New Zealand finally has an ambassador to Israel

A diplomatic dispute came to its end in Jerusalem yesterday when Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin accepted the credentials of New Zealand’s ambassador Jonathan Curr. Read more

Lowys support the Sydney Symphony

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has announced that long-term SSO concert-goers, Frank and Shirley Lowy are the inaugural private supporters of the position of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director. Read more

Unity Day and Unity Prize

On the first anniversary of the tragic abduction and murder of three Israeli teens last summer, Jewish individuals and communities around the world will participate in Unity Day next month in Jerusalem Read more

New Rabbi for Cremorne

Rabbi Chaim Koncepolski has been appointed the new spiritual leader of Sydney’s Cremorne Synagogue. Read more

Israel’s consul to NZ to lay a wreath on ANZAC Day

An ANZAC Civil Service will be held at the Auckland Domain on ANZAC Day. The service includes the laying of wreaths by diplomatic representatives. Read more

NZ ready to “reinvigorate the Middle East peace process”

New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key has addressed a Peace Summit in Istanbul declaring that New Zealand, a member of the UN Security Council “stands ready” to “reinvigorate the Middle East Peace Process. Read more

The Shtick’s Henry Greener talks with Major General Jeffrey Rosenfeld

Major General Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld AM, OBE, KStJ is a highly acclaimed neurosurgeon, senior military surgeon and is internationally recognised for his neurotrauma research and teaching. He talks with Henry Greener ahead of ANZAC Day. Read more

Henry Greener talks to Erez Feinberg

Erez Feinberg is passionate about all things Israeli. He talks to The Shtick’s Henry Greener about the “I Am Israeli” Seminar, Yom Hazikaron and the Transition from sorrow to joy as Yom Ha’atzmaut is celebrated to mark 67 years of Independence. Read more

Centenary of the ANZAC

NSW will participate in the  Centenary of The Anzac Jewish Program with a special commemorative service to be held at Sydney’s The Great Synagogue on Sunday 3 May. Read more

The occupation under a microscope

Students and academics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney will hold a symposium to examine “Law, Rights and Resistance in Occupied Palestine”. Read more

Video Interview: Arnold Zable Part Two…in conversation with the Shtick’s Henry Greener

Melbourne author Arnold Zable tells us more about his shtick, being involved with Yiddish Theatre at Kadimah, post-war Jewish refugees, working with asylum seekers, his travels in Cambodia for Pen International and policy issues relating to off shore processing. Read more

A Yom Hashoah message in music from Miriam Waks

To mark the beginning of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and it is with great pride that I share with you two previously unreleased pieces with which to mark the occasion. Read more

ANZAC exhibition

To mark the Centenary of ANZAC commemorations, the Sydney Jewish Museum will display a collection of photographs and diary extracts belonging to serviceman and NAJEX founding member, Harold Emanuel Collins. Read more

Yom Hashoah at Yad Vashem

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin spoke at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Yom Hashoah. Read more

Stand Up CEO selected for international leadership program

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A question for Julie

Federal Labor MP has a question he wants Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to ask when she visits Tehran next week on the country’s documented threat to eliminate Israel. Read more

Sydney filmmaker makes an ABC-TV Foreign Correspondent program on Palestinian footballers

I may as well have a Star of David tattooed onto my forehead…writes  Dan Goldberg. Read more

Deputy Walt

State Labor MP and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair, Mr Walt Secord has been elected Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the NSW Legislative Council (Upper House) in the NSW Parliament. Read more

Change of plans

The Australasian Union Of Jewish Students (AUJS) has announced a reengineering of its popular Aviv Israel program. Read more

Concern for asylum seekers

The Union for Progressive Judaism has expressed concern that key focus of the enquiry into Immigration Detention Facilities is on the provision of protection to the personnel running detention centres rather than addressing the key issues required in a policy relating to the asylum seekers and refugees themselves. Read more

The Buchenwald Ball released on line

To commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, the makers of The Buchenwald Ball is being re-released on demand with all proceeds from downloads going towards a new documentary about Holocaust survivor…set in Melbourne’s Holocaust Museum. Read more

A Holocaust Pesach diary

Yad Vashem has published excerpts from a Melbourne woman’s diary chronicling her time in the Gabersdorf Labor Camp in the hope they can learn more about the women incarcerated there. Read more

Asylum seekers in Israel

The Australian Reform Zionist Association has written a letter of complaint to Shmuel Ben-Shmuel, Israel’s ambassador to Australia protesting the treatment os asylum seekers in Israel. Read more

Iraq: did we leave too soon?

Major General Jim Molan spent 40 years in the Australian army and will deal with deal with this question at this month’s NSW Board of Deputies plenum. Read more

Nazi memorabilia on sale in Canberra

A Canberra auction house has come under fire for offering for sale Nazi memorabilia. Read more

New Yorker article compares Jews to dogs

The B’nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has today expressed strong reservations about an essay in The New Yorker magazine by actor and comedienne Lena Dunham in which she compares her Jewish boyfriend to a dog and employs offensive and insulting stereotypes about Jews and money. Read more

Special helping hands

Josh Ferenbach and Ruthie Ben-Danan from Access Inc, recently worked in the Australian Friends of the Hebrew University-Vic office assisting with a bulk mail-out. Read more

Dear Malcolm, Dear Mark

Mark Leibler was the president of the Zionist Council of Victoria in 1983 when Malcolm Fraser lost the prime ministership to Bob Hawke… Read more

Watch your rhetoric

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has stated its position on the use of rhetoric invoking the Nazi Party. Read more

JNF Victoria has shared presidency

Michael Carp will become Co-President of JNF Victoria together with Simone Szalmuk-Singer, the current Victorian President. Read more

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