Postal plebiscite issues
Yesterday, ARK Centre released a response condemning the deplorable statement by the RCV urging the Jewish community to vote ‘no’ in the upcoming postal plebiscite on Same Sex Marriage…writes Rabbi Schneur Reti-Waks. Read more
Kindertransport – a theatre review by David Kary
We need to step outside of ourselves and into the ‘shoes’ of another human being to truly understand and accept them. Read more
Charidy to implement community fundraising calendar
Charidy, the latest fundraising program to hit Australia, is working to create a transparent calendar of Charidy fundraising dates within Melbourne’s Jewish community. Read more
El Al and Qantas codeshare routes
El Al and Qantas have announced their codeshare agreement at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce tourism lunch. Read more
Moriah Archibald photo gallery
Moriah Foundation Archibald event: a photo gallery from Nadine Saacks. Read more
Australians participate in Naomi Chazan Fellowship
Five Fellows from Sydney and Melbourne have participated in the New Israel Fund (NIF) Naomi Chazan Fellowship in Israel. Read more
Bob Carr should look in his own back yard
Before Bob Carr starts to badmouth Israel and to speak of the rights of the Palestinians, perhaps he should consider restoring to the Australian aborigines the land taken from them by the white man. Read more
Drinkable water at the top of Israel’s list of national security issues.
Perhaps few resources are more valuable to a nation than water and energy supplies. Israel will soon reach what could be a point of no return in which the Netanyahu government will have to decide which to put first: water or energy. Read more
The joy of Shabbat – the sadness of bereavement
It was a perfect Shabbat, with many guests, delicious food. The end of Shabbat was approaching and, together with my son and our guests, we make our way to the house of my friend Gadi Whitman for evening prayers. In my heart, I wish that Shabbat would not end… When the evening prayers were over, we sit around the table together to recite the prayer “Vayiten lecha”…writes ZAKA volunteer Moti Bukchin. Read more
UIA Women’s Division world president’s event
In her first event as KH-UIA International President of Women’s Division Sydney-based Penny Hurst has led an incredible and productive five-day seminar (Mifgash) in Israel. Read more
Eliot reaches for his target
‘I had a scare … that doesn’t happen very often’…and with that, the No.1 Maccabiah seed gave a ringing endorsement of the talents of 19-year-old Australian Eliot Vogel’s display at the archery where he finished a fantastic fifth. Read more
Helping South Head
The people who are currently “helping” South Head Synagogue survive are actually only helping Rabbi Milecki and that is the antithesis of helping South Head – it will bring about its demise. Read more
South Head: a member writes
South Head: former president writes
Rabbi Milecki’s viewpoint has been well publicised through his articles, various letters in the AJN, his letters to the community, his family’s Facebook pages, and their ‘testimonial’ website. Read more
World Jewish Congress condemns Manchester terror attack
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder has condemned the terrorist attack at a concert in Manchester, England on Monday night as “despicable and horrendous.” Police confirmed on Tuesday that the attack was carried out by a lone suicide bomber who was carrying “an improvised explosive device”. Read more
From Auschwitz to Israel
29 Year 11 students and a 25-person adult group from Australia to Poland and Israel are attending this year’s March of the Living to Poland and Israel Read more
Yom HaShoah at Yad Vashem
Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin addressed the official ceremony marking the commencement of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, which took place place at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more
McCully supported UN resolution 2334 without cabinet approval
Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully’s office has confirmed he never had Cabinet approval when New Zealand promoted a United Nations Security Council resolution denouncing Israel, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Winston Peters. Read more
Breaking the Silence takes Richard Gere to Hebron
Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence have escorted actor superstar Richard Gere to Hebron…and Israel’s Channel Two filmed the visit. Read more
A Hebrew Uni experience
In early January 2017, Jennifer Keene left Melbourne for the three-week ‘Mishpatim’ course at Hebrew University. This survey course in Israeli and international law would earn her one course credit for her Juris Doctor law studies at the University of Melbourne… Read more
Feldman litigation settled
Litigation in which Sydney Rabbi Yosef Feldman sought damages against the Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia, The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has been settled through mediation. Read more
UIA NSW Gala Event: Photo Gallery
Did you attend the UIA NSW Gala Event at which Canadian former prime minister Stephen Harper spoke?…a J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
UIA NSW Major Donors: A J-Wire photo gallery
Did you attend the UIA NSW Major Donors function…. Read more
Purim gallery
Photos from Purim events Read more
MDA Lunch with Robert Goot…a photo gallery
Did you attend the Magen David Adom Solicitors and Professionals Lunch in Sydney with speaker Robert Goot? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
Antisemitism landmark case in the UK
Feintooner: Purim cartoon
Feintooner: Queen Esther dismisses Haman’s message to King Ahasuerus… Read more
The Laden Table
The independent theatre company known for taking daring risks, Sydney’s bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company, will kick off their 2017 season with a powerful world-premiere, The Laden Table, written and developed by a collective of Jewish, Muslim and Christian women in response to ‘dinner table racism’. Read more
Feintooner
This week’s cartoon from Feintooner… Read more
Hebrew University archaeologists find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls cave
Excavations in a cave on the cliffs west of Qumran, near the north-western shore of the Dead Sea, prove that Dead Sea scrolls from the Second Temple period were hidden in the cave, and were looted by Bedouins in the middle of the last century. Read more
