Statement from the Embassy of Israel in Australia
On July 15th at 9am [Israel time], Israel accepted the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire. Israel stopped its military action in the Gaza Strip in order to restore routine life to Israeli citizens having been subjected to constant rocket attacks by Hamas. Read more
Winning on the Third Front…by Dvir Kahana
Last week, the State of Israel began an extensive military operation designed to restore order and allow Israeli citizens to go back and live their lives in peace. Read more
Why Israel Has Been Forced to Go to War…writes Dennis MacEoin
I want you to imagine this. An independent Scotland, fired up by new-found freedoms and ruled by President Robbie Burns II, bursts into ructions of tartan nationalism. Read more
Healing Garden in Jerusalem
Hadassah Mt. Scopus has celebrated the inauguration of the Jack and Robert Smorgon Families’ Foundation Healing Garden Project in Jerusalem. Read more
Six days that changed the world…write Peter Wertheim and Alex Ryvchin
It is one of those ironies of history that the controversy surrounding the federal government’s refusal to label any part of Jerusalem as “occupied” by Israel broke in the media on June 5, the anniversary of the start of the Six Day war in 1967. Read more
Jewish Agency Chairman visits families
Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky and Avital Sharansky today (Monday, June 16) visited the families of 19-year-old Eyal Yifrah and 16-year-old Gil-Ad Shaer, two of the three Israeli teens kidnapped by terrorists on Thursday evening and currently held. Read more
JCA Eastern Suburbs Communal event
Wendy Harmer entertained the huge crowd at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney attending the JCA event…were you there? Check the pix… Read more
JCA Communal North Shore Event with guest speaker Wendy Harmer at The Pavilion, Chatwood Concourse
Sydney’s JCA Major Donors Dinner
Were you at the JCA Major Donors Dinner? Maybe your photo is in this gallery… Read more
JCA Major donors function
Sydney’s JCA recently held their major donors brunch…check the photo gallery Read more
ECAJ on the A-G’s statement on East Jerusalem
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has defended the Federal government’s statement that “the description of East Jerusalem as ‘Occupied East Jerusalem’ is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful.” Read more
WJC praises investigative work
The World Jewish Congress has welcomed the arrest of the suspected gunman in the May 24 shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, which killed three people and gravely injured another. Read more
Diaspora in partnership with Israel to ensure continuity
The Government of Israel has approved the Government of Israel-World Jewry Joint Initiative, which aims to help ensure the continuity of the Jewish people by strengthening young Jews’ Jewish identity and enhancing connections between world Jewry and the State of Israel. Read more
Jewish Holocaust Centre marks 30 years
Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre has marked its 30th anniversary with a gala dinner. Read more
Trip to Israel for a Kiwi start up contender
The Wellington City Council, Grow Wellington, Creative HQ, ATEED and Callaghan Innovation have joined hands with the Embassy of Israel in promoting the participation of a young,
talented and promising Kiwi “Start-up ist” in the Tel Aviv Start-up seminar and the DLD Innovation Festival which will take place from 13-19 September 2014 in Tel Aviv. Read more
Limmud sampler
Stand-up comedy, first-hand stories from Bob Carr’s favourite lobby group the “falafel faction”, or a former Israeli intelligence official analysing jihadi groups? It’s a tough choice for the 12pm session at Yom Limmud. Read more
Brussels: death toll rises to four
A fourth person has died following the attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels on Saturday. Read more
Been and scene at the Sydney Jewish Museum
The Sydney Jewish Museum has held functions related to the current Anne Frank exhibition…J-Wire presents images from the events. Read more
Aussies told not to take part in peace run
Six Israelis, three originally from Australia, were asked to refrain from participating in Australian ultra marathon runner Pat Farmer’s Peace Run, as it passed the Jewish communities of Eli and Shiloh in Samaria. The group had coordinated with Farmer’s team ahead of time to ensure that Jews and Palestinians could run together in a true show of coexistence. Read more
Cruising for love
Men in lion and dog suits, women wearing fluoro wigs and a magician with a top hat and baton; it doesn’t sound like a religious festival, but it is. Read more
In the wake of a martyr’s funeral
Palestinians have celebrated the funeral of al-Masri, the suicide bomber who blew up the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem in 2001. Arnold and Frimet Roth, originally from Melbourne, lost their 15-yr-old daughter Malki in the attack. Arnold Roth expresses his feelings in the wake of al-Masri’s funeral. Read more
Yom Ha’azmaut
Yom Ha’azmaut celebrations in Melbourne and Sydney…celebrating Israel’s 66th birthday. Read more
Yom Hazikaron in Australia
Jewish communities across the world have paid tribute to Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Read more
Video: 250 Young Jewish Australians commemorate Anzac Day in Israel
J-Wire has reported the Anzac Day ceremony involving 250 young Jewish Australians in Israel on the Zionist Federation of Australia’s MASA program. Watch the video of the event. Read more
ECAJ makes its submission on Section 18C
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has made the following submission (Submission) in response to the Exposure Draft Exposure Draft of Freedom of Speech (Repeal of s.18C) Bill 2014 (the Exposure Draft). Read more
From Breaking the Silence
Jamie Hyams and Adam Shapiro of The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council have claimed on these pages that allegations aired on the ABC 4 Corners Program “Stone Cold Justice” were “old – some going back to incidents that were alleged to have occurred almost a decade ago.”
Specifically, Hyams and Shapiro were referring to the story of an array of settler attacks on Palestinian children in 2005 that led IDF soldiers to escort the children to their school in the village of at-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills.
Chag Sameach from the Prime Minister
Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of Australia sends a Pesach message to J-Wire readers…. Read more
The fight against BDS
In a keynote speech in London, World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder on Monday called on Jewish community and organizational leaders to step up the battle against the anti-Israel Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) movement, saying that this was perhaps the most important thing they would ever do. Read more
Bob Carr: A reader’s thoughts
I don’t think that the self opinionated, arrogant Bob Carr should get away without a suitable reply both to his appearance on the 7.30 program on the ABC last night as well as his chapter about the “ IsraeliLobby “ also called ( by him ) the” Falafel Lobby”, in his book. Read more
Israelis abroad under-utlilised
Participants at a Global Israeli Leadership Summit held in London have been told that Israelis living in the Diaspora must be recognised by the Israeli government as being an integral part of the world-wide Jewish community. Read more
