COVID-19 Windsor update
August 6, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The number of COVID-19 cases at Jewish Care Victoria’s residential home has increased to 12 Elders and three staff members. Read more
New community centre for Perth
August 6, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Western Australian government will provide $ 6million to match a further $6million from the Federal Government to build a new Jewish community centre in Perth. Read more
11 Elders COVID-19 tests positive
August 5, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Eleven Elders in the Hannah & Daryl Cohen Family Building in Windsor, Melbourne have returned positive tests for COVID-19. Read more
Learning about Israel
August 5, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel-based Unpacked for Educators has launched the first of its kind, international, inter-denominational program comprising fifty schools from seven countries across the world including Australia. Read more
An ambassador and a wonderful friend farewelled
August 5, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australian Jewish has community farewelled Israeli Ambassador Mark Sofer and his wife Sara in an online ceremony last night. Read more
Zooming in to a graduation
August 5, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The members of Melbourne’s Diller Teen Fellows leadership program officially graduated from the program through Zoom. Read more
ABC to monitor and filter social media posts
August 5, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
ABC Chair Ita Buttrose has addressed a lunchtime zoom hosted by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Read more
Geoff Sirmai to play Shylock
August 4, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Streamed Shakespeare has announced its newest production: The Merchant Of Venice. Read more
Three Jewish grandmothers play matchmaker
August 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In 2019, Jewish Life Television launched Bubbies Know Best, a dating show with a Jewish twist – where three Jewish grandmothers act as matchmakers for Young and Old, Straight and Gay, Jewish and Non-Jewish. Based upon the show’s great success in Season 1, Bubbies Know Best began pre-production on Season 2 earlier this year. Read more
Politicians slam Nazi graffiti dubbed on Premier’s image
July 31, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Vandals have pasted an image of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews with a swastika on his forehead and with a Hitler moustache on a road sign in the suburb of Highett. Read more
School bullying: a Jewish community meeting with the NSW Minister of Education
July 31, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell has met with representatives of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and The Executive Council of Australian Jewry to discuss combatting bullying and prejudice when it happens in all schools in NSW. Read more
Lockdowns in Victoria and New South Wales
July 30, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A case of COVID-19 has been diagnosed in an AFACorp kitchen staff member who provides catering services to Jewish Care Victoria with the Gary Smorgon House in Melbourne being placed in lockdown. Read more
AIJAC webinar: energy expert Simon Henderson surveys complex Middle East situation
July 26, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The latest webinar from the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council featured Simon Henderson, the Baker Fellow and director of the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at the Washington Institute, whose topic was “Power Struggles: Energy Wars in the Middle East.” Read more
Meet Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs
July 24, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Zionist Federation of Australia has hosted an intimate roundtable meeting with newly-appointed Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs Omer Yankelevich MK on Zoom. Read more
25th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
July 24, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) has announced plans for a series of events leading up to the 25thanniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, promoting Rabin’s legacy of peace and tolerance Read more
The ECAJ and the Uygers
July 24, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has expressed its deep concern and alarm about the treatment of Uyghur and other minority communities in north-western China. Read more
Financial controller stole $7,337,282
July 23, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The former financial controller of Sydney’s Moriah College was described as a thief in Sydney’s Supreme Court where he was ordered to repay $7,337,282 stolen from the school between January 2004 and March 2019. Read more
Let the voting begin: UIA ‘My Israel’ School Video Competition
July 23, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The top videos have been determined for the federal stage of UIA’s ‘My Israel’ video competition. Read more
New Zealand’s Jewish and Muslim communities plead for the Uighurs
July 23, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Leaders of the New Zealand Jewish and Muslim communities have written to the country’s prime minister and foreign minister to join other countries in supporting China’s Uighurs calling their persecution as genocide. Read more
A loophole makes COVID davening kosher
July 22, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Police in Melbourne cannot charge a group of ultra-orthodox Jews for breaching COVID-19 lockdown regulations for gathering because they claim to be a “support group” rather than a group of worshippers. Read more
No decision on Leifer until September
July 21, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The long-awaited extradition hearing which, if successful, will see authorities release her from her Israeli prison into Australian police hands and a journey back to Melbourne where she faces 74 charges of child sexual abuse took a few hours in Jerusalem’s District Court yesterday. Read more
Senator visits Newtown Synagogue to announce security funding
July 20, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Battle over extradition of alleged sex offender Malka Leifer continues
July 19, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Ahead of tomorrow’s opening day of the extradition hearing which, if successful, would see alleged child sex abuser Malka Leifer returned to Australia, her defence lawyer appealed in Israel’s Supreme Court against a ruling that his team were not allowed specific documents. Read more
Anti-Semitic bullying prompts government investigation
July 17, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Victoria’s Education Minister James Merlino has asked the Education Department to call for an independent investigation on antisemitic bullying in a Melbourne school.
NSW Shadow Minister removes antisemitic graffiti
July 16, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Shadow Treasurer and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair, Walt Secord saw antisemitic COVID conspiracy theory graffiti in Port Macquarie on the mid-North Coast and felt compelled to remove it – which he did. Read more
Top US Pundit Danielle Pletka looks at US election implications for Israel and Australia
July 16, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) conducted a webinar on July 14 with Danielle Pletka, senior fellow in foreign and defence policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute think tank. Read more
Leave it to the Israelis
July 15, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Zionist Council of New South Wales believes that should the State of Israel decide to extend sovereignty or apply Israeli law to parts of Judea & Samaria (‘West Bank’), that is a decision for the Israeli people to make, whose lives and security are directly impacted by such decisions. Read more
Chabad Youth safeguards children
July 15, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Melbourne’s Chabad Youth has won top marks in the Australian Childhood Foundation’s Safeguarding Children Program for the third time since 2014. Read more
A mezzuza for Michael
July 10, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In January, the tiny township of Beulah in western Victoria, 300 kms from Melbourne made headline news when newly-arrived residents flew a Nazi flag in their garden opposite a home where a Holocaust survivor was living. Read more
Antisemitic bullying: MPs say enough is enough
July 9, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Two Victorian opposition members of parliament have criticised the Victorian Department of Education following reports of antisemitic bullying in a State secondary school in Melbourne. Read more
