Rabbis and Family Violence

The Jewish Taskforce Against Family Violence together with The Rabbinical Council of Victoria has launched a book…the ground breaking publication, “WILL MY RABBI BELIEVE ME? Will He Understand?” – Responding to Disclosures of Family Violence in a Rabbinic Context. Read more

Bibi – the Pros and the Cons

Two months ago at the UN General Assembly, we proudly observed as our Prime Minister employed his golden tongue to promote the case for Israel….writes Isi Leibler. Read more

New Roles for the Maccabiah – and the Future

Maccabi Australia’s eye to the future has extended to its management team for the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel via the creation of a “deputy assistant team managers – junior team” role .  Read more

Is a donation to the NIF a withdrawal from the JNF?

No one can doubt the importance of the JNF’s role in the successful re-establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz Israel…writes Danny Ginges. Read more

Governor Visits the Great

The Governor of New South Wales, Professor Marie Bashir, joined the Great Synagogue’s Women’s Auxiliary in celebrating its 70th anniversary. Read more

The Governor goes to Shule

NSW Governor Marie Bashir will visit the Great Synagogue in Sydney tomorrow. Read more

Israeli Gets Two Years for Stealing Money from Parking Meters

A Russian-born Israeli has been jailed for his role in a scam in which security officers stole $377,000 from Melbourne parking meters. Read more

Jack Vidgin tours Jewish House

Jack Vidgin is 14 years old and won this year’s “Australia’s Got Talent”.  Yesterday, he toured Sydney care centre and refuge Jewish House…an environment not unknown to this modest teenager who has spent most of his life receiving care himself. Read more

NZ Leaders face questions from the Jewish Community

With the New Zealand General Election fast approaching, political leaders spoke with the Jewish community in Auckland last night. Read more

Palestine – UNESCO Membership May be Unconstitutional

Palestine’s membership of UNESCO could be under serious legal threat – as the vote approving such admission comes under increasing scrutiny…writes David Singer. Read more

Peer Protesters’ Convictions Quashed

Six protesters convicted of disorderly behaviour when protesting during a tennis match featuring Israeli star Shahar Peer have had their convictions quashed. Read more

Rick Sahar – Top Variety Artist

New Zealand entertainer Rick Sahar has been awarded the country’s 2011 “Top Variety Artist” award. Read more

Dec-01 7:30p.m. SBS2-TV: Trails from the East: Israel – Them and Us

Tonight’s train journey takes us to Beersheva, Ashdod, Tel Aviv, then Haifa and to the far northern Nassariyah, bordering with Lebanon. Read more

Unclogging the Throat

Question:
I have been coming to your Thursday morning series on ‘forgiveness’. The lessons you teach about letting go of resentment, acceptance and freeing yourself are all wonderful. But even though I fully understand these ideas I still cannot find it in my heart to change my feelings towards some of those people that have wronged me. This is extremely frustrating. Any suggestions? Read more

Gelman wins the 2011 Sir John Monash Award

Veteran Victorian educator and volunteer Sylvia Gelman was awarded the Jewish community’s highest honour last night, the General Sir John Monash Award. Read more

Nov-15 Sydney: NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Plenum

The plenum will be addressed by columnist and executive director of the Sydney Institute, Gerard Henderson. Read more

Henderson to address plenum

High profile columnist Gerard Henderson will address the monthly plenum of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more

Bringing hope to save a life

41 members of Melbourne’s Jewish community were tested at the SpiritGrow Centre in Melbourne on Tuesday evening in an attempt save the lives of four Jewish children dying from leukaemia. Read more

OBK sends Remembrance Day Gift

Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen has sent a consignment of food and gifts to Australian troops serving in Afghanistan to commemorate Remembrance Day. Read more

Iran – Take Two

Iran has been secretly working on developing nuclear weapons since 2003, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced for the first time on Tuesday in a long-awaited report sent to the 35 member states of its Board of Governors and to the U.N. Security Council, and leaked to news agencies shortly after…write Masha Rifkin. Read more

Iran Take One

A new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) offers a detailed list of evidence in regard to Iran’s clandestine efforts to build a nuclear device and fit it onto longrange missiles…writes Emanuele Ottolenghi. Read more

Nemesh – support in Parliament

Luke Foley, the LEader of the Opposition in the NSW Parliament has added his voice to the posters affair in which members of the Greens registered a complaint to the police that a printer’s name had been omitted from posters organised by Dr John Nemesh…a complaint which led to yesterday’s court appearance by Dr Nemesh and the dismissal of charges against him. Read more

Growing old a growing problem

Australia’s Jewish community faces some very real challenges as a result of the ageing of the population. Read more

Greens case against doctor dismissed

Charges against Dr John Nemesh for failing to print the name of the printer on poster he put up dissuading Marrickville residents from voting for the Greens. have been dropped. Read more

Kristallnacht remembered in Sydney and Melbourne

More than 250 members of the Sydney community heard Holocaust survivor Richard Wolf recall the events of that fateful night in Germany in 1938 which heralded the beginning of one of the blackest periods in Jewish history. Read more

Searching for a Single Palestinian Moderate

The Bible tells us that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah despite Abraham’s intercession, after he was unable to identify even ten righteous people in these cities…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

NSW Government to heed Jewish needs

A Ministerial Consultative Committee (MCC) for the Jewish community has been established to advise the Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello MP on behalf of the NSW Government on the needs, interests and concerns of Australians of Jewish heritage in NSW.  Read more

Palestine – Warmonger not Peace Lover

Amid all the hogwash that passes for political commentary  – it is apparent that the 15 members of the Security Council are facing a huge dilemma in deciding whether to recommend the admission of Palestine to the United Nations as its 194th member – after deliberating on the application now for more than six weeks…writes David Singer. Read more

Academy BJE students celebrate with Montefiore residents

Academy BJE Yr 11 students from across Sydney have visited Montefiore Woollahra and participated in Succot-related activities with the residents. Read more

DJ appointed CG

Sydney-born DJ Schneeweiss has been appointed Israel’s next Consul-General in Toronto. Read more

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