Function Sizzles, Demo Fizzles
June 6, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Around forty demonstrators were part of a group which burned an effigy of Victorian premier Ted Baillieu outside Melbourne’s Hotel Windsor in which Victorians were celebrating Israel’s 64th birthday. Read more
The Great Wall Limmud
June 5, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The highly popular Limmud project took an exciting new direction this week as the feast of Jewish learning took place at a new location…the Great Wall of China. Read more
Parliamentarians oppose right wing Greek presence in Australia
June 4, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Two NSW Labor parliamentarians have said they will oppose plans by the far right Greek Golden Dawn Party to set up “three or four” branches in Australia. Read more
Leaders meet with Foreign Minister
June 2, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
T he core of the leadership of Australian mainstream Jewry has met with the country’s Foreign Minister, Bob Carr. Read more
An Award for Gary
June 2, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
G ary Samowitz, the Chief Executive Officer of Jewish Aid Australia, has received a 2012 Australian Leadership Award in recognition of his leadership and vision in the areas of community development and social justice. Read more
Belated happy birthday
June 1, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
NSW has belatedly celebrated the 64th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel prompting an interpretation of “When I’m 64” by Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Yuval Rotem. Read more
First progressive Rabbi In Israel
May 30, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s Union for Progressive Judaism has congratulated Rabbi Miri Gold on becoming the first Progressive rabbi in Israel. Read more
Australia gives $90 million support to Palestinians
May 28, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Bob Carr, today announced Australia would support additional teachers and doctors for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, with a $90 million funding agreement signed with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Canberra this afternoon. Read more
Israeli electric car stations for Australia
May 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The electric car network established in Israel by Shai Agassi is now a functioning unit, albeit still at the trialling stage. Read more
Sorry again
May 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Tomorrow is National Sorry Day and Australians, including The Jewish Religious Action and Advocacy Centre, will come together to remember the injustices suffered by Indigenous Australians and, in particular, to say sorry for the treatment of the Stolen Generation, children who were forcibly removed from their families. Read more
New chaplains for schools
May 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Australian students will soon have more support, with 1000 new chaplains and student welfare workers due to start work in schools. Read more
Ministerial BakeIn
May 20, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
More than 100 meals have been distributed to the needy following the volunteer efforts of two NSW State Ministers and their staff. Read more
Move to extradite US Yeshiva teacher underway
May 20, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Moves are underway in the U.S. city of St Louis to extradite sex offender David Kramer to Australia to be questioned on complaints made that he had allegedly sexually abused children at Melbourne’s Yeshivah College. Read more
Compass’s Jewish Chaplain
May 18, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The ABC-TV program Compass will feature Jewish House CEO and hospital chaplain Rabbi Mendel Kastel on Sunday evening. Read more
Christchurch mayor visits Israel
May 18, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Christchurch mayor Bob Parker has returned to New Zealand following a visit to Israel… Read more
The New JNF
May 17, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish National Fund NSW is planning to promote the organisation’s involvement in environmental issues within Israel…activities which will enhance the tree-planting which is the bedrock of JNF. Read more
Danby queries Carr about Australian funds for alleged terrorist linked Palestinian NGO
May 16, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Foreign Minister Bob Carr yesterday met with the Member for Melbourne Ports, Michael Danby MP to discuss a range of matters including an assertion that Australian aid funding is being provided to a Palestinian non-government organisation with alleged terrorist links.
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They came, they spoke, they marched
May 16, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Following a two hour battle in the Supreme Court on Monday, the Al-Nakba rally and march took place as scheduled in Sydney last night….with an estimated 150-200 protesters chanting to almost deserted streets. Read more
NSW Police objects to a peak-time city pro-Palestinian march
May 13, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A pro-Palestinian group has issued a media release claiming NSW police will go to the Supreme Court tomorrow in a bid to block an Al-Nakba commemoration march in Sydney on Tuesday…but the police simply want the protest diverted from the city centre at peak time.
Racism in Australia: today and tomorrow
May 11, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has responded to a request for recommendations by the Australian Human Rights Commission to enable it to plan its future anti-racism strategy. Read more
The 4th of May
May 11, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Former Premier of NSW and distinguished businessman Nick Greiner has launched “The 4th of May” – the personal memoir of Hungarian-born Paul Galy. Read more
Israeli Coalition changes speaker’s plans
May 9, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The audience who went to Sydney’s North Shore Temple Emanuel last night to listen renowned academic Dr Fania Oz-Salzberger were the first to hear first-hand publicly an informed take on the new Israeli Coalition. Read more
“Name me” pleads alleged sex abuse victim
May 7, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
One of the 12 alleged victims of sexual abuse at Melbourne’s Yeshiva College asked Melbourne’s Magistrates’ Court to have his name published in the media…but his request was declined. Read more
Dr Goldenberg’s Diary
May 7, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
He’s never kept a diary before, and found keeping a Spiritual Diary for The Spirit of Things embarrassing, pretentious, but also very valuable. Howard Goldenberg is a physician who is used to making a prognosis of his patients’ health, but now he turns his attention to himself, and probes his conscience for the true meaning of his Jewish faith. Read more
New international award for Oz Jewish cookbook
May 7, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Judy Kempler and Pnina Jacobson’s cookbook “One Egg is a Fortune” has won a silver medal in the USA in “the World’s Largest Book Awards Contest”. Read more
New Board for NAJEX
May 7, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Following NAJEX’s recent ratification of its new Constitution president Warwick Abadee has announced the new board. Read more
Cyprys in court tomorrow
May 6, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Security guard David Cyprys will appear in Melbourne’s Magistrates Court tomorrow to face 51 charges covering indecent assault and gross indecency during the 1980s and 1990s when he was employed by the Yeshiva College in East St Kilda. Read more
Entebbe hero dies
May 6, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Colin Hardie, a former general manager of the Christchurch Star, lived through the hijacking of an Air France airbus which was freed, with the loss of lives, following an Israeli attack on the Ugandan Entebbe airport, has died at the age of 91. Read more
Spilling the Beans
May 6, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A trade mark used by OU, the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America, since 1926 has been the subject of a court case in Christchurch in New Zealand in which a similar logo brands a coffee roasting company. Read more
NZ Foreign Minister to meet Netanyahu
May 4, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has left for the Middle East where he will attend a ministerial summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Egypt. Read more
