Carr calls for resumption of peace talks
August 8, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
dAustralian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Bob Carr today renewed calls for Palestinian and Israeli leaders to resume negotiations for an independent Palestinian state, alongside a secure Israel. Read more
School security upped by Federal Government
August 7, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Justice Jason Clare today announced that 21 pre-schools across Australia will receive safety upgrades under the third round of the Secure Schools Program. Read more
Bob Carr in Israel
August 7, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Foreign Minister Bob Carr is in Israel and has visited President Shimon Peres. Read more
The proudest family in Australia
August 6, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Go through Sunday with Michael Solomon…culminating in his 19-yr-old son Steven’s amazing achievement in reaching the final of the 400m at the 2012 London Olympics… Read more
Jessica to visit Israeli family
August 6, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The elated mother of Australian Olympic silver medalist Jessica Fox said she planned to take her family to Israel to meet their cousins. Read more
Steve Solomon breaks the 45s barrier – into the final
August 6, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney Olympian Steven Solomon has set a new personal best breaking the magic 45s barrier for the 400m sending him into the hallowed Olympic final. Read more
Olympics update – Solomon through to semis – Aleh in top position
August 5, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Hate Prevention Institute meets with Success
August 2, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has released a report documenting serious racial hatred on YouTube. The report highlights how one user in a single day uploaded 1710 videos, the vast majority of which were blatant hate speech. YouTube responded by closing the users account within 24 hours of receiving an advanced copy of OHPI’s report. Read more
State member candidate visits Jewish House
August 1, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Labor candidate for Heffron, Ron Hoenig has met with The Jewish House CEO, Rabbi Mendel Kastel to discuss ways of working together – if he is elected in the forthcoming by-election. Read more
Monash oration
July 31, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
General Peter Cosgrove, former head of the Australian Defence Forces has delivered the Monash oration at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more
Jewish leaders at Iftar dinner
July 31, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Premier The Hon Barry O’Farrell MP has hosted an “Iftar Dinner to celebrate Interfaith Harmony” at Parliament House. Read more
Yes, they stood
July 30, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Out of the range of cameras which for whatever reason did not want to record the moment, Israel’s Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat stood in silence in respect for the 11 Israelis murdered in Munich at the 1972 Olympic Games during the opening ceremony speech made by IOC President Jacques Rogge in London. Read more
Holocaust/Genocide exhibition opens in Melbourne
July 29, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne is hosting an exhibition from the USA of photographs and extraordinary stories from the Holocaust and genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Cambodia. Read more
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
July 29, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Olympic 400m runner Steven Solomon has participated in his first Olympic opening ceremony… Read more
Waks asks Egyptian Ambassador for answers
July 27, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
An Egyptian TV station has screened a candid camera style program in which celebrities were hoodwinked into believing they had been tricked into appearing on an Israeli TV production. The results are disturbing. View the clips on J-Wire and Waks’s response to the Egyptian Embassy… Read more
Australia donates $500,000 to Auschwitz-Birkenau Preservation Fund
July 27, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne yesterday at which she announced that Australia is donating half a million to a fund established to preserve the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Read more
JewishCare and Wolper grief assist
July 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s JewishCare has signed an agreement with the Wolper Jewish Hospital to utilise its programs assisting those grief-stricken following the loss of a loved one. Read more
Call for silence
July 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Zionist Federation of Australia have called for all Australians to observe one minute’s silence on Friday at 11am in memory of the eleven athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Read more
The Shtick’s One Minute’s Silence
July 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Henry Greener produces The Shtick, a Melbourne-based video program dealing with contemporary Jewish themes. Watch his video interview with Rabbi Shmuli Block…and share a minute’s silence. Read more
Gift of Life at work
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Three men linked to each other through the Gift of Life donor program have met Australian program organiser Shula Endrey-Walder in New York. Read more
New Zealand’s Nazi Hunter
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Did New Zealand give a home to genocidal killers? Wayne Stringer was New Zealand’s Nazi Hunter. He investigated 47 “displaced persons”, suspected of complicity in Nazi era war crimes, who came to New Zealand at the end of WW2. Read more
Yair Miller appointed to Parole Authority
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The President of the The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Yair Miller has been appointed to the State’s Parole Authority. Read more
…and the signatories are
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A petition has been presented to the Australian Jewish Community demanding “Israel end detention of Palestinians without charge. J-Wire publishes the signatories and The Executive Council of Australian Jewry response… Read more
A community remembers – Munich widows express disappointment
July 23, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) and Zionist Council of Victoria (ZCV) have put a call out to the community this week to remember the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games…but their widows have not given up. The World Jewish Congress has added its voice to the please for remembrance. Read more
Brenner Protesters – not over yet
July 23, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A Melbourne magistrate has found that five of the sixteen protesters who campaigned outside a Max Brenner store in Melbourne have a case to answer on charges of hindering, assaulting or resisting police. Read more
David Burnett Award winner named
July 22, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Young Labor president Michael Buckland has announced the fourth recipient of the David Burnett Memorial Award – named after the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) National Vice-President and Young Labor activist who died in Jordan in 2008. Read more
Danby “uncomfortable” with Rhiannon
July 20, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Labor Michael Danby has appeared on the ABC’s 24 Political show Capital Hill with Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon and questioned her Soviet Connections. Read more
Jumping for joy
July 20, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Government has provided $20,000 to help fund the Maccabi Junior Carnival being held in Sydney in January next year. Read more
Jo Sails for New Zealand
July 19, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
26-yr-old Jo Aleh is now completing final preparations for competition in the 2012 Olympics at which she will sail representing New Zealand. Read more
Crisis Line Training Course for Volunteers at Jewish House
July 19, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Jewish House runs a 24/7 crisis line where people can get assistance any time of the day or night. To date the crisis line has been manned by Rabbi Kastel with backup of the staff at Jewish House. We put a call out for volunteers who were interested in helping us man the phones, and we were pleasantly surprised at the many responses that we received. Read more
