Yad Vashem: Online exhibition

Ushering in the beginning of the Jewish New Year, Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem has launched a special online exhibition. Read more

ECAJ welcomes refugee intake

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has welcomed the announcement today by the Australian government that Australia will resettle an additional 12,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Read more

A message from Josh Frydenberg

Federal Member for Kooyong and Australia’s Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg sends a Rosh Hashanah message to the Jewish community. Read more

Hakoah’s DA lodged

Sydney’s Hakoah Club has lodged a Development Application with Woollahra Council for the redevelopment of its White City site. Read more

Jewish help for Syrian refugees

In light of tragic events involving a swelling population of migrants and refugees in Europe and the Middle East, the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief (JCDR) has acted to expand the scope and mandate of its Jewish Coalition for Syrian Refugees in Jordan to include refugees and migrants in Europe and the Middle East. Read more

A Rosh Hashanah message from Luke Foley

The Leader of the Opposition in NSW sends a Rosh Hashanah message to J-Wire readers… Read more

Naomi Milgrom appointed Venice Biennale Commissioner

Rupert Myer, Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, has announced the appointment of Naomi Milgrom  as Commissioner for the Australian representation at the 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2017. Read more

A Rosh Hashanah message from the Prime Minister

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott sends a Rosh Hashanah message to Australia’s Jewish community. Read more

Abbott statement could have been more appropriately worded

The Zionist Federation of Australia and AIJAC have added their voices to the reaction of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s statement that the Nazis had a sense of shame when comparing them to ISIS. Read more

ZFA dismayed by Queensland Labor

The Zionist Federation of Australia is profoundly dismayed by the ill-conceived and ill-advised resolution on the Middle East adopted by Queensland Labor. Read more

The ECAJ call Rabbi Telsner’s resignation “belated”

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has called for zero tolerance in cases of child sexual abuse. Read more

New leadership for the New Israel Fund

New Israel Fund (NIF) Australia has today announced its new leadership team. Read more

JCCV welcomes Rabbi Telsner’s resignation

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has welcomed Rabbi Zvi Telsner’s announcement that he has stated down from his position as Rabbi at Melbourne’s Yeshiva Centre. Read more

Anti-Semitism in the Middle East

The fate of minority communities across the Middle East remains desperately uncertain…a topic to be addressed at the NSWJBD monthly plenum by expert Samuel Tadros. Read more

The ZFA annual plenary in photos

Were you at the ZFA annual plenary in Sydney? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more

Rabbi Telsner resigns

Rabbi Zvi Telsner has stood down as rabbi at Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre in the wake of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Read more

Queensland Labor calling for recognition of Palestine

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has responded to a resolution by the Queensland Labor Party that a future Labor Government should immediately recognise a Palestinian state. Read more

Sydney Jewish Writers Festival…a photo gallery

Did you visit the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival?….a photo gallery from David Sokol. Read more

The Jerusalem Biennale

Visitors to Israel from the end of this month through to early November should consider including the Jerusalem Biennale in their travel plans. Read more

AUSiMED raising funds funds for breast cancer research

AUSiMED will host a charity art auction in Melbourne next week combined with a cocktail party, entertainment and unique food…with funds raised being directed to breast cancer research. Read more

Community Kashrut: A word from the Kashrut Authority

The Kashrut Authority has responded to requests clarifying its position with regard to the recently announced Community Kashrut which will offer an alternative hechsher to the community from next month. Read more

Natalie Portman questions Holocaust emphasis in Jewish education

B’nai Brith International and The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) are disappointed by Israeli-born actress Natalie Portman’s questioning of Holocaust education’s emphasis within a Jewish education, especially in comparison to other genocides.   Read more

Learning to lead

An Australian and a New Zealander are among 50 young social innovators currently in Israel to explore the country through the lens of social innovation. Read more

New hechsher for Sydney

Sydney will have a new hechsher in operation shortly following the arrival next week of its certifying rabbi. Read more

Australian award for Israeli academic

Sydney’s Macquarie University has awarded its Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Visiting Fellowship 2015 to Professor Irad Malkin, Chair of Mediterranean History and Culture at Tel Aviv University. Read more

Shabbat in St Ives

Over 140 leaders from the full spectrum of society, including federal and state Members of Parliament and civic,education, faith and community leaders, coming together at a Shabbat service and dinner in Sydney last week. Read more

Moriah Foundation establishes endowment fund

Federal Liberal member for Kooyong Josh Frydenberg was the guest of honour at the annual Moriah Foundation Members’ Cocktail Party in Sydney. Read more

Norwegian Film Festival bans Israeli documentary

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has denounced the decision  by the directors of the Oslo Human Rights, Human Wrongs festival to ban the film  The Other Dreamers, by Israeli director Roy Zafrani which deals with the subject of disabled children in Israel. Read more

A Rosh Hashanah message

Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick, the president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria has sent a message for Rosh Hashanah. Read more

Preaching for the conversion hopefuls

Efraim Halevy has responded to the attacks and the controversy over the “Alternative Rabbinic Courts for conversion ” which the Harry O Triguboff Institute has  been promoting in Israel. Read more

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