Meeting Bill Shorten
October 26, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Representatives of the Jewish community including its national and state leadership, have met with opposition leader Bill Shorten and his parliamentary colleagues Mark Dreyfus and Michael Danby, to discuss the ALP’s approach to Israel and other issues of concern to the community. Read more
Mitzvah Day Project: The Kehilat Nitzan Food Van
October 26, 2015 by Debra Korman
Every week members of Kehilat Nitzan are rostered on to serve food in Port Melbourne to homeless and disadvantaged people. Read more
Shavua Tov: Shabbat Project ends
October 26, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Shabbat Project for 2015 is over. Ingrid Shakenovsky photographed Havdalah at Sydney’s Maroubra Synagogue…and the organisers want your feedback! Read more
Jewish Comedy for Bondi premiere
October 25, 2015 by Geoff Sirmai
Following two sell-out seasons in Melbourne the Jewish comedy hit “You’re Driving Me Crazy!” is coming to Sydney from 24 November to 29 November at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre. Read more
Who hates us more?…asks David Werdiger
October 25, 2015 by David Werdiger
Surely the most useless debate ever would be the following topic: “Who hated the Jews more: Adolf Hitler or Haj Amin al-Husseini?” Read more
Treating terrorists before victims: How real is the choice for Israeli responders?…asks Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org
October 25, 2015 by Alina Dain Sharon-JNS.org
In the midst of the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis, a controversy has brewed with regard to how Emergency Medical Services (EMS) organisations decide whom to treat first on the scene of an attack. Read more
Police Remembrance Shabbat
October 25, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
Sydney’s Central Synagogue has hosted the NSW Police Remembrance Shabbat in an event marked with musical entertainment and sombre prayers. Read more
Play Better Bridge with Ron Klinger: Heartbroken
October 24, 2015 by Ron Klinger
This week’s bridge column from one of the game’s masters. Read more
On ABC Radio National
October 24, 2015 by Agencies
Coptic Christian Samuel Tadros and The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council’s Jeremy Jones talk to ABC’s Rachael Kohn on this weeks “The Spirit of Things”. Read more
JNF NSW Gala dinner – photo gallery
October 24, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Did you attend the JNF NSW gala dinner? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
Ron Castan humanitarian awards presented in Melbourne
October 24, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Stand Up’s Ron Castan Humanitarian Award and Young Humanitarian Award have been conferred on Kathy Kaplan and Dean Cohen. Read more
Lowy retires from Scentre
October 23, 2015 by Agencies
Frank Lowy will retire as Chairman of Scentre Group ) at the company’s Annual General Meeting in May next year. Read more
Challah Bake: Take Two
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s The Shabbat Project has hosted two more Challah bakes…one at Kesser Torah College and the other at Moriah College…and a Shabbat Project visit to the Israeli Embassy. Read more
Today in Jerusalem
October 23, 2015 by Ron Weiser
Dr Ron Weiser reports from Jerusalem where he attended the World Zionist Conference. Read more
Lord of the Lies…writes Michael Kuttner
October 23, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
The time has arrived, in fact it is long overdue, to bury the false notion that the President of the Palestinian Terrorist Authority is a partner for peace. Read more
NZ dismayed about lack of progress in peace talks
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully has expressed dismay about the “lack of progress on relations between Israel and Palestine” in an address to the United Nations Security Council. Read more
Rivlin visits Theriesenstadt
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has visited the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, accompanied by President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman. Read more
The Mufti and the Holocaust, revisited
October 23, 2015 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
“If a man was a Jew, it was good enough for him to be killed or stamped out,” wrote a senior British official serving abroad to his superiors in London in 1929….writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more
NCJWA Pink Monday photo gallery
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Did you attend the Krystal Barter event in Sydney? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
ABC follows up Code of Silence
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Breaking the Silence, a one hour COMPASS special, follows the journey of Australian Jew Manny Waks who was, until recently, the only survivor of child sexual abuse within Melbourne’s Jewish community to speak publicly…Waks meets with an abuser and confronts one who abused him. Read more
Family Violence group in interfaith initiative
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Taskforce Against Family Violence Inc has participated in the development of the multi faith resource for faith and spiritual leaders. Read more
Keeping it forever
October 23, 2015 by Rabbi Chaim Ingram
Rabbi Chaim Ingram pens an essay for in honour of the Shabbat Project…. Read more
Danby dons teffilin
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Conversion needed for Israeli citizenship to start in the Ukraine
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
A new project has been launched in Kiev to assist Olim eligible by the Law of return to begin their conversion process right in their country of origin, in light of the increase in the number of Olim from the Ukraine. Read more
Newts News
October 23, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
The Shtick presents on J-wire Newts News…video covering current events including bombs in Turkey, stabbings in Israel, Palestinian incitement on the Temple Mount issue, Moshe Feiglin and his critics, Medical Marijuana and UNPLUG for the Shabbat Project, Read more
Glen Falkenstein to chair ECC Youth
October 22, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Glen Falkenstein has been elected Youth Chair of the Ethnic Communities Council of NSW. Read more
Netanyahu: what he said
October 22, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister has been slammed for stating that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem played a vital part in the extermination of the Jews during WWII – Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel states her country must take responsibility for the Holocaust. Read more
Israel rejects UNESCO resolution
October 22, 2015 by Agencies
Palestine – 1922 Two-State Solution Key To Resolving Arab-Jewish Conflict
October 22, 2015 by David Singer
United Nations Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon has jetted into Jerusalem on a fool’s errand – with tensions continuing to escalate between Arabs and Jews as their conflict spanning almost 100 years remains unresolved. Read more
NZ government urged to stop “pressuring Israel”
October 22, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
11,685 people have joined Pastor Nigel Woodley in urging the New Zealand Government to cease from pressuring the State of Israel to give up its rightful and God-given Land. Read more
