Rabbi Doctor Dovid Slavin

After 20 years of candle burning including raising a family and running Our Big Kitchen in Bondi, Rabbi Dovid Slavin has been conferred with a PhD at the University of Sydney. Read more

In the month of March, 2004

In March 2004, Michael Striegold tested for the Gift of Life, an organisation he had never heard, at a community function in San Francisco. In the same month 12,000 kms across the Pacific, Michael Faust is Sydney learned that he had an aggressive form of leukaemia for which was their no cure. The only hope for survival was finding a matching stem cell donor. Streigold gave Faust the Gift of Life and is in Sydney to attend Faust’s wedding. Read more

Watching YouTube

The Online Hate Prevention Institute has launched a new initiative inviting the community members to register for access to an online system which will lodge complaints of hate content on YouTube. Read more

Pesach in Townsville

An innocent game of  frisbee has brought Jake Altholz’s parents from the USA to the north Queensland city of Townsville where they will Seder tonight with members of the tiny local Jewish community. Jake was badly injured in a car accident last month and parents Reed and Elyse were at his bedside as he fought to recover from serious injury. Read more

NZ luminary passes away

Mike Nathan, an outstanding leader of the New Zealand Jewish community has passed away at the age of 67. Read more

Julia Gillard makes a surprise appearance

The iconic Jerusalem Theatre was the venue for Keren Malki’s third Rainbow of Music annual concert. Tickets had already been completely sold out by the previous week…but for the more than 450 people in the audience, a highlight of the performance was the opening speech delivered by surprise visitor, former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard. Read more

In the eyes of the beholder

A poster in which the eye may be tricked into believing that New Zealand’s Prime Minister is a Nazi  posing in front of a flag in which the swastika has been replaced by a dollar sign is being distributed in Wellington and offered for sale on the internet. Read more

Champion Steve

Olympic 400m finalist Steve Solomon paid a visit to Australia from his current home at Stanford University California to compete in the 92nd Australian Athletic Championships in Melbourne. He returned to the States with the top prize. Read more

Meet Yariv Levin MK

Yariv Levin is a Likud Member of the Knesset belonging to the Yisrael Beitenu faction. He spoke to Betar in Sydney and Melbourne.  J-Wire spoke to him. Read more

No unions for Pharaoh to deal with

Over 100 trade unionists experienced the meaning of Pesach when they attended a mock seder at Sydney’s The Great Synagogue. Read more

New science lab for KTC

Telstra chief David Thoadey recently spoke in glowing terms of Israel’s innovative skills adding that Australia would do well to focus more on mathematic and science…yesterday Sydney’s Kesser Torah College officially opened its new state of the art science lab. Read more

Moriah gets The Voice

Steve Clisby, a finalist in the smash hit TV program The Voice, made a special appearance at Sydney’s Moriah College at an event to raise funds for the college’s own bands. Read more

Pesach: Rabbi Kastel asks the first question

TV and radio personality Jonathan Coleman kickstarted the Jewish House campaign to make Pesach within every Jewish person’s reach by donating a box of Matza at a Coles supermarket. Read more

Sharansky and Weiser in conversation

Natan Sharansky held a public conversation with Dr Ron Weiser at Sydney’s Central Synagogue…creating a unique insight into one of the most celebrated members of the world-wide Jewish community. Read more

If you build it he will come

This line from the movie “Field of Dreams” more than applies to the board of Sydney’s Hakoah Club who like the American farmer who wanted to build a baseball field also have a vision…to develop their White City property into a world-class sporting and social facility for the city’s Jewish community. Read more

Bis Hundert und fünfzig

Federal Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull told Bondi’s Burger Centre’s Seniors’ Expo that we are fast approaching the time we should wish people “bis hundert und funfzig instead of zwanzig. Read more

Right to be a bigot

The Abbott Government is committed to repealing Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. This sensitive topic was the subject of two important exchanges in parliament today…in the Senate, Attorney-General Senator George Brandis declared that “people have a right to be bigots” and in the House of Representatives Prime Minister Tony Abbott said: “Sometimes free speech will be speech which upsets people”. Read more

AUJS launch “I am an Israeli” campaign

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students has launched a campaign featuring the lives of twelve Israelis from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Read more

Netanyahu visit – a blogger’s story

News stories that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduling a trip to Australia in June or July remain unconfirmed. Read more

Jew or not a Jew?

Rabbi David Stav has visited Sydney from Israel where he raised awareness of the plight of Israelis who are recent immigrants and have no documentation to prove their Jewishness. Read more

Anti-Semitic graffiti an “isolated incident”

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide has told The Executive Council of Australian Jewry that graffiti displayed on the university’s campus last week appears to be an isolated incident. Read more

A bed at last

In Sydney’s Sun-Herald they slept on the concourse of the city’s Central Station. Today, in J-Wire they have a clean bed, fresh food and new clothes, courtesy of Jewish House. Read more

From generation to generation. From culture to culture

The Anne Frank exhibition opened today at the Sydney Jewish Museum…and  its first visitors were members of a family from North Queensland. Read more

Love of wildlife hereditary

A TV series based on the experiences of vet Liza Schneider will be launched in New Zealand this weekend. Read more

Rabbi Glick: His solicitor speaks

Bill Doogue  is Rabbi Avrohom Glick’s solicitor. He talks to J-Wire following the announcement that Victoria Police are not proceeding with their investigation on allegations made against Rabbi Glick of sexual abuse on a student at Melbourne Yeshiva without foundation. Read more

Telstra chief names Israel as epicentre of world innovation

David Thodey, the CEO of telco giant Telstra told an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney that Israel is “the epicentre of world innovation”. Read more

This land is mine

Sydney’s Moriah College has finalised its settlement with the Government of NSW for the land which the school has occupied since 1988 and has functioned as a Jewish dayschool since 1994. Read more

Israel float at Auckland’s Mardi Gras

Members of the Israeli Embassy staff in Wellington have participated in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Auckland. Read more

Donateforlife: Save a life – save the entire world

Ahead of an official ruling by the Beth Din on organ donation, there is already consensus across all branches of Judaism that to save a life “is the greatest Mitzvah of all”. Read more

War-injured Israelis value diaspora connection

Two Israelis who suffered permanent injuries whilst on active duty in the IDF have visited Sydney to meet supported of ZDVO which raises funds for Beit Halochem…the rehabilitation unit set up  to maximise life for Israel’s wounded. A video interview. Read more

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