Maccabiah torch to make the rounds
May 4, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Haredi world population around 2.1 million out of global Jewish population of 15 million – report
May 4, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The high growth rate among Haredi Jews has pushed the Haredi population past 2 million and accounts for as much as 80% of the total growth of the world’s Jewish population. Read more
University of Melbourne: antisemitic motion is not the position of the university
May 4, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The University of Melbourne has reacted to the anti-Zionist motion passed by the Students Council last week which also called for an academic boycott. Read more
Melbourne University Student Union resolution: The community stands as one
May 4, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Zionism Victoria has written to both the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne on theresolution passed by the University of Melbourne Student Union(UMSU) on Friday titled “UMSU stands with Palestine – BDS and Solidarity Policy”. Read more
More to say on the Melbourne University Students Union motion
May 2, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria condemns the antisemitic motion passed by the University of Melbourne Student Union which describes Israel as a “colonialist” and “racist”. Read more
Leaders condemn the Council of the University of Melbourne Student Union
May 1, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Jewish organisations have slammed the Council of the University of Melbourne Student Union for voting for a motion that was strongly anti-Israel and pro-BDS as reported on J-Wire on Friday. Read more
A new light . . . . A Green light
May 1, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
While antisemitism and racism appear to be on the rise there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel. In this case it is a green light. Read more
University of Melbourne’s Students’ Union passes motion supporting Palestine and BDS
April 29, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has strongly condemned the motion which was passed 10-6. Read more
‘Memory that makes us grow’: Israel remembers the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust
April 28, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The State of Israel marked the beginning of Yom HaShoah, its national Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, on Wednesday night with an official ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in memory of six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Read more
Yom HaShoah in Sydney
April 28, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In Sydney, almost 2000 members of the NSW Jewish community watched the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ Yom Hashoah commemoration, both in-person and online. Read more
Glen Eira Council adopts the IHRA definistion of antisemitism
April 27, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Following a scare that prompted creating a petition, the Glen Eira Council passed the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism on Tuesday evening with a 6-1 vote in favour. Read more
Wendy Sharpe: Site Unseen
April 26, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
World Jewish popluation still below 1939 figures
April 26, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The number of Jews worldwide is 1.4m less than it was in 1939. Read more
Holocaust memories at the president’s home
April 26, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog have hosted a special Remembrance in the Living Room event at the President’s Residence. Read more
ANZAC Day in Jerusalem
April 25, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple addressed the ANZAC dawn service a the Australian War Cemetery at Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. Read more
Glen Eira Council to vote an IHRA definition
April 24, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
On Tuesday, Melbourne’s Glen Eira Council is to vote on adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Read more
Police report: Rioting within the Al-Aqsa Mosque
April 21, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
At the end of the Fajr prayer on the Temple Mount this morning (Thursday), dozens of lawbreakers and masked men rioted and disturbed the peace with severe violence, as they have done in recent days. Read more
Ukrainian refugees to participate in the March of the Living to Auschwitz
April 21, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
After a two-year hiatus due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the March of the Living will return this year, in-person, on a limited basis with 2,500 participants from 25 countries including the UK, UAE, Israel, USA, Austria, Germany. Read more
Melbourne’s The Jewish Holocaust Centre gets a new name
April 20, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Only months before reopening following a three-year major redevelopment, the Jewish Holocaust Centre announces a transition to the name Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) accompanied by a logo and refined look from late April 2022. Read more
“I’d like to walk where they walked”
April 20, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Holocaust survivor and sculptor Andrew Steiner had been providing education about the Holocaust to students for the past 40 years. Read more
A seder in Odessa
April 20, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
While tens of thousands of Jews have fled Ukraine since the start of the war, the majority of Jews still remain.
Most elderly Jews are too frail to leave and do not want to be split up from their family or leave the only home they know. For some, the journey out of the country is simply too terrifying a prospect or it is simply too dangerous to venture out.
A seder for Scott
April 18, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended the Shabbat/Passover service 0n Friday night at the Ark Centre in Melbourne’s Hawthorn East. Read more
Victorian Daniel Andrews send a Pesach message
April 15, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
It gives me great pleasure to wish the Victorian Jewish community good health, happiness and peace during Passover this year. Read more
A Seder with the Herzogs
April 14, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog will host a traditional Seder night at the President’s Residence for the first time. Read more
UIA world leaders visit Poland and Ukraine
April 14, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Steven Lowy, Chairman, World Board of Trustees and Sam Grudwerg World Chairman headed a two-day mission to Poland and Ukraine. Here is their report: Read more
From Israel with love: six 4×4 ambulances
April 14, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Magen David Adom has donated six all-terrain (4×4) ambulances to the people of Ukraine. Read more
Students unite with brothers and sisters from Ukraine
April 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
UIA recently collaborated with Jewish Primary Schools in Sydney to connect students to their Jewish brothers and sisters in Ukraine who have suddenly found themselves as refugees. Read more
Ukraine update from the JDC The Joint
April 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A member of JDC The Joint’s staff filed this latest report from the Former Soviet Union yesterday. Read more
Prime Minister Scott Morrison sends his Passover message
April 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
As the sun sets at Passover, Jewish families in Australia and around the globe will come together to find strength in faith, family, fellowship and community. Read more
Ukranian orphans celebrate their bar mitzvahs at the Kotel
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Just weeks after being forced to flee their homes in the town of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, a group of 13-year-old boys participated in an emotional Bar Mitzvah celebration at the Western Wall on Monday. The boys and their classmates, all of whom lived in an orphanage in the town near Kyiv, were part of an annual Bar Mitzvah ceremony for orphan boys made possible by the Colel Chabad social services organization in Israel. Read more
