Jewish House hands out lounges
December 21, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A heart-warming collaboration between non-denominational charity Jewish House and leading opinion site The Big Smoke will see a call-out to Sydney’s CBD to better understand real-time data around Sydney’s rough sleepers, working together to give them a more comfortable 2016 Festive Season. Read more
ADC rates global antisemitism
December 21, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Anti-Defamation Commission has ranked UNESCO’s denial of Jewish history in Jerusalem as the most prominent example of antisemitic and anti-Israel occurrence in 2016. Read more
Chanukah greeting
December 21, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Minister for Multiculturalism John Ajaka sends Chanukah wishes… Read more
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman and the NSW Rabbinical Council
December 20, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
J-Wire has received a letter from a legal representative of Sydney Rabbi Pinchus Feldman… Read more
Shorten in Israel
December 20, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and addressed the Australia Israel UK Leadership Dialogue in Jerusalem. Read more
Peace in the Middle East
December 19, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Labor Member of the Australian Parliament for Corio and Shadow Minister Defence Richard Marles has tweeted his idea of peace in the Middle East with a photograph of a group containing former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott and opposition leader Bill Shorten in Jerusalem. Read more
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria joins in others on expressing concern
December 19, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has joined members of the Victorian Multifaith Advisory Group (MAG) and the Faith Communities Council of Victoria (FCCV) in a response to recent world events. Read more
Shining in the HSC
December 18, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
81% of Sydney’s Moriah College students which sat for this years HSC achieved results in the Band 5 and 6 with students reached 90%+ included in Band 6. Read more
Shorten heads for Jerusalem
December 17, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Australian opposition leader Bill Shorten has left for Israel where he will participate in the 5th Australia-Israel-UK Leadership Dialogue in Jerusalem. Read more
Videos on how to kill Jews
December 16, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A man has been arrested by the Australian Federal Police for allegedly posting videos giving instructions on how to kill Jewish people. Read more
NZ Christian group raises funds to Israeli fire victims
December 15, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
New Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand Dr Itzhak Gerberg and his Deputy head of Mission Avital Mimran Rosenberg have visited the Hawkes Bay area. Read more
First Place in Course
December 14, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Three Jewish students have been named in the 2016 NSW Higher School Certificate HSC First Place in Course results.
Waks lists issues for new board
December 14, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The results have been announced of the first ever elections of Melbourne’s Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Schools Limited and the Chabad Institutions of Victoria Limited. Read more
Hakoah moves forward
December 14, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Woollahra Council has voted overwhelmingly not to heritage list White City and not to proceed with a site Specific Development Control Plan for White City, which would have imposed specific controls heralding a further significant success for the planned Hakoah sports and social centre. Read more
VCE Success at Mount Scopus
December 13, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
2016 has been another excellent year for Melbourne’s Year 12 Mount Scopus students with over half of the cohort in the top 10% of the state and 10 ‘perfect’ study scores. Read more
Charlie Brown appointed as an Australia Day ambassador
December 12, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Fashion designer Charlie Brown has joined a raft of high-achieving Australians announced today as 2017 Australia Day Ambassadors by the Australia Day Council of NSW (ADCNSW). Read more
NSW Labor Party group set up to restore balanced debate on Israel
December 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A new group has been set up within the NSW Labor Party to restore balance in the party on Israel and the Middle East. Read more
Waverley Chanukah
December 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Councillors, Rabbis, communal lay leaders, council staff and friends joined together at Sydney’s Waverley Council to celebrate upcoming Chanukah. Read more
The Jewish House Midsummer’s Night Gala Dinner
December 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s The Jewish House recently celebrated its Midsummer’s Night Gala Dinner. Read more
AIJAC supports the retention of Part IIA of the Racial Discrimination Act in submission to Parliamentary Inquiry
December 10, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council believes that PART IIA of the Racial Discrimination Act has worked effectively for over 20 years and there is no compelling reason for repeal or wholesale reform. Read more
Jewish Participation in Megafauna Dig
December 10, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Graduate of Melbourne’s Yavneh Timothy Hain and he was among a team of archaeologists and volunteers who recently dug up fossils of extinct Megafauna (giant animals) in Lancefield, Victoria. Read more
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
December 10, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Australia has abstained in voting in six anti-Israel resolutions in United Nations. Read more
18C: The Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s submission
December 9, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
In its submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Speech the Executive Council of Australian Jewry states no case has been made for repealing or revising the provisions of Part IIA of the RDA. Read more
14 Jewish groups numbered among a multicultural 18c submission
December 8, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Fourteen Jewish organisations are among the 68 Victorian multicultural, faith and community groups which have sent a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Speech arguing that the controversial 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act should remain intact. Read more
Netanyahu – Israel and Arabs forging new ties
December 7, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Rabbi resigns
December 6, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Rabbi Shimshon Yurkowicz, Rabbi of Melburne’s Chabad Malvern has resigned his membership of the Orthodox Rabbinic bodies in Australia. Read more
Jews against 18C
December 6, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has been presented two members of the Australian Jewish community asking for the repeal of the 18C and 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more
Campaign against Facebook misses its mark
December 6, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
An Israel-based civil rights organisation launched its first-ever online campaign in the U.S. today to build public support for a pair of major lawsuits against Facebook, with a provocative video levelling unprecedented charges that the social media giant is inciting terrorism around the world…but an Australian expert says the campaign missing its mark. Read more
UN president slammed for wearing a Palestinian scarf
December 4, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Israel’s Ambassador to United Nation has spoken out against UN General Assembly president Peter Thomson wearing a Palestinian scarf whilst addressing a session. Read more
Permanent Holocaust exhibition in Canberra
December 2, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Australian War Memorial has launched a new permanent exhibition “The Holocaust: witnesses and survivors”. Read more
