Armed procession in UNRWA camp
January 11, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jerusalem-based Bedein Centre has written to the Head of the Australian Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority on a Fatah commemoration held in the UNRWA-funded Deheishe refugee camp. Read more
Pre-war Vilna online
January 11, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBVOCP), a historic 7-year, $7 million initiative to process, conserve and digitize YIVO’s divided pre-war library and archival collections. Read more
Gaza 21: UNHRC Commission of Inquiry – People are urged to make submissions even though the ‘dice seem loaded’
January 9, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Anne Bayefsky of Human Rights Voices has urged people to make submissions to the UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry. Read more
2021 stats of murders of women in Israel
January 9, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Israel Observatory on Femicide (IOF) has released their year-end report on femicide, the murder of women. Read more
Hamas bedfellow of Australian BDS supporters
January 9, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
All those who joined the boycott of the Sydney Festival created by its acceptance of a A$20,000 sponsorship by the Israeli embassy in Canberra have had a powerful Israeli enemy join their ranks. Read more
Secord calls on arts minister to introduce anti-BDS laws
January 9, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Shadow Arts Minister Walt Secord has called on the new NSW Arts Minister Ben Franklin to introduce American-style anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) legislation for NSW arts organisations. Read more
Decadence a hit
January 7, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Sydney Dance Company performed Israeli’s Ohad Naharin’s Decadence last night at the opening of the Sydney Festival receiving rave reviews and a fizzler of a protest. Read more
The Sydney Festival’s “important stance”
January 6, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has commented on the “very important stance of the Sydney Festival in its continued support of the dance performance Decadance and its public repudiation of demands by members of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) to divest funding received for it from the Israeli Embassy”. Read more
First temple Jerusalem elite suffered poor sanitary conditions and infectious disease
January 4, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority has exposed the remains of 2,700-year-old intestinal worm eggs below the stone toilet of a magnificent private estate. Read more
“Seniors do not need to go to crowded places” – Israel offering 4th jab to over 60s and medical workers
January 3, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel’s Health Ministry’s Director General Prof. Nachman Ash has decided to allow a fourth dose of the vaccine to be given to all adults over 60 and medical crews who received the previous dose at least four months ago. Read more
Dear Prime Minister
January 2, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The president of the Zionist Federation of Australia Jeremy Leibler has written to Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett expressing his concerns about Israel’s borders being closed to Diaspora Jewry. Read more
From the NSW police chopper: finding Eli and Hannah
December 28, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
VIDEO: The NSW police helicopter crew finding Eli and Hannah Jones, two Moriah College students who went missing yesterday on a property near Mudgee and who spent the night in a hut they built from moss and twigs. Read more
Surf Living to make its mark at Maccabiah
December 23, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
“The Israel Life Saving Federation (ILSF) will host the first-ever Surf Life Saving exhibition sports competition to be held at the 21st Maccabiah in Israel in July next year. Read more
An Aussie vice-president for B’Nai B’rith International
December 22, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s James Altman has been elected senior vice president of B’nai B’rith International by the organization’s International Board of Governors during its triennial meeting in Washington. Read more
Rabbinical Council of NSW head fronts assisted dying inquiry
December 21, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The President of the NSW Rabbinical Council Rabbi Nochum Schapiro has fronted a public hearing in the NSW parliament on the proposed bill to legalise assisted dying. Read more
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Australia asks Sydney Festival to refuse Israeli sponsorship
December 21, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Australia has called on the organisers of the Sydney Festival to boycott any support from the State of Israel. Read more
Medicinal cannabis oil found effective for treating autism
December 20, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have successfully treated autism in animal models with medical cannabis oil. Read more
A wife’s grief
December 19, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Four suspects have been detained on their involvement in the recent murder of 25-yr-old yeshiva student Yehuda Dimentman near Homesh in Samaria on Thursday night. Read more
447 antisemitic incidents reported by ECAJ
December 17, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has published its antisemitism report containing more up to date information as reported a few weeks ago. Read more
ABC and its complaints handling
December 17, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council and the Zionist Federation of Australia have sent their submissions for the Independent Review of the ABC’s editorial self-regulatory system and complaints handling. Read more
Jewish Care Victoria celebrates the leaders of tomorrow
December 17, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Two bespoke and highly sought-after programs best exemplify Jewish Care’s passion for and investment in our community of tomorrow. Read more
Moriah Foundation flying high
December 17, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
More than 110 members and guests attended the annual Moriah Foundation Members Cocktail Party at the home of Steven and Judy Lowy this week with special guest speaker, Qantas Managing Director and Group CEO Alan Joyce.
Melbourne students shine in VCE
December 17, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The results are in and in spite of the added obstacle of COVID, Melbourne’s Jewish schools have produced remarkable achievements. Read more
A prayer for Israel to be sent to space
December 17, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog has met with Eytan Stibbe, the Israeli who will fly to the International Space Station in two months’ time with the Rakia Mission. Read more
Extensive use of smartphones by parents might damage toddler’s development
December 16, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A new study from Tel Aviv University found that interaction between mothers and their toddlers is reduced by a factor of four when the mothers use their smartphones which might damage the toddler’s development and have even greater and far-reaching consequences. Read more
NSW embraces the IHRA definition of antisemitism
December 16, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies has applauded NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet for announcing today that the NSW Government will embrace the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of antisemitism. Read more
A Tree of Peace planted in Canberra
December 15, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Embassies of Israel and Morocco have celebrated one year since the resumption of diplomatic relations between Israel and Morocco by planting a ‘Tree of Peace’, a symbol of the great friendship between our two countries. Read more
Righteous Among the Nations ceremony held at St Kilda Shule
December 15, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Yad Vashem and The Embassy of Israel in Australia have honoured Rena Skowronska-Skovell and Wilhelm Alois Spisky as Righteous Among the Nations at a ceremony held at Melbourne’s St Kilda Shule. Read more
CEO wins NSW Meals on Wheels award
December 14, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s COA has won an Innovation Award from NSW Meals on Wheels for its COA Fresh initiative. Read more
Let’s NOT talk about Corona
December 14, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Imagine weekly conversations, with a broad range of fascinating speakers, attended by hundreds of people where only one topic is off-limits – the global pandemic. Read more
