First Base at First Base

Federal Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull cut through the red tape straddling the entrance to Sydney’s Jewish House’s latest venture…First Base, a 14-roomed Bondi building which will offer temporary housing for the homeless. Read more

Kiwis counter-demonstrate

A rally calling for a boycott outside the Wellington theatre housing a performance of the Batsheva Dance Group will be countered by a peaceful demonstration by supporters of Israel including members of the Israeli embassy staff. Read more

Green Sunday produces a forest

The Jewish National Fund’s Green Sunday campaign has produced enough trees to create a forest…37,000 and still counting. Read more

“Prime Minister of the Jewish People”

 

Sydney’s Central Synagogue set the scene for a special Shloshim service for the late Ariel Sharon…a former Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Read more

$3 million for health-related programs

Dr David Golovsky, President of Wolper Jewish Hospital has announced the establishment of the Wolper Jewish Hospital Health Foundation, seeded with an initial  $3,000,000 cash injection. Read more

Cappuccino with Yiddishkeit please!

A Kosher cafe has opened in Bondi Junction…serving top of the crop coffee, mouthwatering cakes and lessons in Judaism, frumkeit and life. Read more

Melbourne here we come…but where do we stay?

The Orbaum triplets from Jerusalem are heading to Melbourne…and looking for somewhere to stay. Read more

The one who got away

Twice a year Australia honours those who have given of themselves for the betterment of the country…and usually the Jewish media misses one or two. Meet Dawn Lawrie who we missed this time…and Dawn hails from Darwin! Read more

Abbott to meet Netanyahu

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will hold a working meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week in Davos Switzerland. Read more

An eye for a pretty girl keeps Dmitri off his feet

48-yr-old Dmitri Moskovich still has an eye for a pretty girl…but a topless sunbaked topping up her tan at the base of the rocks on which he was rope-climbing made him take his eye off the job and sent him crashing 7 mtrs to the rocks below breaking both his legs. Read more

Zim sails into the sunset

After 55 years of servicing  shipping business to and from Australia, Israel’s iconic shipping line ZIM will quit its business this market next month. Read more

A Happy New Year

J-Wire wishes all its readers a very prosperous and healthy 2014. Read more

Abu Dhabi Chess tournament – Official Statement

The Israeli team which participated in the 2013 World Youth Championships in the United Arab Emirates has returned home without winning a medal…avoiding an issue on how one would have been presented to an anonymous team not playing under the Israeli flag or country name. Read more

Lawrence of Kinloss

One of Australia’s most senior rabbis is expected to become the spiritual leader of London’s Kinloss Synagogue whose former religious head was Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis who is now the   Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Read more

Shalom Mate

South Australian Labor senator Don Farrell has visited Jerusalem during his summer holiday, presenting a very special greeting to old friend and former ambassador to Australia Yuval Rotem. Read more

Happy 90th Lotte

On of Sydney’s great characters Lotte Weiss has celebrated her 90th birthday at Sydney’s Montefiore Home in Randwick… Read more

Gonski to chair ANZ

The ANZ Bank has announced that David Gonski will become its next chairman in May 2014. Read more

Sir David Smith back at Old Parliament House

In 1975, Sir David Smith stood on the steps of what is now the Old Parliament House and read out the proclamation of the dissolution of the Whitlam Government…he has returned to the building which houses the Museum of Australian Democracy as a member of its Advisory Council. Read more

Bennett charms Sydney

Israel’s Minister for the Economy Naftali Bennett has charmed a luncheon meeting attended by high profile members of Sydney’s business community. Read more

Rabbinical conference in Sydney

More than 60 rabbis from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement across Australia have met in Sydney to discuss new initiatives…for the first time in 12 years. Read more

Sydney’s Montefiore Home….as you were…almost

A group of four respected members of the community who nominated for the Board of the Sir Moses Montefiore Home, have failed in their bid…but the president has stated that matters of concern to the group will be discussed in the coming year. Read more

Chanukah wrap

A report of Chanukah activities around the region… Read more

Jewish House Gala Dinner

Over 350 guests sang Ma’oz Tzur as Jewish House CEO Rabbi Mendel Kastel lit the Menorah at the care organisation’s gala dinner. Read more

Israeli stamp magazines on offer

A J-Wire reader wants to donate a valuable set of Israeli philately magazines to an organisation which could use them for fund-raising or to an appreciative collector… Read more

A Doctor in the Kitchen

Our Big Kitchen’s CEO Rabbi Dovid Slavin has attained a PHD from Sydney University for a twenty year study of Jewish yeshiva life in Poland between the two World Wars of the 20th century – “Successful Innovation to Preserve Tradition”. Read more

A Parliamentary Chanukah

Chanukah got off to an early start when Rabbi Pinchus Feldman lit all eight candles at a special ceremony in the NSW Parliament. Read more

Racial Discrimination Act: A word from the Attorney-General

J-Wire asked Federal Attorney-General George Brandis what criteria were being engaged in consulting ethnic communities and leaders about intended changes to the Racial Discrimination Act. He has responded. Read more

Sweet help for the Philippines

News of help from Jewish resources to those who survived the horrific typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines ranges from a baby  born in a rapidly constructed IDF field hospital being named Israel to a visit of Sydney’s Kesser Torah students to a Kosher chocolate shop owned by a Catholic Chinese Philippino who who loves his chocolate…and Chabad. Read more

Anatomy of a neo-Nazi

J-Wire talks with Robert Orell, a 33-yr-old Stockholm-based advocate who deals with the problems of supremacists…a subject he knows well as in his youth he himself was a neo-Nazi. Read more

Visa Woes and Goes

Entering Australia has become a simpler process for Israelis thanks to immigration changes made by the new Federal government…but in New Zealand some Israeli “tourists” are being refused entry into the country. Read more

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