Meeting the Indian community

Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant, President of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) met with the with the Indian, Hindu and Sikh communities to provide guidance on achieving and executing a Strategic plan. Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Days 7 & 8

Embracing Poisonous Partners…writes Michael Kuttner

The newly elected head of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition, Yitzhak Herzog, has just returned from a pilgrimage to Ramallah where he was granted an audience with the President of the Palestinian Authority whose term of office incidentally expired over 5 years ago. Read more

Melbourne Now

Melbourne Now is a current exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria assembling over 250 outstanding commissions, acquired and loaned works and installations, Melbourne Now explores the idea that a city is significantly shaped by the artists, designers and architects who live and work in its midst. Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 6

Day 6 of our Mission saw us off in the bus to Honest Reporting Headquarters – Jerusalem Israel, where Simon Plosker, Managing Editor, gave us a crash course in ‘Understanding Media Bias’. Read more

First book from Rabbi Ingram

Rabbi Chaim Ingram will launch his first book in Sydney next weekend. Read more

Why Australia is right to challenge the UN’s anti-Israel bias…writes Alex Ryvchin

The Government’s decision to revert to Howard-era voting patterns on Israel at the United Nations General Assembly has been criticised as a betrayal of the Palestinians. Read more

Hebrew Language Courses at the University of Melbourne

Hebrew is at the core of our Jewish studies program and has been part of the teaching at The University of Melbourne, Australia’s number one university, for more than 60 years. Read more

A Dummies’ Guide to the Iranian Nuclear Deal…from Gabsy Debinski

Coverage of the Iranian nuclear deal has abounded. Read more

New Religious Leadership Needed…writes Isi Leibler

There was hardly a murmur when former Chief Rabbi Metzger was arrested for the second time and placed under house arrest on suspicion of money laundering, bribery and obstruction of justice.  Read more

Chanukah: All ready in the city

Sydney’s traditional giant menorah is in place and ready for Chanukah. Read more

Billy Crystal’s Serious Side…writes Robert Gluck

After suffering a tough personal loss early in life, there has always been a serious side to the comedy of famed Jewish entertainer Billy Crystal. Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 5

The NSWJBD joint mission to Israel with Honest Reporting has a Canadian member. Alan Perlmutter from London, Canada files the report on Day 5… Read more

Israeli stamp magazines on offer

A J-Wire reader wants to donate a valuable set of Israeli philately magazines to an organisation which could use them for fund-raising or to an appreciative collector… Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 4

Today was a day for true ‘honest reporting’…writes Diane  Shteinman Read more

Been There – Done That…writes Michael Kuttner

Like some horror movie from the past but no surprise for anyone attuned to the siren sound of appeasement emanating from the corridors of power in Washington, London, Europe and the UN and the chorus of hallelujahs from the usual useful idiots in the media, academia and politics, the curtain has gone up on the latest production to be concocted by the heirs of Chamberlain and friends. Read more

Mahathir Ten Years Ago: Jews rule the World

Ten years ago in the last months of 2003, the since-forgotten yet highly instructive Mahathir Affair took place. At the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit in 2003 in Kuala Lumpur, then-Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir, the conference host, presented relations between Muslims and Jews as a worldwide frontal confrontation.[1] Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 3

 

This report from the NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission has been written by participants Mel and Brenda Braun… Read more

Humility…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

Jewish sources continuously promote humility. Our sages ask us to “be humble before everyone”. When the Torah praises Moses, it is his great humility that is highlighted. What is the definition of humility? Read more

Hamas’ school curriculum: one, two, three, war…writes Gabsy Debinsky

The lessons we are taught at school as children stay with us for life. They are the ideas that inform the people we will become and the values that will define us as adults. While it may be possible to reverse the beliefs instilled in youth, it is hard. Sometimes even impossible.   Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 2

Today’s report brought to you by Michael Foley and Antoinette Collins… Read more

Apples and Pears – a drama review by Deb Meyer

Where in Sydney do you find an intimate theatre inside a NY style, graffiti filled warehouse, with a labyrinth of narrow staircases, bustling with energy and the occasional pot of overgrown tomatoes? Read more

The Poisonous Plague Continues [Part 2]…from Michael Kuttner

Almost as if in confirmation of my last op-ed, the torrent of poison against the Jewish State continues unabated, not only spread by our supposed “peace partners” but also manufactured and disseminated by others. Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 1

Rachel Lustig and Lynda Ben-Menashe report from Israel….
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Saving Syrian Lives…writes Vic Alhadeff

Israeli hospitals have treated 500 Syrians wounded in the civil war. Vic Alhadeff visited one of those hospitals last week and spoke with a Syrian patient. Read more

Chaotic Government Undermines Our Global Standing…writes Isi Leibler

The return of Avigdor Lieberman to head the Foreign Ministry will undoubtedly exacerbate the disastrous absence of cabinet responsibility and failure of the government to speak with one voice. This will become especially sensitive now with Israel’s rapidly deteriorating relationship with the Obama Administration over Iran and the Palestinians. Read more

Atomic – The Musical: A review by Deb Meyer

Physicists make for fascinating protagonists in the current Sydney theatre scene. Read more

Palestine – No Elections, No Solutions

The PLO negotiating team – headed by perennial negotiator Saeb Erekat – resigned this week in the middle of a nine month period set aside for intense and secret negotiations with Israel to achieve the creation of a second Arab state – in addition to Jordan – in former Mandatory Palestine. Read more

Poisonous Peace Partners…writes Michael Kuttner

It is inevitable as day follows night that if you drip feed poisonous information into the impressionable minds of young school children you will produce a generation growing into adulthood who will not only believe the worst of those being demonized but also in many cases galvanize them to take action against those they have been taught to hate. Read more

Do it Now…advises Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

Why are so many good resolutions never translated into practice? Read more

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