Elder passes away from COVID-19 in Melbourne
August 11, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
One Elder has passed away at Melbourne’s Residential Home in Windsor as a result of COVID-19. Read more
Australian Government should help Lebanese people, not Hezbollah
August 10, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) applauds Australia’s commitment to helping the people of Lebanon rebuild after last week’s devastating explosion. Read more
Premier keynote at NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ AGM
August 10, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Premier Gladys Berejiklian will be the keynote speaker at next week’s NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ AGM. Read more
ECAJ complains about “a military attack possibly by Israel”
August 10, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has lodged a formal complaint with FreeTV Australia about an interview that was aired on Ten Network’s ‘The Project’ on Wednesday 5 August 2020. Read more
New principal for Yeshiva College Bondi
August 9, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Duncan Kendall has been appointed as the Principal/CEO of the Yeshiva College Bondi. Read more
$16,000 for Jewish House
August 9, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
State Labor MP Dr Marjorie O’Neill has presented Sydney’s Jewish House with a $16,000 grant to purchase a new vehicle to increase their food deliveries to the needy. Read more
COVID-19 cases at Windsor now 33
August 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The COVID-19 cases relating to Melbourne’s Jewish Care residential home at the Hannah and Daryl Cohen Family Building in Windsor has risen to 33. Read more
Winners of UIA “My Israel Video” Competition
August 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
UIA has announced the winners of its 2020 My Israel video competition. Read more
Tel Aviv in solidarity with Beirut
August 6, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality lit up the municipality building on Wednesday evening, in solidarity with the Lebanese people following the disaster in Beirut on Tuesday. Read more
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
