COA’s new special needs program funded by local council
July 24, 2018 by J-Wire
Sydney’s COA’s weekly bus outings are a blessing to those seniors who want to engage with their friends and enjoy a short walk and lunch in company. Read more
Nine days to reflect
The nine days between Rosh Chodesh (New Month) of Av and Tisha B’Av, commemorating the destruction of both Temples and subsequent calamities is an ideal opportunity to reflect, remember and draw conclusions…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
Angels on motorbikes
July 19, 2018 by J-Wire
As part of Magen David Adom’s ongoing efforts of to shorten response and arrival times of its teams, the emergency medicine technicians and paramedics arrive on scene events using various means of transportation, starting from the well-known ambulances and mobile intensive care units, through helicopters, electric bicycle and the “Bimbulance” vehicles that can reach even hardly accessible areas. Read more
John Howard addresses a Liberal Party shabbat dinner
July 18, 2018 by J-Wire
Former Australian prime minister John Howard was the keynote speaker at a unique Liberal Party Shabbat dinner hosted by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more
What’s the matter with a Jewish state?
The primary reaction from most people to the news that the Knesset may soon pass a bill defining Israel as a “Jewish state” is likely to be incredulity…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
IDF spokesman: Hamas trying to lure soldiers with mobile phone app
July 4, 2018 by J-Wire
Gadi Ezra in Sydney – photo galery
June 29, 2018 by J-Wire
Do you attend a UIA event hosting Gadi Ezra? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
Students politically incorrect party “indefensible”
June 17, 2018 by J-Wire
Jewish community leaders have slammed post-exam partygoers who used a politically incorrect theme to dress us members of Klu Klux clan, Holocaust victims, a black-face person and a moustached Nazi in uniform. Read more
AJA joins Betar at protest
Someone needs to have the courage to speak out! Read more
Israel Football Association and FIFA
The Jewish community in Australia needs to urge the Israeli Football Association to lobby FIFA hard to remove the Palestinians from that organization immediately. Read more
AIJAC writes to the ABC asking it to explain the lack of coverage of Gaza rocket attacks
June 5, 2018 by J-Wire
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has written to ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie asking her to explain the ABC’s glaring lack of coverage of the biggest rocket and mortar attacks launched by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Israel since the 2014 war. Read more
Melbourne attack mentioned by former chief rabbi of Israel’s acceptance speech
May 24, 2018 by J-Wire
Bar-Ilan University’s Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies has bestowed its Guardian of Zion Award upon Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of Israel. Read more
Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: True Lies. Read more
Trump unscrambles UN-EU-PLO misinformation omelette
April 29, 2018 by J-Wire
President Trump has started unscrambling the misinformation omelette first cooked up by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Charter in 1964 and dished out by the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) since 1974…writes David Singer. Read more
Analysis: Latest Israeli airstrike in Syria likely stopped new Iranian threat
The recent missile strike on a military airbase deep in the central Syrian desert looks like the latest installment in a long-standing Israeli campaign to police its red lines against highly dangerous developments to its north…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more
Love, Simon…a movie review by Tayla Rosen
March 25, 2018 by J-Wire
An inspiring story of love and honesty takes viewers on a journey through a more light-hearted coming out story than previous films of its kind. Read more
Losing the plot
In the northern hemisphere spring is arriving. In Israel it has sprung but in parts of the USA and in Europe/UK the winter thaw is delayed…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
A good BIG IDEA
February 27, 2018 by J-Wire
The BIG IDEA Gap Year is a program for a year of intensive hi-tech training, social impact, and a one-of-a-kind Startup Nation experience Israel. Read more
The Anti-Israel Agenda: Inside the Political War on the Jewish State: a book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
Any book about Israel is never going to please everyone. Also depending where in the world one lives will depend how this book is viewed. Not that long ago we witnessed an argument in Melbourne about which organisations with an Israeli focus were allowed or precluded from joining the JCCV. Read more
The difficulty of maintaining calm in Gaza
In recent weeks, the Israeli media has covered at length the rapidly deteriorating economic situation in Gaza and the concerns that an economic collapse could lead to a humanitarian crisis or to renewed clashes with Israel along the border. Read more
Setting the record straight on the Malka Leifer case
February 9, 2018 by J-Wire
Former principal of The Adass Yisroel school in Melbourne Malka Leifer has successfully facing an extradition hearing which would decide if she is to be returned to Australia to facing 74 charges involving child sexual abuse.
Aliyah from Western countries
February 8, 2018 by J-Wire
The founders of modern Israel originated from contrasting ideological movements…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
The issue of Nazi-looted art
February 4, 2018 by J-Wire
At an event in Berlin leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Washington Principles, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder underscored the large gap between promised improvements in reference to Nazi-looted art and actual actions in Germany. Read more
One Nation to run candidates in 2019 NSW election
February 1, 2018 by J-Wire
Senior NSW Labor frontbencher and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair Walt Secord has vowed to be at the forefront of the fight against One Nation and its divisive policies – in the forthcoming State election. Read more
Malcolm Turnbull’s message for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 28, 2018 by J-Wire
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tweeted his IHRD message. Read more
IDF destroys Hamas terror tunnel that infiltrated Israeli and Egyptian territory
The IDF destroyed a Hamas terror tunnel that ran underneath Israel’s Kerem Shalom border crossing with the southern Gaza Strip as well as under the Egypt-Gaza border. Read more
Kluwgant v Weinberg
January 3, 2018 by J-Wire
Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant is the plaintiff in a defamation action against Philip Weinberg filed in Victoria’s Supreme Court last month. Read more
Australia joins UN Human Rights Council
January 3, 2018 by J-Wire
Australia has taken up our seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, the world’s peak body responsible for human rights. Read more
Lebanese foreign minister acknowledges Israel’s right to exist, then backtracks
December 29, 2017 by J-Wire
Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has drawn widespread criticism in his country for saying in a television interview that Israel has a right to exist. Read more
‘Donald John Trump, Western Wall’ train station approved for construction
The project was approved on Tuesday when Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz accepted recommendations issued by the steering committee of Israel Railways to construct a train station in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter. Read more
