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

TV duo receive two Logies nominations

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At sea with the COA

Sydney’s COA has taken to the water for a Senior’s Week Cruise on Sydney Harbour. Read more

Preparing for ANZAC

Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Victor Dominello has met with representatives of the NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Service Men and Women at the Great Synagogue in Sydney. Read more

Malcolm Fraser: Community messages

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council have issued statements following the death of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Read more

Sydney theatre rejects Jewish production

A Sydney theatre has refused to rent its premises to a Jewish group on the grounds that their policy “does not support colonialism/Zionism”. Read more

The Malcolm Fraser I knew

Isi Leibler knew the late Malcolm Fraser well. He tells J-Wire about Australia’s 22nd Prime Minister…a man whose passionate support for Israel was to take a reverse turn… Read more

Hakoah: Differences resolved

The incumbent board of Sydney’s Hakoah Club will hold its AGM on Tuesday free of any threat to its immediate future. Read more

Upton honours community workers

NSW State member for Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton has honoured four recipients in the local area who have made outstanding contributions to their local community or to services for seniors as part of 2015 NSW Seniors Week Celebrations. Read more

America honours Perth care home

Perth’s Maurice Zeffert Home has been presented with an Award of Excellence in the USA. Read more

Award for Cremorne

Sydney’s Cremorne Synagogue has been awarded the prestigious Supportive Employer Award for 2015 for support to Rabbi Yossi Friedman,  NSW RAAF chaplain. Read more

Danby walks out of parliament

During yesterday’s  Question Time, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s  slur linking Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to Nazi Dr Goebbels, prompted Federal Labor MP Michael Danby  to walk out of Parliament. Read more

Hakoah AGM: Three positions up for election

A move to change the number of positions available for election on Sydney’s Hakoah Club board at next week’s AGM has failed in the Supreme Court. Read more

NSW Maccabi follows Lowy and backs Hakoah board

NSW Maccabi has emailed its members asking them to back the incumbent Hakoah Club board at the upcoming AGM…following the stance taken by the Lowy family. Read more

Jones addresses AIPAC

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Shir Madness heading for Melbourne

The Jewish Music Festival Shir Madness has become a diary date for Sydneysiders since 2010. In 2015, it will also take place in Melbourne. Read more

JCA not involved “in any way”

JCA  president Stephen Chipkin has written to J-Wire to dispel rumours that the community organisation is involved in “the current dispute” with the board of the Hakoah Club. Read more

Sydney University Disruption: B’nai B’rith has its say

The president of B’nai B’rith NSW has written to Sydney University in the wake of the protest which disrupted a lecture being delivered by Colonel Richard Kemp. Read more

Hakoah in court

The Supreme Court in Sydney will hear  an application tomorrow which, if successful, could increase the number of available positions on the Hakoah board from three to eight…ahead of next Tuesday’s planned AGM. Read more

J-Wire under-privileged

J-wire recently published a statement from the NSW Kashrut Authority in which a barrister opined that the the K-A’s response to the Kashrut Commission of Inquiry contained no failure of governance…so we asked for the barrister’s findings. Read more

Rabbi Franklin not standing for NORA presidency

In the wake of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Sydney’s Rabbi Selwyn Franklin became interim president of NORA, the New Organisation of the Rabbis of Australasia…a post he will not contend at NORA’s inaugural conference. Read more

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