First in Course

Remembering Madiba

Over 200 people have celebrated the life of Nelson Mandela, who has been buried where he grew up in Qunu on the Eastern Cape of South Africa at a memorial ceremony on the Library Lawns at Sydney’s University of NSW. Read more

Sydney Farewell for Madiba

South Africans in Sydney will hold a ceremony this weekend to honour and remember Nelson Mandela. Read more

Walt Secord moves up the line

NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair, Walt Secord has been appointed Shadow Minister for Roads and Shadow Minister for the North Coast in the NSW parliamentary opposition…effectively a significant promotion. Read more

End of year activities

To celebrate the end of the year, the Bialik Mazkirut (Year 12 leadership team) organised ‘Yom Chagiga’; a celebration day for students in Years 2-5 on Tuesday 10 December. Read more

Obama’s Munich Reverberates but Israel is no Czechoslovakia…writes Isi Leibler

Now that we have absorbed the shock of Obama’s capitulation to the Iranians, it is time to face hard realities and plan for the future. Read more

Fears for missing tennis star

Top Melbourne tennis coach Paul Arber has gone missing in Hamilton, New Zealand where he had been visiting with eight junior players who had been participating in a junior tennis tournament. Read more

Yeshiva College stands down teacher

Melbourne’s Yeshiva College has stood down former principal and current staff member Rabbi Avrom Glick following police questioning him in relation to sexual abuse incidents at the school in the 1970s…but his lawyers  have refuted online news reports that he had been arrested. Read more

Hebron Leader Compliments Honest Reporting

I must complement Honest reporting for the extraordinary work they do. I was honored to a part of their mission, here in Hebron. Read more

Bondi accused pleads not guilty

One of the four accused of attacking a group of Jews walking home from Shabbat dinner in Bondi has appeared in Waverley Local Court and has pleaded not guilty to the charge. Read more

B’nai B’rith on Mitzvah Day

Beth Weizmann, the Lamm Library, the Zionist Council of Victoria and B’nai B’rith Victoria co-hosted a concert for senior citizens from Jewish Care produced by B’nai B’rith’s Esther Gross at Beth Weizmann on Mitzvah Day, Sunday 17 November 2013.

Music students from Sholem Aleichem College’s choir wowed the audience with songs from Broadway in Yiddish.  Young violinist brothers, Nathan and Max Needleman from Bialik College played Chopin and Brahms to an astonished audience.

Fifteen-year-old Noa Opat, representing the King David School, sang from musical comedy.

Eight students from Leibler Yavneh College with Director of Music, Jonathan Skovron on guitar, sang in Hebrew; their ‘Yerushalayim shel zahav’ brought the house down!

Afternoon tea was kindly donated by ‘Cakes of Art’, ‘Eshel’, ‘Goldies Biscuits’, ‘Kosher Classique’, ‘Menorah Catering’, ‘Naomi’s Kitchen’, ‘Peter Unger Catering’, ‘ To Catch a Thief’, and ‘The Shook’.

The Concert was part of 61 Mitzvah Day activities Australia-wide, organised by inspirational co-ordinator, Judy Feiglin.

Iran: ZFA makes a statement

Philip Chester, the president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, has expressed his concern about the latest deal impacting on Iran’s nuclear program. Read more

Chanukah: All ready in the city

Sydney’s traditional giant menorah is in place and ready for Chanukah. Read more

Racial Discrimination Act changes…Look Before you Leap says Professor Gillian Triggs

Professor Gillian Triggs is the president of the Australian Human Rights Commission writes on intended changes by the Federal Government to the Racial Discrimination Act… Read more

Hayman allowed to go home

Daniel Hayman is free to return to his family in Los Angeles after posting $1 million bail at Waverley Local Court today. Read more

Sydney’s Kashruth situation – RCNSW makes a statement

With regard to the ongoing dispute between the Kashrut Authority and and Amaze In Taste, J-Wire publishes the RCNSW’s latest statement. Read more

A Letter to the New York Times…and J-Wire

A J-Wire reader based in the U.S. has sent us a letter submitted to the New York Times on the recent murder of an IDF soldier in Israel… Read more

Melbourne’s Jewish Care to investigate historic institutional child abuse cases

Jewish Care Victoria has established an independent support scheme to thoroughly investigate historic claims of institutional child abuse at children’s homes run by predecessor Jewish welfare organisations. Read more

Irene Sendler continues to help

‘The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler’, has been shown at the Victoria University Memorial Theatre in Wellington. New Zealand,  to raise funds for a proposed New Zealand Children’s Holocaust Memorial to the 1.5 million children who perished as a consequence of Nazi persecution during the Holocaust. Read more

More child sexual abuse reported in Victoria

Child sexual abuse advocacy organisation Tzedek has reported that Melbourne’s Jewish Care has learned from alleged victims of child sexual abuse that new cases have come to light. Read more

Double “Chai” for ground-breaking Dialogue group

The Australian National Dialogue of Christians, Muslims & Jews has held its 36th meeting, at The Emanuel Synagogue, Woollahra, Sydney. Read more

Learning disorder expert to visit Australia

Emanuel School’s Wolanski Family Specialist Learning Centre is delighted to host  ‘An evening with Barbara Arrowsmith Young’  Read more

Sydney Theatre: Atomic

Shurat HaDin, ECAJ disagree on skinning the BDS cat

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has criticised Israeli advocacy organisation Shurat HaDin for bringing a legal action against those responsible for barring an Israeli academic from visiting Sydney University effectively boycotting Israel. Shurat Hadin has answered the criticism exclusively to J-Wire.

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Jewish graves will not be re-used

A Bill introduced into the NSW Parliament which would allow a grave to be re-used 25 years after its occupant’s death will not affect the Jewish community. Read more

Time for the KA to reform

Incident at the University of New South Wales

Jake Campbell, a member of the AUJS National Executive, has complained of a recent incident of antisemitism during student council elections at the University of New South Wales. Read more

Straws in the Wind…writes Michael Kuttner

Jack Straw, a former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, has caused controversy because of his statements recently about Israel. Read more

Sydney’s Wolper Hospital seeks CEO

On Galus Australis

Unhappy with the ZFA…

 

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