Krispy Kosher Menorah

Every Chanukah, Rabbi Mendel Kastel dreams up a new menorah…and this year he will light a Menorah made from doughnuts. Read more

Guess who’s not coming to dinner

A planned Shabbat dinner for twenty ended with unexpected guests for Rabbi Pinchas Feldman and his family…members of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs Fire Brigades. Read more

Lamm at the Helm

Dr Danny Lamm is the new president of the The Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Read more

Back in Business

David Dinte, the new  NSW President of the Friends of the Tel Aviv University plans to raise the organisation’s profile within the community. Read more

A hundred years in the Hill

The centenary of the establishment of a syngaogue in Broken Hill will be celebrated at the end of November. Read more

Find your rabbi

Chances are you have a Chabad Rabbi if you belong to an orthodox congregation. 4,000 of them posed for a group shot outside the Chabad HQ in New York this week. Can you spot yours?… Read more

Glad to be home

A letter arrived in the mail yesterday for Liz Pozniak….a ticket voucher from Qantas and an apology for her nervous time on board QF6  , the second of their aircraft to have had an engine burst into flames within a week. Read more

Everything Old is New Again

The iconic “21” restaurant in Sydney’s Double Bay is back in the hands of the Schiffer family. Read more

Claims Conference fraud – local Survivors secure

17 people have been charged in New York following an FBI investigation into a fraud which has resulted in $42.5 million being paid by the Claims Conference as a result of falsified claims …Sydney-based Claims Conference board member Robert Goot tells Australian survivors dependent on the CC that their pension funds are secure. Read more

Without Prejudice

B’nai B’rith in Sydney has re-published a book designed to counter racism and discrimination to be distributed to more than 5000 schools in NSW. Read more

Meet Matt Levett – guest of the Federal Police

Matt Levett visited Australia last year as a guest of the Australian/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council…he renewed his acquaintance ship with AIJAC this week on a visit to Australia at the behest of the Australian Federal Police. Read more

Military men, a philosopher and the Morality of War

Four military ethicists discussed the morality of war at the NSW Jewish National Fund’s major campaign function. Read more

Kristallnacht remembered in Sydney

Kristallnacht will be remembered tomorrow night in Sydney at a commemoration to be addressed by Dr Piotr Cywinski, the Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Read more

Guess who’s coming to MAIGS…

Sydneysiders…and father and daughter, Peter and Jacqui Lowy will play in basketball events at next month’s Maccabi Australia International Games…but they will not be sporting the green and gold. Read more

Melbourne Cup – Delta 1951

The 1951 Melbourne Cup was won by Delta…owned by Sydney optician, jeweller and philanthropist Sir Adolph Basser. Read more

Waiting for Wallenberg

Stephen Andrews is an 89-year-old resident at Sydney’s Randwick Montefiore Home. In WWII in Budapest, he was given the job to cook for the ill-fated Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who saves thousands of Jewish lives. J-wire presents a video interview with Stephen Andrews… Read more

The Israel scene you have never seen

The Jewish National Fund will run a mission to Israel next year focused on the country’s natural heritage and wild life programs. Read more

Christian award for Jewish filmmaker

Gary Caganoff has been awarded a Human Rights Award by the World Association for Christian Communication and the World Catholic Association of Communications for his breath-taking documentary ‘The Garden at the End of the World’. Read more

Changing the face of Sydney

Westfield have opened their 119th shopping centre in Sydney today, heralding a change in shopping for the city’s consumers…and a new headquarters for the company, the largest retail property company world-wide. Read more

JewishCare Capital Appeal – Just in Time

With one week to go for Sydney’s JewishCare Capital Appeal, the project for which half of the funds is targeted is about to get underway. Read more

Palestine Media Watch visits Sydney

Itamar Marcus, the director of the Jerusalem-based Palestine Media Watch, spoke to media in Sydney yesterday. J-Wire filmed his one hour presentation. Read more

Israeli tourist killed in Darwin

A 58-yr-old Israeli woman has been killed in a horror head-on car accident in the Northern Territory. Read more

Lest We Forget? Unlikely!

The new permanent exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum depicting Jewish involvement in the Australian military was opened last night by former Defence Force chief General Peter Cosgrove. Read more

Two Dans nominated for Sports Journalism Awards

Dan Goldberg and Danny Weidler have been nominated for the Australian Sports Commission 2010 Media Awards. Read more

Something to Sing About

Leo Sayer, Glen Shorrock and Ilan Kidron toured Sydney’s The Jewish House today…to learn a little about the cause they will be supporting at the care facility’s Gala Dinner. Read more

Wallenberg to Wallenberg

Melbourne’s B’nai B’rith Raoul Wallenberg Unit recently issued stamps commemorating the memory of the war hero selling them around the world…including to a collector in Raoul Wallenberg St, Haifa. Read more

Mission Accomplished

Osaka-based U.S. photographer Jono David’s plans to photograph Australian synagogues and Jewish cemeteries were thwarted in 2009…but in 2010 he has added the Australian images to his world-wide collection. Read more

New military exhibition at the Jewish Museum

The Sydney Jewish Museum will launch a new permanent exhibition later this month highlighting Jewish involvement in the Australian Defence Forces. Read more

Coming back for more

AJDS crosses a red line

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has disassociated itself from its constituent member  the Australian Jewish Democratic Society on the issue of boycotting Israeli goods. Read more

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