New Holocaust film for Australia
March 31, 2011 by Arts Editor
THE ROUND UP (LA RAFLE) Read more
The Generation Gap
March 31, 2011 by Manny Waks
In the article, Give Us the Tools to Define Our Involvement, Joshua Einstein cogently articulates the major challenges and obstacles inherent in the global predicament of Jewish continuity. The term “continuity” is ubiquitous in contemporary Jewish community discourse. Broadly, it defines the continuity of “Jewishness”, both as our collective identity and as a values framework. Read more
Gary Humphries talks to the CJF
March 31, 2011 by Agencies
Liberal Senator for the ACT, Senator Gary Humphries, addressed the Capital Jewish Forum (CJF) in Canberra this week. He spoke about his recent tour of Israel and the West Bank. Read more
The System Works But We Should Not be Happy
March 30, 2011 by Raffe Gold
Earlier this week former Israeli President Moshe Katsav was sentenced to seven years jail for rape. The result did not shock the Israeli people who had been avidly following the trial since Katsav resigned from his office in disgrace. When the sentencing was announced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset that it was a sad day for Israel but that ‘no one is above the law’ and that Israel should be proud of her justice system. Read more
Apr-04 Sydney: CBD Future Economics – A New Model
March 30, 2011 by J-Wire
CBD Chabad invite you to a lecture by Simon Jacobson…a speaker who has delighted audiences all over the world… Read more
86% of Australian Jewry has visited Israel
The President of the Australian arm of the Jewish National Fund Grahame Leonard has addressed the KKL-JNF World Leadership Conference in Israel…reporting that 86% of Australian Jewry has visited Israel. Read more
Mar-31 Sydney: Memorial service for Itamar victims
March 29, 2011 by J-Wire
The Great Synagogue will host a memorial service to commemorate the lives lost in Itamar recently. Read more
Dame Kiri asked to boycott Israel
March 29, 2011 by Agencies
New Zealand’s iconic opera diva Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, has ignored a request to cancel an upcoming visit to Israel. Read more
Danby’s O’Farrell attack answered
March 28, 2011 by Agencies
The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Eric Abetz has responded to Labor MP Michael Danby’s criticism of new NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell following the Party’s decision not to introduce preferences in the NSW seat of Marrickville being contested by mayor Fiona Byrne who is calling for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. Read more
Adelaide woman makes important donation to Yad Vashem
Brigitte Flatau-Yallen has donated two portraits and a wealth of archival material shedding light on German-Jewish life as the Nazis rose to power for safekeeping to Yad Vashem. Read more
ECAJ offers sympathy
March 25, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has sent a message of sympathy to Israel following the fatal bomb attack on a Jerusalem bus. Read more
BDS Opposition Swells
March 25, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Labor member of parliament Michael Danby has attacked NSW Liberal Party would be Premier Barry O’Farrell for not allocating preferences to Labor in the seat of Marrickville where anti-Israel campaigner and Marrickville mayor Fiona Byrne is poised to win the State seat for the Greens Party in tomorrow’s State election. Read more
Elli reunited with the family who saved her – after 65 years
March 24, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
“Try one more time Nana”….she did and found the baby girl her husband’s mother had hidden from the Nazis ending a search which has lasted for 65 years. Read more
Gaza and Libya – the UN Speaks with Forked Tongue
March 24, 2011 by David Singer
The double standards employed by the United Nations when it comes to dealing with Israel were thrown into sharp focus with the Security Council’s passing of Resolution 1973 on 19 March. Read more
Senate Slams Marrickville Council
March 24, 2011 by Agencies
The Senate has supported a motion proposed by Senator Mitch Fifield denouncing Marrickville Council’s boycott of Israel. Read more
Silence Shirley? Good luck!
March 23, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Randwick citizen Shirley Finn got her chance to speak at a council meeting this week a …and attempts by the Mayor to cut her back fell foul of Shirley’s persistence and determination. The topic? Boycotts against Israel…Marrickville and Randwick. Read more
Apr-16 Sydney: Pre-Pesach Getaway
March 23, 2011 by J-Wire
Preparing for Pesach is a big job…spend the Shabbos before at the North Shore Jewish Community Centre. Read more
Victoria to fine adults who provide alcohol to children
March 23, 2011 by Geoffrey Zygier
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria president John Searle today applauded the Victorian Government for its intended introduction of legislation this week, providing for $7,000 fines for adults who give alcohol to children without parental permission. Read more
SOLOMON – AUSTRALIA’S 400M TRACK KING
March 21, 2011 by David Weiner-Maccabi NSW
Steve Solomon might be Maccabi NSW’s incumbent Junior Sportsman of the Year, but this is a young guy who now has mainstream Australian sport talking. Read more
Emanuele Ottolenghi’s take on the Itamar murders
March 20, 2011 by Emanuele Ottolenghi
The silliest of all Western reactions to the slaughter of the Fogel family has been to suggest that the murder of three children was aimed at torpedoing the peace process. Read more
The Q Society and Marrickville Council
March 20, 2011 by Larry Stillman
In the past week or so, it has become clear that the organisation which has is behind the petition against the Marrickville Council’s Boycott Divestment and Sanctions declaration is an active right wing, racist organisation. the QSociety, whose official HQ is a post box office box in the western suburbs of Melbourne. It has strong links into other circles of haters and racists who just don’t like Muslims but other people as well. When the issue of a Muslim prayer group in the heart of the Jewish community in Melbourne, was attached to their cause, it took me only 5 minutes of searching on Google to figure out what these people represent, and that is what makes the Sydney response so scandalous. Read more
Support Randwick Council support Israel
March 20, 2011 by Community Editor
Show Your Support of Israel at Randwick Council Read more
Chief Justice to Retire
NSW Chief Justice James Spigelman has announced his intention to resign. Read more
Family First – or Last?
March 20, 2011 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
This Sunday (20th March) we will celebrate Purim, the happiest day in the Jewish calendar. There are many lessons to be learned from this special day. One of them is the true meaning of kindness and unity. Read more
Medicine for Marrickville
A long time ago – some sixty years – I had a spell of some medical responsibilities in the Marrickville area. It was the time of early multiculturalism and I retain pleasant memories of a happy polyglot community with a great sense of civic pride and neighbourly concern. Read more
“A Real Abuse of Power”
March 20, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
A Marrickville councillor has slammed mayor Fiona Byrne for using the Council web site to explain why Israel should be boycotted. Read more
Too many emails?
March 18, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
J-Wire now offers its subscribers the choice of receiving news bulletins every Monday, Wednesday and Friday instead of daily…. Read more
Kesser Torah Spreads the Word
March 18, 2011 by Agencies
Spread the Word, Israel’s Advocacy Group at Sydney’s Kesser Torah Girls High School, lived up to its name this week when students conducted a program supporting Five Minutes of Silence in protest against Gilad Shalit’s five years in captivity. Read more
Obama – Confronting the Killing Culture in Palestine
March 17, 2011 by David Singer
The brutal murder of five members of the Fogel family including three children aged 11, 4 and 3 months – whilst asleep in their house – could only elicit the following pathetic response from President Obama:
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the murder of five Israelis in a terrorist attack in the northern West Bank, and we offer our condolences to their loved ones and to the Israeli people. There is no possible justification for the killing of parents and children in their home. We call on the Palestinian Authority to unequivocally condemn this terrorist attack and for the perpetrators of this heinous crime to be held accountable.” Read more
Help for Japan
March 17, 2011 by Agencies
Chabad Rabbi Dovid Slavin visited the Deputy Consul-General of Japan this week following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. Read more
