Lest We Forget
November 6, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Roger Selby president of NSW Association of Jewish Service and Ex-Service Men and Women has announced the organisation has been expanded to include all currently serving Jewish members of the ADF. Read more
ABC clarifies Rabbi Yosef Feldman’s evidence
November 6, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
ABC has published in its Corrections and Clarification despatch that the broadcaster accepts Rabbi Feldman was aware it is illegal for an adult to touch a child’s genitals. Read more
Ramallah and then the PM’s sums up
November 2, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Following his visit to PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in Ramallah, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has summed up this week’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Read more
…and now to meet Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah
November 2, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Malcolm Turnbull faced the Australian press in Israel ahead of his visit to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah telling them “I want to just restate the absolute commitment that Australia has to ensuring the territorial integrity, the peace and safety of the State of Israel”. Read more
Victorian MPs report on Israel trip
November 2, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
David Southwick sends a Beersheba message from Israel
November 1, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
David Southwick sent a message to 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Beer Sheva events at the Victorian Parliament. Read more
Sydney rabbi joins the Beersheba commemoration
October 31, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Australian politicians including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull received a special welcome in Israel when they coincidentally met a Sydney rabbi who made the trip with his wife and son to attend the Beersheba anniversary. Read more
Malcolm faces the press
October 31, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spoke to media following his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and fielded a question on the extradition of Malka Leifer who faces 74 charges of child sexual abuse while principal at Melbourne’s Adas Israel School. Read more
Complaints on the Iranian diplomat and imam’s call for the destruction of Israel
October 30, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The New Zealand Jewish Council have informed the Human Right Commissioner of the address delivered by an Iranian diplomat calling for the destruction of Israel. Read more
Turnbull says Australia to upgrade co-operation with Israel
October 30, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced that Australia is to upgrade co-operation with Israel on defence and national security while Minister for the Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg
will chair a roundtable of energy and technology companies when in Israel.
Wertheim corrects Gaza aid error
October 25, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
NZ Governor-General to go to Beersheba
October 24, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival – Free tickets
October 23, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Melbourne Jewish Festival will take place on December 5,6,7. J-Wire has a double pass to give away for each performance. Read more
Five letters to finalise a torah
October 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A brand new Torah in Australia’s Parliament House was completed by all five Jewish Members of Parliament witnessing the moment. Read more
Safer beaches for Tel Aviv
October 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
With Magen David Adom announcing that 134 people have got in difficulties swimming in the Mediterranean Sea on Israel’s coastline, news that a new nippers program on Tel Aviv’s beach will be signalled by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm when he visits Israel later this month. Read more
So who goes to Beersheba?
October 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
As New Zealand welcomes its new Labor Prime Minister, it is a waiting game to see who will represent at the 100th anniversary of the famous Light Horse cavalry charge which won Beersheba and marked the end of the Ottoman rule. Read more
Hope for reason to prevail at the UNHRC as Australia takes its place
October 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish community has welcomed the Australia’s election to Unite Nations Human Right Council. Read more
What did Michael do in Israel?
October 17, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Media reports it had evidence Labor MP Michael Danby had attended a security conference when he was reported visiting Israel last year when on sick leave from Parliament. Read more
Australia elected to U.N. Human Rights Council
October 17, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Australia was elected overnight by a majority of United Nations member states to serve a three-year term on the Human Rights Council, the world’s peak body for promoting and protecting human rights. Read more
Danby uses a sick pass to visit to Israel
October 16, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Australian has reported that Federal Labor MP for Melbourne Ports furnished the party with a medical certificate in order to take time off from the sitting parliament in September last year…and that he used the time to travel to Israel. Read more
Racing journo taunts club exec about his “Yid mates
October 16, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A Melbourne Racing Club executive has complained to The Age newspaper that one of its racing journalists spoke to him of his “Yid mates at Caulfield”. Read more
“The Jews are like my people” – Aboriginal elder
October 15, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
At the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia’s Conference in Darwin delegates Josie and Ian Lacey heard an address by Djapirri Mununggirritj . Read more
Mountain bikers to trace the Light Horsemen’s ride
October 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
On October 30-31, exactly 100 years since the heroic victory of the ANZACs in the Battle of Beer Sheba, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will become the first Australian prime minister to visit Israel to attend the centennial commemoration…and going for the ride is Australian cycling legend Cadel Evans. Read more
A visit to Jewish Goulburn
October 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Shadow Arts Minister Walt Secord recently visited Goulburn – as part of his ongoing exploration of historic Jewish sites in rural and regional NSW. Read more
Journalists report back
October 11, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The eight journalists who participated in the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ Journalists Mission to Israel addressed a packed community meeting this week. Read more
Feldmans must quit Flood St Yeshiva Centre
October 11, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A submission from The Yeshiva Centre to be allowed to continue to occupy the Flood St premises it leases from a company associated with Harry Triguboff following the expiry of the lease in December has been rejected by the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney. Read more
Sukkot in paradise
October 10, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Danby’s ads authorised by parliament…but no more to come
October 9, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The ads placed in the Australian Jewish News and briefly on J-Wire by Michael Danby criticising ABC Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill have been stamped with approval by Parliament. Read more
Michael Danby – “foreign agent”
October 8, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Following the publication of Federal Labor member Michael Danby’s ads criticising the ABC for its Middle East reportage, tweeters have surfaced calling the veteran politician a “foreign agent”. Read more
Bible Course online
October 7, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Bar-Ilan University’s Zalman Shamir Department of Bible is launching its first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) later this month. Read more
