Rabbi Genende looks over the past ten years

Rabbi Ralph Genende, Senior Rabbi at Caulfield Shule, is celebrating 10 years of leadership of his vibrant congregation. Read more

No Place to Lay One’s Head

Françoise Frenkel was a Polish-born Jewish woman who owned a French-language book shop in Berlin in the 1930s. She was forced to flee after a Nazi raid and spent the war hiding in Vichy France, making several desperate attempts to reach Switzerland where her memoir was eventually published in 1945. Read more

Revelations

According to the dictionary definition, “revelations” are the act of making something known that was secret or a fact that is made known…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

The Feurstein Program shows its output

Mount Sinai College and the Australian Friends of the Hebrew University will co-host an event at the college to profile a young Israeli student of Ethiopian origin, Zuresh Wabbe. Read more

Tanya Plibersek and her daughter speak at Montefiore

More than 160 of Montefiore’s 500-strong volunteer base gathered at the Randwick campus for the annual Spirit of Volunteering event, which included an awards presentation and inspiring keynote addresses by Tanya Plibersek, Member for Sydney and Deputy Leader of the Opposition, and her daughter, who is a dedicated student volunteer at Montefiore Randwick. Read more

Art hopping in Sydney

Sydneysiders are invited to take a scenic tour from North Bondi to Vaucluse visiting artists in their studios and discovering the meaning behind each work. Read more

Researching for a new book

Vieslava Mataczynski and Timothy Scutt, co-authors of a new book under the working title: “Preservation of Life” bringing together memories both individual and collective, of the Jewish people  contacted J-Wire in an effort to reach out to the wider Jewish Community in support of this work.

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Israeli economy flexes its muscle as shekel is deemed world’s 2nd-strongest currency

The German financial services giant Deutsche Bank last week ranked the Israeli shekel as the world’s second-strongest currency, bolstering the broader outlook on the Jewish state’s economy…writes Adam Abrams/JNS.org. Read more

Hopes betrayed: the Russian Revolution and the Jews

Another week, another centennial. Following the Balfour Declaration’s milestone, it’s now time to look back on the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, where a communist insurrection in St. Petersburg, then known as Petrograd, gave birth to a state that caused untold misery to millions for almost the remainder of the 20th century…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Meet Lani Brayer and Gen2Gen

Lani Brayer’s Gen2Gen Educational Program “Remember Me” for young people to remember the past and change the future, is a Not For Profit designed to connect Holocaust Survivors with young people of different faiths, in the spirit of harmony and cohesiveness, to eradicate prejudice and discrimination. Read more

Rabbi Kastel joins the board of NCOSS

Jewish House CEO Rabbi Mendel Kastel has been invited to join the board of The NSW Council of Social Service. Read more

A night for Shostakovich fans – a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

A whole program of Shostakovich was something of a gamble for the SSO concert last night, because not everybody likes his music. Luckily, I’m one who does, although my love blossomed only after many hearings. Read more

Recent sexual controversies and upheavals…writes Isi Leibler

While sexual attitudes are inclined to change from generation to generation, controversies relating to sexual behavior are ageless and even occupy a prominent role in the biblical narrative. Read more

Is it to OK to believe in God and worship your own way?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple answers this question and others. Read more

Feintooner

Feintooner turns his crayons to Kristallnacht… Read more

Looking for relatives

Hugo Boyko or Max Boyko Read more

On the other hand…writes Michael Kuttner

The dream of a re-established Jewish homeland enabled by Lord Balfour one hundred years ago is today a reality. Read more

US visitor discusses antisemitism, racism and Israel

Mark Weitzman, Director of Government Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in New York was the keynote speaker at last night’s Betty and Shmuel Rosenkranz Oration in Melbourne. Read more

Demonisation and broken glass

The resurgence of anti Jewish manifestations thinly disguised as anti Israel protests and the anniversary of Kristallnacht should remind us of the lessons which still need to be learnt…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

How in(secure) are we?

Queueing at passport-control at Ben-Gurion Airport (one of the few places in Israel where queues really do exist!), two young women just ahead of me turned around (I suppose they gleaned from my appearance and demeanour that I was not a first-timer like them!) and nervously asked me what sort of questions they were likely to have to answer…writes Rabbi Chaim Ingram. Read more

Teaching ‘The Holocaust Survivor’s Anthem’ to the next generation

“On Yom Hashoah, many Holocaust survivors sing ‘Zog Nit Keynmol’ – The Partisan Song. However, a decline in survivors has meant that the song was being lost to history,” explains Australian educator Eli Rabinowitz, who is working to reverse this by teaching the song and the original poem to school children around the globe, in their home language…writes Tali Feinberg. Read more

Generations of women look up

Now in its 21^st year, the Annual Generations of Women Brunch saw 260 women attend the The International Brighton and hear guest speaker Fiona Grinwald encourage them all to “look up”. Read more

Shake-up in Lebanon underscores Hezbollah’s ‘domination’ of Israel’s neighbour

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s sudden resignation last weekend underscores the rising power of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group in Israel’s northern neighbor, political leaders and Mideast experts said….writes Aden Abrams/JNS.org. Read more

The Daily Californian refuses to publish my response to an antisemitic op-ed 

On November 3, The Daily Californian published an op-ed by Matthew Taylor, explicitly accusing me of having “blood on his [my] hands” and being “culpable for the perpetuation of…[Israeli] atrocities.”…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Latest chapter unfolds in ‘developing story’ of covert Israeli-Saudi relationship

A flurry of reports involving Israel and Saudi Arabia in recent weeks has increased speculation on the current extent of covert relations between the countries, including with regard to their mutual foe of Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more

Israeli policy can’t be guided by fear of world criticism, deputy foreign minister says

Israeli policy should not be guided by fear of international criticism, a senior Israeli official said at a U.S. synagogue last weekend…writes Rafael Medoff. Read more

The Grand Lady of St Kilda

St Kilda identity and RocKwiz host, Brian Nankervis, will launch Acland Street: The Grand Lady of St Kilda by award-winning historian, Dr Judith Buchrich later this month. Read more

I am My Brother’s Keeper

An exhibition is to be launched at Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre honouring Australian immigrants who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Read more

Britain backs Jordan and Israel to end the Arab-Jewish conflict

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has acknowledged that Jordan and Israel represent the only viable “two state solution” that can end the Arab-Jewish conflict. Read more

Who needs Mashi’ach?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple answers this tricky question…. Read more

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