Abu Dhabi Chess tournament – Official Statement

The Israeli team which participated in the 2013 World Youth Championships in the United Arab Emirates has returned home without winning a medal…avoiding an issue on how one would have been presented to an anonymous team not playing under the Israeli flag or country name. Read more

Lawrence of Kinloss

One of Australia’s most senior rabbis is expected to become the spiritual leader of London’s Kinloss Synagogue whose former religious head was Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis who is now the   Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Read more

The KA responds

J-Wire ran a statement by Sydney caterer Amaze in Taste in which references were made about the Kashrut Authority. The KA has issued a statement of its own…. Read more

Immigration to Israel from Australia and New Zealand up 46%

In 2013, Israel  became the new home to 265 immigrants from Australia and New Zealand. Read more

Inauspicious omens for 2014…writes Michael Kuttner

As we bid farewell to the old year and look forward to the new year according to the Gregorian calendar, it is timely to take stock of where we are at the moment and prognosticate what the coming twelve months are likely to bring. Read more

The KA and AIT

J-Wire is not open for further comments on the dispute between the Kashrut Authority and Sydney caterer Amaze in Taste. Read more

Palestine – International Scandal Checkmates Israel…writes David Singer

The 2013 World Youth Chess Championships just held in Abu Dhabi have been marred by the scandalous behaviour of the 120 national Chess Federations that agreed to compete against Israeli players as an unidentified group under the banner of FIDE – the World Chess Federation. Read more

No Israeli flag in the Emirates…

The Israeli under-18 chess team is competing in a tournament in Abu Dhabi but their flag is nowhere to be seen and they are not officially representing their country. Read more

AIT seeks “communally-minded” Kashrut organisation

Sydney caterer Amaze in Taste has rejected a claim made by the Kashrut Authority that a settlement would have been reached in the dispute between the two entities had Rabbi Yosef Feldman not issued the company a hechsher. Read more

Haaretz Debases Warsaw Ghetto Uprising…writes Isi Leibler

I rubbed my eyes in disbelief this week when I read an article prominently featured on Haaretz website entitled “The Warsaw Ghetto Myth”. Read more

Nir Shelter shorts and sweets again

Nir Shelter is a director of film, television and theatre whose play ‘Life of Death’ featured in the 2010 festival. Read more

Shalom Mate

South Australian Labor senator Don Farrell has visited Jerusalem during his summer holiday, presenting a very special greeting to old friend and former ambassador to Australia Yuval Rotem. Read more

Edgar Bronfman – A Personal Recollection from Isi Leibler

When Edgar Bronfman accepted the presidency of the WJC he told me he was doing this for a year as a form of secular Kaddish for his father. He enjoyed it so much that he retained office for 30 years. Read more

New bird watching centre near Tel Aviv funded by Australians

The ceremony to celebrate the laying of the foundation stone for the new Rosh Tzippor bird-watching centre to be established in the forest in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. Read more

Jewish education alive and well in the ACT

Jewish families in Canberra have celebrated the successful conclusion of the first term of Canberra’s new Jewish after school Educational program and the achievements of the first 25 students who attended. Read more

Moriah takes 22nd HSC spot in NSW

Sydney’s Moriah College has congratulated its students on achieving “outstanding results” in the 2013 HSC.  Read more

NAJEX Board for 2014

The NSW Association of Jewish Ex-servicemen and women has announced its office-bearers and board members for 2014. Read more

World Jewish leader passes away

The Australian and New Zealand Jewish communities join the World Jewish Congress in mourning the passing of its long-time leader Edgar Miles Bronfman, who died on Saturday in New York at the age of 84. Read more

Kesser Torah Proud of its Students

Kesser Torah is delighted to congratulate their HSC cohort of 2013, and to announce that Tikvati Lobel achieved First in Course as well as First Place in NSW in Classical Hebrew Extension with an ATAR of 94.45. KTC students scored 7 mentions on the Top Achievers and Distinguished Achievers Lists. Read more

Anti-Israel Outburst at Mandela Memorial

The President of the Indigenous Social Justice Association, Sydney, Ray Jackson has stood by hateful and anti-Israel comments made at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Sydney last weekend. Read more

Arnold Bloch Leibler turns 60 and look who came to the party

Leading Melbourne law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler recently celebrated its 60th anniversary with a cocktail party at which Prime Minister Tony Abbott was a special guest along with a plethora of VIPs including Israel’s ambassador to Australia. Read more

Short and very sweet

Short+Sweet Sydney boasts a number of Jewish artists again in 2014 – this time with actors, writers and singers taking centre stage at the biggest short-form performing arts festival in the world. Read more

Section 18C: The Ethnic Community Council has its say

The Ethnic Communities Council of NSW has written to all its members urging them to send letters to the Federal Attorney-General and to the NSW Attorney-General to support efforts to combat racial vilification. Read more

Formative influences – the microcosmic dimension…writes Rabbi Chaim Ingram

News buffs would have been intrigued and perhaps surprised to read last week that Pope Francis has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Read more

Bellevue Hill students complete program

The Bellevue Hill Public School students who completed the Year 6 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Program held their Shabbat graduation dinner at Our Big Kitchen.  Read more

Crucial that Netanyahu Creates Coherent Settlement Policy…writes Isi leibler

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu enjoys enormous public support. Read more

Child Sexual Abuse: A victim’s statement

David Cyprys has started an eight year jail sentence and will not see freedom for at least five and a half years. Manny Waks was one of his victim’s and has released his victim impact statement as presented  to Melbourne’s County Court…. Read more

Happy 90th Lotte

On of Sydney’s great characters Lotte Weiss has celebrated her 90th birthday at Sydney’s Montefiore Home in Randwick… Read more

Emanuel score well

Emanuel School once again achieved outstanding HSC results, ranking an impressive
25^th in the State. This places us in the top 3.7% of all schools in the State, a fantastic
result for the School and our students. Read more

Empire by Spiegelworld

’10 out of 10’ (Sun Herald), ‘the best show I’ve seen in years’ (Sydney Morning Herald), ‘the best sex of my life and I wasn’t even involved’ (Brisbane Times). It’s not every day that a show comes to town that arouses that kind of excitement!…writes Deb Meyer. Read more

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