Auckland students caught worshipping a swastika

A page on Facebook featuring Auckland Grammar School pupils kneeling in homage in front of a swastika has been reported to Radio New Zealand. Read more

Didgeridoo festival…in Israel!

More than 1000 enthusiasts attended the 6th annual Didgeridoo Festival… close to Tel Aviv. Read more

More from the Masters

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Premier challah and a recipe for peace

NSW Premier NSW Nathan Rees prepared challah at the Sydney Yeshiva Centre and listened to a Palestinian Muslim’s recipe for peace. Read more

Hey! Hey! It’s Issi!

Veteran Jewish entertainer Issi Dye has defied the backlash against the black-faced physicians in the Hey Hey It’s Saturday show by performing his business as usual Al Jolson show at the weekend… Read more

Spate of antisemitic posters in Sydney

Antisemitic stickers have been plastered on signposts and poles in three Sydney suburbs this week. Read more

NZ ‘Nazi’ students pay the piper

The 15 students involved in a “Nazi” party at Christchurch’s Lincoln University have been ordered to travel to Wellington at their own expense to visit the city’s Holocaust museum…and have been fined NZ$200. Read more

Foreign Minister Smith visits the Warsaw Ghetto

Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, has visited the Warsaw Ghetto. Read more

JNF Australia shocked at palm tree destruction

In what appears to be a pre-Succoth hunt for palm leaves, dozens of palm trees have been destroyed in Israel. Read more

Football Australia says “no snub”…but watch this space

FIFA’s plans to display the soccer World Cup trophy on its world-wide journey to South Africa next year do not include Australia…for the moment. Read more

School Holocaust project re-unites liberated with liberators

Sydneysider Lexie Keston came face to face with her past through a Holocaust project set by a schoolteacher in the tiny town of Hudson Falls in New York State. Read more

Sydney woman runner up in AFL Football Women of the Year Award

She brought a combined Israeli-Palestinian team to compete in the 2008 AFL International Cup…and this week Tanya Oziel was named   runner-up in the 2009 AFL Football Women of the Year Awards. Read more

But wait…there’s more

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has sent Channel 9 further evidence of perceived flawed reporting in the 60 Minutes program on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Read more

Israeli jockey riding winners in Perth

Talia Maor fell in love with horses on the kibbutz on which she was born…and has travelled a long road to become a city jockey riding in Perth. Read more

ECAJ invites “60 Minutes” reporter to lunch

Following numerous complaints about Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” program on the Israeli-Palestinan conflict, the ECAJ has invited the segment’s reporter to a Q & A lunch. Read more

Hakoah: No premises…but renew your membership!

Phil Filler, president of Sydney’s Hakoah Club has told club members to renew their membership…despite there being no physical club premises. Read more

Dame Edna returns to Broadway

Dame Edna Everage. Australia’s most famous and partly Jewish housewife, returns to Broadway in March next year. Read more

Special Rosh Hashana prayers – for the Western Bulldogs

As his beloved Western Bulldogs prepare to take the field at the Melbourne Cricket Ground  Friday night’s AFL preliminary final, president David Smorgon will be davenning in Caulfield Shule…and saying a few prayers that do not appear in any machzor. Read more

Delayed Maccabiah medal ceremony

Ros Fischl has finally received her bronze medal won at the 18th Maccabiah in Israel in July. Read more

A Night at the Polish Embassy

Celebrated author Diane Armstrong was recently guest of honour at function at the Polish Embassy in Canberra marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of WWII. Read more

New U.S. Ambassador to Australia is Jewish

Jeff Bleich has been appointed the new U.S. Ambassador to Australia. Read more

Historian to speak on Maitland Jewish Cemetery

Dr Janis Wilton, a historian at the Univewrsity of New England, will lecture on Maitland’s Jewish history on September 25. Read more

Government says Fischer did not meet the Lockerbie bomber

Newspaper reports that former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer met the Lockerbie bomber on a recent visit to Libya are untrue according to the Federal Government.
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Holden worker credited for design of VW Beetle

Josef Ganz, who died in poverty in Melbourne in 1967, is now being credited with the design of the VW Beetle. Read more

Sandilands suspended

Kyle Sandilands has been suspended by Sydney radio station 2Day-FM for comments he made on air trivialising the Holocaust. Read more

Shock Jock turns on Holocaust survivors – invited to tour Holocaust exhibition

Sydney radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands has suggested that actress Magda Szubanski would lose weight  if she were to be put into a concentration camp. Hear the broadcast on J-Wire. Read more

Zeddy Lawrence tipped to be new AJN editor

Informed sources have told J-Wire that Zeddy Lawrence, editor of the London Jewish News, is tipped to take over the role at the helm of the Australian Jewish News. Read more

Racist attack in West Footscray

Houses, cars and shops were daubed with racist slogans in the Melbourne suburb of West Footscray early yesterday morning. Read more

Tribute to Yiddish teacher

The Sydney Jewish community will honor the memory of one of its best known teachers…Aliza Siderowitz. Read more

“Come Home” pleads South African leader

South African president Jacob Zuma has urged skilled ex-patriates to return home. Read more

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