Monash oration

July 31, 2012 by  

General Peter Cosgrove, former head of the Australian Defence Forces has delivered the Monash oration at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

Lebanese team refuses to train in view of Israelis

July 31, 2012 by  

Reuters has reported that prior to the opening ceremony at which  International Olympic Committee refused a minute’s silence to honor the memory of the 11 Israeli athletes massacred in Munich in 1972 because it did not want to introduce politics into the event, the IOC ceded to a Lebanese complaint about training in the same space as the Israelis. Read more

Jewish leaders at Iftar dinner

July 31, 2012 by  

NSW Premier The Hon Barry O’Farrell MP has hosted an “Iftar Dinner to celebrate Interfaith Harmony” at Parliament House. Read more

MP to address community parliament

July 31, 2012 by  

Nicholas Kotsiras, Victorian State Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, will visit Beth Weizmann next Monday to address the Plenum of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV). Read more

Adding the French Touch

July 31, 2012 by  

It was standing room only at popular Sydney music venue Camelot when Dahlia Dior presented her personal tribute to French singing legend Edith Piaf. Read more

Send a message to Steven

July 31, 2012 by  

Want to let Steven Solomon know you are barracking for him when he competes in the 400m this weekend?  J-Wire shows you how… Read more

B’nai B’rith remembers Munich

July 31, 2012 by  

B’nai B’rith Melbourne has commemorated the memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympic Games 40 years ago. Read more

Yes, they stood

July 30, 2012 by  

Out of the range of cameras which for whatever reason did not want to record the moment, Israel’s Culture and  Sport Minister Limor Livnat stood in silence in respect for the 11 Israelis murdered in Munich at the 1972 Olympic Games during the opening ceremony speech made by IOC President Jacques Rogge in London. Read more

To give when you love

July 30, 2012 by  

As Tisha B’Av finishes, yahrzeit for their daughter Malki approaches for Arnold and Frimet Roth. Arnold  writes to J-Wire… Read more

Danby critical of Brenner protesters’ defence lawyer

July 29, 2012 by  

C

riminal defence lawyer Rob Stary’s self-congratulation on his successful defence of his clients’ rights to protest in his opinion piece in the Herald-Sun  (”Peaceful Protestors Justified ) ventured into wider issues of foreign policy and history, far from his narrow sphere of expertise.  Read more

BJE Invites you to the Weekend Escape Camp

July 29, 2012 by  

The annual BJE Weekend Escape Camp is happening again this year, and is open to all NSW high school students from years 7 – 12. Read more

Holocaust/Genocide exhibition opens in Melbourne

July 29, 2012 by  

The Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne is hosting an exhibition from the USA of photographs and extraordinary stories from the Holocaust and genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Cambodia. Read more

Waks, WIZO and Sexual Abuse

July 29, 2012 by  

Manny Waks has spoken to a Melbourne WIZO group about his personal experiences as a victim of child sexual abuse… Read more

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

July 29, 2012 by  

Olympic 400m runner Steven Solomon has participated in his first Olympic opening ceremony… Read more

Palestine – Jews and Arabs, the Mandate and the Law

July 27, 2012 by  

The Levy Commission’s resurrection of the Mandate for Palestine as the legal title deed establishing Israel’s entitlement to claim sovereignty in the West Bank has come 48 years after the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) first tried to bury it…writes David Singer. Read more

Families to stand

July 27, 2012 by  

The families of the eleven Israeli athletes brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Munich in 1972 will stand during tonight’s opening speech at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Israel’s Minister of Sport Limor Livnat will join them as Jacques Rogge makes his opening address. J-Wire calls on all Australians to do the same as a symbolic gesture of support for the grieving families whose bid to have one minute’s silence was rejected by the IOC.

Australia Remembers

July 27, 2012 by  

One minute’s silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Olympic Games was held at Jewish community headquarters in Melbourne and Sydney. Read more

The Temple of Soul

This Sunday is Tisha B’av – 9th of Av, the day we mourn the destruction of the first and second Temples…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie. Read more

Waks asks Egyptian Ambassador for answers

July 27, 2012 by  

An Egyptian TV station has screened a candid camera style program in which celebrities were hoodwinked into believing they had been tricked into appearing on an Israeli TV production. The results are disturbing. View the clips on J-Wire and Waks’s response to the Egyptian Embassy… Read more

Brenner expanding

July 27, 2012 by  

The boycott campaign against the Max Brenner Chocolate Shops had more wind taken out of its sails this week when the group announced it was expanding its Australian activities into the hotel market. Read more

What’s all the Fuss About?

July 27, 2012 by  

The NSW Board of Jewish Education (BJE) has spent considerable time and energy rebranding and creating an awareness campaign. Why? Whats all the fuss about? Read more

Australia donates $500,000 to Auschwitz-Birkenau Preservation Fund

July 27, 2012 by  

Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne yesterday at which she announced that Australia is donating half a million to a fund established to preserve the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Read more

Leader for Leadership

July 27, 2012 by  

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students has appointed  Rachel Flitman to lead its 2012/13 Leadership Development Program (LDP) – AUJS’s flagship international program. Read more

Our Big Kitchen and JewishCare – Cooking Together

July 26, 2012 by  

In a bold new initiative, Our Big Kitchen and JewishCare have held a fun cooking competition the real winners of which will be needy members of the Sydney Jewish community. Read more

Response to the continuing saga afflicting Anglo Jewry

July 26, 2012 by  

Mr. Millis spins an extraordinary fantasy portraying himself as a devoted Zionist and yet was unable to refute even a single quote attributed to him in my recent column New scandal impacts on Anglo-Jewry. …writes Isi Leibler. Read more

The runner and the rabbi

July 25, 2012 by  

It was erev Pesach and the runner had a problem. He needed lots of carbohydrates before a major meet and that meant eating chometz…could the rabbi help? Read more

JewishCare and Wolper grief assist

July 25, 2012 by  

Sydney’s JewishCare has signed an agreement with the Wolper Jewish Hospital to utilise its programs assisting those grief-stricken following the loss of a loved one. Read more

Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival

July 25, 2012 by  

The Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival recently launched its 2012 program which boasts an outstanding line-up of writers and sessions. Read more

Call for silence

July 25, 2012 by  

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Zionist Federation of Australia have called for all Australians to observe one minute’s silence on Friday at 11am in memory of the eleven athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Read more

No Illusions about Egypt

July 25, 2012 by  

The government of Israel is making all the right noises and appropriate statements expressing hope that the new government of Egypt will maintain the cold peace…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

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