety of subjects if they were elected as the President of Palestine. Read more

Exposed: Devastating New Claims Conference Scandal…writes Isi Leibler

Last month I devoted a column to the ongoing disgrace of the Claims Conference and the failure by the management to take appropriate action to provide financial assistance to ailing survivors unable to afford food, medicine and other basic necessities to enable them to live out their remaining years with a modicum of dignity. Read more

Will the Stephen Hawking boycott of Israel lead to peace in the Middle East?

Many of you would have read last week of a decision by renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking to join the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of the upcoming 2013 President’s Conference in Jerusalem.

..writes Emily Gian. Read more

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Sydney: Positions Vacant

Sydney’s Emanuel School is looking for a Jewish Studies Teacher Read more

May-24 5:30pm SBS1-TV: Global Village – Waiting for the promised land

In the 1980s and 1990s, Israel organised two projects to emigrate nearly 30,000 Ethiopian Jews under the Law of Return. Read more

May-25 Sydney: Family lunch

The Great Synagogue presents a family lunch and a chance to meet the authors of worldwide-winning cookbook “One Egg is a Fortune”. Read more

May-26 6:30pm ABC1-TV: Holy Switch

Two young women, one a traditional Muslim, the other from an observant reform Jewish background,  have “traded places” for the ABC documentary series “Holy Switch”, and share glowing reports of the experience.

May-28 11:05pm SBS1-TV: Film: The Matchmaker

During the summer of 1968, young Arik Burstein goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust. Read more

May-29 Sydney: More Dash – Less Trash

The Sydney Jewish Museum presents a panel discussion about living a sustainable life with style, featuring dynamic speakers, all leaders in their fields. The event complements the exhibition ‘Dressing Sydney: The Jewish Fashion Story’ at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

Jun-15 8:30pm SBS1-TV: RocKwiz

Deb Conway/Passenger/Archie Roach – Rock music’s most famous faces continue to mix it with the best local trivia buffs. Read more

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AUJS up and running

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has launched the 2013 academic year with its first Israel campaign. The campaign, entitled ‘My Israel’, is a positive campaign that gives voices to Israelis representing the many diverse communities and groups that exist in Israeli society. Read more

Emanuel School Cleans Up

The school bell rings, it’s lunch time. Food, wrappers, drink containers, serviettes – all by-products of a healthy lunchbox but potentially a problem in the environment. This year Sydney’s Emanuel School students have decided to celebrate Clean Up Australia Day with a twist and help eradicate litter in the School playground permanently. Read more

The university facilities you want

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students is providing an opportunity for university students and the Jewish youth of the community to participate in a special survey during Orientation Week (O-week) and the first few weeks of university this semester. Read more

Walking for JNF

When three Year 8 boys talk up a 50km day bushwalk together, it is usually just talk. But three boys from Sydney’s Masada College will match their words with action when they walk almost 50km through the Garigal National Park in one day. Read more

Award for Perth student

Former Carmel School pupil Zibeon Schildkraut has received a prestigious scholarship from the University of Western Australian. Read more

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