Call to preserve Broken Hill’s synagogue and mosque
April 16, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Labor Shadow Arts Minister Walt Secord has called on NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Arts Minister Don Harwin to provide urgent funding to help preserve the historic Broken Hill Synagogue and Broken Hill Mosque in remote far western NSW. Read more
RememberTheYom
April 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
RememberTheYom is a brand-new project created to help remember and honour Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day and to inspire others to create and to view meaningful related images…like this one taken on Sydney’s Bondi Beach Read more
Holocaust remembrance at home
April 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Ari Wenig has become the Australian organiser for Zikaron BaSalon…an initiative which promotes Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day activities in Australian lounge rooms. Read more
Melbourne’s Holocaust Centre and Maccabi remember Yom HaShoah
April 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
To mark Yom HaShoah in 2017, the Jewish Holocaust Centre is partnering with Maccabi Victoria to remember victims of the Holocaust.
New Australian ambassador to Israel
April 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Chris Cannan has been appointed as Australia’s next Ambassador to Israel. Read more
NSW Parliament hears “Netanyahu is an enemy of peace’
April 10, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
In a private member’s statement in the NSW Parliament Treasurer Dominic Perr0ttet criticised members if Labor and The Greens parties who attended a rally protesting the visit to Sydney of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more
United Arab Emirates ranks Technion Number One in engineering and aerospace worldwide
April 10, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Technion’s Engineering and Aerospace academics have been ranked No. 1 in the world by the United Arab Emirates’ Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) based on their scientific publications. Read more
A Passover message from the NSW Premier
April 9, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian took time out from a frantic week ahead of three by-elections to send a Pesach greeting to the Jewish community. Read more
NCJWA host an African woman’s group…
April 9, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia [NSW] hosted The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe…were you there? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
Name reading kits for Yom Hashoah
April 7, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies is launching a new initiative for Holocaust remembrance distributing name reading kits for Yom HaShoah. Read more
Young Greens say AUJS ban not directed to ” Jewish people or students”
April 7, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Young Greens have reaffirmed in their Facebook their support for Palestine and its citizens. Read more
Haggadah supplement brings modern day issues in Israel to the seder table
April 7, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Fellows from the New Israel Fund Australia have written a Haggadah supplement, “The Other Haggadah”, for the Passover seder addressing modern-day challenges including refugees, religious freedom, Bedouins and those living in the periphery as well as the economic margins of Israeli society. Read more
Table talk about refugees and asylum-seekers
April 6, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Since 2015, the Sydney Alliance has been holding ‘Table Talk’ events to address the issue of refugees and people seeking asylum. Read more
Girls win Unity Cup
April 6, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Aussie Rules Unity Cup 2017 was played out between eight female teams and 12 male teams representing 14 diverse communities from Melbourne and regional Victoria. Read more
NSW Young Greens decline AUJS invitations
April 5, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students invited members the NSW Young Greens to a meeting with bipartisan young political staffers at the NSW Parliament. Read more
Melbourne woman selected for Schusterman Fellowship
April 4, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation has selected 30 outstanding Jewish professional and volunteer leaders from around the world for the third cohort of the Schusterman Fellowship. Read more
More community voices add their support to no change for 18c
April 2, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council and the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission support the defeat of changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more
Free tickets for the Zookeeper’s Wife
April 2, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain stars in The Zookeeper’s Wife in the title role of Antonina Żabińska, a real-life working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during WWII. Read more
Money and me
April 1, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Shalom’s Professional Women’s Forum (PWF) launched their 2017 workshop series with an insightful workshop for women in their 20s and 30s called “Money & Me”. Read more
World Vision trial continues
March 31, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A World Vision employee on trial in Israel for passing Australian funds and charitable donations to Hamas is now expected to be found in guilty despite Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issuing a statement that a review found “nothing to suggest any diversion of government funds”. Read more
Pesach greetings from Malcolm Turnbull
March 31, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has sent Pesach greetings to the community. Read more
No change to Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
March 31, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Australian Senate has sent proposed changes to section 18C of the RDA to the shredder. Read more
Victoria Police appoint new Jewish VIc Police Chaplain
March 29, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Rabbinical Council of Victoria committee member Rabbi Shmuel Karnowsky has been appointed as a police chaplain. Read more
Magen David Adom’s new CEO behind telethon to fund a 4X4 life support ambulance
March 29, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Recently appointed CEO of Australian Friends of Magen David Adom, Doron Lazarus will lead a team of volunteers from local schools youth groups in this year’s Red Sunday Pesach Telethon on 2 April. Read more
Repair the harm to survivors
March 28, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
100 people attending an emotional ‘Night of Healing’ hosted this week in Melbourne by Tzedek, the national advocacy and support organisation for survivors of child sexual abuse in the Jewish community were told the Jewish community must unite in its efforts to repair the harm done to survivors of child sexual abuse. Read more
Denial: J-Wire giveaways
March 28, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
J-Wire has double passes for Denial the riveting drama about the real-life showdown between historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) and notorious English Holocaust denier David Irving (Timothy Spall). Read more
An open letter to Malcolm Turnbull on 18C
March 28, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Josie Lacey has sent a letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in her capacity as convenor of Religions for Peace in NSW. Read more
My UJEB journey
March 28, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A Melbourne student who does not attend a Jewish school has warm words for UJEB. Read more
Rambam returnees address AIJAC in Sydney
March 28, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Labor MPs Meryl Swanson, Milton Dick and Liberal MP Tony Pasin addressed an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) luncheon in Sydney on their return from Rambam study visit delegations to Israel. Read more
Jewish AFL sponsored by St Kilda
March 27, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne AFL side The Jew Crew is now wearing its Magen David guernsies in the red, white and black colours of their new sponsor St Kilda Football Club. Read more
