Israel’s Chief Scientist to visit Australia

Israel’s Chief Scientist Avi Hasson will visit Australia for a week of events and meetings designed to deepen and strengthen bilateral economic, technological and scientific ties. Read more

New Australian partnerships for The Technion

The Technion in Haifa has signed Memoranda of Understanding with Macquarie University in Sydney and the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth as part of its ongoing program to become a global university. Read more

World’s Jewish leaders send condolences to France

Top Jewish community professionals from 40 countries world-wide have met in Lisbon  for a two-day conference organized by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and sent a combined message of condolence to the France’s Prime Minister. Read more

OBK at work for France

Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen has issued an open invitation to join help bake and prepare care packets for staff at France’s diplomatic offices in Australia. Read more

Masorti France

Claude Machline, founder of Massorti France and Masorti Europe has issued a statement following  the massacre in the Bataclan Theatre following the murder of one of their congregant’s granddaughter. Read more

Red Crescent abandons terrorist victims

Prime Minister Netanyahu has instructed Israel’s Foreign Ministry to file a sharp protest with the International Committee of the Red Cross responsible for the Red Crescent requesting explanations for the abandonment of Jewish injured following a terrorist attack in Oltniel which claimed two lives. Read more

The Rabbi and the Prince

Rabbi Ben Elton and his wife Hinda met Prince Charles at a garden party in Sydney and answered questions from His Royal Highness about Sydney’s Jewish community. Read more

Holocaust theme in winning dance performance

Rosebud is a small town on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula…a local school has won a dance competition with a performance using the Holocaust as its theme. Watch it here… Read more

Racial discrimination law under the microscope

Former president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies David Knoll has spoken at a conference convened by the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) and the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW (ECC NSW) on  “40 Years of the Racial Discrimination Act. Are We Still Protected?”. Read more

ADC remembers Rabin

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has marked the 20^th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with profound sadness, remembering his  extraordinary  service and dedication to the state of Israel and to the Jewish people. Read more

Inside a Jerusalem hospital during the stabbing attacks

During the recent wave of terror attacks, a news crew joined Dr. Ofer Merin, Deputy Director General and Director of Trauma Services at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital, and the staff of its Trauma Unit for 96 hours. Read more

Remembering their experiences and understanding the lessons: Kristallnacht 2015

The remarkable true story of the enduring friendship between two men will form the centrepiece of the keynote address at a Holocaust ceremony in Sydney on Sunday evening. Read more

ZFA meets with the FM

Zionist Federation of Australia President Dr Danny Lamm, Vice President Sam Tatarka and Public Affairs Director Ted Lapkin have met with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Melbourne. Read more

A new burial ground consecrated

A Jewish section has been consecrated at the Moss Vale Cemetery in the Southern Highlands 130 kms south of Sydney offering the community the option lower plot costs. Read more

An award for Jill

Author and authoritative medical writer, Jill Margo has been honoured by the National Press Club in its Health Journalist of the Year Awards for her article about former Premier of NSW Nick Greiner. Read more

Danby welcomes FM’s Iranian consulate position

Labor Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby has welcomed Foreign Minister’s Julie Bishop’s comments about Iranian consulates in Sydney and Melbourne as a step in the right direction, but has called on her to rule out approving such consulates. Read more

Australia’s new Chief Scientist

Dr Alan Finkel has been appointed Australia’s next Chief Scientist. Read more

ECAJ meets with Julie Bishop

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s President Robert Goot, and Executive Director, Peter Wertheim, have met with Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop. Read more

Meeting Bill Shorten

Representatives of the Jewish community including its national and state leadership, have met with opposition leader Bill Shorten and his parliamentary colleagues Mark Dreyfus and Michael Danby, to discuss the ALP’s approach to Israel and other issues of concern to the community. Read more

JNF NSW Gala dinner – photo gallery

Did you attend the JNF NSW gala dinner?  A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more

NZ dismayed about lack of progress in peace talks

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully has expressed dismay about the “lack of progress on relations between Israel and Palestine” in an address to the United Nations Security Council. Read more

ABC follows up Code of Silence

Breaking the Silence, a one hour COMPASS special, follows the journey of Australian Jew Manny Waks who was, until recently, the only survivor of child sexual abuse within Melbourne’s Jewish community to speak publicly…Waks meets with an abuser and confronts one who abused him. Read more

Conversion needed for Israeli citizenship to start in the Ukraine

A new project has been launched in Kiev to assist Olim eligible by the Law of return to begin their conversion process right in their country of origin, in light of the increase in the number of Olim from the Ukraine. Read more

NZ government urged to stop “pressuring Israel”

11,685 people have joined Pastor Nigel Woodley in urging the New Zealand Government to cease from pressuring the State of Israel to give up its rightful and God-given Land. Read more

NSW intent on tightening up racial vilification legislation

NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has told the The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies plenum “we cannot allow race hate speech to divide our community”. Read more

Maccabi 90 years on

Maccabi Australia’s  90th Anniversary continues to be marked by many outstanding sporting and social events. Read more

Danby calls the government an “unwitting facilitator” in aiding and abetting Iran

Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby has spoken to a parliamentary motion moved by Opposition Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Tanya Plibersek. Read more

Parliament told of Palestinian call to kill Jews

Liberal Member for Deakin Michael Sukkar has delivered a speech in parliament on a sermon delivered by a Palestinian cleric calling on terrorists to form “groups of three or four” to stab Jews to death.  Read more

Australia seeks membership of the UN Human Rights Council

Australia has launched its candidacy for membership for the first time of the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2018-20 term. Read more

A man in Vogue

David Leser wrote an article for German Vogue in 2009 about his father Bernard, founder of Australian Vogue who passed away in Sydney this week at the age of 90.. Read more

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