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

Congratulations, Bibi

The B’nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) and B’nai Brith ANZ have extended their congratulations to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his electoral victory. Read more

Hakoah: A letter from Frank Lowy

Frank Lowy, former president of Hakoah and currently the club’s patron and one of its Life Governors,  has sent a letter to the club’s members…in favour of the incumbent Board. Read more

EU Task Force to deal with antisemitism

The B’nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has welcomed the call by Federica Mogherini, Vice President of the European Commission and High Representative of the E.U. for Foreign Affairs, for the establishment of a European Union task force on antisemitism. Read more

Hakoah: She said…he said..he said

The future of Sydney’s Hakoah Club is the focus of intense campaigns by both the incumbent board and a group focused on a different plan for the development of the sporting organisation’s White City site.  David Singer responds to Andrew Boyarsky and Victor Grynberg joins the debate. Read more

Hakoah soccer field – Maccabi Juniors “neutral”

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Independent barrister says K-A is in the clear

A statement released by the NSW Kashrut Authority claims that barrister Ian Neil SC had examined the K-A’s response to the Kashrut Commission of Inquiry and had found that it contained no failure of governance. Read more

Sydney University and Jake Lynch: Have your say

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students has launched a petition calling for the dismissal of Associate Professor Jake Lynch following the violent disruption of a lecture being delivered by Colonel Richard Kemp last Wednesday. Read more

Sydney University: Violent protest under investigation

lThe University of Sydney has started an investigation into Wednesday’s violent protest at a meeting being addressed by former UK military commander Colonel Richard Kemp. Read more

Ambassadors visit president

Israel’s ambassadors to Australia and New Zealand have joined their counterparts in other Asian/Pacific countries at a meeting with Israeli president Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem. Read more

Yet another hate video

Another video made by anti-Jewish group Hizb Ut-Tahrir has been published on the organisation’s website. Read more

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