Best of the Best Award for OBK Founder
August 24, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
It was a perfect day to enjoy the winter sun at Sydney’s Bondi Beach as politicians, past and present, business leaders and representatives from a wide cross-section of the community including Dame Marie Bashir, former Governor of NSW and Phillip Ruddock, ex Federal MP, gathered to honour Rabbi Dr Dovid Slavin of Our Big Kitchen (OBK). Read more
The Jewish International Film Festival screening 70 movies in 2016
August 23, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Presenting over 70 exceptional international premiere features and documentaries, the Jewish International Film Festival returns to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Auckland from late October, and tours to Canberra for the first time in the festival’s history. Read more
Shir Madness Jewish Music Festival: The line-up is complete
August 23, 2016 by Geoff Sirmai
Following last year’s smash hit Melbourne debut, SHIR MADNESS (The Jewish Music Festival) returns to Sydney and its Bondi Pavilion home this year. Read more
Henry Greener interviews…
August 23, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
This week, Hentry Green talks with Naomi Rubenstein, Erez Feinberg and Fem Belling…. Read more
Will Temple Mount tensions yet again strain Israeli-Jordanian relations?…asks Sean Savage/JNS.org
August 23, 2016 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
Jordan’s King Abdullah II vowed to fight against repeated violations and attacks carried out by Israel and extremist groups on the Temple Mount complex, according to an interview in the Jordanian daily Ad-Dustour last week. Read more
Matti Friedman to speak exclusively at Sydney Jewish Writers Festival
August 23, 2016 by Eli Levi
Canadian-born author and former Associated Press journalist Matti Friedman will be speaking exclusively in Sydney this weekend as the guest of the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival before travelling to the Melbourne Writers Festival. Read more
United to Support Israel in Australia and Overseas
August 23, 2016 by Sarah Bendetsky
Zionism Victoria has hosted an international and national delegation of members of Christians for Israel (C4I) for an inaugural meeting with the leaders of the Victorian Zionist and Jewish community. Read more
Perth’s Carmel School sweeps essay field
August 22, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
This year the Australian Jewish Historical Society (NSW) conducted an essay competition which used a theme focused on Jewish servicemen and women from the First World War. Read more
New Zealand Jewish Council calls for success for Islam Awareness Week
August 22, 2016 by Agencies
President of NZJC Stephen Goodman has sent a message to the Federation of Islamic Association of New Zealand at the beginning of the Islam Awareness Week. Read more
An Ancient Jewish “Stone Age”? Excavations in a Cave in Galilee Reveal a 2,000 Year-Old Stone Vessel Production Centre
August 22, 2016 by Agencies
Archaeological excavations conducted in Galilee in early August, under the direction of Dr. Yonatan Adler of Ariel University, have unearthed a 2,000 year-old cave which functioned as a quarry and industrial workshop for the production of stone vessels. Read more
New Zealand sailors battle back a hard-earned silver at Rio
August 22, 2016 by Keren Cook
New Zealand yachting produced a stand out performance on the final day of the Rio Olympics regatta, taking three medals, including gold. Read more
Why is there a lion on the emblem of the city of Jerusalem?…ask the rabbi
August 22, 2016 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple served for 32 years as the chief minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Australia’s oldest and most prestigious congregation. He was Australia’s highest profile rabbi and held many public roles. He is now retired and lives in Jerusalem. Read more
New partnership offers improved response in addressing family violence in Jewish Community
August 21, 2016 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Jewish Care Victoria has partnered with Inner South Community Health Service to enable Jewish community members who have experienced family violence to access a culturally appropriate service response. Read more
J-Wire Meets Richard Moore
August 21, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
J-Wire’s Roz Tarszisz talks with Richard Moore, Artistic Director of the AICE Israeli Film Festival.
The Artist and the Author: Together Again
August 21, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
Two men whose friendship crosses generations are thrilled to be travelling together to West Australia later this year.
Labor says that Turnbull’s authority in tatters on 18C
August 21, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
“Despite telling Australians in February he has “no plans to change” racist hate speech protections in Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, Malcolm Turnbull today left the door open to changes” have said Labor’s Mark Dreyfus and Tony Burke. Read more
Nick Cater and James Brown Address AIJAC Luncheon in Sydney
August 21, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Two of Australia’s most prominent public intellectuals, Nick Cater, Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre and James Brown, Research Director of the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre, addressed an AIJAC luncheon in Sydney having recently returned from an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) RAMBAM delegation to Israel. Read more
‘Hand Up for a Home’ $180,000 Crowdfunding Campaign
August 19, 2016 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Jewish Care Victoria launched its digital crowdfunding campaign, ‘Hand Up for a Home’ to raise funds for the refurbishment of Jewish Care’s social housing in Fulton Street, East St Kilda. Read more
What really matters…writes Michael Kuttner
August 19, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
The latest buzzwords among the politically correct elites these days have become holy writ. Woe betides anyone who dares to challenge this example of religious dogma. Read more
So this is what peace looks like…writes Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org
August 19, 2016 by Stephen M.Flatow - JNS.org
It’s not the end of the world just because an Egyptian athlete refused to shake hands with his Israeli counterpart at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro last week. After all, the Egyptian is the one who violated judo etiquette. He’s the one whom the fans booed. Read more
U.S. State Department calls Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority antisemitic
August 19, 2016 by Rafael Medoff - JNS.org
For the first time, the U.S. State Department has explicitly accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) of promoting antisemitism, a signal Jewish groups are hoping will lead to change in U.S. policy…writes Rafael Medoff/JNS.org. Read more
A Yazidi woman tells her story
August 18, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Nadia Murad Basee Taha is a Yazidi woman from northern Iraq who was captured by Daesh (or ISIS) in mid-2014 will tell a seminar at Sydney University how she escaped. Read more
New Zealand authors publish new book to challenge Holocaust denial
August 18, 2016 by Keren Cook
New Zealand writers and filmmakers, Lance and James Morcan are planning to adapt their recent book for a television documentary series to stamp-out Holocaust deniers. Read more
Westfield’s World Trade Centre mall reopened following its destruction in the 9/11 attack
August 18, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Westfield has launched its rebuilt World Trace Centre Mall fifteen years after the devastating attacks in 2001 which destroyed the iconic twin towers of the World Trade Centre. Read more
2016 Better Practice Award for Montefiore Home
August 18, 2016 by Natalie Shymko
Sydney’s Montefiore Home is delighted to be recognised with another Better Practice Award today by the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency at Better Practice Sydney for its program titled, Dietary Co-ordinators Bridging the Gap. Read more
Community organisations learning to keep their cool
August 18, 2016 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) recently hosted a seminar for leaders and professional staff from Jewish community organisations aiming to help them ‘Keep Their Cool’. Read more
Palestine – Abbas Abandons Peace Negotiations With Israel
August 18, 2016 by David Singer
Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to prosecute Britain for publishing the 1917 Balfour Declaration amounts to an outright rejection of the right of the Jewish people to have their own State in former Palestine – the major stumbling block to peacefully resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict for the last 100 years…writes David Singer. Read more
Residents art exhibition
August 18, 2016 by Natalie Shymko
Residents, relatives and staff of Sydney’s Montefiore Home Randwick Campus to celebrate the work of three resident artists, June Lotzof, Audrey Goldberg, and the late Dr Zelman Freeman. Read more
Eyeless in Gaza…writes Michael Danby
August 18, 2016 by Michael Danby
The Reverend Tim Costello is the very image of the muscular, “socially concerned” Church Man. Read more
Kubo and the Two Strings – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
August 18, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
“I tell stories about epic heroes and monsters but I had no idea my stories were true” says boy hero Kubo, in the trailer for this enthralling animated action adventure from director Travis Knight (ParaNorman,Box Trolls).