Maccabi announce Sports Leadership Program
July 15, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
Sports-savvy students still considering how to deal with their 2012 gap year have an exciting opportunity on offer from Maccabi Australia. Read more
Hot Chocolate Support
July 14, 2011 by Agencies
The Max Brenner chocolate store in Melbourne targeted by anti-Israel protestors last week had a more welcome guest today….Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd. Read more
Yeshiva and JCCV – Waks responds
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria and the Yeshiva have issued statements following the announcement of a police investigation into alleged sexual assaults on students between 1989 and 1993. Community leader Manny Waks was a victim and responds to their statements… Read more
Hot Chocolate Support
July 14, 2011 by Community Editor
The Caulfield Branch of the Labor Party will hold a special meeting at the Melbourne Max Brenner store recently targeted by anti-Israel demonstrators.
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New Jewish Library of Australia
July 14, 2011 by Agencies
Plans are well underway to launch the Lamm Jewish Library of Australia. Read more
Open letter to the ZFA
July 14, 2011 by J-Wire
Nathan Cherny has responded to the Zionist Federation of Australia and its president Philip Chester on the New Israel Fund…and it is an open letter. Read more
New Champion
July 14, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Yoram Pohl has won the World Body Fitness Federation title championships held recently in Calgary, Canada. Read more
New Conversion Body in the making
July 14, 2011 by Agencies
A possible harbinger of a new Orthodox conversion body in Israel has emerged following a training course for rabbis to specialise in Jewish conversion law at the Harry O. Triguboff Israel Institute for Conversion Policy at Beit Morasha in the capital, designed to provide them with the tools to work as voluntary rabbis in the State Conversion Authority. Read more
Premier visits the Great
July 13, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell has visited Sydney’s Great Synagogue…an iconic heritage building in the centre of the city. Read more
NEW BOARD MEMBER FOR ACADEMY BJE
July 13, 2011 by Nanette Horak
Academy BJE President David Selig and Joel Edelman
Academy BJE welcomes Joel Edelman to its Board. Joel, who is a principal at Principal Edge Financial services, brings an added depth and fresh approach to the Board. He has two children at St Ives North Public School, and two children in pre-school. Joel and his wife Jenny are committed parents and strong believers in Academy BJE’s ethos. We look forward to working closely with him
Making Music
July 13, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
Following the outstanding success of last year’s Sydney’s Jewish Shir Madness music festival, applications are being considered for festival number two….and you do not have to be Jewish. Read more
Danby critical of Bishop’s Zentai extradition questions
July 13, 2011 by Agencies
Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Foreign Affairs spokeswomen Julie Bishop has questioned the Australian Government’s proposed extradition of Charles Zentai who may face prosecution in Hungary for alleged war crimes. Read more
AFL Peace Team Delegation meets the Ambassador
July 13, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Andrea Faulkner, the Australian Ambassador to Israel, hosted a delegation from the AFL in Israel to make arrangements for the vist to Australia next month of the Peace Team…an Aussie Rules side comprised of Israelis and Palestinians. Read more
Shechita and NSW
July 13, 2011 by Agencies
NSW Labor challenged the O’Farrell Government to explain their position on shechita (kosher ritual slaughter) after the Premier’s Office last week refused to pledge their open support for the practice. Read more
JCCV comments on Sexual Abuse Claims
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria is disturbed by the recent allegations of sexual abuse at Yeshivah College. Read more
Jewish Care Offering Citizenship
July 13, 2011 by Community Editor
Sydney’s JewishCare has announced it will host a citizenship ceremony in October. Read more
Sexual Abuse Victims – “You Did Nothing Wrong”
July 13, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Ari Heber heads Queensland’s Jewish Community Services. He has a message for male victims of sexual abuse….all the more meaningful because he was a victim himself. Read more
Choices for the Ageing
July 12, 2011 by Ayal Tusia
Jewish Care Victoria has been selected to deliver a new type of Community Aged Care package recently launched by the Government – known as Consumer Directed Care packages. Read more
Community to Discuss BDS
July 12, 2011 by Agencies
BDS – the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions strategy – will be the focus of a special NSW community meeting next week. Read more
Vigilante Advocacy: Hurting Not Helping
July 11, 2011 by Raffe Gold
There is a disease known as Drug Fever. When a patient is admitted doctors can bombard them with so many antibiotics there is a chance that a fever can be sustained, or caused, by a number of different drugs used to combat other symptoms. Essentially, the cure is what makes you sick. Yet such a disease does not have to be restricted to medicine. There are constant examples of well-intentioned people harming the cause that they wish to promote. We are seeing this today with well-meaning yet dangerous responses to both the Freedom Flotilla and, when that failed, the Flytilla. Read more
Jordan – Abbas offers Abdullah the Kiss of Death
July 10, 2011 by David Singer
Jordan’s King Abdullah is clearly worried about the future direction of his country – if developments over recent weeks are any indication. Read more
Connections between Australia’s Jewish and Indigenous Communities
July 10, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The connections between Jewish and Indigenous peoples in Australia are based on shared values including the ethics of caring and sharing societies, a profound attachment to land, a commitment to education, spirituality and mysticism, storytelling traditions, and their histories of persecution and genocide, said Dr Anne Sarzin, in a Radio Australia interview that also focused on NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) week. Read more
Insulin components saving lives in the South Pacific
July 10, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
The Cook Islands and Samoa have joined Tonga in becoming the recipients of much needed supplies to save the lives of the growing number of diabetics in the area…the intitiative of a Melbourne doctor and two Israeli embassies.
Ron Raab 3rd left Israel's Ambassador to New Zealand Shemi Tsur 2nd rt
Tonga says than you....
Cook Islands receive suppliesRon Raab in the President of Insulin for life. His organisation collects unwanted insulin supplies in Australia and distributes them to the idyllic tropical islands of the South Pacific where the number of diabetes victims is rapidly increasing.
The logistics involved in getting the much needed supplies to their destination are taken care of by the Israeli embassies in Canberra and Wellington.
In a letter to the Cook Islands Ministry of Health. Raab explained that he knew how expensive the necessary tools to control diabetes are in the area but was pleased to report that Government of Israel had offered to cover transport and handling costs “making this project possible.”
Ron Raab
Raab told J-Wire: “There are many instances in Australia where medical institutions find themselves with a surplus of components such as needles and meters and they are unable to use them for new incoming patients. We collect all the unwanted items and send them off to the islands where the number of diabetes sufferers is on the increase. There are restrictions about sending insulin itself, but the needs of the people of the South Pacific focus on test strips , syringes and meters….and those are what Raab, a diabetic himself, is sending with the help of the Israelis.
The Israeli related project sent medical supplies to Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Nauru, and the Solomon Islands prior to the Cook Islands and Samoa initiatives. Reaching further afield, the Insulin for Life project has sent 5000 blood glucose test trips for the use of children in Uzbekistan…without which the children would not have had access to the life-saving technology. Australia’s Insulin for Life, working with Israel’s ambassador to Uzbekistan sends shipments twice a year.
Reuven Rivlin, the Speaker of the Knesset joined Raab in personally presenting supplies to the people of Tonga earlier this year.
Community Leader sexual assault victim
July 8, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Manny Waks, a Canberra-based vice-president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, was one of the children sexually assaulted at Melbourne’s Yeshiva College between 1989 and 1993. He tells J-Wire of his experience…. Read more
International Position for NSW Leader
July 7, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies President, Yair Miller, has been appointed to a high profile board of governors of the newly established International School of Jewish Leadership (ISJL) – an outgrowth of Beren College at Beit Morasha of Jerusalem. The Board of Governors is chaired by the Hon. Irwin Cotler MP. High profile Israeli Professor Benjamin Ish Shalom is President of Beit Morasha.
Police seek victims of sexual assault in second Jewish school
July 7, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
For the second time within a month, Melbourne police are investigating sexual assaults in a Jewish school. Read more
Gilad Shalit mentioned in Parliament
AFL Meets the Peace Team
July 6, 2011 by Agencies
A delegation from the Australian Football League and members of the Australian media recently visited Israel to meet with the 13-member Israeli and Palestinian team known as the Peace Team, as they prepare for the August 2011 AFL International Cup in Australia, in which 24 countries will compete. Read more
Aussie Film Festival Opens in Tel Aviv
July 6, 2011 by Agencies
It was standing room only at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on Monday night for the opening of the eighth annual AICE Australian Film Festival. Read more
Mother and Austen at The Sydney Institute
July 6, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
Gerard Henderson’s The Sydney Institute yesterday hosted Margaret Gutman and her son Sandy accompanied by his alter ego, Austen Tayshus. Austen was quick to tell the Institute members and their guests that he is never invited back to anywhere he performs…but this time he was. Read more
