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

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

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