UN Security Council Resolution 2334 will undermine peace prospects

Last week’s United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSC) 2334 was shameful and totally counterproductive…says the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. Read more

Chanukah message from Bill Shorten

Opposition leader Bill Shorten sends a Chanukah message. Read more

JNF Emergency Appeal

An urgent appeal has been launched by the JNF to raise funds to cover the cost of fighting widespread fires which are enveloping areas across Israel. Read more

Together for Humanity

Rachael Kohn’s ABC Radio National features a segment this weekend on Together for Humanity with the participation of students from Sydney’s Emanuel School. Read more

Hanegbi reaches Melbourne

In light of the cancellation of the community event that was scheduled for tonight in Melbourne with Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, the community is invited to join Betar and Friends of Likud who are hosting Minister Hanegbi on Thursday 24 November. Read more

NZ earthquakes

Three Israeli tourists were trapped in Kaikoura. Read more

Ten ethnic communities release a statement on 18C

Ten leaders of ethnic communities throughout Australia have released a joint statement in the wake of the Federal government’s announcement of a “Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Speech” in the context of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more

Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Office: ECAJ

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has issued a statement following the Federal government’s announcement of a Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Speech to look at two issues of freedom of speech in the context of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more

ECAJ and state roof bodies unite in support of 18C

 

Plenary meetings of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and the Jewish Community Council of Victoria during the last week have unanimously passed identical resolutions in support of retaining the existing sections of the Racial Discrimination Act which prohibit the public promotion of racial hatred.  Read more

New Exhibition To Be Internationally Debuted in Brisbane

The New Zealand creators of the Shadows of Shoah Exhibition have designed a new Holocaust exhibition to be launched in Australia next week. Read more

More than 200 French Jewish have arrived in Israel on one Aliyah flight

More than 200 French Jews arrived in Israel aboard a special Aliyah (immigration) flight organised by The Jewish Agency for Israel in partnership with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption and Keren Hayesod-UIA. Read more

Montefiore’s Continuum of Care

Sydney’s Montefiore Home is one of Australia’s leading aged care provider with a proud history spanning more than 120 years, and a commitment to provide exceptional levels of care. Read more

President Rivlin hosts Iftar meal

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has hosted a traditional Iftar meal marking the breaking of the day’s Ramadan fast. Read more

WJC sceptical about policing of online hate

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has welcomed the signing by leading internet service providers Google/YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft of a European Union code of conduct aimed at fighting the proliferation of hate speech on the internet, but voiced scepticism about the commitment of these firms to effectively police their respective platforms.  Read more

Mike Baird sends Yom Ha’azmaut greetings

A message to the NSW Jewish community from Premier Mike Baird on Yom Ha’azmaut. Read more

Remembering Malki

On Yom HaZikaron, Arnold and Frimet Roth, who left Melbourne to make Aliyah in 1988, remember their daughter Malki who died in a terrorist attack on a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001. Read more

Sky News and ethnic cleansing

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has expressed its strong disappointment with Sky News for accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. In a recent news item  dealing with a U.N report on house demolitions in the West Bank, the item carried the headline ‘Ethnic Cleansing’. Read more

Yom Hashoah to feature March of the Living doc

Award-winning producer Anthony Salamon and award-winning director Adam Dostalek will bring their socially significant short film, Never Forget: A March of the Living Story to the public this Yom Hashoah. Read more

B’nai B’rith salutes ANZACs

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has saluted the Australians and New Zealanders who lost their lives fighting for their countries. Read more

Let my people go

A hi-tech haggadah from Israel’s The Technion. A video presentation. Read more

McCully says two state solution “moving beyond reach”

 

New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully has addressed the U.N. Security Council saying that trust between Israel and the Palestinians has been eroded.
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Waiting to be heard

The New South Wales Minister for Multiculturalism John Ajaka is seeking applications for a Youth Member for the Multicultural NSW Advisory Board. Read more

Yeshivah/Beth Rivkah colleges receive children program accreditation

Yeshivah – Beth Rivkah Colleges, Melbourne, is delighted to announce that its Colleges have recently attained an Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF) Safeguarding Children Program (SCP) Accreditation. Read more

Murray apologises

Federal Liberal MP Josh Frydenberg has welcomed an apology issued by former Commonwealth Bank head David Murray for remarks he made when comparing corporate watchdog ASIC’s actions with those of Adolf Hitler. Read more

Brussels: The World Jewish Congress and the ECAJ

“We are shocked and we are sad, but we are determined to fight this scourge until it is defeated,” World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said in reaction to Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in the Belgian capital Brussels. Read more

Israel in Fiji

Six Israelis flew to Fiji to offer help in rebuilding areas in the island grip following last month;s Tropical Cyclone Winston which claimed 43 lives. Read more

Mesirah not applicable in Australia

Sydney’s Beth Din has stated that the practice of banning Jews from informing on a fellow Jew is not applicable in matters relating to criminal law in Western democracies. Read more

More duties for Walt

NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair and NSW Deputy Opposition leader in the NSW Legislative Council Mr Walt Secord has added the Shadow Minister for the Arts to his duties – in a re-shuffle of the NSW Labor Shadow Cabinet at NSW Parliament this week. Read more

Palwatch terminated by YouTube

YouTube has “terminated” Israel’s Palestinian Media Watch‘s account for violating their “terms of service,” which includes hate speech following its release of a video on Thursday in which a Palestinian girl read a poem on official PA TV calling for “war that will smash the oppressor and destroy the Zionist’s soul,”  Read more

UIA Sydney General Division East: A J-Wire photo gallery

Did you attend the UIA function last Monday in Sydney? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more

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