Yom HaShoah at Yad Vashem
Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin addressed the official ceremony marking the commencement of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, which took place place at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more
United Nations rewrites Balfour Declaration parliamentary debate
April 24, 2017 by David Singer
An official United Nations document published by the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat contains a deliberately altered record of a 1922 parliamentary House of Lords debate on the Balfour Declaration…writes David Singer. Read more
Israeli Holocaust survivors: a quality of life
April 24, 2017 by Agencies
Before his speech at Yad Vashem to mark the start of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of new arrangements for Israel’s Holocaust survivors. Read more
No Israelis here
April 23, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
An Israeli tourist has posted on Facebook that a retailer in Cairns has displayed a sign in its windows saying that do not serve Israelis. Read more
ADC commemorates Yom HaShoah
April 23, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s Anti-Defamation Commission has marked Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Mozart with differences: Fraser Beath McEwing report from New York
April 21, 2017 by Fraser Beath McEwing
My reviews usually come from the Sydney Opera House but this time I’m reporting from Carnegie Hall in New York on a J-Wire special assignment. Read more
In Their Steps: The Australian Light Horse and the ANZAC Trail
April 21, 2017 by Sophie Deutsch
An exhibition marking the Battle of Beersheba, one of the most famous horse mounted battles of all time, has been launched at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more
False news and freedom of speech
April 21, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand’s Holocaust Centre strongly supports the concept of free speech, but works to make young people question what they read online and be aware of the dangers of false news, the Centre said on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. Read more
Who killed the Holocaust?
April 21, 2017 by Harry Ben-Zvi and Gidon Ben-Zvi
Ever dream of winning an Academy Award?…write Harry Ben-Zvi and Gidon Ben-Zvi. Read more
Plans to farewell the Maccabiah delegation
April 21, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s largest ever Maccabiah delegation will get the send-off they deserve before heading to Israel, with functions planned in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in May and June. Read more
Netanyahu full of praise for the ISA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised the members of the Israel Security Agency also known as Shin Bet at an event ahead of Independence Day.
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Auschwitz survivor hosted by President Rivlin and the First Lady
April 21, 2017 by Agencies
“I am deeply moved,” said 87-year-old Auschwitz survivor Miriam Eshel, to Israel’s President Reuven and First Lady Nechama Rivlin at an event at the President’s Residence, of “Zikaron BaSalon” (Remembering in the Salon), a social initiative now running for 7 years, bringing together Holocaust survivors with younger generations in people’s homes to tell of their experiences. Read more
Ignorance and amnesia – a deadly combination
April 21, 2017 by Michael Kuttner
As we move further away from the years of the Holocaust we find that more individuals, adults as well as youths, are bereft of any knowledge as to what happened during that dark period…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
Looks and opinions…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
April 21, 2017 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
In discussing the differences between people, the Talmud makes the following statement: “Just as the physical features of every human being is different, so too do their views differ from each other.” Read more
The Spirit of Things: Jewish ANZACs
April 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
ABC Radion National program Spirit of Things is entirely devoted to Jewish ANZACs this weekend. Read more
Could this be the best dinner party conversation?
April 20, 2017 by Aviva Lowy
Imagine a dinner party with an acclaimed novelist and playwright, a film maker whose paternal grandparents were killed in the Holocaust but whose maternal grandfather was director of an infamous Nazi propaganda film plus one of the most influential people on Jewish Twitter with her finger on the pulse of Israeli politics. And that’s just some of the people at one end of the table! Read more
Victorian spiritual hospital visitors now need accreditation
April 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Victorian Government has advised that all community appointed spiritual carers visiting hospitals, unless personally invited by the patient, will require accreditation. Read more
Barghouti and The New York Times by Feintooner
April 20, 2017 by Feintooner
A new cartoon from Feintooner… Read more
Wolper gets top marks
April 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Wolper Jewish Hospital has recently successfully undergone full accreditation against all ten National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards. Read more
Acclaimed author and Lior to feature at NSW Holocaust commemoration
April 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Acclaimed Australian author Morris Gleitzman – writer of the Holocaust-themed series of novels Once, Then, Now, Soon and After – will be the keynote speaker at Sydney’s community major Yom HaShoah events.
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Jewish Care launches video for Yom HaShoah
April 20, 2017 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Jewish Care Victoria has launched its video ‘Lack of Humanity’ to commemorate Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. Lack of Humanity is the 4th video in the ‘Rising From the Ashes’ Holocaust documentary series. Read more
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres to address gathering of world Jewish leaders
April 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Amid mounting concerns about the bias against Israel prevailing at the United Nations, the world body’s new secretary general, António Guterres, will speak to the more than 600 representatives of Jewish communities in over 90 countries who are gathering in New York between Sunday and Tuesday for the Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC). Read more
JNF and the Tel Aviv University hope to harvest research
April 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A substantial donation is funding a new project initiated with a partnership between the Jewish National Fund of Australia and the Tel Aviv University to prevent disease in cereal crops. Read more
Sean Spicer and the ‘anyone I don’t like is Hitler’ rule
April 19, 2017 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
The biggest Jewish news story during Passover this year was the latest example of a rule of political argument: he who mentions Hitler first always loses…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more
NY Times amends Barghouti op-ed amid outcry, prisoner hunger strike continues
April 19, 2017 by Adam Abrams - JNS.org
A day after convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti wrote a New York Times op-ed that omitted his crimes and terrorist organisation membership and sparked scathing rebuke from the international community, the newspaper added a brief editor’s note acknowledging the murder and terror-related convictions that led to his imprisonment. Read more
UN: Allies knew of Jewish Holocaust years earlier than previously known
April 19, 2017 by Agencies
Newly released United Nations documents reveal that the Allied powers knew about the Jewish Holocaust carried out by Hitler’s Nazi regime at least two-and-a-half years earlier than previously thought. Read more
Israelis defend their country against ‘apartheid’ smear on South African campuses
April 18, 2017 by Adam Abrams - JNS.org
Wanana Abrams, a 28-year-old Israeli of Ethiopian origin, calls herself “just one of countless examples—along with thousands of other religious and ethnic minorities—of why the term ‘apartheid’ does not apply to the liberal democratic Jewish state”…writes Adam Abrams/JNS.org. Read more
Holocaust denial leaflets reappear at Melbourne universities
April 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Jewish students, many of whom are descendants of Holocaust survivors, are deeply disturbed to once again discover Holocaust denial leaflets on campus. Read more
Hot Cross Matzah
April 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A J-Wire reader spotted this sign in a Double Bay supermarket in Sydney during Pesach…a new slant on interfaith initiative! Read more
Focus on Israel at Sydney ANZAC Day commemoration
April 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
In the centenary year of the immortal charge of the Australian Light Horse on the Turkish defences at Beersheva, the NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women (NAJEX) has turned the focus on to Israel for its annual Jewish communal commemoration of Anzac Day. Read more
