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
NSW Maccabi Awards
May 4, 2016 by J-Wire
Maccabi NSW has held its annual Jewish Sports Awards for achievements in 2015. Read more
A place for Gays and Lesbians in Jewish society
April 25, 2016 by J-Wire
The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia NSW will hold a forum next month to discuss issues impacting on gay members of Sydney society. Read more
New Zealand Race Relations Commissioner slams antisemitic Facebook posts
April 22, 2016 by J-Wire
New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has slammed antisemitic Facebook posts made following a politician’s visit to Auckland’s Jewish Community Centre. Read more
Pesach in Sydney
April 22, 2016 by J-Wire
NSW Liberal politician David Clarke has once again bought the chometz from Sydney Yeshiva’s Rabbi Pinchus Feldman…and a 12-yr-old boy has delivered a siyum. Read more
Australian chosen for prestigious leadership program
The US-based Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation has selected 29 outstanding Jewish professional and volunteer leaders from around the world for the second cohort of the Schusterman Fellowship including Australia’s Brandon Srot. Read more
Labor’s plans for security upgrade in Melbourne
April 20, 2016 by J-Wire
A Shorten Labor Government will match the Victorian Government’s commitment to provide $500,000 for major security upgrades to the Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Melbourne. Read more
J-Safe launches in Melbourne
April 19, 2016 by J-Wire
Melbourne businessman Avi Yemini who runs self defence school IDF Training is behind a new Facebook page designed to protect the Jewish community in the city’s south-east. Read more
Of dingoes and wolves
Technion Australia through TSA Environmental Research Ltd (TSAERL) is funding groundbreaking research into apex predators…dingoes in Australia and wolves in Israel. Read more
Farewell Barry
April 11, 2016 by J-Wire
Barry Joseph was farewelled in Sydney last week following 15 years’ service as executive director of the Australian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Read more
The birth of the Maccabiah
March 29, 2016 by J-Wire
As the wheels organising next year’s 20th Maccabiah start gathering speed, Maccabi members around the globe remember today’s 84th anniversary of the very first Games. Read more
Rabbi MC’s Greek event
March 21, 2016 by J-Wire
An orthodox rabbi was the Master of Ceremonies at an event in the NSW Parliament celebrating Greece’s Independence Day. Read more
Defending the ALP
March 17, 2016 by J-Wire
Liberal candidate for Melbourne Ports Owen Guest’s letter to the Australian Jewish News attacked the ALP’s position on Israel. You can always tell who the Liberal candidate for Melbourne Ports is when they suddenly start to take an interest in taking partisan potshots on Israel in an election year…. Read more
Nothing to do with Elbit
The Australia Israel Labor Dialogue has challenged any notion that it is funded by an Israeli arms manufacturer. Read more
Harry Triguboff’s second barmitzvah
March 8, 2016 by J-Wire
Over 700 guests packed Sydney’s Westin Hotel ballroom to celebrate Meriton chief’s Harry Triguboff’s second barmitzvah. Read more
Writers’ Festival giveaway
February 18, 2016 by J-Wire
J-Wire has a free double pass for next Thursday’s conversation in Sydney with Simon Sebag Montefiore, the author of “Jerusalem – The Biography”. Read more
NSW Labor calls for Hebrew as a second language
A State Labor Government will expand the teaching of modern Hebrew in eastern and northern Sydney suburbs with significant Jewish populations – as part of its second language in primary schools’ plan. Read more
Jewish Care, The Age: victim speaks
February 12, 2016 by J-Wire
The ongoing story of the stoush between Melbourne’s Jewish Care and local newspaper The Age has taken a new twist with child sexual abuse Manny Waks posting a statement from a victim whose identity has allegedly been compromised. Read more
