ECAJ deputy president to represent Australian Jewish community at Auschwitz
January 21, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Deputy President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and Co-Chair of the World Jewish Congress Policy Council, Robert Goot, will represent the Australian Jewish community at the 75th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland. Read more
UIA WA 2020 Campaign and Centenary Celebration
January 21, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
UIA WA’s 2020 Campaign will be taken to the next level as it celebrates the milestone of Keren Hayesod-UIA’s 100 years of supporting the People of Israel. Read more
Hi Siri!
January 19, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has complained to Apple following its digital assistant Siri answering the question “Who is Israel’s President” saying “Reuven Rivlin is the President of the Zionist occupation state”. Read more
Governor-General David Hurley to meet President Rivlin and Mahmoud Abbas
January 19, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Governor-General and Mrs Hurley will represent Australia at a commemorative ceremony in Israel to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz this week. Read more
Magen David defaced in Launceston
January 19, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A Star of David has been defaced on the outside of Australia’s second-oldest synagogue. Read more
JNF Educators Tour
January 16, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
75 educators from Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and NZ recently returned from the JNF Australia Educators Study Tour in Israel. Read more
Next Level Guest for UIA 2020 Campaign
January 15, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
UIA Australia’s 2020 Campaign will be taken to the next level as we celebrate the incredible milestone of Keren Hayesod-UIA’s 100 years of supporting the People of Israel with a very special guest. Read more
Down she comes
January 15, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Nazi flag flying in the town of Beulah in north-west Victoria has been brought down following a joint push by neighbours and local police. Read more
Leifer case stalls again
January 15, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In spite of a call to expedite the extradition hearing to return Malka Leifer to Melbourne where she is facing 74 charges for child sexual abuse, a Jerusalem court has accepted her defence argument to cross-examine psychiatrists who have found her fit to face court. Read more
A Nazi flag flies in Victoria and there is no way to bring it down
January 14, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A woman who has German ancestry is flying a Nazi flag in her front garden in her home in the regional town of Beulah in Victoria. Read more
#WeRemember
January 14, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The World Jewish Congress has launched its fourth annual #WeRemember campaign to combat antisemitism and all forms of hatred, genocide and xenophobia. Read more
Israel requests proceedings against Malka Leifer be expedited
January 13, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Director of the Department of International Affairs, Office of the State Attorney, Ministry of Justice has submitted a request to Judge Chana Lomp of the Jerusalem District Court asking that the extradition proceedings against Malka Leifer be expedited. Read more
Netanyahu visits Nahariya
January 13, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has toured Nahariya where last week a man drowned after rescuing passengers trapped in a flooded car. Read more
Can you help?
January 10, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s Jewish House has provided swift support this week to communities in NSW affected by bushfires, with the donation of 250 blankets to people displaced and sleeping in evacuation centres in NSW. Read more
The Board resends its call for bushfire support
January 9, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Given the increased and ongoing severity of the fires, the Board of Deputies has established a new campaign with Stand Up for further donations for dispersal to those affected in NSW and elsewhere. Read more
More tributes for Brian Fox
January 9, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Union for Progressive Judaism and all the members of the Assembly of Rabbis and Cantors of Australia, New Zealand and Asia are mourning the passing of Rabbi Brian Fox. Read more
JCCV pledges its support and call for donations
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria stands in solidarity with all Victorians affected by the devastating bushfires across our state and nation. Read more
Rabbi Brian Fox AM
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Rabbi Brian D Fox has passed away in Sydney at the age of 76. Read more
Memories of his bushfire firefighter father
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In 1968, David Eley was three years old when his father lost his life battling bushfires. Now he is the chef at Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen supervising the food being prepared for today’s firefighters. Read more
Melbourne community rallies
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Jewish community rallies to help bushfires victims
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The president of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Jillian Segal reports on the Australian Jewish community’s efforts to raise funds to assist those whose lives have been affected by the bushfires. Read more
US embassy warns of rocket fire on Israel
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday issued a security alert following “heightened Middle East tensions” in which it warned about “security incidents, including rocket fire” on Israel. Read more
Assassination of Soleimani: AIJAC cautiously optimistic
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has reacted with cautious optimism to the killing by US forces of Iranian arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani, the Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Read more
New Sydney-funded mathematics centre in the Negev
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney couple Simona and Leon Kamenev have launched a mathematics centre in the Negev in their name. Read more
Jerusalem zoo calls for financial support for bushfires wildlife
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo is to purchase veterinary medical supplies for the Animal Rescue Collective for use in the East Gippsland region in Victoria according to its Facebook page. Read more
Rebecca and Josh honoured at WUJS congress in Jerusalem
January 6, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Litzman: Hadassah Australia adds its voice
January 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Directors of Hadassah Australia have given their strong support to the President of the Zionist Federation of Australia, Jeremy Leibler who wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemning the appointment of United Torah Judaism’s Yaakov Litzman MK, to the position of Health Minister in Israel. Read more
Not SOS, use RARA
January 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Family lose their home in the South Coast fires
January 2, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Cecily and Roger Parris have lost their home and all its contents in the devastating fire that tore through Conjola Park this week.
Happy New Year from Scomo and Albo
January 1, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Happy New Year messages from Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese. Read more
