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

Australia will condemn Iranian threats to Israel

Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the Iran Deal will depend on Iran fulfilling its commitments and that she will condemn any threat to Israel. Read more

Iran deal: Israel’s leaders share the same view and Netanyahu has his say

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition chairman Isaac Herzog are united in their opposition to the Iran deal. Read more

Iran: World Jewish Congress leader skeptical

World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder voiced strong skepticism about today’s agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in Vienna aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Read more

ECAJ slams Labor MP’s signing petition against Israel

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has slammed Labor MP Melissa Parke for signing an anti-Israel petition. Read more

Australian military expert to address NSWJBD plenum

Retired Australian Major-General Jim Molan, a member of a multi-national group of former military experts which defended the actions of the Israel Defence Force in its war against Hamas last year, will address the NSWJBD plenum later this month.  Read more

Michael Danby on Q&A

Michael Danby has welcomed the ABC Board finally acting by issuing a warning to Q&A executive producer Peter McEvoy, and thereby indirectly presenter to Tony Jones, over giving Sydney Islamist Zaky Mallah a platform on the ABC’s million rating Q&A program. Read more

Yeshivah Centre under review

Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre has announced the formation of a Governance Review Panel and an interim Committee of Management. Read more

Establishing Jewish identity in the Ukraine

Last weekend an office for Jewish ancestry clarification purposes was inaugurated in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk. Read more

New NSW program for up and coming politicians

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies  has announced its new Berger Fellowship program designed to strengthen ties between the Jewish community and future political leaders. Read more

The new fence

Israel’s Security Cabinet has adopted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to begin work on an approximately 30-kilometer long section of security fence along the State of Israel’s eastern border, from Eilat to the site designated for the Timna airport. Read more

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