Yiddish in court evidence
A judge of the NSW Supreme Court has rejected a ruling by the Sydney Beth Din that ordered Benjamin Amzalak to pay an Israeli businessman more than $300,000 for the apparent sale of shares in a company. Read more
Petition for Buckingham Palace
The grandson of William Cooper, the aboriginal who led the only known private protest against Kristallnacht in 1938 is campaigning to send his grandfather’s petition to the Queen. Read more
Call to step up boycott of Israel
Stepping up the boycott of Israel will be on the agenda of a conference in solidarity with Palestine to be held in New Zealand next month. Read more
Anne Frank in Sovereign Hill
Touring exhibition “Anne Frank – A History for Today” is now on show at Sovereign Hill’s Gold Museum in Victoria.
Senior Yeshivah Officials may face tribunal
The father of child sex abuse victim Manny Waks is taking two senior officials at the Yeshivah Centre to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Mossad man in Canberra will not be replaced – report
Israel’s Mossad representative in Canberra, who was expelled in the aftermath of the 2010 Dubai passport scandal, will not be replaced, according to a report in The Weekend Australian. Read more
Open email to the Claims Conference
J-Wire has received a copy of an email sent to the Claims Conference…. Read more
94-yr-old publishes e-book
When in 1997, eminent scholar Dr. Israel Kipen penned Ahad Ha-am: The Zionism of the Future, widely regarded as the definitive and standard study of one of Zionism’s most towering and influential figures, he never imagined that his much lauded and classic text would be republished as an e-book in the second decade of the 21st century. Read more
Better healthcare for Palestinian kids – thanks to Australian interfaith group
Hundreds of Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip will have access to improved healthcare thanks to a unique multi-faith partnership based in Australia. Read more
World Vision: Shurat HaDin responds
Shurat HaDin’s Akiva Hamilton has responded to World Vision’s defence of “taxpayer funded support for UAWC”… Read more
Australian Muslim web site attacks Zionism
An article published on a website “designed to bind together” Muslims in Australia calls Zionism a “colonial expansionist terrorist movement” and brands the occupation as “religiously racist” and “genocidal”. Read more
UK chair of coalition into combatting antisemitism hails Australian support
The chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism has hailed the deluge of Australian state and federal MPs and Senators who have signed the London Declaration into Combatting Anti-Semitism. Read more
World Vision Rejects Shurat HaDin’s Allegations
The Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Centre) first wrote to World Vision Australia (WVA) in February 2012 claiming that our AusAID-funded agricultural development project with the Palestinian organisation – the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) – violated Australian and US counter-terrorism legislation because, they claimed, UAWC is an arm of the proscribed terrorist organisation the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Read more
Israelis in Australia
More than 30 leaders of the Israeli communities based in Australia attended the inaugural “Israelis in Australia” conference at the weekend. Read more
Shavout stoush
One of the brothers of child sex abuse advocate Manny Waks was involved in a bitter altercation with a senior rabbi over Shavuot. Read more
Slipper calls for the dismissal of anti-Israel campaigner
Independent Queensland MP Peter Slipper has called on Sydney University to sack Professor Stuart Rees of the Sydney Peace Foundation. Read more
Australia appoints new ambassador to Israel
Wallenberg citizenship on display
The certificate conferring Australian citizenship on Raoul Wallenberg by Prime Minister Julia Gillard at a recent ceremony held at Government House in Canberra is on public display in Melbourne. Read more
Coalition MPs get behind the London Declaration…but Labor says it is bi-partisan
NSW Young Labor Women stand up to BDS
The NSW Young Labor Women’s Network has held a planning session at Max Brenner in Sydney…a gesture demonstrating their opposition to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Read more
Workshops on safety for children
Tzedek, a not-for-profit organisation which advocates for Jewish victims and survivors of childhood sexual abuse, is to launch its first public workshop for the Melbourne Jewish community on parenting safe children. Read more
Pyne Signs
Liberal MP Christopher Pyne, a longstanding friend of Israel and the Jewish community, has signed the London Agreement. Read more
Stamps of friendship
Stamps marking the heroic charge of the Australian Light Horse Brigade in Beersheba in 1917 were jointly issued by Israel and Australia. Read more
‘Til Death Don’t Us Part
In a sign of increasing inter-faith ties, Sydney’s Jews and Muslims will share the last available burial space at Rookwood Cemetery. Read more
Roozendaal quits Macquarie St
Eric Roozendaal, the former NSW treasurer, roads minister and ports minister in the former Labor government, quit politics on Thursday. Read more
BDS vote a non-event
An expected counter-motion to last month’s pro-BDS resolution at the University of Sydney did not go to the vote on Wednesday night because the Student Representative Council meeting did not reach a quorum. Read more
Fayad – Hardly a Moderate
The recently resigned former Palestinian Prime Minister Salman Fayad is being eulogized as the late great hope of moderation for the Palestinian Authority write Michael Kuttner and David Bedein. Read more
ABC says Zygier sabotaged mission
Ben Zygier, the Australian-born Mossad agent, unwittingly scuppered a top-sec ret operation to repatriate the bodies of three Israeli soldiers missing in Lebanon for three decades, according to an ABC report. Read more
Tzedek applies to appear at the Royal Commission
Tzedek, the Jewish organisation which has been established to end the silence on child sexual abuse within the Jewish community, has made an application to appear at the Royal Commission into child abuse. Read more
A private viewing of the Archibald
The Moriah Foundation has hosted its members and the Moriah College Grandparents Club at a private viewing of the Archibald Exhibition. Read more
