Feb-13 10:55pm SBS-TV: Movie – The Pianist
January 22, 2021 by J-Wire
Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as WWII begins. Read more
Jan-20 5:30pm Zoom: Forum – Change and Suppression Practices in the Jewish Community
January 17, 2021 by J-Wire
Jewish Care invites you to a unique community forum to discuss LGBTQA+ conversion practices (sometimes called ‘conversion therapy’) and the current Victorian Change and Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill. Read more
Feb-02 Zoom: NIF to host event with foreign policy luminaries on the Middle East
January 15, 2021 by J-Wire
Less than two weeks after President Joe Biden takes office NIF Australia is hosting seasoned American Middle East negotiator, and NIF board member, Aaron David Miller and former Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova to discuss America’s Middle East policy shift under the new administration. Read more
Feb-02 7:45pm SBS World Movies: Fanny’s Journey
January 13, 2021 by J-Wire
Fanny, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, and a group of eight children attempt to escape Nazi-occupied France.
Feb-05 9:45pm SBS-TV: My grandparents’ war
January 13, 2021 by J-Wire
Both sets of Helena Bonham Carter’s grandparents, one in France, one in England, weren’t conventional war heroes. Read more
Violence against women on the agenda
December 23, 2020 by J-Wire
The President of the Rabbinical Association of Australasia Rabbi Yaakov Glasman and The Ark Centre’s Rabbi Gabi Kaltman have met for with the new Executive Director of White Ribbon Australia Brad Chilcott in Melbourne. Read more
Jan-19 7.35p SBS World Movies: The Name of Love
December 22, 2020 by J-Wire
Bahia is a free spirit from Algeria with a provocative personality and a love of flirting. Read more
Jan-21 9:30p SBS World Movies: Son of Saul
December 22, 2020 by J-Wire
A look at Saul Auslander, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from Auschwitz in 1944 who were forced to assist the Nazis by cremating the bodies of the dead. Read more
Kushner to lead diplomatic delegation to Israel, Morocco
December 16, 2020 by J-Wire
Senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump Jared Kushner reportedly will lead an American delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for talks in the aftermath of the North African nation agreeing to normalize ties with the Jewish state. Read more
Richard Kemp on zoom with AJA
December 15, 2020 by J-Wire
Colonel Richard Kemp will be the featured guest on Australian Jewish Association’s last zoom for 2020. Read more
The family is growing
December 10, 2020 by J-Wire
The Governing Board and Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress held a zoom with 190 participants during which a new community was added to to the WJC. Read more
Dec-10 to 18: Eight miracles in eight days
December 10, 2020 by J-Wire
Magen David Adom’s Chanukah campaign to raise funds for eight defibrillators. Read more
Dec-10 to Dec-17: Chanukah around Australia
December 9, 2020 by J-Wire
Chanukah celebrations in over 25 regional centres courtesy Chabad of RARA. Read more
Chanukah’s history-poem
December 7, 2020 by J-Wire
Ma’oz Tzur is part of the tug of war between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Read more
US Supreme Court to hear two cases related to Holocaust restitution
December 6, 2020 by J-Wire
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases on Dec. 7 related to the issue of Holocaust restitution. Read more
Dec-06 8pm Zoom: UIA International Women’s event
December 3, 2020 by J-Wire
A specially-curated Women’s Division webinar featuring five topics… Read more
Despite reinstatement into party, Corbyn not welcome back as Labour MP
November 20, 2020 by J-Wire
Despite being reinstated this week by the British Labour Party, former party leader Jeremy Corbyn will not be a Labour member of the British parliament, according to current leader Keir Starmer. Read more
Dec-02 9:30pm AEDT SBS World Movies: The Counterfeiter
November 20, 2020 by J-Wire
Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch is an expert Jewish counterfeiter enjoying the good life until he’s sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Read more
Dec-06 8pm AEDT: Being a WIZO member
November 20, 2020 by J-Wire
New leadership for Victoria’s Jewish community
November 17, 2020 by J-Wire
At the Jewish Community Council of Victoria AGM, Jennifer Huppert completed her second term as JCCV President with the leadership of Australia’s largest Jewish community passing on to Dr Andre Oboler. Read more
Israel signs up with Pfizer for 8million doses for COVID-19 vaccines
November 15, 2020 by J-Wire
The State of Israel and Pfizer have signed an agreement regarding the supply of eight million vaccine doses, which will be sufficient for four million residents. Read more
Massive response
November 11, 2020 by J-Wire
More than 500 acceptances have been received for tonight’s tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks who passed away last weekend at the age of 72. Read more
More tributes to Rabbi Lord Sacks
November 9, 2020 by J-Wire
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Liberal MP Julian Leeser have added their names to the long list of those who have paid tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sachs who passed away on Saturday at the age of 72. Read more
Nov-15 4:00pm online: 80th Dunera Anniversary event – survival through sculpture
November 6, 2020 by J-Wire
The Dunera Association together with Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue and the Duldig Studio will present a special event to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the arrival in Australia of the Dunera and the Queen Mary. Read more
Nov-22 7:00pm online: Yemen Blues to rock Australia
November 6, 2020 by J-Wire
Yemen Blues will be performing a new show “We Shout Love” – Say No to Racism in a special free online event presented by Emanuel Synagogue and the Israeli Embassy. Read more
Nov-12 8pm Zoom: Democracy in Danger
November 4, 2020 by J-Wire
The New Israel Fund Australia is hosting a digital event with veteran New York Times columnist Roger Cohen and academic and former deputy Knesset speaker Naomi Chazan to delve further into the troubling attacks on democracy and pluralism around the world. Read more
Nov-02 7pm Zoom: Charles Edel on U.S. foreign policy – looking to the past to see the future
November 1, 2020 by J-Wire
NCJWA NSW is delighted to invite you to our first Book Club event since the disruptions of the COVID crisis. Read more
Nov-01 Online 3pm: Mark Leibler in conversation with Philip Bliss
October 28, 2020 by J-Wire
An online event presented by the Council of Christians and Jews. Read more
Nov-21 10:45pm SBS World Movies: The Debt
October 28, 2020 by J-Wire
Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington star in The Debt, the powerful story of Rachel Singer (Mirren), a former Mossad agent who endeavours to capture and bring to trial a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ends with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Read more
Nov-18 9:45pm SBS World Movies: The Invisibles
This film tells of a largely unknown chapter of the Jewish resistance during the times of National Socialism. Read more
