Australians pay their respects
May 4, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Federal Labor Member for Melbourne Ports, Michael Danby, accompanied by Bill Shorten and Australia’s Ambassador to Israel Andrea Faulkner, paid respects on the passing of Professor Benzion Netanyahu today. They joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was sitting shiva for his father at the late Benzions house in Rechavia. Read more
For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow
May 3, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Council of the University of of New South Wales will award an Honorary Fellowship to Dr Hilton Immerman, the CEO of the Shalom Institute. Read more
ANZAC Day and Yom Hazikaron
April 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
One of the most significant days in the Australian calendar, Anzac Day, has coincided the year with Yom Hazikaron. Read more
Show me the Money
April 23, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A Brisbane court has been told that a man who swindled $2.2 million from Australian investors gave $464,000 to the Jewish Defence League and the Gold Coast Jewish Community. Read more
Ashleigh at Auschwitz
April 22, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
J-Wire has received a 30-second video of Sydney’s Masada College pupil playing the theme from Schindler’s List during last week’s March of the Living at Auschwitz…on her great-grandfather’s violin. He perished at that site. Read more
Attorney-General visits Beth Rivkah
April 18, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon, and Member for Melbourne Ports, Michael Danby, met with Jewish community leaders at Beth Rivkah College in Melbourne’s St Kilda East today to discuss school safety. Read more
Julia Gillard’s Yom Hashoah message
April 18, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Australian Prime Minister has sent a message to the community on the eve of Yom Hashoah…Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Waks welcomes religious abuse enquiry
April 17, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Manny Waks, himself an alleged victim of sexual abuse as a pupil at the Melbourne Yeshiva, has welcomed a Victorian parliamentary investigation into criminal abuse by all religious entities. Read more
Remembering the Holocaust
April 15, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Labor MP and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel, Mr Walt Secord attended the annual Yom Hashoah Rookwood Memorial Service to commemorate the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust. Read more
Getting to know you
April 15, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Year 7 students from Sydney’s Jewish Emanuel School and Muslim Iqra Grammar College recently spent a day together participating in the Together For Humanity’s ‘Reaching Out’ program. Read more
Organisations benefit under new scheme
April 12, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Member for Vaucluse and Parliamentary Secretary for Tertiary Education and Skills, Gabrielle Upton MP, today welcomed the announcement of funding for local projects under the NSW Government’s Community Building Partnership Program…including two Jewish care organisations Read more
Two more Nominations for Perlman
April 12, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne author Elliot Perlman, already short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award for his book “The Street Sweeper” has now been nominated for the Australian Book Industry Awards for the same work. Read more
Danby seeks his roots
April 12, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby has been hosted by the Polish Foreign Ministry in his capacity as Chairman of the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Read more
Australia critical of new Israeli housing plans
April 11, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Australian Government today expressed concern that Israel’s latest announcement on settlements could further complicate prospects for resumed direct negotiations on an Israel-Palestinian peace. Read more
Cardinal Pell’s statement on Q&A
April 11, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Cardinal George Pell, head of the Catholic Church in Australia, was a member of a two man panel on ABC TV’s Q&A on Monday night. He has issued a statement on remarks he made about the Jews being made the Chosen People…later in the program he made a statement that the German people suffered the most in the Holocaust. His statement and the text from the program follow: Read more
Not for Kosher consumption
April 6, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Kosher VeYosher matzo has been declared not Kosher for Passover by the Rabbinical Council of Victoria. Read more
Young Labor go to Shul
April 6, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Young Labor runs the Community Speak program and has invited its members to a Friday evening Shabbat service and dinner at Sydney’s The Great Synagogue. Read more
Kramer’s attorney questions indictment
April 4, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
David Kramer will be released from a Missouri prison later this month…but efforts are underway to have him extradited to Melbourne. Kramer is yet to be charged with offences relating to alleged sexual abuse at Melbourne’s Yeshivah College. Read more
Moroccan ambassador talks to Melbourne meeting
April 4, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Moroccan ambassador to Australia has addressed a joint meeting of the Capital Jewish Forum and the JBD-Jews of the CBD in Melbourne. Read more
Learning about Pesach
April 4, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Eighty senior academics from all five Sydney universities joined 20 Jewish leaders at an unprecedented Passover dinner on Monday night at the University of New South Wales. Read more
Remembering Sam Fisher
April 3, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
R
abbi Jeremy Lawrence spoke at the minyan for Sam Fisher…a legendary leader within Sydney’s Jewish community who recently passed away in Jerusalem… Read more
Promising The Right of Reply
March 30, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The executive director of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Peter Wertheim, has been denied the right of reply to an article written by New South Wales University Emeritus Professor of Law Hal Wootten. Read more
World Vision Responds
March 29, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
World Vision Australia has received the report on allegations made by Israeli organisation Shurat HaDin that Australian funds emanating from them were being channeled to the Union of Agricultural Workers Committees which has alleged connections to the PFLP. J-Wire publishes World Vision’s response. Read more
Zentai appeal begins
March 28, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The High Court in Canberra was the scene for the beginning today of the final stage in the battle to extradite 90-yr-old Perth man Charles Zentai wanted by Hungarian authorities for questioning about the death of an 18-yr-old Jewish youth in Budapest in 1944. Read more
AusAID back in the spotlight
March 28, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A civil rights group has provided conclusive evidence of WorldVision & AusAID funding illegal Gaza terrorist group and has accused World Vision & AusAID of sham investigation and misleading the public. Read more
Pesach for the needy
March 27, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A Coles supermarket is working together with Jewish House to provide Passover food for the needy. Read more
Israeli “art dealers” deported
March 22, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
All seven Israelis ordered to be deported by New Zeealand authorities following a complaint about an art scam have left the country. Read more
Overlap of cultures
March 22, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s new Foreign Minister, Senator Bob Carr, has advocated helping “the overlap of cultures” in his maiden speech, citing a 10th century caliph who had a Jewish foreign minister. Read more
Countering Israeli Apartheid Week
March 22, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
As university campuses around the nation featured Israeli Apartheid Week, members of The Australasian Union of Jewish Students countered by displaying specially designed posters. Read more
Scholarships honour Sir Zelman Cowen
March 21, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Two young Australians will be given the ability to study at the top universities in the world each year, through scholarships announced in honour of Sir Zelman Cowen. Read more
