A Menorah in Martin Place

A Sydney rabbi has placed a Menorah among the wreaths laid in Martin Place today. Read more

I shall return

The time has come for Deputy Chief of Mission Teddy Poplinger to leave the Israeli embassy in Wellington and return home to Israel…but he told J-Wire: “I will return”. Read more

My Shabbat with Sugihara

Sydney’s Central Synagogue’s Rabbi Levi Wolff’s grandfather was one of 6,000 Jews who owed their lives to Chiune Sugihara…last Shabbos Rabbi Wolff hosted the heroic Japanese’s great-grandson in the synagogue.

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Monte – as you were, well almost

An attempt to replace the president, vice-president and treasure of Sydney’s Montefiore Home  has failed and David Freeman, Gary Inberg and Tom Mautner have retained their positions. Read more

An emotional meeting with an icon’s great-grandson

Descendants of Jews who escaped Nazi Europe through the heroic actions of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, have met his great-grandson in Sydney. Read more

Walkley Winners

Dan Goldberg and Danny Ben-Moshe have won a Walkley for their documentary on child sexual abuse at Melbourne’s Yeshivah, Mark Solomons for an ABC story in Jihadists…and The Australian’s John Lyons and Fairfax Media’s Ruth Pollard have each won a Walkley for reports on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Read more

Exciting trade mission

The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce has organised a trade mission to Israel under the leadership of Simon McKeon, Chairman of AMP, CSIRO and consultant with the Macquarie Group. Read more

The Full Monte

Sydney’s aged care Montefiore Home’s Hunter’s Hill will be filled to capacity on Sunday as concerned members of the community await the fate of incumbent president David Freeman. Read more

The Great greets a new president

Justice Stephen Rothman has taken over the presidency of Sydney’s The Great Synagogue….the city’s oldest and a jewel in it Jewish historical crown. Read more

Times of change – JCA

Sydney’s JCA has a new president as Peter Philippsohn ends a four year term and passes the baton to Stephen Chipkin. Read more

Jerusalem Synagogue attack: Australia/NZ speak

Australian Jewish community identities have spoken out against the horrific massacre at the Har Nof synagogue in West Jerusalem…and a statement from Prime Minister Tony Abbott

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In memory of Mervyn Smith

World and Australian leaders have praised the work and life of Mervyn Smith, the late president of the African Jewish Council, an organisation he founded and lead for more than twenty years. Read more

ECAJ AGM: Carr gets a mention

President of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Robert Goot made reference to Foreign Minister Bob Carr  in Julia Gillard’s former Labor Australian government. Read more

An honour for Norman

The president of the Jewish Community Council of South Australia has been appointed a director of The National Australia Day Council. Read more

Labor’s emergency plans for Victorian schools

The Victorian State Labor party will provide $600,000 to help schools develop and implement their Emergency Management Plans to be prepared for incidents resulting from racial or religious intolerance. Read more

Kristallnacht commemorated

The President of the Australian Human Rights Commission was the guest speaker at Sydney’s 2014 Kristallnacht commemoration. Read more

Antisemitism in Australia – The Vital Statistics

The 2014 report on antisemitism in Australia clearly shows a shift from the extremes to the mainstream community fuelled by social media and the failure of popular media to address incidents with urgency thereby giving credence to virulently antisemitic postings left unmoderated on major websites. Read more

Israeli Arab actress appointed to APSA jury

Israeli Arab actress Hiam Abbass has been appointed to the judging jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards to be announced in Brisbane next month. Read more

MOTL doco set for world distribution

Sydney filmmaker Adam Dostalek participated in the 2014 March of the Living…and documented the event to encourage others to experience the historically significant event. Read more

JIFF – Up and Rolling

The Jewish International Film Festival has opened its 2014 event in Sydney marking 25 years of bringing Jewish movies to screens in Australia and New Zealand. Read more

A medal and a torch

Perth’s David Urban has scored a gold medal at the tenth Special Olympics Australian National Games held recently in Melbourne. Read more

Prime Minister’s Science award to two Melbournians

Laureate Professor Sam Berkovic and Professor Ingrid Scheffer have been awarded the Prize Minister’s for Science for revealing the genetics of epilepsy. Read more

Found!

Michelle Levy has been found. Read more

Gough remembered again

Jana Vytrhlik was the curator of the Precious Legacy exhibition at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum in 1998 when it was visited by the late Gough Whitlam…. Read more

Michelle – still missing

As dawn breaks on a Sydney Monday morning, there is still no news of the whereabouts of missing Sydney 11-yr-old Michelle Levy. Read more

Volunteers urgently needed to find Michelle

Over 500 members of the Sydney Jewish community have been mobilised in the search to find missing 11-yr-old Michelle Levy. Read more

2,500 uplifted at the Sydney Challah Bake

More than 2,500 women baked their Shabbat challahs to launch Sydney’s Shabbat Project bringing together Jews across the entire religious spectrum and reconnecting many who had been unaffiliated. Read more

The Shabbat Project Unveiled

J-Wire, in conjunction with The Shtick presents two videos telling the story of this weekend’s Shabbat Project which will be embraced this year in over 350 cities throughout the world. Read more

Gough Whitlam 1916-2014

Gough Whitlam, Labor Prime Minister of Australia between 1972 and 1975 and Leader of the Opposition between 1967 and 1977 has died at the age of 98. Read more

Sukkot in Wollongong

There are only around 50 Jews living in the Wollongong area 90 kms south of Sydney…and 30 of them turned up to celebrate Sukkot in what is believed to be the only Sukkah in the region. Read more

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