Invitation cancelled
May 31, 2012 by Peter Slezak
With other panellists who were already listed with photos on the 2012 Melbourne Limmud-Oz website, I received a curt notice of cancellation that said only “Our committee has decided not to schedule your session … into the 2012 program.”…writes Peter Slezak Read more
Ambassador visits Charedi training centre
Australia’s ambassador to Israel has visited a training centre at which orthodox Jews are training to join Israel’s workforce. Read more
Korean Mummy reveals secrets to Spigelman
May 31, 2012 by J-Wire
Former Sydney-sider Professor Mark Spigelman is a member of a joint Israeli-South Korean scientific team which discovered a hepatitis B genotype in a mummified Korean child. Hepatitis is a major cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer in Australia. Read more
Labor in Opposition: An Historic Opportunity
May 30, 2012 by Isi Leibler
Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovitch initially expressed bitterness and regret when the unity government was proclaimed…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
Stolen Lives, Stolen Minute
May 30, 2012 by Jack Chrapot
In less than two months, the Games of the XXX Olympiad will take place in London; a sporting pageant featuring athletes from over 200 nations competing in 26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines. The programme will cover nineteen days and hundreds of hours of competition and yet, the International Olympic Committee cannot find a minute to spare during the Games to honour the memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists forty years ago at Munich…writes Jack Chrapot. Read more
Cooking up suppport
May 30, 2012 by Ayal Tusia
Judy Kempler and Pnina Jacobson, co-authors of the international, award-winning cookbook One Egg is a Fortune have addressed the Annual Brunch of the Friends of Montefiore at Melbourne’s Leonda by the Yarra. Read more
Where are you?
Federal Labor Member of Parliament Michael Danby awaits comments from Middle East correspondents following the expulsion from Australia of Syrian diplomats… Read more
First progressive Rabbi In Israel
May 30, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s Union for Progressive Judaism has congratulated Rabbi Miri Gold on becoming the first Progressive rabbi in Israel. Read more
Premier to present awards
May 30, 2012 by Community Editor
The State Israel has conferred two Righteous Amongst the Nations awards which will be presented by NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell tomorrow. Read more
Flinders Quartet in Concert
May 30, 2012 by Fraser Beath McEwing
The Flinders Quartet cleverly used the theme of silent inspiration to present three diverse and challenging works in the Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House, writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read more
Tribute concert for Polish Catholic who saved 2,500 Jewish children
May 30, 2012 by Community Editor
A tribute concert to honor the sacrifices made for humanity by righteous among the nations Irena Sendler will premiere in July at the Melbourne Recital Centre in Southbank thanks to a collaboration between the Polish and Israeli Embassies. Read more
Australia gives $90 million support to Palestinians
May 28, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Bob Carr, today announced Australia would support additional teachers and doctors for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, with a $90 million funding agreement signed with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Canberra this afternoon. Read more
Israeli electric car stations for Australia
May 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The electric car network established in Israel by Shai Agassi is now a functioning unit, albeit still at the trialling stage. Read more
Academy BJE Students Celebrate Shavuot
May 25, 2012 by Nanette Horak
Bellevue Hill Public School was just one of the many schools who celebrated Shavuot this week with Academy BJE. Read more
Crime thriller meets children’s entertainment
May 25, 2012 by Geoff Sirmai
Crime thriller meets children’s entertainment in an insanely funny new play by Jewish lawyer and playwright Tony Laumberg. Read more
Hope remains for cemetery extension
May 25, 2012 by Community Editor
A meeting of Sydney’s Randwick Council has approved a Local Environmental Plan which incorporates the usage of part of a Chinese market garden as an extension of the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park. Read more
Simple Steps
May 25, 2012 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
Tomorrow night we begin the festival of Shavuot when we celebrate and commemorate the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai. The Sinai experience was the defining moment of Jewish history when we committed ourselves to G-d and His commandments, becoming His nation forever…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie. Read more
Sorry again
May 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Tomorrow is National Sorry Day and Australians, including The Jewish Religious Action and Advocacy Centre, will come together to remember the injustices suffered by Indigenous Australians and, in particular, to say sorry for the treatment of the Stolen Generation, children who were forcibly removed from their families. Read more
SSO at the Montefiore
May 25, 2012 by Community Editor
Members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra have visited Sydney’s Montefiore Home at Randwick to perform for the residents. Read more
New chaplains for schools
May 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Australian students will soon have more support, with 1000 new chaplains and student welfare workers due to start work in schools. Read more
JCA Women’s Division Photo Gallery
May 25, 2012 by J-Wire
The Jewish Communal Appeal Women’s Division has held its gala function at which iconic neurosurgeon Associate Professor Charlie Teo spoke…J-Wire photo gallery…. Read more
Moriah Wind Ensemble wins NSW Title
May 25, 2012 by Community Editor
Sydney’s Moriah College Symphonic Wind Ensemble has won its division in the NSW State Junior Concert Band Championships. Read more
Dalia on show
May 25, 2012 by Arts Editor
As a multi media artist Dalia Ayalon Sinclair’s paintings and photographs bare ‘footprints’ of the sequences in her life. Read more
Israel and Insulin For Life partners with Samoa
Aspecial ceremony has taken place at Samoa’s National Health Services compound to mark the 50th anniversary of Samoa’s independence. H.E. Ambassador Shemi Tzur, Israel’s Ambassador to New Zealand, handed over to the Minister of Health of Samoa, Dr. Leo Tuitama Talalelei, much needed diabetes supplies donated by Insulin for Life Australia. Read more
Protecting our children
Around thirty signatories have put their names to an ad appearing in media today in support of the victims of sexual abuse. Read more
Palestine – UNWRA and UNESCO promote a state of confusion
May 24, 2012 by David Singer
A crisis of diplomatic confusion seems to have arisen between two affiliate organizations of the United Nations following the announcement by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNWRA) of its intention to upgrade the dilapidated conditions in some of the refugee camps under its control – rather than taking progressive steps to close them down following recognition of the State of Palestine by UNESCO on 31 October 2011…writes David Singer. Read more
French railways to assist in Holocaust research
May 24, 2012 by Agencies
The National Society of French Railways (SNCF) has signed an agreement with Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to increase research into the scope of deportations of Jews from France during the Holocaust. Read more
The Nakba Hoax in Retrospect
May 24, 2012 by Isi Leibler
No revisionist or post Zionist spin can plausibly deny that the War of Independence was an attempt by a coalition of Arab states to annihilate us. But as Goebbels used to say “Repeat the same lie again and again and ultimately people will believe it”…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
Kabbala versus Kabbollywood
May 23, 2012 by Rabbi Chaim Ingram
Both as a parent and as a teacher, I have come to know that there is no purer relationship than that of a child to G-D…writes Rabbi Chaim Ingram. Read more
UPJ Launches Religious Action and Advocacy Centre
An internet link with two of the world’s leading social action activists was one of the highlights of the launch of the Union for Progressive Judaism’s Religious Action & Advocacy Centre (JRAAC) at the King David School in Melbourne. Read more
