Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse – a conversation with Rabbi Lesches
February 4, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Sexual abuse victim known only by the code name AVB has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Melbourne about a conversation he had with Rabbi Baruch Dov Lesches. Read more
Royal Commission: Day three – Who is the pariah?
February 4, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
AVB, a victim of child sexual abuse by adults responsible for children at both Sydney Yeshiva and Melbourne Yeshivah appeared at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing being held in Melbourne. Read more
Israel by choice
February 3, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
37 young adults have left Australia to participate in the Israel by Choice program. Read more
Gehry’s first building in Australia opens for business
February 3, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
When world-renowned architect Frank Gehry was asked at the opening of his first building in Australia if there was anything he could not achieve in its planning, he replied: “I’m Jewish and I feel guilty about everything”. Read more
Royal Commission gets underway
February 2, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Royal Commission started today into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse at the Yeshiva Centre and Yeshiva College Melbourne and Yeshiva Centre and Yeshiva College, Bondi. Read more
Lara receives inaugural scholarship
February 2, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The winner of the inaugural Maccabi Australia Rudi Roth Sports Scholarship was announced at the closing ceremony of the 33rd Maccabi Australia Junior Carnival held in Melbourne last week,and Maccabi Australia is excited to announce NSW Junior tennis player Lara Kaplan as the recipient. Read more
25th anniversary of Clean-up Australia Day
January 31, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
In 2014 more than 572,406 volunteers including members of the Jewish community. removed an estimated 15,708 tonnes of rubbish from 7,140 sites across Australia, Read more
Israeli university offering conflict resolution courses in English
January 30, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Bar-Ilan University is to launch Israel’s first academic international summer certificate program, taught entirely in English, in the field of conflict resolution. Read more
Australia Day Awards 2015
January 30, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
As normally happens, we missed someone in our Australia Day Honours List – Marcia Hatfield of Sydney received an OAM and has been added top the republished list. Mazel Tov and our apologies Marcia. Read more
ZFA expresses concern
January 30, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Zionist Federation of Australia has raised concern about recent incidents on Israel’s northern border resulting in the loss of lives. Read more
Rabbis respond to Fairfax quotes
January 28, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia (ORA) is deeply concerned about comments attributed to criminal lawyer Alex Lewenberg which have appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. Read more
Rabbis meet the Prime Minister
January 28, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Tthe first ever delegation from Australia’s peak and preeminent Jewish religious leadership body – ORA – The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, has met with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra. Read more
Israeli may have survived car crash if she had been wearing a seatbelt
January 27, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Irit Wilder, an Israeli tourist who died in a car accident in New Zealand would probably have survived had she been wearing a seatbelt. Read more
An Australia Day story – friendship triumphs over hate
January 25, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Each January 26, Czechoslovakian-born Holocaust survivors Eva Grinston and Ibi Wertheim have celebrated Australia Day as their national holiday and also as an anniversary with deep personal significance. Read more
A yarmulke in disguise
January 25, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
An Israeli barber has developed a yarmulke to wear when you are not wearing a yarmulke…it is made from hair! Read more
ADC condemns Tel Aviv bus attack
January 22, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has strongly condemned this week’s terrorist attack on a bus line in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian man from the West Bank in which 13 Israelis passengers were injured. Read more
On the beach
January 18, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Following the success of previous Tamarama beach Shabbat experiences, Our Big Kitchen will again host this year’s biggest Shabbat dinner under the stars. Read more
Sydney Morning Herald cartoon breached Press Council’s Standards of Practice
January 18, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Press Council has deemed a controversial cartoon published in the Sydney Morning Herald in July last year during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza to have “emphasised religious persuasion rather than Israeli nationality” and had breached the Council’s Standards of Practice. Read more
Netanyahu rejects ICC’s decision to open preliminary examination
January 18, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a decision by the International Criminal Court to open a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine. Read more
School bus terror attack: youth to tour Holocaust museum
January 16, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand at the UN Security Council: “a return to the pre-1967 borders”
January 16, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand’s Ambassador to the United Nations Jim McLay has delivered his first address at the UN Security Council open debate on the Middle East. Read more
Charlie Hebdo – the supermarket siege: Condolences
January 10, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Following the deaths of four shoppers held hostage in a Kosher supermarket in the Parisian suburb of Vincennes, messages of condolence are reaching J-Wire. Read more
Aliyah hits a ten year high
January 1, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
According to end-of-year figures released by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, Aliyah hit a ten-year high in 2014, with the arrival of some 26,500 new immigrants. Read more
Anti-Defamation Commission slams publisher
January 1, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has lashed out at publisher Harper Collins for producing a special edition of its Collins Bartholomew Atlas for sale in the Arabian Gulf…the atlas omits Israel. Read more
Happy New Year from the Prime Minister
January 1, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott sends a message on New Year’s Day… Read more
Australia votes against Palestinian state resolution
December 31, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
In one of its last acts before vacating its seat on the United Nations Security Council, Australia has voted against a draft resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state. Read more
A face of the Holocaust is no more
December 23, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Marika Weinberger, a Holocaust survivor who spent her life in Australia telling the story of its history so that the world would never forget what happened in Nazi Europe, has passed away. Read more
Twelve Acts of Kindness
December 23, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
A new Batmitzvah program will change the face of the simcha. Read more
Promotion for Josh
December 22, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne Liberal MP Josh Frydenberg has been appointed Assistant Treasurer in the latest Federal cabinet shuffle. Read more
Moriah rates 6th independent school in NSW
December 22, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Moriah principal says that the its students’ success in the HSC is the culmination of their own effort, diligence and perseverance, combined with many years of outstanding teaching, care and individual attention from their parents and staff at the College. Read more
