The Shabbat Project 2015

A video introduction the The Shabbat Project 2015. Read more

New rabbi welcomed at Mizrachi

Sydney’s The Bondi Mizrachi Synagogue has welcomed its new Rabbi, Rav Shua Solomon and his wife Michal.  Read more

Linking the unaffiliated

Israel’s Ministry of the Diaspora has invited public input for a special advisory committee which will submit recommendations on how to develop relations with large groups around the world with ties to the Jewish community. Read more

Magen David Adom to establish an Australian unit

Magen David Adom plans on establishing an Australian unit of MDA-trained doctors who care about Israel and want to be able to contribute their skills and expertise to the literally life-saving work of MDA. Read more

Doctor tells Channel 9 “no overweight people in concentration camps”

A doctor who told Channel 9’s “Today” host Karl Stefanovic that “there were no overweight people in the concentration camps” when talking about obesity has been strongly criticised by community leaders. Read more

B’nai B’rith International and ADC call for rejection of the Iran deal

The B’nai Brith International and The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) have concluded that the Iran nuclear agreement is unlikely to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and are urging the U.S Congress to reject the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and to vote to disapprove of the agreement.  Read more

Five terror organisations re-listed

The Australian Federal Government has re-listed Al-Shabaab, Hamas’ Izz al-Din al Qassam Brigades, Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as ‘terrorist organisations’ under the country’s Criminal Code. Read more

Paul Sheehan for NSWJBD AGM

Columnist and senior Sydney Morning Herald writer Paul Sheehan will be the keynote speaker at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ 2015 Annual General Meeting next Tuesday evening. Read more

Israeli badminton player cleared to enter Indonesia

Israeli badminton player has been Misha Zilberman cleared to enter Indonesia  to participate in the World Badminton Championships in Jakarta following reports that the Indonesian authorities were unwilling to grant him a visa. Read more

Amnesty official under fire

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has denounced a series of anti-Israel twitter posts by Kristyan Benedict,  campaigns manager for Amnesty UK, in which he accuses the Israeli government of “getting away with murder every day” and “facilitating the murder” of Ali Saad Dawabsheh.   Read more

New rabbi for Bondi Mizrachi

The members of Sydney’s Bondi Mizrachi synagogue have welcomed their new young Rabbi and Rebbetzen Rabbi Shua and Michal Solomon. Read more

Discovering Jesus the Jew

ABC’s Geraldine Doogue has gone on a personal quest to understand more about the Jewish roots of her Christian faith. Read more

Ancient symbols found in Jerusalem

An extraordinary find that has fired archaeologists’ imagination was discovered about two months ago in the Arnona quarter during a routine archaeological inspection by the Israel Antiquities Authority of the construction of a nursery school being built at the initiative of the Jerusalem municipality has revealed ancient finds. Read more

Mayor of Jerusalem keynote speaker for JNF

JNF Australia has announced that Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem will be the keynote speaker at this year’s JNF Annual Dinners. Read more

New Children’s Gallery for Museum Victoria

Museum Victoria has announced a $1 million partnership with one of Australia’s largest private family foundations, Gandel Philanthropy, to develop its innovative new Children’s Gallery representing the single largest gift from an individual in Museum Victoria’s history. Read more

Maccabi JCC Games Dallas

Dallas – August 2015 and 300 local competitors have joined 1000 international visitors to take to track, field and pool to compete in the JCC Maccabi Games.  Read more

Providing for Holocaust survivors

The Claims Conference has come under fire recently for frauds some critics have reported as approaching $100 million. Read more

Immigration to Israel from France up 11% on last year

Over 200 French Jews, half of whom are children, arrived in Israel last night aboard a special Aliyah flight organized by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption. Read more

ALP resolution: a not so happy ZFA

Dr Danny Lamm, president of the Zionist Federation of Australia has called the ALP resolution on the Middle East at its national conference “a laundry list of complaints against Israel”. Read more

ALP Resolution: Statement from Labor MPS

Federal Labor politicians Mark Dreyfus and Michael Danby have welcomed the outcome of today’s Middle East resolution at the ALP conference. Read more

ALP resolution analysed

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has analysed the resolution passed at the ALP conference in Melbourne dealing with the Israel-Palestine conflict. Read more

ALP resolution: AIJAC has its say

The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council’s chairman Mark Leibler and executive director Dr Colin Rubenstein have  issued a statement on the ALP Middle East resolution. Read more

New Zealand: The UN Security Council and the Middle East

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully has addressed the United Nations  Security Council’s open debate on the Middle East. Read more

Australia’s stand at ECOSOC welcomed

The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council has welcomed the principled stand Australia took in opposing the viciously anti-Israel resolution at the recent UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) annual session. Read more

SJWF: full program released

Ground breaking Israeli television director and writer of Prisoners of War and Homeland, Gideon Raff, New York Times foreign affairs editor Roger Cohen and German-Nigerian author Jennifer Teege, whose grandfather was a brutal Nazi commandant, are three of the headline speakers at the upcoming Sydney Jewish Writers Festival (SJWF) this August 29-30. Read more

Tweeting antisemitism

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC)  has commended Twitter for creating a new ‘safety centre’ that will assist users in reporting antisemitic tweets. Read more

Efraim Zuroff on the NZ role at UN

Dr Efraim Zuroff, the Israel director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, speaks on New Zealand’s role on the United Nations Security Council…a J-Wire video interview. Read more

New Zealand chairs UN meeting endorsing Iran deal

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully chaired the meeting of the United Nations Security Council which endorsed last week’s historic nuclear deal between Iran, the Five Permanent (P5) members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany. Read more

ADC says “No” to statue of Nazi sympathiser

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC)  has urged the Hungarian government to halt its plans to erect a life-size statue honouring Bálint Homan, a well-known antisemitic minister and Nazi supporter. Read more

Danby concerned about Iran deal

Federal Labor Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby said on Wednesday that he remains concerned about the details emerging from the P5+1–Iran nuclear deal. Read more

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