NIF Australia to Screen The Silver Platter

Next month, New Israel Fund Australia Foundation (NIF) will screen episodes in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney  of Magash Hakesef  (The Silver Platter), a  popular Israeli TV miniseries from 2015.

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Young Aussie interns in the Israeli Government and lands dream political leadership job

Not many people get insider access and work experience in a foreign government but that’s just what Benjamin Saling, from Melbourne has been spending the past 10 months doing. Read more

Hop aboard the Kangarusski Taglit-Birthright Bus!

Birthright trips are a regular occurrence in Australia. The Zionist Federation of Australia provides the opportunity for Jewish young adults to visit Israel in the summer or winter and explore the country as well as their Jewish identity and heritage. Read more

Ben-Gurion University Institute tackles water shortage, hygiene in developing countries

Israeli water experts believe by 2050, almost half of the world’s population will live in countries with a chronic water shortage…writes Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS.org. Read more

What is your World Vision?…asks Emily Gian

Two weeks ago, a story emerged from Gaza that was so explosive in its nature and content that it should have shaken the world. Read more

Has the Anti-Defamation League lost the plot?…asks Isi Leibler

I rubbed my eyes with incredulity when I read bizarre statements emanating from Jonathan Greenblatt the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), one of the most powerful American Jewish organisations whose principal mandate is to combat antisemitism. Read more

Keeping Warm with Soup & Chat While Supporting Others

What is the best way to make your winter Tuesdays more enjoyable? The answer is having a cup of hearty soup with a friend or two at the Melbourne Lamm Library! Read more

Jewish Care Hosts 35 Israeli Delegates from Disability Sector

Jewish Care Victoria hosted a group of 35 Israeli professionals and owners of private and not-for-profit organisations that provide services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Read more

New Exhibition To Be Internationally Debuted in Brisbane

The New Zealand creators of the Shadows of Shoah Exhibition have designed a new Holocaust exhibition to be launched in Australia next week. Read more

$500 membership for Sydney’s The Great Synagogue

The Great Synagogue has launched a $500 annual membership rate, which gives all benefits, including the right to sit in any seat without a dedicated brass plaque. Read more

Paging Amb. Ira Forman: Synagogue attacked, world is silent…writes Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org

If a bomb was thrown at a prominent synagogue in Brooklyn, the media would treat it as front-page news and politicians would rush to condemn the assault. Read more

WJC extends sympathies from the world Jewry

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder that his thoughts and prayers were with the members of the Muslim community in New York, after an imam and his assistant were shot dead leaving a Queens mosque over the weekend. Read more

Rebellious Daughters launch at Sydney Jewish Writers Festival

Some of Australia’s most talented female writers have teamed up to share their experiences of defying and challenging societal expectations in a new book, Rebellious Daughters.

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Israeli startups win Global Innovation Awards in China

Two Israeli startups have won first and second place at the Global Innovation Awards 2016 in Beijing. Read more

Religious v Secular Law?…ask the rabbi

Q. Which takes priority – religious or secular law? Read more

Responsible Citizenship and Speaking Up – Berlin’s Last Starlit Night

Two sisters, granddaughters of Holocaust survivors, team up for an exciting new theatrical/educational workshop for students in collaboration with Sydney Jewish Museum this September. Read more

Phillip Maisel – an inspiring true story

A filmmaker to screen his inspiring documentary about 94-year-old twin volunteers and Holocaust survivors and their continuing legacies. Read more

Nazi flag on display in Southland Museum sparks debate

A World War II Nazi flag is currently being displayed in the main room of a South Canterbury Museum as part of their RSA’s centenary celebration. Read more

A well-known luxury hotel in Berlin has denied claims that it deliberately omitted Israel in its phone directory due to concerns of its Arab guests

French Jewish filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, who directed the Holocaust documentary “Shoah”, wrote an op-ed in the French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ and the German daily ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’ in which claimed that the Kempinski Hotel Bristol had intentionally left Israel off a list of international dialing codes. Read more

A second Olympic medal: such a great feeling

Sydney kayak Jessica Fox has added to her London 2012 Olympics Silver Bronze for the K-1 event bagging the Bronze Medal in Rio. Read more

Green Party Stirs Anti-Israel Election Acrimony

Twice, once before the election and once after the election the Green Party attempted to minimise and apologise for its anti-Israel politics, particularly during the recent federal election. Read more

Victorian Coalition delegation looks to Israel for innovation inspiration

Over the course of eight days in July, a delegation of eleven Victorian Coalition MPs, including a number of Shadow Ministers, travelled to Israel to partake in AIJAC’s Rambam Israel Fellowship Program with a key focus on learning about Israel’s startup culture and industries. Read more

Rare Frescoes from Roman Period Discovered in the Galilee

A team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has discovered hundreds of fragments belonging to frescoes from the Roman period, in the Zippori National Park…funded by the estate of a Perth couple. Read more

Call to action – to keep NSW safe from racist violence

Every member of the NSW Jewish community is being urged to immediately send a letter to their MP and the Premier, urging them to keep NSW safe from racist violence. Read more

By the Rivers of Babylon…writes Michael Kuttner

This Sunday, many Jews worldwide will be remembering the first exile of their ancestors from Judea to Babylon and subsequent calamities including the destruction of the first and second Temples. Read more

Holocaust savior Wallenberg executed in Soviet jail, former KGB chief’s diaries say

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who courageously saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from deportation to the German death camps, was executed in a Soviet prison, according to the diaries of Ivan Serov, a former director of the Soviet spy agency KGB. Read more

At Rio, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia lose their Olympic spirit over Israel

More than 11,000 world athletes have converged on Brazil’s second largest city, Rio de Janeiro, for the 2016 Summer Olympics, which began on Aug. 5…writes by Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more

Swastikas on Bondi

Fifteen swastikas have daubed on electricity boxes, bus stops and poles in Campbell Parade…the thoroughfare facing Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach. Read more

Masha Zeleznikow’s Legacy Celebrated at the Tuesday Club

Jewish Care Victoria honoured the significant contributions of the late Masha Zeleznikow at a special memorial service at the ‘Tuesday Club’, a program Masha pioneered and directed for over 38 years. Read more

Vanished Musicians Author in Australia

German musicologist and music critic Albrecht Dumling will be in Australia later this month to launch the English language version of his book The Vanished Musicians: Jewish Refugees in Australia.

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