Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv

J-Wire is coming to you from Israel. On Yom Kippur this city shuts down completely. No Israeli TV, no travel in or out on any airline and no traffic on the roads…much to the delight of Tel Aviv citizens who take to the Ayalon expressways on their bicycles…. Read more

Central hosts a police memorial service

Sydney’s The Central Synagogue will host a service to honour members of the NSW Police Force who lost their lives or sustained serious injury in the line of duty. Read more

More on Dubai

Travellers whose passports bear an Israeli stamp will be permitted to enter Dubai according to a Qantas response to a letter of concern written to them by The Executive Council of Australian Jewry…but Israelis appeared to be restricted to transiting only. Read more

Righteous among the Nations

Frits and Jo Hakkens lie side by side in a cemetery not far from their home in Wellington…but a long way from their native Amsterdam and a long way from Sao Paolo, the home of the woman who was saved by the Hakkens spending her infant years as one of their family. Read more

Central Synagogue welcomes Olympians

Olympians Steve Solomon and Silver Medal winner Jessica Fox visited Sydney’s Central Synagogue for Friday night Shabbat prayers…and were guests of honour at a dinner following the service. Read more

Election time in Sydney

Sydney voters will elect new municipal councils this weekend. J-Wire spoke to some new faces on the scene… Read more

Wallenberg’s birthday celebration and two Wallenberg stories

Israel’s ambassador to Australia Yuval Rotem has met two men  one whose life was saved by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg…and held in his hands the original document signed by Wallenberg which saved Ervin Forrester’s life…and the other whose father was Wallenberg’s right-hand man. Read more

NSW stalwarts honoured

Sydney community stalwarts Ian and Josie Lacey have been made Honorary Life Members of the Ethnic Community Council of NSW. Read more

Rambam 10 years old

The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council’s Rambam Israel Fellowship Project has celebrated its 10th anniversary. Read more

A Prayer for our fallen Australians

Synagogues throughout Australia will recite a prayer especially penned to honour the five members of the Australian army who lost their lives in Afghanistan this week. Read more

BDS causes fear in Brisbane

A Brisbane shopkeeper is fearful for the future after BDS protesters stopped trade in her shoe store for 90 minutes and threatened to return. Read more

Olympic Shabbat

Olympians Steven Solomon and Silver Medal winner Jessica Fox will visit Central Synagogue on September 7. Read more

Making Aliyah – at 96!

Lily Hyde is making Aliyah to Israel….at the age of 96. Read more

New Zealand’s Moriah to close

Moriah School in Wellington will close its doors at the end of the year…but its Kindergarten will remain open. Read more

As long as it takes

The hunt for those responsible for the 1982 bombings of the Israeli Consulate and the Hakoah Club on December 23, 1982 will continue for “as long as it takes”. Read more

Hawker views the Holocaust exhibition

Michael Hawker the Macquarie banker who told a group of businessmen in Sydney last week that Adolf Hitler had commendable leadership qualities has visited the Holocaust section of Sydney’s Jewish Museum. Read more

Macquarie banker apologises for Hitler reference

The Macquarie Bank director who used Hitler as an example as a leader has apologised for doing so… Read more

Michael Misrachi face to face

Michael Misrachi is the director of the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival. He talks on camera to J-Wire about what visitors can expect… Read more

Judging the Olympics

Larry Cornofsky did not win Gold at the 2012 London Olympics…but he was one of the judges at the Gold Medal Hockey match between the Netherlands and Germany. Read more

Zentai’s family pursues his innocence

Ernie Steiner said his family was over the moon knowing that his 90-yr-old father Charles Zentai would not be extradited to Hungary to face questioning over the brutal murder of a Jewish youth in 1944…but he is continuing his search for evidence to prove his father’s innocence. Read more

Zentai a Free Man

90-yr-old Charles Zentai will not leave the comfort of his Perth home to face questioning in Hungary about the 1944 murder of 18-yr-old Peter Balazs in Budapest…and Federal MP Michael Danby has slammed the decision of the High Court freeing Zentai. Read more

NSW Liberal Friends of Israel

The  NSW Liberal Friends of Israel group was launched at NSW Parliament House in Sydney this week. Read more

Triple Dose of David

Australian business luminary David Gonski has participated in three communal functions in less than 24 hours…a Magen David Adom lunch, a cocktail party for the Moriah Foundation and breakfast with the JNF. Read more

New Zealand Jewish Community hails Gold Medal Sailor Jo

Jo Aleh and her sailing partner Olivia Polly Powrie have won gold in the women’s 470 Olympic event. Read more

Moriah Makes a difference

The pupils of Kleinskool Primrary School near the  South African city of Port Elizabeth have experienced an unusually warm, comfortable winter…thanks to the Sydney Moriah College uniforms they  proudly wear to school each day. Read more

The boy in the picture

The image of a boy with his hands in the air in the Warsaw Ghetto with a German pointing a gun at him is the most iconic image of the Holocaust. An Israeli academic has researched the photo and published his results in a book. Read more

Keeping the Language alive

Two groups of musicians are working on separate campaigns to keep the colorful language of Yiddish alive…through music. Read more

A Silver for Jess Fox

Jess Fox, daughter of  Olympian kayakers Richard Fox and Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, has won the Silver medal in the K1 canoe slalom at the 2012 London Olympics. Read more

Righting a Wrong

Yesterday J-Wire reported that prestigious UK publications The Guardian and The Telegraph together with the web-based TimesofIsrael had published a story based on a Reuters report that the International Olympic Committee had ceded to a Lebanese request not to train in view of the Israeli Judo team…the reports are not true. Read more

Adding the French Touch

It was standing room only at popular Sydney music venue Camelot when Dahlia Dior presented her personal tribute to French singing legend Edith Piaf. Read more

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