Victoria farewells Ambassador Rotem

The Victorian Jewish community has farewelled Yuval Rotem, Israeli Ambassador to Australia and his wife Miri. Read more

6,000,000 represented in paper clips

Students at an Auckland school are collecting paper clips to use to form a “6,000,000” sign on their school fence to represent the number of Jews who lost their lives during the Holocaust. Read more

Lowy welcomes Indyk

The Chairman of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Mr Frank Lowy AC, has congratulated long-serving Lowy Institute Board member Ambassador Martin Indyk on his appointment as the U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Read more

The Spirit of Manny

ABC’s Rachael Kohn has interviewed Manny Waks…the oldest member of seventeen children who was sexually abused as a child attending Yeshiva in Melbourne…. Read more

Melton time in Sydney

Melton starts in NSW next week in conjunction with the University of Sydney…and it is not too late to participate in a course… Read more

New Race Discrimination Commissioner

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC has announced the appointment of Dr Tim Soutphommasane as Race Discrimination Commissioner. Read more

New Executive Director for Victorian Rabbis

The Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) has announced the appointment of Rachel Mihalovich to the role of Executive Director. Read more

Australian sought for Burgas Bombing

The Bulgarian Interior Ministry has released images of two men wanted for questioning over the bombing of a bus a year ago resulting in the death of five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian national…and one of the two is Australian. Read more

A letter from Bibi

As Israeli-Palestinian negotiations about to resume, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu writes an open letter to the Israeli people…outlining the difficulties of decision-making. Read more

One Button, One Child

Following on the heels of its namesake school in Wellington, New Zealand, Sydney’s Moriah College is collecting 1.5 million buttons in memory of the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust. Read more

Progressives call for compassion

Australia’s Union for Progressive Judaism has attacked the government’s new stop-the-boats policy and called fro compassion for asylum seekers. Read more

Kramer sentencing: the aftermath and a repeated apology

The Rabbinical Council of Victoria has its say, the Yeshivah College apologises again and Tzedek responds… Read more

AIJAC and the Boat People

The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council has voiced its views on how Australia is dealing with asylum seekers. Read more

Kramer free in three months

53-yr-old convicted paedophile David Kramer has been sentenced to a maximum of three years and four months for sexually abusing students at Melbourne’s Yeshiva Centre but will possibly be a free man in three months’ time given the time he has spent in  detention…and one of his victims has made a statement. Read more

Asylum-seekers: NSW rabbis have their say

The Rabbinical Council of NSW has issued a statement saying that Papua New Guinea is an acceptable destination for asylum seekers. Read more

Shorten goes to school

New Minister for Education Bill Shorten recently joined Michael Danby in a meeting with the Australian Council for Jewish Schools. Read more

Adam Kellerman and his Maccabi Gold medal

Watch the filmed interview of Paralympian at the Maccabiah in Israel shortly after he was presented with his gold medal…. Read more

Message for the Polish Government

The president of  the The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Dr Danny Lamm, has sent a message to the Polish Government following its rejection of legislating in favour of shechita. Read more

Peace initiative welcomed

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has welcomed the announcement by US Secretary of State John Kerry that agreement has been reached on a basis for direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Read more

Solomon carries the flag

The 420 strong Australian contingent marched into the packed Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem to a tumultuous welcome…lead by Olympic 400m star Steve Solomon. Read more

Passion8 in voluntary administration

Key Sydney communal service provider Passion8 Catering has been placed into voluntary administration with the view of restructuring the business. Read more

Help for Holocaust Hungarians

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) today announced that the government of Hungary, after protracted and difficult talks over the course of several years, has agreed to release $5.6 million in previously committed funds for social welfare services for needy Holocaust survivors of Hungarian origin living outside of Hungary.  Read more

Claims Conference says compensation to Kurzem to continue

The facts behind  The Mascot, Unravelling the Mystery of my Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood, a best-selling book about Alex Kurzem who survived WWII having been adopted by a Latvian police battalion were challenged  and the Claims Conference has made public its ombudsman’s report which recommends that “payment of compensation should continue”. Read more

Yeshiva paid for teacher to flee from child abuse allegations

The County Court in Melbourne has heard that a teacher at the Yeshiva in Melbourne’s St Kilda had been paid by his employer to flee Australia following allegations of sexual abuse. Read more

The Gift of Life

Sarah is five and in need of the Gift of Life…matching blood stem cells or bone marrow to give her the opportunity of a normal healthy life. Read more

Our man in Tel Aviv

Dave Sharma has settled in quickly as Australia’s new ambassador to Israel. J-Wire catches up on some of his activities…. Read more

The Collective at Our Big Kitchen

Australian boy band The Collective has visited Our Big Kitchen in Bondi where the baked food for the needy…and followed up the session by delivering what they produced to the needy. Read more

Turnbull down to business

Federal Liberal MP for the Sydney Eastern Suburbs electorate of Wentworth Malcolm Turnbull has delivered the Sir John Monah Oration at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

Bibi addresses Young Leadership

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu recently addressed the UIA Young Leadership Kesher Conference in Jerusalem. Read more

Rabbi Woolstone honoured

 

Sydney’s Jewish House has honoured Rabbi Pinchos Woolstone by officially acknowledging that he was the care organisation’s first rabbi. Read more

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