Breaking Challah
August 31, 2016 by J-Wire
Breaking Challah is a new initiative that encourages Jewish families around the world to invite a non-Jewish neighbour, colleague, teacher or friend to join them for a traditional Friday night Shabbat meal in an effort to promote tolerance through understanding. Read more
Paging Amb. Ira Forman: Synagogue attacked, world is silent…writes Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org
August 16, 2016 by J-Wire
If a bomb was thrown at a prominent synagogue in Brooklyn, the media would treat it as front-page news and politicians would rush to condemn the assault. Read more
Terrorist Aid Hijacking and NGO Oversight Failure: Learning from the World Vision Case
August 8, 2016 by J-Wire
On August 4, 2016, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed that Mohammed El-Halabi, manager of the Gaza operations of the international humanitarian NGO World Vision, funneled 60% of the World Vision Gaza budget to the terrorist group Hamas. Read more
Journalists Report Back from Rambam Delegation
August 8, 2016 by J-Wire
Prominent Australian journalists and opinion-leaders Rita Panahi, Jennifer Oriel, Josh Gordon and Georgina Downer, recently having returned from an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Rambam delegation to Israel, addressed an AIJAC luncheon in Melbourne. Read more
Tishah B’Av: The rabbi answers questions
August 8, 2016 by J-Wire
Rabbi Raymond Apple has a answers about Tishah B’Av…annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the anniversary of a number of disasters in Jewish history, primarily the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. Read more
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Maccabi Junior Carnival Registrations Open as NSW Team Manager is Announced
August 3, 2016 by J-Wire
Next year’s Maccabi Junior Carnival will be held in Perth. Read more
Abusing the term ‘fascism’ in relation to Israel…writes Isi Leibler
July 26, 2016 by J-Wire
It is now a worldwide phenomenon that left-wingers and increasing numbers of liberals chant the mantra that Israel is led by extremists and becoming transformed into a full-fledged fascist state. Unfortunately, such unadulterated nonsense is expressed daily and is highlighted in Haaretz, the Israeli post-Zionist daily newspaper, illustrating the primitive measures even Jewish opponents of our government are willing to take in order to demonise the Jewish state. Read more
Powerful parents
July 14, 2016 by J-Wire
Victoria’s United Jewish Education Boards has powerful allies to continue its work within the State’s schools for its Jewish programs. Read more
Montefiore Chair of Healthy Brain Ageing, Professor Henry Brodaty AO, wins ‘Nobel Prize for Ageing’
July 6, 2016 by J-Wire
UNSW Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty AO, has been awarded The Ryman Prize, an international prize that rewards the best work in the world that has enhanced quality of life for older people. Read more
Record Number of Graduates from Aged Care Course at Jewish Care
July 5, 2016 by J-Wire
A record number of students have graduated from the Certificate III in Aged Care and Home & Community Care course, hosted by Melbourne’s Jewish Care’s Employment and Education Centre. Read more
A Woman Called Golda – DVD giveaways
July 1, 2016 by J-Wire
J-Wire has 10 DVDs of the Ingrid Bergman film “A Woman Called Golda” to give away. Read more
150 Changemakers from 29 countries in Jerusalem
June 30, 2016 by J-Wire
One hundred-fifty of the Jewish world’s leading young changemakers from 29 countries convened in Jerusalem this week for intensive networking, skill-building and ideation at the 2016 ROI Summit, ROI Community’s flagship program. Read more
Poisoned minds…writes Emily Gian
There is a scene in the movie, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”, in which the Sacha Baron Cohen character finds himself deep inside redneck territory in an American country and western lounge bar. Read more
The Gift of Life…after 25 years
Shula Endrey-Walder has attended the Gift of Life Gala in New York to celebrate 25 years of saving lives. Read more
Old uniforms, new home
June 24, 2016 by J-Wire
Maccabi NSW has joined Sydney’s Moriah College’s initiative of sending unwanted clothing to Africa. Read more
Two-time champions
June 16, 2016 by J-Wire
Moriah College’s First Xl Football team has made history by winning the NSWCIS Football Cup for the 2nd year in a row. Read more
Clergymen increase their understanding
Nine clergymen and women from Australia and New Zealand recently returned from a study tour to Israel organised by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Rambam Israel Fellowship Program. Read more
Orlando
June 13, 2016 by J-Wire
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has harshly condemned the vicious attack on an Orlando, Florida nightclub which left 50 people dead and dozens more wounded earlier in the evening, in the most severe hate crime in US history. Read more
Humans of JCA Photo Galleries
June 4, 2016 by J-Wire
Did you attend any of the Humans of JCA presentations in Bondi?…check out the photo galleries. Read more
UN world health assembly “hijacked”
There is something decidedly unhealthy about the lengths that the Palestinian leadership has been going to in order to delegitimise Israel in the international arena…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Some get it but many never will…writes Michael Kuttner
June 3, 2016 by J-Wire
In a few days time most of us here in Israel will be celebrating the anniversary of the liberation of half our Capital from illegal Jordanian occupation. Read more
ECAJ responds to Christian Lobby blog
June 1, 2016 by J-Wire
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has criticised comments made by a representative of the Australian Christian Lobby. Read more
Art exhibition shines a light on palliative care
May 29, 2016 by J-Wire
Sydney’s Jewish House has joined Palliative Care NSW in supporting the Reflections of Care art exhibition. Read more
Israel blamed for lack of health care in territories
May 28, 2016 by J-Wire
The 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva has adopted a decision with the support of major European countries that considers Israel’s occupation of the territories it captured in the 1967 Six Day War the root cause for all major shortcomings with respect to health care provision in these territories. Read more
Works by Noa Eshkol in Sydney
Wall carpets created by Noa Eshkol, the daughter of Israel’s third Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, are on display during Sydney’s current Biennale. Read more
NCJWA Cooking Demo…photo gallery
May 25, 2016 by J-Wire
NSW Labor leader calls for better school security
May 19, 2016 by J-Wire
NSW Labor president Mark Lennon has pledged to do whatever possible to ensure all Jewish schools “have the same gates and fences as all other schools”. Read more
Remembering the Light Horse
NSW State MP Ron Hoenig and the Mascot RSL Sub-branch have joined Eran Tearosh Chairman of The Society for the Heritage of WWI in Israel and Vicky Gonda from the Israel Tourism Centre in commemorating the Charge of the Australian Light Horse Regiment at Beersheba in 1917. Read more
Anti-Israel rhetoric at the U.N.
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder says that anti-Israel rhetoric at the United Nations had exceeded proportion and was extending into the realm of the absurd, adding that the Venezuelan ambassador’s recent remarks questioning Israel’s “final solution” for the Palestinians proved that the “conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism is all too real.” Read more
