All You Need is Love…writes Rabbi Laibl Wolff

October 28, 2014 by  

I like Beatles’ music. It is original, fresh, and quirkily meaningful. But on 25th June 1967 John Lennon got it decidedly wrong. Not the music – just the title. Nothing wrong with the love part, but expressing love as a need has got it all wrong. Read more

Scopus hits the streets

October 28, 2014 by  

As part of the Mount Scopus College Achshav program, Year 9 students have spent an eye-opening week at City Cite on Flinders Street. Read more

The Rabbi and I

October 28, 2014 by  

Star of the King and I Teddy Tahu Rhodes will depart from his operatic repertoire to include My Yiddishe Mama when he performs at a Jewish House fundraiser in December. Read more

Do You Believe In Love? (Ha’shadchanit)…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

October 28, 2014 by  

“One must make compromises, life is not a bed of roses” sums up Tova the Matchmaker’s philosophy of relationships. Read more

The return of Palestinian unilateralism…writes Ben Cohen

October 28, 2014 by  

It sometimes seems as if the see-saw debate about the true intentions of Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority has been with us for an eternity. Read more

Rivlin attends massacre commemoration

October 27, 2014 by  

Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin attended the memorial ceremony in Kafr Qasim commemorating the murders of 48 Arabs by Israeli soldiers in 1956. Read more

Found!

October 27, 2014 by  

Michelle Levy has been found. Read more

Gough remembered again

October 27, 2014 by  

Jana Vytrhlik was the curator of the Precious Legacy exhibition at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum in 1998 when it was visited by the late Gough Whitlam…. Read more

Michelle – still missing

October 27, 2014 by  

As dawn breaks on a Sydney Monday morning, there is still no news of the whereabouts of missing Sydney 11-yr-old Michelle Levy. Read more

Volunteers urgently needed to find Michelle

October 26, 2014 by  

Over 500 members of the Sydney Jewish community have been mobilised in the search to find missing 11-yr-old Michelle Levy. Read more

Have you seen Michelle?

October 26, 2014 by  

NSW police are appealing for public assistance to find  11-year-old Michelle Levy who went missing from her North Bondi home yesterday evening. Read more

The Shabbat Project – redefining community

October 26, 2014 by  

More than 2,500 members of Sydney’s Jewish community participated in the concluding event of the Shabbat Project…celebrating Havdallah at the conclusion of Sydney’s involvement in the wold-wide Shabbat Project. Read more

Metropolitan Opera Stifles Free Exchange of Ideas About a Propaganda Opera…writes Alan Dershowitz

October 25, 2014 by  

On Monday night I went to the Metropolitan Opera. I went for two reasons: to see and hear John Adams’ controversial opera, The Death of Klinghoffer; and to see and hear what those protesting the Met’s judgment in presenting the opera had to say. Read more

Truth is stranger than fiction…writes Michael Kuttner

October 25, 2014 by  

Very often, especially in this part of the world, actual events, either in the past or currently, indeed seem stranger than fiction. Read more

2,500 uplifted at the Sydney Challah Bake

October 24, 2014 by  

More than 2,500 women baked their Shabbat challahs to launch Sydney’s Shabbat Project bringing together Jews across the entire religious spectrum and reconnecting many who had been unaffiliated. Read more

Waiting for December

October 24, 2014 by  

The 2014 Walkley Awards have shortlisted “Code of Silence” in their documentary category. Read more

Netanyahu sends condolences

October 24, 2014 by  

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sent condolences to the family of 3-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun murdered in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem and met the policeman who killed the perpetrator.  Read more

Middle East ambassador

October 24, 2014 by  

Sydney’s Emanuel School’s Alia Huberman has been selected as one of 10 students nationally to represent Australia as a Middle East Youth Ambassador. Read more

Eponymous award

October 24, 2014 by  

Dr Peter Schiff has presented the 15th annual Peter Schiff Award to Associate Professor Mark Dean, senior staff specialist at Gosford Hospital in NSW. Read more

The first Challah Bake – Perth kickstarts the world

October 24, 2014 by  

All over the world, women will be baking challah for the world-wide Shabbat Project.  Perth has kicked off the project! Read more

Improving the connection

October 23, 2014 by  

The Zionist Federation of Australia has expanded its initiatives to engage the Russian Speaking Jewish community (RSJC) with Israel, Zionism and Jewish identity. Read more

The man who chronicled Sydney Jewish life

October 23, 2014 by  

Former NSW Premier, Barry O’Farrell MP, has joined communal identities in paying tribute to the commitment and contribution of veteran Sydney Jewish community photographer, George Denes, who has passed away aged 82 years. Read more

Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

October 23, 2014 by  

Divorce is painful for all participants. Obtaining a gett, a Jewish divorce, is a confronting procedure, particularly for a woman. Read more

The Shabbat Project Unveiled

October 23, 2014 by  

J-Wire, in conjunction with The Shtick presents two videos telling the story of this weekend’s Shabbat Project which will be embraced this year in over 350 cities throughout the world. Read more

Café Monte Coffee Wins Bronze Award

October 22, 2014 by  

At the Annual Golden Bean Coffee Roasters Competition, Montefiore’s Café Monte blend won a Bronze medal out of 1500 entries in the ’Milk Based (Latte)’ category.  Read more

Age is no bar to excellence

October 22, 2014 by  

Following 10 years’ work and 200,000 words, a Holocaust survivor’s unfinished PhD thesis has been recognised by an Adelaide university. Read more

Aussies and Israelis gain mutual holiday visas

October 22, 2014 by  

Australia’s work and holiday visa programme has an exciting new addition, with the signing of an arrangement with Israel to allow young people from both countries a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience each other’s culture. Read more

Gough Whitlam – a personal memory

October 22, 2014 by  

Federal Labor MP Michael Danby talks of his memories of Gough Whitlam, Australia’s 21st Prime Minister who passed away this week at the age of 98… Read more

British vote epitomizes ignorance, opportunism and malice

October 22, 2014 by  

The British parliamentary resolution that called for the immediate and unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, endorsed by an overwhelming majority of 274 to 12, was an unprecedentedly aggressive act…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Skirt-fronting Putin Can Help Eradicate Islamic State Crisis…writes David Singer

October 22, 2014 by  

The possibility of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott shirt-fronting Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Brisbane next month over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 in Ukrainian sovereign territory with the loss of all on board – including 38 Australians – has receded following Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s 25 minute meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the Asian Europe Summit held in Milan this week. Read more

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