Protest at Sydney University – the video

J-Wire has received video of yesterday’s violent  protest at Sydney University disrupting a lecture by celebrated British military officer Colonel Richard Kemp. Read more

After the Royal Commission…

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies has established a Task Force on Child Protection that will focus on the welfare of children in communal institutional settings. Read more

Child sexual abuse victims call for all to resign

Eleven victims of child sexual abuse at Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre have called for more resignations…even though four have this week. Read more

Live Israeli election coverage on J-Wire

J-Wire  will present Shalom Hartman Institute President Donniel Hartman and iEngage Project Fellow and prizewinning author Yossi Klein Halevi in a live Election Day webinar program from Jerusalem on March 17. Read more

Changing the world – one project at a time

A former Sydney Emanuel School student has taken on the challenge of tackling global poverty by promoting empowerment and autonomy for the women of Kenya. She will relate her remarkable story at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum next week. Read more

Rabbi Selwyn Franklin: NORA and the K-A

Rabbi Selwyn Franklin is the interim president of the New Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia and the vice-president of the NSW Kashrut Authority…a situation which The Executive Council of Australian Jewry finds questionable. Read more

Board asks for action on inflammatory video

The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has written to Stepan Kerkyasharian, the president of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board seeking action to prosecute two Sydney men appearing in an inflammatory video stating “tomorrow you Jews will see what will become of you”. Read more

Reforming orthodox rabbis’ organisation

In a joint statement, the Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia and the New Organisation of Rabbis of Australia will ensure appropriate standards are met and maintained. Read more

Kemp to talk at Sydney University

United Israel Appeal’s keynote speaker Colonel Richard Kemp will take time off the UIA campaign to take part in a discussion at the University of  Sydney. Read more

Ballarat and Courage to Care

Ballarat, home to the mainland’s oldest synagogue, will host Courage to Care’s travelling Educational Program and Exhibition later this month.  Read more

Dayenu on parade

Dayenu’s float at Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was accompanied by almost eighty participants. Read more

K-A “not in turmoil”

Baron Revelman, resident of the Kashrut Authority has responded to the resignation of two board members following the publication in J-Wire of the K-A’s response to the recommendations made by the Kashrut Commission of Inquiry. Read more

South Africa’s Chief Rabbi visits Moriah

Rabbi Warren Goldstein, the South African rabbi behind the Shabbat Project, has visited Sydney’s Moriah College. Read more

The Israeli Elections: The first vote is cast!

Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand Yosef Livne has cast the first vote in the 2015 Israeli elections due to be held on March 17. Read more

New group for JNF

JNF has recently created a new and exciting group for ‘young retirees’ called Zahav, or gold in English. Read more

Danby on Denmark…and Margolyes

Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has told the Australian Parliament about the events which led to the death of Jewish security guard Dan Uzan…and criticised actress Miriam Margolyes for her comments on ABC. Read more

Blastoff for Launchpad

Launchpad, a platform for Jewish community innovation in Australia, is launching a new program bringing together young Australian Jews for three days of intensive networking, creative thinking and Jewish entrepreneurship. Read more

Israelis abroad seek better community relations

Over 150 Israelis living abroad  have met in Herzliya  to discuss how Israelis relate to the communities in which they live and how those communities relate to the State of Israel. Read more

NORA Update

Interim President Rabbi Selwyn Franklin has issued an update on The New Organization of Rabbis of Australia (NORA).

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Passion8, the K-A and the KCI

In August 2013, Sydney caterer Passion 8 went into voluntary administration culminating ultimately, in liquidation, with unsecured debts in excess of $1,000,000, and owing the KA $73,981 Read more

Jewish day schools say Thank You

The Australian Council of Jewish Schools has expressed its thanks to the Federal Government for its assistance in upgrading security. Read more

Holocaust Film Series Giveaways

J-Wire has six double passes to give away for the Holocaust Film Series Read more

School security funding: Melbourne’s share

Federal Labor member of parliament Michael Danby has welcomed the Government’s announcement that it has provided $1,364,725 to schools in Melbourne Ports under the Schools Security Programme. Read more

Pop-up Kosher Nosh

Sydney’s newest luxury hotel, InterContinental Sydney Double Bay will transform its Stockroom into its first pop-up kosher restaurant on 11 March 2015, delivering a spectacular three-course dinner for the local Jewish community. Read more

Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre…a letter to the community

At the conclusion of Case Study 22 of The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse, the Yeshivah Centre Melbourne has learnt many painful but important lessons. Read more

New faces at the Beth Din…and a move

The Sydney Beth Din is both delighted and proud to welcome the Sephardi Synagogue’s Rabbi Michael Chriqui as Associate Dayan. Read more

Web site for the Israeli elections

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An Apple for the president

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has hosted a delegation from Apple, led by CEO Tim Cook. Read more

The Great and Melton

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On the road with NORA

The New Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia is hitting the road with interim president Sydney-based Rabbi Selwyn Franklin preparing for visits to Melbourne and Perth. Read more

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