Israel contributes to Samoan relief
March 11, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Shemi Tzur, the Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand has donated NZ$ 12,200.00 on behalf of the State of Israel to the President of the Samoa Victim Support Group. Read more
A travelling Holocaust exhibition created by non-Jews
March 5, 2013 by Michael Kuttner
A devoted Christian couple in Auckland has created a project called Shadows of Shoah (SOS) initiated by them in Israel in 2008 when they photographed and interviewed Holocaust survivors. Read more
Cemetery desecrator sentenced
February 28, 2013 by Miriam Bell
Punishment for the man who desecrated 15 Jewish graves in Auckland’s oldest cemetery, with swastikas and crude anti-Israeli graffiti, is to be 320 hours community service, nine months supervision and $3000 reparation. Read more
John Key, the Holocaust and his mother
January 28, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has told an Auckland meeting commemorating United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day about his mother’s escape from Nazi Europe. Read more
NZ Prime Minister launches Holocaust project
January 25, 2013 by David Zwartz
New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key today will launch a unique, New Zealand-produced artistic educational project, ‘Shadows of Shoah’ at the official Auckland commemoration of the United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day (UNIHRD)…a move appreciated by Israel’s ambassador to new Zealand. Read more
Flotilla Activism Hurts Chances for Peace
June 28, 2011 by Jason Edelstein
Another round of “Flotilla Activism” aimed at inciting greater tension in the Arab-Israeli conflict is underway. Just like last year’s infamous Flotilla incident that resulted in nine deaths, this latest crop of flotilla participants – a fringe group of extremists working alongside terrorists – is more concerned with their own PR and promoting hate, violence, and chaos, rather than on working with Israelis and Palestinians to find peaceful solutions to the conflict. Read more
Fallen Kiwis remembered in Israel
March 11, 2010 by Yitzhak Treister
There were definitely some warning signs, Shoshan Purim in Jerusalem, a bizarre spy episode in Dubai, but the surprises that awaited me in Ness Tziona took me totally off guard. Read more
A Gift to the Nation
February 16, 2010 by Miriam Bell
Emotions ran high at a special event to celebrate an iconic New Zealand Jewish photographer’s gift of a significant collection of vintage prints of elderly Maori women with moko, to New Zealand’s national museum. Read more
