Change at the Top in Victoria
November 23, 2011 by Community Editor
Nina Bassat is the new president of The Jewish Community Council of Victoria. Read more
Gift of Life Makes New Friends
November 23, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The Gift of Life made new friends at Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue’s Mitzvah Day with 15 new volunteers giving blood in the hope of finding a DNA match in the quest to save the lives of four dying Jewish children. Read more
Opportunity for NSWJBD Summer Internship
November 23, 2011 by Community Editor
The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies is offering an opportunity for a communal-minded tertiary student to gain work experience over the summer months in its Sydney office. Read more
Dec-13 8:30p.m. SBS2-TV: As It Happened – The Children’s Odyssey
November 23, 2011 by J-Wire
The little-known story of a group of Polish Jewish children, mainly orphans, who made a wartime odyssey from Europe to Palestine. Read more
Dec-11 8:30p.m. SBS1-TV: The Promise
November 23, 2011 by J-Wire
Len is lying in hospital, being treated for his injuries after his unit has been under attack in Haifa. Read more
Celebrating Israel
November 23, 2011 by Community Editor
Celebrating Israel 2011 marks the 64th Anniversary of the passing of resolution 181 by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947, calling for the establishment of a Jewish State alongside an Arab State in the historical land of Israel, leading to the establishment of the State of Israel. Read more
Melbourne Jewry Hits the Headlines in Croatia
November 23, 2011 by Michelle Coleman
Melbourne’s 65,000-strong Jewish Community has made the headlines in Croatia following an historic dinner with the Croatian community in Victoria. Read more
Melbourne Israeli Dancing Group Dropped from Festival
November 22, 2011 by J-Wire
A Melbourne Israeli Dancing group was dropped from participating in a Victorian dance festival after refusing organisers’ moves to drop all references to Israel. Read more
One Egg is a Fortune
November 22, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Dudu Fisher’s grandmother was a Holocaust survivor determined not see her beloved grandson want for something to eat…so she bribed him daily after school to eat food placing a value on each item. Topping the list was a commodity rarely found in Nazi concentration camps…eggs. Read more
Palestine – Abbas Flirts with Political Suicide
November 22, 2011 by David Singer
Palestinian Authority President – Mahmoud Abbas – is inviting political suicide and an end to the two-state solution – should his planned meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Mashal in Cairo this coming Friday lead to the creation of a new unity government to end the division of power between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza..writes David Singer. Read more
Jewish-Muslim Business Group
November 22, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish-Muslim Young Executives Forum was held last week with IAG chairman Brian Schwartz the guest speaker. Read more
Israel’s Civil War
November 22, 2011 by J-Wire
In Yehuda Avner’s book ‘The Prime Ministers’ the author recounts watching Menachim Begin deliver a speech in a dilapidated cinema shortly after the State of Israel came into being…writes Raffe Gold. Read more
Breaking the Silence
November 22, 2011 by Ron Weiser
The Zionist Council of NSW congratulates both the Zionist Federation and Board of Deputies of South Africa for its outstanding work in dealing with the farce that was the session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine held in Cape Town earlier this month…writes Ron Weiser. Read more
Award for Jewish Holocaust Centre
November 21, 2011 by J-Wire
Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre (JHC) has been announced the winner of the prestigious Small Museum, Permanent Exhibition Award. Read more
Cooper remembered at the Sydney Jewish Museum
November 21, 2011 by J-Wire
Kevin Russell, the great-grandson of the late William Cooper, the founder and leader of the Australian Aborigines’ League (AAL), paid tribute to Cooper’s courage, compassion and lifelong commitment to social justice, in a moving address delivered at the Sydney Jewish Museum on Sunday. Read more
European-funded Breaking the Silence Alienates Israelis
From November 13-16, Hebrew University sponsored a conference on “The Potential Role of Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflict”…write Anne Hertzberg and Naftali Balanson. Read more
Israeli Academic on the Survival of Maori and Pasifika languages
World-renowned linguist Professor Bernard Spolsky will be keynote speaker at an upcoming symposium ‘Building a multilingual society: creating habitats for language survival’, focusing on the survival of Māori and Pasifika languages. Read more
Quitting the NSWJBD
November 20, 2011 by J-Wire
The Board Of Deputies No Longer Represents Me Read more
Jewish Film Festival Review – Nicky’s Family
Nicky’s Family
One of the most potent fictionalised responses to the Holocaust must be that of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz wherein a grown man comes undone, fragmented by the discovery of his suppressed history…writes Tali Lavi. Read more
Speed Camera for Moriah
November 20, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Waverley Council believes speeding is a problem on York Rd which borders Sydney’s Moriah College…and has told the State Government that a speed camera should be installed outside the school. Read more
Jobs I Could Have Had
November 20, 2011 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
I spent 45 years in the congregational rabbinate – not such a bad record…writes Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more
New Leader for Canberra Community
November 20, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Professor Kim Rubenstein has been elected president of the Canberra Jewish Community. Read more
Nov-29 Sydney: Celebrating Israel
November 19, 2011 by J-Wire
The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia [NSW] and the Zionist Council of NSW invite you to listen to this initiative – Working Towards Peace Read more
Mark Leibler chats with President Obama
November 18, 2011 by J-Wire
Mark Leibler, the national chairman of The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, met U.S. President Barack Obama during the President’s recent visit to Australia. Read more
Landau Up Close and Personal
November 18, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
Former diplomatic and managing editor of The Jerusalem Post and former editor-in-chief of Ha’aretz, David Landau, spoke to invited guests at a breakfast in Sydney today on behalf of the New Israel Fund Australia.
Palestine – TIme to tell the Truth
November 17, 2011 by David Singer
Republican front runner for next President of the United States – Newt Gingrich – has done himself and his campaign great credit in branding the Palestinians as an invented nation…writes David Singer. Read more
Newspaper of the Year?
November 17, 2011 by Emily Gian
When I opened the copy of today’s Melbourne Age that sat on my desk this morning, I noticed for the first time that the newspaper carries the tagline “Newspaper of the Year”…writes Emily Gian. Read more
25% of NSW Deputies under 30
November 17, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Boding well for the NSW community’s future was the election of 19 members of the community under the age of 30 as deputies in the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies election. Read more
A Culture of Thinking
November 17, 2011 by Janet Kalmin
Sydney’s Masada College has been inundated with applications for their second Developing a Culture of Thinking in Schools Conference in February. Read more
Gonski delivers Human Rights Address
November 17, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Distinguished lawyer and businessman David Gonski delivered a crystal clear background and assessment of Australia’s Human Rights history as this year’s orator of the B’nai B’rith Human Rights Address. Read more
