An Iran update
September 24, 2020 by J-Wire
Foundation for Defence of Democracies Iran expert Behnam Ben Taleblu, speaking at an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council’s (AIJAC’s) webinar urged Australia to take stronger action to try to bring home Kylie Moore-Gilbert, currently imprisoned in Iran. Read more
RBG and how to save a corrosive political culture
September 23, 2020 by J-Wire
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Sept. 18—the eve of Rosh Hashanah—at the age of 87 was a symbol of female empowerment, as well as a renowned scholar and jurist. Read more
Oct-25 11am Zoom: Lox and Loaded
September 21, 2020 by J-Wire
NSW Labor Israel Action Committee (LIAC) will kick off its “Lox and Loaded” zoom online speaker series next month with Ron Kampeas – the Washington DC bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) wire service. Read more
Zoom: Lox and Loaded
September 21, 2020 by J-Wire
NSW Labor Israel Action Committee (LIAC) will kick off its “Lox and Loaded” zoom online speaker series next month with Ron Kampeas – the Washington DC bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) wire service. Read more
A Rosh Hashanah message from President Rivlin
September 18, 2020 by J-Wire
The President of Israel Reuven Rivlin has videoed a Rosh Hashanah message to world Jewry. Read more
Hell hath no fury like peaceniks upstaged
September 16, 2020 by J-Wire
Israeli protesters gathered on Sunday night along the highway to Ben-Gurion International Airport, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was headed to board a flight to the United States. Read more
Sep-17 Zoom: A special event for Shimon Peres 4th Yahrzeit
September 15, 2020 by J-Wire
The Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation is partnering with a variety of Australian Jewish organizations and bodies for a special event marking the fourth anniversary of Shimon Peres’ passing. Read more
Keep up the pressure
September 15, 2020 by J-Wire
The President of the Zionist Federation of New Zealand Rob Berg cannot believe that Mt Hutt Ski Area and NZ Ski think it is acceptable to name a ski slope and a restaurant after an unrepentant officer of the SS, as well as have a plaque erected to “respect his legacy”. Read more
Sep-30 7:30pm Zoom: Medicine and Morality in Nazi Germany
September 15, 2020 by J-Wire
World WIZO joins with WIZO Australia in presenting Dr Tessa Chelouche to talk on this subject. Read more
Sep-17 11am Zoom: Dunera presents The Merchant Of Venice – Live Discussion
September 14, 2020 by J-Wire
Following Streamed Shakespeare’s all virtual production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ last month (trailer here) this roundtable will host the Director and Actors live in conversation. Read more
Rabbis and politics
September 12, 2020 by J-Wire
Rabbis should stay out of politics! Here we go again with this nonsense. This may sound strange coming from me. I have consistently deplored religious politics and the negative, destructive influence that rabbis and religious parties have on Israeli life. But I believe there is a difference between party politics and political issues. Read more
Oct-01 Zoom: U.S. elections: Thomas Friedman talks with NIF Australia
September 11, 2020 by J-Wire
With just over a month before the US elections, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman will join NIF Australia to discuss the Trump presidency and what’s at stake in the November elections. Read more
Trump nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in wake of Israel-UAE deal
September 10, 2020 by J-Wire
U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, in part for helping to broker the treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, dubbed the “Abraham Accord.” Read more
Sep-13 Zoom: A real-life Hollywood story
September 10, 2020 by J-Wire
This Sunday, the ZFA has partnered up with the Lamm Jewish Library of Australia, Zionism Victoria and South Caulfield Hebrew Congregation to bring you a special panel discussion. Read more
Hate-filled spelling of premier’s name
September 9, 2020 by J-Wire
A driver was shocked to see a message daubed on a road in DonvNale in the north-eastern Melbourne replacing letters in Premier Daniel Andrews with a Star of David and a swastika. Read more
Black Lives Matter: should the Jewish community get involved
The Uluru Statement from the Heart. Indigenous deaths in custody. Black lives matter. Where does the Jewish community fit in, and what could – or should – we do to get involved? Read more
Sep-26 5:15pm SBS-TV: Hitler’s Holocaust Railways
Chris Tarrant takes a journey through WWII as he finds out how the most horrendous and coldly calculated genocide in human history was made possible by the railways. Read more
Sep-07 11:45pm SBS-World Movies: Foxtrot
August 31, 2020 by J-Wire
Michael and Dafna are devastated when army officials show up at their home to announce the death of their son Jonathan. Read more
Sep-15 2:55pm Viceland-TV: Outback Rabbis
August 30, 2020 by J-Wire
Orthodox Chabad Rabbis hit the Aussie bush on a road trip like no other. Read more
Full scope of Beirut disaster ‘still not understood,’ states former Israeli military intelligence chief
August 6, 2020 by J-Wire
A day after two blasts—one of them an enormous—ripped through Beirut, causing untold destruction, it’s still not possible to grasp the true scope of the calamity, a former Israeli Military Intelligence chief has said. Read more
Aug-22 5:25pm SBS-TV: Inside the SS – Extermination
August 5, 2020 by J-Wire
During WWII, Hitler put the SS in charge of exterminating the designated enemies of the regime. Read more
Aug-16 5:25pm SBS-TV: Inside the SS – Intoxication
August 5, 2020 by J-Wire
Hitler created the SS in 1925 as a private army that would be loyal to him to the death. Read more
On the other hand
July 25, 2020 by J-Wire
The nine days leading up to Tisha B’Av are usually subdued with curtailed entertainment and meatless dining. Read more
Aug-06 Zoom: Technion webinar hosts inventors
July 24, 2020 by J-Wire
Dr Amit Goffer experienced a tragic accident that confined him to a wheelchair – as an accomplished inventor and entrepreneur, he didn’t accept his fate to never stand upright again and immediately started to develop alternative modes of transport to the traditional wheelchair. Read more
Aug-02 8pm Zoom: Anne Frank and her global legacy
July 22, 2020 by J-Wire
J-Wire invites you to a Zoom session with Gillian Walnes Perry, co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust in the U.K. Read more
Aug-07 7:30 pm SBS-TV: Belsen – The Untold Story
July 22, 2020 by J-Wire
Belsen: The Untold Story is a film telling the untold story of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where over 50,000 people, mostly Jews, died primarily from starvation and disease in the last phase of WWII.
Aug-05 2:55pm TV-Viceland: Cyberwar
July 22, 2020 by J-Wire
Israel is one of the world’s cyber superpowers. Read more
Aug-08 8:30pm SBS-World Movies: The Debt
July 22, 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
Aug-10 9:55pm TV-Viceland: Difficult People
July 22, 2020 by J-Wire
Billy visits his very Jewish brother for Yom Kippur dinner and Julie attempts to befriend a veteran to prove to Marilyn’s surrogate daughter that she’s charitable. Read more
Aug-19 Melbourne: MDA blood drive
July 22, 2020 by J-Wire
Melbourne readers are invited to participate in the MDA blood drive. Read more
