Middle East motion to be moved by Danby and Plibersek

Labor Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby and Opposition Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Tanya Plibersek will move a motion in Parliament on Monday questioning the Australian Government’s strategy and response to the crisis in Syria and Iraq. Read more

A brother delivers a eulogy

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Speakout4Israel

In response to the recent wave of terror attacks across Israel, the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has launched a proactive campaign, Speak Out For Israel, to facilitate education, participation and advocacy amongst Jewish students and the wider community. Read more

New measures to combat terrorism announced in Israel

Israel’s cabinet has approved new measures to deal with the current wave of terrorism. Read more

Peres gathers religious leaders to call for a stop to the violence

Israel’s former President Shimon Peres has held an emergency conference with representatives and leaders from the various religious communities across Israel to issue a joint call to stop the bloodshed and to prevent further and unnecessary grief. Read more

Jews for refugees

Over 35 members of Sydney’s Jewish community have participated in a rally marching with Muslims and other Middle Eastern groups in a call to help refugees. Read more

JCCV opposed to Feiglin’s views

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria finds views of former MK Moshe Feiglin are “inconsistent with the values and the policies” of the JCCV. Read more

Organise a minyan on line

WhatsApp and Facebook groups have been launched in Sydney to find those willing to make up a minyan at funerals. Read more

ADC distressed about escalating violence

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has expressed its profound distress and alarm about  the escalating wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks sweeping Israel that has resulted in the wounding of more than a dozen of Israeli civilians and soldiers. Read more

Jones visits Paramatta mosque

AIJAC’s Jeremy Jones has laid flowers at the Parramatta site at which police employee Curtis Cheng was gunned down last week. Read more

150 years of Jewish life in Queensland

This year, Queensland Jewry community celebrates its 150th year and the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies (QJBD), is organising a series of activities to mark this special occasion. Read more

Our Israel experience

Members of the Australian parliament who recently participated in a Rambam study visit to Israel, have spoken of their experiences. Read more

Jerusalem mayor cancels JNF visit

Due to recent tragic events  in Jerusalem, the city’s mayor Nir Barkat has been forced to cancel his visit to Australia next week during which he was to address JNF’s gala functions in Melbourne and Sydney. Read more

Germany, refugees and the Holocaust

The Deputy Leader of the NSW Opposition Walt Secord has visited Germany and witnessed first-hand the refugee processing…saying that Germany cannot be callous because of the Holocaust. Read more

Aussie soccer star playing in Israel

Australian international striker Nikita Rukavytsya  has signed and is now playing with the Beitar Jerusalem Soccer Club. Read more

Racial vilification on the NSWJBD plenum agenda

NSW Attorney General Gabrielle Upton MP will discuss ’Racial vilification’ and the options for legislative reform when she addresses this month’s NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum.  Read more

New leadership for AUJS

Michael Fisher, a commerce/law student at Melbourne’s Monash University, and the AUJS National Treasurer in 2015, has been elected as National Chairperson for 2016. Read more

ECAJ appalled by Sydney shooting

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has expressed its dismay at yesterday’s fatal shooting of a police employee in a killing described by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as an act of terrorism. Read more

Abbas denounced

B’nai Brith International and Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) have  denounced Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ disavowal of signed peace agreements with Israel in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. Read more

A survivor’s story told in art

Thea Weiss will exhibit works of art in Wellington, New Zealand next month telling the stories of her mother-in-law Lotte’s two lives…one in Auschwitz and the other in New Zealand and Australia. Read more

Nazi insignia on sale in Victoria

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has condemned the sale of new Nazi armbands, emblazoned with the Nazi swastika, at a family market in the Victorian town of Ballarat. Read more

Borowick responds to Bishop

The Australia-Israel Labor Dialogue co-founder and Union leader Michael Borowick has responded to Julie Bishop’s attack on Michael Danby and the ALP’s support for Israel. Read more

Rosie Batty to speak at Jewish House gala dinner

2015 Australian of the Year Rosie Batty will be the guest speaker at this year’s Jewish Gala Dinner in Sydney. Read more

Greg Fisher interviewed by Rachael Kohn

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. Greg Fisher was caught in that trap, when as a young teenager he was aware that he was more drawn to other boys than to girls…Fisher discusses his life on ABC Radio this evening. Read more

Taking Australia “down a dangerous path”

The Federal Labor Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby says that Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s shift towards Iran  suggests that Australia would support Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, who has killed 200,000 of his own people, remaining in place in some kid of Iranian–Russian settlement in Syria.”

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Famous medical clown to tour Down Under

Israel’s news making medical clown David ‘DuSH’ Barashi will visit Australia next month. Read more

Charity dinner – home delivery

In November, the communal dinner as we know it will change forever. Read more

Adass Israel: police considering criminal offences

Victoria police are considering the possibility of criminal offences having taken place when board members of a Jewish school allegedly expedited the departure of the headmaster to Israel ahead of allegations  of child sexual abuse. Read more

Labor says “no” to al-Assad turnaround

Labor leader Bill Shorten has said that “Labor has no time for the administration or the government of Assad” following a report that the Turnbull government will abandon its position that the Syrian leader should stand aside. Read more

In Yiddish it Sounds Better

Australian comedy legend Austen Tayshus will headline a celebration of Yiddish schtick, comedy and cabaret at Elsternwick’s Kadimah centre next month. Read more

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