The Shtick’s One Minute’s Silence
July 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Henry Greener produces The Shtick, a Melbourne-based video program dealing with contemporary Jewish themes. Watch his video interview with Rabbi Shmuli Block…and share a minute’s silence. Read more
One minute at the Olympics
July 25, 2012 by Emily Gian
Emily Gian writes on Bulgaria, the Olympics, BBC bias and the one minute’s silence witnessed by a few hundred people instead of billions… Read more
Gift of Life at work
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Three men linked to each other through the Gift of Life donor program have met Australian program organiser Shula Endrey-Walder in New York. Read more
NSW call for a minute’s silence
July 24, 2012 by Community Editor
The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and the Zionist Council of NSW have joined the call for a minute’s silence on the 40th anniversary of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Read more
Award-winning play for Wellington
July 24, 2012 by Community Editor
B‘nai B’rith and the Wellington Jewish Community Centre will stage award-winning play “Nuclear Family” in which Yael Gezentsvey will play twelve characters. Read more
New Zealand’s Nazi Hunter
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Did New Zealand give a home to genocidal killers? Wayne Stringer was New Zealand’s Nazi Hunter. He investigated 47 “displaced persons”, suspected of complicity in Nazi era war crimes, who came to New Zealand at the end of WW2. Read more
Yair Miller appointed to Parole Authority
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The President of the The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Yair Miller has been appointed to the State’s Parole Authority. Read more
Olympics protest – Danby adds his name
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire
The International Council of Jewish Parliament MPS has called for a minute’s at the Olympic Games which open in London this Friday evening…and Australian Federal Labor MP Michael Danby is a signatory. Read more
Busy year for the Jewish Film Foundation
The Jewish Film Foundation of Australia is gearing up for its most ambitious year yet. Read more
…and the signatories are
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A petition has been presented to the Australian Jewish Community demanding “Israel end detention of Palestinians without charge. J-Wire publishes the signatories and The Executive Council of Australian Jewry response… Read more
Sydney hosts student conference
Students came from around Australia recently to attend the Australian Conference of Rabbinical Students held at the Yeshiva Centre in Bondi. Read more
A community remembers – Munich widows express disappointment
July 23, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) and Zionist Council of Victoria (ZCV) have put a call out to the community this week to remember the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games…but their widows have not given up. The World Jewish Congress has added its voice to the please for remembrance. Read more
Emanuel Students Connect in Jilkminggan
July 23, 2012 by Michelle Favero
Eight Year 6 Emanuel students and their parents have returned from a nine-day adventure in the Northern Territory. Read more
Brenner Protesters – not over yet
July 23, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A Melbourne magistrate has found that five of the sixteen protesters who campaigned outside a Max Brenner store in Melbourne have a case to answer on charges of hindering, assaulting or resisting police. Read more
Jonathan Safran Foer edits a new Haggadah…a review by Alan Gold
One of the most precious and memorable moments of my year, every year, is opening the Haggadah I was given as a gift by my mother-in-law, and seeing the familiar wine stains and shadows of matzah crumbs from ages past…writes Alan Gold. Read more
Courage to Care holds Barmitzvah Party
July 23, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
It has been thirteen years since NSW B’na B’rith established Courage to Care…a special unit which travels to regional Australia hosting mobile exhibits and explaining the Holocaust and Jewish culture to communities some of which have never met a Jew. Read more
Honoring Nelson Mandela
July 22, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
The plan was to host 67 guests to spend 67 minutes baking at Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen to commemorate the 67 years of Nelson Mandela’s public life…but the kitchen was packed to capacity. Read more
Local businessman on Playing for Change Global Board
July 22, 2012 by Odile Faludi
Playing for Change is a multimedia global movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music…writes Odile Faludi. Read more
David Burnett Award winner named
July 22, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Young Labor president Michael Buckland has announced the fourth recipient of the David Burnett Memorial Award – named after the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) National Vice-President and Young Labor activist who died in Jordan in 2008. Read more
The Dark Knight Rises 3½/4
July 21, 2012 by James Berardinelli - Reelviews
For most superhero franchises, the third movie is a trap…writes James Berardinelli. Read more
Danby “uncomfortable” with Rhiannon
July 20, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Labor Michael Danby has appeared on the ABC’s 24 Political show Capital Hill with Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon and questioned her Soviet Connections. Read more
Jumping for joy
July 20, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Government has provided $20,000 to help fund the Maccabi Junior Carnival being held in Sydney in January next year. Read more
A Fresh Start
July 20, 2012 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
In the Jewish calendar we are in the midst of the “three Weeks”, the time when we mourn the destruction of the first and second Temples…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie. Read more
Palestine – United Nations Perfidy Exposed
July 20, 2012 by David Singer
The canard – supported by countless United Nations General Assembly Resolutions – that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal in international law – has been dealt a crushing blow with the the recent release of the Levy Committee Report in Israel rebutting that claim. ..writes David Singer. Read more
Haredi Draft Bill: An Historic Missed Opportunity
July 20, 2012 by Isi Leibler
The breakdown between Likud and Kadima over the Haredi draft represented the loss of an historic opportunity for Israel to unite the nation and rescue a significant ever-growing sector of Israeli society from a life of poverty and ignorance…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
Anglo-Jewry’s PR – Millis responds
Columnist Isi Leibler wrote an article on the appointment of the UK’s United Jewish Israel Appeal’s PR chief – Joseph Millis responds… Read more
Thoughts and prayers
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has issued a statement following the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria… Read more
Humanity Overboard
July 19, 2012 by Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence
Feb 24 this year marked the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Struma, a ship carrying approximately 790 Jewish refugees from Rumania to the British Mandate in Palestine…writes Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence. Read more
Jo Sails for New Zealand
July 19, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
26-yr-old Jo Aleh is now completing final preparations for competition in the 2012 Olympics at which she will sail representing New Zealand. Read more
Crisis Line Training Course for Volunteers at Jewish House
July 19, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Jewish House runs a 24/7 crisis line where people can get assistance any time of the day or night. To date the crisis line has been manned by Rabbi Kastel with backup of the staff at Jewish House. We put a call out for volunteers who were interested in helping us man the phones, and we were pleasantly surprised at the many responses that we received. Read more
