New Champion
July 14, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Yoram Pohl has won the World Body Fitness Federation title championships held recently in Calgary, Canada. Read more
Premier visits the Great
July 13, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell has visited Sydney’s Great Synagogue…an iconic heritage building in the centre of the city. Read more
AFL Peace Team Delegation meets the Ambassador
July 13, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Andrea Faulkner, the Australian Ambassador to Israel, hosted a delegation from the AFL in Israel to make arrangements for the vist to Australia next month of the Peace Team…an Aussie Rules side comprised of Israelis and Palestinians. Read more
Sexual Abuse Victims – “You Did Nothing Wrong”
July 13, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Ari Heber heads Queensland’s Jewish Community Services. He has a message for male victims of sexual abuse….all the more meaningful because he was a victim himself. Read more
Connections between Australia’s Jewish and Indigenous Communities
July 10, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The connections between Jewish and Indigenous peoples in Australia are based on shared values including the ethics of caring and sharing societies, a profound attachment to land, a commitment to education, spirituality and mysticism, storytelling traditions, and their histories of persecution and genocide, said Dr Anne Sarzin, in a Radio Australia interview that also focused on NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) week. Read more
Community Leader sexual assault victim
July 8, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Manny Waks, a Canberra-based vice-president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, was one of the children sexually assaulted at Melbourne’s Yeshiva College between 1989 and 1993. He tells J-Wire of his experience…. Read more
International Position for NSW Leader
July 7, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies President, Yair Miller, has been appointed to a high profile board of governors of the newly established International School of Jewish Leadership (ISJL) – an outgrowth of Beren College at Beit Morasha of Jerusalem. The Board of Governors is chaired by the Hon. Irwin Cotler MP. High profile Israeli Professor Benjamin Ish Shalom is President of Beit Morasha.
Police seek victims of sexual assault in second Jewish school
July 7, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
For the second time within a month, Melbourne police are investigating sexual assaults in a Jewish school. Read more
The Daily Danby
July 4, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Yet a third story has developed today featuring Federal Labor MP Michael Danby…this time a yarn in The Jerusalem Post clearly stating that Danby is to present a case to the Australian parliament requesting that Australia offer African migrants to Israel the opportunity of resettling Down Under. Not so, says Mr Danby. Read more
Danby slams Max Brenner protesters
July 3, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has lashed out at anti-Israel protesters who encouraged the boycotting of the Max Brenner Chocolate shop in inner Melbourne.
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New Web Site for AIJAC
June 29, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has launch a completely re-designed new website. This is a top to bottom overhaul with the goal of turning AIJAC’s already popular site into your one-stop shop for daily news, information and analysis with respect to the Middle East, terrorism, racism, multiculturalism, and other public policy issues of special interest to the Australian Jewish community. Read more
Waks answers his criticss
June 29, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The Capital Jewish Forum and its founder Manny Waks have been criticised following the announcement of functions it will hold in Melbourne.
Waks answers his critics: Read more
Alleged Sexual Assaults at Yeshivah
June 22, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne police have launched an investigation into alleged sexual assaults at Chabad’s Yeshivah College in St Kilda East between 1989 and 1993. Read more
Award Winning Israeli Singer performing in Marrickville
June 15, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Efrat Goshhas won the World Music Cabaret Award as Artist of the Decade…and tonight she will perform in the heart of Marrickville whose municipal council recently attempted to boycott Israeli artists. Read more
Melbourne loses its Jewish Radio Station
June 14, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has notified MJR Inc.(Melbourne Jewish Radio) that it would not renew its temporary community broadcasting licence for “Lion FM”. The station ceased broadcasting at midnight on Monday. Read more
Queen’s Birthday Awards
June 13, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
This year’s Queen’s Birthday awards, recognises amongst others, the achievements of Lisa Jackson Pulver…a Jewish Aboriginal who is president of the Newtown Synagogue in Sydney…. Read more
Toben in court – facing bankruptcy
June 3, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Fredrick Toben lost a case brought by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry in 2009 for uploading articles to his website implying that those offended by Holocaust denial were of limited intelligence…he was sentenced to three months in prison and $56,000 in costs were awarded to Jeremy Jones who was the plaintiff. No money was received and Toben has faced bankruptcy proceedings in Adelaide’s Federal Court. Read more
Coalition questions Labor’s Israel Support
June 2, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Shadow Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has slammed the Federal Government for failing to support a motion condemning Marrickville Council’s December decision to support boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Read more
Masada students meet Living Historians
May 30, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Masada College has held its Year 10 Living Historian Presentation… Read more
Hipster Hitler clothing – an update
May 26, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
J-Wire has learned that representatives of Redbubble the on line marketing company behind the Hipster Hitler clothing range are currently discussing the issue with the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission in Melbourne. Read more
Dear Robin, Dear Jason
May 20, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Jason Edelstein, NGO Monitor’s Communications Director wrote a letter to J-Wire on the newly-founded New Israel Fund Australia. Today we publish a response from NIFA head Robin Margo…. Read more
Zentai: Answers from the family
May 20, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
J-Wire asked Ernie Steiner, the son of 89-yt-old Perth man Charles Zentai whose extradition to Hungary has been sought by authorities in connection with the 1944 brutal murder of Jewish youth Peter Balazs for a comment following the decision of three Federal Court judges to reserve their decision. Zentai’s extradition had been over-ruled by an earlier appeal…one now challenged by the Federal Government. Read more
No place for BDS at Limmud-Oz
May 19, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Speakers critical of current Israeli policies and actions will have a platform at which to air their views at next month’s Limmud-Oz in Sydney…but Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions against the Jewish State will have no voice. Read more
$2 a day Dan
May 19, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Leading Jewish journalist Dan Goldberg updates J-Wire on his latest mission…raising funds and awareness for those living beneath the poverty line by surviving on $2 a day… Read more
Zentai: Decision reserved
May 19, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Three Federal Court judges in Perth have reserved their decision in the matter of 89-yr-old Charles Zentai’s extradition to Hungary to face questioning over the 1944 death of Budapest youth Peter Balazs. Read more
Stroke means no court for Zentai next week.
May 18, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
An 89-year-old accused Nazi war criminal living in Perth, has suffered a stroke preventing him from appearing in court to hear the latest appeal in his long-running extradition case. Read more
J-Wire in hospital
May 17, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Thought it would be a breeze. Into Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hopspital for a double knee replacement last Thursday.
Well, it was no breeze and it has been impossible to publish as normal. I promise normal service as soon as possible, but for now it is off to receive necessary blood transfusions.
Sorry to let you down…..
NIFA – but wait, there’s more
May 17, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
J-Wire publishes Ron Weiser’s response to yesterday’s piece fron Robin Margo on the establishment of a New Israel /Fund Australian organisation. Read more
Yom Ha’azmaut Hook-up
May 12, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
More than 2,000 Jewish schoolchildren converged on Randwick racecourse to celebrate Yom Ha’azmaut…the 63rd anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel….and joined in a world-wide TV hook-up. Read more
CJF meets AFP Chief
May 12, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The Capital Jewish Forum has held a function addressed by Tony Negus who heads the Australian Federal Police force. Read more
