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
Malka Leifer’s legal team launches appeal
July 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel media has reported that alleged child sex abuser Malka Leifer twelve days ahead of the beginning of the extradition hearing which, if successful, will see her returned from Israel to Melbourne. Read more
$5 million for safer Jewish communities
July 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jewish community in the Sydney electorate of Wentworth will be safer and more secure as a result of grants made under round five of the Government’s Safer Communities Fund. Read more
KH-UIA global family uniting in crisis
July 6, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
UIA Australia hosted over 500 supporters at its Keren Hayesod-UIA Global Family online event last week. Read more
Israel launches new satellite
July 6, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Space Administration in the Directorate of Defence Research and Development of the Israel Ministry of Defence and Israel Aerospace Industries have successfully launched the “Ofek 16” reconnaissance satellite into space. Read more
Antisemitism in the U.K.
July 5, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Antisemitism in the British left was the subject of the latest webinar from the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC). Read more
Homeland star opposes sovereignty
July 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Mandy Patinkin, star of TV series Homeland is the narrator of The New Israel Fund’s video opposing restoring Israel’s sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. Read more
ABC apologises over talkback caller’s antisemitic slur following AIJAC complaint
July 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has welcomed an on-air apology by ABC Radio host Ian McNamara over an antisemitic slur made by a talkback caller on the May 03, 2020 episode of the ABC Radio program “Australia All Over with Ian McNamara.” Read more
Reprieve yet again for The Shtick
July 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Jewish interview TV program The Shtick was preparing a life without a broadcaster with its host Melbourne’s Channel 31 facing the axe on June 30…but Henry Greener’s 10-minute segments continue to provide Jewish entertainment as C31 is reprieved for the sixth time. Read more
Challahs for the cops
July 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australian Jewish Association has delivered a special Shabbat message as an expression of thanks to some of the police who protect our community. Read more
