Once-verdant Irish Jewish community paling over time
November 16, 2016 by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman - JNS.org
An Israeli and an Irish Jew walk into a bar. After a shot of whiskey and a pint of Guinness, they discuss neither leprechauns nor the verdant landscape, but rabbinics…writes Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS.org. Read more
The Founder – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
November 15, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
You don’t need to have entered a McDonald’s restaurant to appreciate how a hamburger stand became a billion dollar empire. Director John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr Banks) has brought to life the American success story of the man who saw gold in a beef patty.
Meeting with the African community
November 15, 2016 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) held a Jewish – African ‘Jeffersonian’ Dinner in partnership with Africa Media Australia (AMA) and the African Professionals Association. Read more
Will Donald Trump fire the Iran nuclear deal?…asks Sean Savage/JNS.org
November 15, 2016 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
The election victory by Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman who has never held political office and is a neophyte on foreign policy, has left many observers wondering about the future direction of U.S. policy abroad. Read more
Anxiety Awareness Week
November 14, 2016 by Jenna Chaitowitz
In support of Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Awareness Week Melbourne’s Jewish Care have published Miriam & Schneier’s Story, the final video instalment from its Reach Out, Speak Out campaign. Read more
Are there too many prayers and too much Kaddish?…ask the rabbi
November 14, 2016 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple deals with questions on Judaism. Read more
Henry Greener interviews Hayley Southwick
November 13, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Hayley Southwick is a successful multi-tasker… Read more
Newt’s News: Jewish Humor’s Line in the sand
November 13, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
…making fun of ourselves is a tradition…!! Read more
Don Lane’s son PJ Lane for cabaret performance
November 13, 2016 by Geoff Sirmai
There will be fun and games and many ‘Tales out of school’ when Slide Lounge in Sydney’s Darlinghurst presents PJ Lane in a cabaret tour-de-force. Read more
Shadow Attorney-General Dreyfus on 18C
November 11, 2016 by Mark Dreyfus
The Abbott government’s botched attempt in 2014 to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act – the law that has drawn a line against racial abuse, Holocaust denial and harmful hate speech for more than 20 years was one of its biggest failures…writes Mark Dreyfus. Read more
Force 10 on the Richter scale…writes Michael Kuttner
November 11, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
Undoubtedly the major and only talking point internationally this week is the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA. Read more
Changes to section 18C
November 11, 2016 by Bill Shorten
The Turnbull Liberal Government wants to change section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act to weaken protections against racist hate speech…writes Bill Shorten. Read more
The what and the why…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
November 11, 2016 by J-Wire
Everything we do in our daily routine includes two components – what we do and why we do it. Both are critically important. Read more
Trump Must Confirm Bush-Congress Commitments To Israel…writes David Singer
November 10, 2016 by David Singer
Donald Trump’s stunning Presidential victory – coupled with the Republican Party retaining control of the Congress – presents Trump with the opportunity to restore America’s tarnished reputation and integrity by affirming he will honour the commitments made to Israel by President Bush in his letter dated 14 April 2004 – overwhelmingly endorsed by the then Congress by 502 votes to 12. Read more
Ever Grateful
November 10, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A film shot in Melbourne in which six Holocaust survivors express their gratitude to strangers whose acts of kindness saved their lives will be screened later this month at the city’s Jewish Holocaust Centre. Read more
The decisions facing Donald Trump…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org
November 10, 2016 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
Donald Trump is now America’s master. Read more
Sharing a deeply personal experience…writes Isi Leibler
November 9, 2016 by Isi Leibler
I am an octogenarian and one of the few who has both witnessed the tragedies and become engaged directly in the triumphs of the Jewish people in our time. Read more
Sydney welcomes Spoons – a Kosher pop-up food venture
November 8, 2016 by Sophie Deutsch
It was in the historic Jerusalem neighbourhood of Yemin Moshe that Hila Solomon’s kosher food business, Spoons, began. Read more
What Jewish voters need to know before Election Day
November 7, 2016 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
With only a few weeks remaining before the presidential election, and the start of early voting in most states, Jewish voters may still be weighing their decisions…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more
Why to brides have to visit the mikvah?…ask the rabbi
November 7, 2016 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple answers your questions. Read more
On the couch…with Rachael Kohn
November 4, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Rachael Kohn will be the guest “On the Couch” interviewed ‘up close and personal’ by Jacky Orgeil, at historic Duneira House in Mt Macedon, Victoria on Sunday. Read more
Jewish Care Builds New Generation of Leaders
November 4, 2016 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Jewish Care Victoria’s inaugural Board Foundations program, ‘Yesod’ culminated with a graduation ceremony at which 10 young Jewish professionals completed the program. Read more
Forbidden Music: Composers banned by the Third Reich
November 4, 2016 by Stevie Whitmont
J-Wire publishes a monthly series by Stevie Whitmont of vignettes of Jewish composers banned in by Nazis. This month features Hans Gál. Read more
Montefiore Randwick Celebrates 10 Years
November 4, 2016 by Natalie Shymko
Sydney’s Montefiore Randwick has celebrated its 10 year anniversary. Read more
Balagan…writes Michael Kuttner
November 4, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
Definition: “chaos, fiasco, bedlam, mess, foul up, a state of extreme confusion and disorder.” Read more
Newt’s News
November 4, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Newt on Donald Trump’s Semitism, Israeli Arab Warriors, UK Campus Anti-Semitism and a look at the Shabbat Project. Read more
The Venetian Ghetto
November 4, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
ABC presenter Rachael Kohn will broadcast a program on the Venetian Ghetto on Radio National. Read more
The Light Between Oceans – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
November 2, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
The idea of the place where two oceans meet is both romantic and exciting. Writer and director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, Place Beyond the Pines) has based his film on the eponymous bestselling novel by M.L. Stedman.
Will betraying Israel be Obama’s farewell gesture?…asks Isi Leibler
November 2, 2016 by Isi Leibler
Throughout his entire presidential term of nearly eight years, U.S. President Barak Obama has insisted that he “has Israel’s back.” Read more
Anti-Semitism, a danger to us all…writes David Roet/JNS.org
November 1, 2016 by David Roet - JNS.org
My father, Haim Hendrick Roet, a Holocaust survivor from the Netherlands, addressed the United Nations General Assembly in January, during its annual Holocaust memorial ceremony with this poignant cri de coeur: “Looking back 70 years,” he said, “it is heartbreaking that as a world, we did not learn enough from the Holocaust.” Read more
