The ECAJ Zoom session with Anthony Albanese
July 15, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The full recording of the meeting between ECAJ and the Leader of the Opposition. Read more
Discussing COVID
July 15, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce facilitated a zoom meeting of two leaders in the fight against COVID, Australia’s Professor Paul Kelly and Israel’s Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis, the head of public health services in the Health Ministry. Read more
Albanese pledges support and denounces “apartheid” and BDS
July 14, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has denounced the use of the apartheid analogy to demonise Israel during a zoom meeting organised by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Read more
Jerusalem wall built in the Stone Age exposed
July 14, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Archaeological excavations in the City of David National Park have uncovered the remains of the city wall, built during the Iron Age – the days of the First Temple in the Kingdom of Judah, to protect Jerusalem from the east. Read more
Grant to improve governance in COSV synagogues
July 14, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Victoria has secured a Besen Family Foundation grant to boost the governance skills of member synagogues. Read more
Labor leader in talks with the ZFA
July 12, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Zionist Federation of Australia held a constructive discussion with federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese yesterday. Read more
Walt Secord’s fiancee sends vaccination message to Russian-speakers
July 11, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
At the beginning of the current COVID lock-down, NSW Shadow Minister for Police and Counter-Terrorism Walt Secord enlisted his Moscow-born fiancée, Julia Levitina to record a message in Russian to urge the community to get vaccinated. Read more
A $33,000 fix for Bondi’s Scout Hall
July 9, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Member for Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton MP today announced that Bondi Scout Hall in Bondi has been granted $33,000 for an upgrade under the NSW Government’s COVID-19 stimulus program. Read more
The Happiest Man on Earth meets Austen Tayshus
July 8, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sandy Gutman uses his alter ego Austen Tayshus to make people laugh but Eddie Jaku is already the ‘Happiest Man on Earth’. Read more
The ORAH Fund tops $1.62 million
July 8, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The ORAH Fund has announced its latest and largest round of donations to date, totalling $430,075 for the six months to 30 June 2021. Read more
Irena is going to be missed
July 8, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
JNF mourns the passing of Irena Nebenzahl who passed away recently in Sydney. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Julia Levy – Philanthropist
July 6, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Julia Levy was born in Bath England in 1826. Her father, Samuel Solomon was transported as a convict in 1832 to New South Wales and Julia, with her mother and seven siblings followed him to Australia, as free immigrants arriving on 1 February 1835. Read more
President-elect Isaac Herzog bids farewell to Jewish Agency colleagues and participants
July 6, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Rivlin: “I learned that without the ability to listen – there is no ability to learn. Without the ability to learn – there is no ability to repair.”
July 6, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The bust of Israel’s tenth president, Reuven Rivlin, has been installed in the Avenue of the Presidents in the gardens of Beit HaNasi ahead of the end of his term of office this week. Read more
JCCV appalled by online auction
July 5, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has reacted strongly to a report in the Herald Sun of an antique shop in the Melbourne suburb of Mt Evelyn offering Nazi memorabilia. Read more
NSW Labor welcomes listing of Goulburn Jewish cemetery on State’s Heritage Register
July 4, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Labor has welcomed the listing of the Goulburn Jewish cemetery on the State’s Heritage Register recommended by the Heritage Council of NSW. Read more
Mandlebaum House weathers the COVID storm
July 2, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Addressing the AGM of Mandelbaum House this week, Chairman, Associate Professor David Levy noted that “although the last year had been tough, the college can be very proud of its achievements”. Read more
US expert Emanuele Ottolenghi explains Hezbollah’s criminal networks
July 2, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The latest Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) webinar guest was Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, whose areas of expertise include Iran and Hezbollah. His topic was “Hezbollah and the Toxic Terror Crime Convergence”. Read more
Changes for Macnamara dropped
June 30, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australian Electoral Commission has reversed its proposal to make a substantial change to the Melbourne Electorates of Macnamara and Higgins that would see all of Caulfield North, Caulfield, Caulfield East and parts of Elsternwick and St Kilda East move from Macnamara into Higgins; and parts of Prahran and South Yarra move from Higgins into Macnamara. Read more
Walt Secord completes his conversion to Judaism
June 30, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Labor frontbencher and the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair Walt Secord has recently completed his conversion to Judaism through Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue. Read more
Some Jewish Archibald participants – painters and posers
June 30, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Following the final episode of Finding the Archibalds on ABC which featured a prize-winning portrait of the late Rabbi Israel Porush, photographer Ben Apfelbaum pointed his lens at other Archibald portraits with a Jewish connection. Read more
Q + A still in the spotlight
June 30, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council has dismissed as “laughable” a response it received from the ABC’s Audience and Consumer Affairs (A&CA) division to a complaint it lodged about the panel on the “Q&A” program which aired on ABC TV Thursday May 27. Read more
“Bias against Israel at the UN must end. Our region needs trust between people.”
June 30, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Reuven Rivlin met yesterday with UN Secretary-General António Guterres at UN headquarters in New York. Read more
Australia’s Mitch Fifield joins other ambassador to the UN in meeting President Rivlin
June 30, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Reuven Rivlin has met with a delegation of ambassadors from around the world to the United Nations including Australia’s Ambassador Mitch Fifield. Read more
JewishCare ready to care
June 29, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s JewishCare continues to support the community during these challenging times with family, mental health, financial, aged care and disability services. Read more
The rabbi’s portrait takes the Archibald Prize…watch it on TV
June 29, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The transition of a White Australia to a multicultural saw the style of the famous Archibald Prize change with the times and in 1961, a portrait of the Great Synagogue’s spiritual leader Rabbi Israel Porush winning the country’s most prestigious art award. Read more
Eastern Suburbs COVID outbreak: forum answers questions
June 29, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
More than 35 leaders of the NSW Jewish community attended an online forum focusing on the current COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. Read more
A difference of interpretation
June 28, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Recently, a contingent from The Executive Council of Australian Jewry met up with ABC’s managing director David Anderson to discuss coverage of the recent Israel-Palestinian conflict involving Gaza and the one-sided Q + A program that featured it. Read more
President Rivlin meets WJC President Lauder
June 28, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has met Israeli President Reuven Rivlinprivately in New York to thank him for his many years of dedicated service to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Read more
Secord welcomes election of Scott Farlow as new chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel
June 28, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Labor frontbencher and deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel Walt Secord has welcomed the election of Liberal MP Scott Farlow as the new chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel. Read more
