The Queen’s Birthday Awards – the Honorees
June 11, 2012 by J-Wire
Members of the Jewish community who have been honored in the Queen’s Birthday awards this year include Professor Peter Singer who has received the nation’s highest honor…the AC. Read more
J-Wire Reporters
June 8, 2012 by J-Wire
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Albert Dadon = Albare
June 5, 2012 by J-Wire
Albert Dadon is well known throughout the community as the founder of the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange and the Australia Israel Leadership Forum…but the Melbourne businessman’s alter ego Albare is now on the road fronting his star-packed jazz group on their “Long Way” world tour. J-Wire has five free double tickets for Satrday’s Sydney performance. Read more
Korean Mummy reveals secrets to Spigelman
May 31, 2012 by J-Wire
Former Sydney-sider Professor Mark Spigelman is a member of a joint Israeli-South Korean scientific team which discovered a hepatitis B genotype in a mummified Korean child. Hepatitis is a major cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer in Australia. Read more
JCA Women’s Division Photo Gallery
May 25, 2012 by J-Wire
The Jewish Communal Appeal Women’s Division has held its gala function at which iconic neurosurgeon Associate Professor Charlie Teo spoke…J-Wire photo gallery…. Read more
Sokatch visit – NGO Monitor has its say
May 23, 2012 by J-Wire
NGO Monitor is a Jerusalem-based organisation whose name is self explanatory…it had a lot to say about J-Wire’s article published on the visit to Australia of the New Israel Fund’s CEO Daniel Sokitch. Read more
Top Educator for Melbourne
May 22, 2012 by J-Wire
One of Israel’s best-known and charismatic Jewish educators, Rabbi Dr Benny Lau, will participate in the Zionist Federation of Australia’s 8th Biennial Jewish Educators’ Conference, to be held at Bialik College on 12-13 August, and will address the opening plenum session. Read more
Israel advocacy on your iPhone
You can help fight back and set the record straight, when anti-Israel groups use social media to demonise and defame Israel. Read more
Cyprys to stand trial
May 21, 2012 by J-Wire
Following a commital hearing in Melbourne, David Cyprys will stand trial on 40 charges relating to molesting 12 students at the Yeshivah College in Melbourne’s St Kilda. Read more
Melbourne in Meltdown
May 20, 2012 by J-Wire
Many of Nestle and Peters ice creams have been declared Kosher this week by Melbourne authority Its kosher, but Kosher Australia says don’t lick that cone…it’s not Kosher. Read more
POSITION VACANT – Sydney: International Programs Director
May 9, 2012 by J-Wire
AUJS [The Australasian Union of Jewish Students] is seeking an International Programs Director for its Sydney office… Read more
Australian doco featuring at L.A. Jewish Film Festival
“Death in Brooklyn”, a documentary film made by ABC-TV on the 1991 Crown Heights riots during which a Melbourne man studying in New York was stabbed to death, will feature at this week’s Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival.
New Israel Fund’s global chief to visit Australia
May 2, 2012 by J-Wire
Daniel Sokatch, chief executive officer of the New Israel Fund, will visit Sydney and Melbourne in May on a speaking tour for the Australian branch of the pro-‐Israel organisation. Read more
Danby questions Tunisians on Hamas
Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, was present in Tunisia some weeks ago. Hamas’ s activities were raised by Australian Federal Labor MP Michael Danby when he questioned the head of the new Tunisian governing party, Ennahda, Rached Ghannounchi, at a meeting in the Tunisian capitol last week. Read more
We break our rules
April 27, 2012 by J-Wire
J-Wire is committed to reporting news impacting on Australian and New Zealand Jewish communities. We break that rule today to publish the video of President Obama’s speech following an introduction from Elie Wiesel at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington…this speech impacts on world Jewry. Read more
Yom Ha’azmaut – political greetings
April 26, 2012 by J-Wire
Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello, together with Chair of the NSW Parliamentary Israeli Friendship Group Gabrielle Upton MP, are delighted to send their best wishes to the people of Israel on their 64th National Day. Read more
Druze writer next Israeli ambassador to New Zealand
April 25, 2012 by J-Wire
Naim Araidi has been appointed as the new Israeli ambassador to New Zealand…the first political posting for a member of the Druze community. Read more
Palestine in UNESCO – Ending The State Of Confusion
April 12, 2012 by J-Wire
Palestine’s continuing membership of UNESCO has become far more tenuous and now faces increased scrutiny following a decision by the Office Of The Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that Palestine is not a State…writes David Singer. Read more
Claims Conference Self-Aggrandizement
April 12, 2012 by J-Wire
The management of the Conference on Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference) is ecstatic after having successfully forced two Israeli journalists to publicly apologize and praise them…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
Apr-25 Sydney: Yom Ha’azmaut celebrations
The Zionist Council of NSW is hosting a Festival and Show to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day… Read more
Hungary commemorates Wallenberg centenary
The Capital Jewish Forum and B’nai B’rith have hosted the Hungarian Ambassador to Australia during the year in which Hungary commemorates the centenary of the birth of Raoul Wallenberg…the Swedish diplomat responsible saving countless Jews during WWII. Read more
At the Bottom, but Climbing
March 30, 2012 by J-Wire
At the beginning of the Pesach Seder, just after Kiddush, we eat “Karpas” – a small piece of vegetable dipped in salt water…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie. Read more
Apr-18 00:40am SBS1-TV: Movie – Sweet Mud
March 28, 2012 by J-Wire
Set in Israel in the mid-seventies, 12-year-old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his kibbutz and his relationship with his mentally unstable mother. Read more
Academic Pesach
March 28, 2012 by J-Wire
Eighty academics, including deans, professors and senior lecturers, from all five Sydney universities will join twenty leaders of the Jewish community next week at a unique Passover Seder for academia. Read more
Union for Progressive Judaism says yes to same sex marriage
March 27, 2012 by J-Wire
The Union for Progressive Judaism has made a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill. Read more
Apr-26 Melbourne: Yom Ha’azmaut @ Luna Park
March 23, 2012 by J-Wire
Israel Independence Day celebrations for all ages… Read more
Apr-25 Melbourne: Yom Ha’azmaut Concert
March 23, 2012 by J-Wire
Join in celebrating Israel’s Independence Day… Read more
Mar-27 Sydney: The Threat from Iran
March 22, 2012 by J-Wire
Yaakov Katz, the military correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and other prestigious publications will talk at the NCJW Council House on the threat from Iran… Read more
Mar-25 Sydney: The Threat from Iran
March 22, 2012 by J-Wire
Yaakov Katz, the military correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and other prestigious publications will talk at Masada College on the threat from Iran… Read more
Egyptian Jews book launch
March 16, 2012 by J-Wire
Dr Racheline Barda will launch her much acclaimed book on the immigration of Egyptian Jews to Australia. Read more
