Cisco names Israeli school best in European region
May 8, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Cisco Networking Academy has awarded Boys Town Jerusalem the Above and Beyond Award for 2019. Read more
No place for hate in Australian election debate
May 7, 2019 by J-Wire Staff
Meeting in Sydney today, Uniting Church and Jewish community representatives considered the “spate of racist invective, vandalism and harassment” which is marring the 2019 Federal Election. Read more
Two MPs go public on antisemitic attacks
May 7, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Liberal MP for Berowra Julian Lesser and Independent MP for Wentworth Dr Kerryn Phelps have reacted to antisemitic incidents during their election campaigns. Read more
Gantz’s plan for Gaza: After creating deterrence, a regional push to rehabilitate the Strip
May 7, 2019 by Yaakov Lappin
Blue and White Party leader and former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz laid out his own alternative plan for dealing with the Gazan threat during a visit to Israel’s rocket-stricken south on Sunday. Read more
Friends of Montefiore Raise $80,000
May 7, 2019 by Kirsten Young
Over 300 guests attended the 36th Annual Friends of Montefiore Lunch in Melbourne. Read more
Michael Danby attends Anzac Day service in France
May 7, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Labor MP Michael Danby attended the 2019 Anzac Day Dawn Service at Villers- Bretonneux in France last week, as the Federal Opposition’s representative. Read more
The rockets’ toll
May 7, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin has paid condolence calls on the Prezuazman family, whose son Pinchas Menachem was killed yesterday by flying shrapnel in Ashdod; the Agadi family, whose father Moshe was killed on Saturday in a rocket attack on Askhelon; and the al-Hamamda family whose father Ziad was killed yesterday in the rocket attack on the factory in Ashkelon. Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Islamic Jihad admits – Gazan baby killed by our rocket
May 7, 2019 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
The Islamic Jihad terror group has admitted that a rocket it fired on Saturday evening killed a baby in the Gaza Strip, despite initial claims she was killed in an Israeli strike. Read more
Tense quiet settles over south after ceasefire commences
May 6, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
A tense quiet settled over southern Israel Monday morning after another ceasefire between the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups and Israel came into effect. Read more
President Rivlin meets members of the IDF’s casualties unit
May 6, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin met members of the IDF’s casualties unit this morning at Beit HaNasi. Read more
Leaders react to Gaza rockets
May 6, 2019 by J-Wire Staff
Terrorists in the Gaza Strip have fired some 700 rockets at Israel in the last two days, killing three people and wounding several others. Israelis have been asked not to attend the funerals of the victims amid the dangerous escalation in the south. Israel has responded to the intensive barrage with retaliatory air strikes, resulting in the deaths of eight Palestinians. Read more
Who died? Confusion in Gaza over death of mother and baby
May 6, 2019 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
New information emerging in the last hours casts serious doubt on Hamas’ claim that a Gazan woman and her baby daughter were killed in an Israeli Air Force strike in Gaza city on Saturday night. Read more
Gaza update
May 5, 2019 by TPS-IL
Three Israelis killed in the current rocket attacks… Read more
Israeli Killed by Rocket; Fire Moves Further North
May 5, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
An Israeli man was killed by a rocket on Saturday night, as the terrorists broadened their scope of fire and added more Israelis cities to their list of targets.
Our Big Shul remembers Poway
May 5, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Our New Shul at Bondi’s Harry Triguboff Centre held a Friday evening service in solidarity with Chabad of Poway which was attacked by a sole gunman at the end of Passover. Read more
Frydenberg posters defaced again
May 5, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had denounced the vandalising of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s election posters stating “this is about crimes and hate.” Read more
WJC appeals to UNSC to condemn rocket attacks
May 5, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
After a barrage of hundreds of rockets struck Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the World Jewish Congress appealed to Indonesia, as president of the United Nations Security Council, to lead the international community in unequivocally condemning Hamas and holding it responsible for the terrorist acts that it continues to carry out and enable in the territory under its control. Read more
Holocaust denial and objective reporting: how the Arab World related to Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day
May 5, 2019 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
Responses in the Arab world to Israel’s Yom HaShoah, its national Holocaust Remembrance marked on Thursday, spanned from objective coverage to Holocaust denial. Read more
Gazan terrorists fire over 250 rockets at Israel; IAF strikes back – Be’er Sheva under attack
May 5, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Gaza-based terrorists have launched over 250 rockets at Israeli cities and towns throughout south since Saturday morning, firing almost insistently at civilian targets with one Israeli killed. Read more
Rivlin and Netanyahu attend wreath-laying ceremonies at Yad Vashem
May 3, 2019 by J-Wire Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Day wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more
KKL-JNF and B’nai B’rith mark heroism of Jewish Rescuers during Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony
May 3, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The B’nai B’rith World Centre in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) have held a unique joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah). Read more
Speakers to inspire at JCA’s fundraising event
May 3, 2019 by Community newsdesk
JCA’s Annual Fundraising Event on Sunday 26 May is an opportunity to share in the Insight and Illumination of two important guest speakers whose message is timely and compelling for the Jewish community including French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levi. Read more
March of the Living founder: ‘The only thing worse than Auschwitz is the world forgetting Auschwitz’
On Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah) on May 2, under the theme “Say No to Anti-Semitism,” more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 different countries, together with dozens of Holocaust survivors and dignitaries from around the world, participated in the 31st annual International March of the Living to pay tribute to all victims of the Holocaust and call for an end to antisemitism. Read more
Poway Chabad rabbi: ‘Fight darkness with light,’ urges Moment of Silence in schools
May 3, 2019 by JNS
The founding rabbi of Chabad of Poway in Southern California spoke at the White House on Thursday, less than a week after his synagogue was attacked, with one woman killed and three others injured. Read more
Herzog calls on world leaders to stem tide of antisemitism at March of the Living
May 3, 2019 by JNS
Knesset holds ‘Every Person Has a Name’ Holocaust remembrance ceremony
May 3, 2019 by JNS
The annual “Every Person Has a Name” ceremony was held at the Knesset on Thursday, the Knesset members reading off the names of Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Read more
Israel stands still in memory of the 6 million
May 2, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
At 10 a.m. on Thursday morning, sirens were sounded for two minutes throughout Israel, bringing the streets to a complete standstill as Israelis marked in unison Yom HaShoah, Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
NSWJBD congratulates new Governor for NSW
May 2, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Her Excellency Margaret Beazley AO QC is the 39th Governor of New South Wales starting her five-year tenure today. Read more
March of the Living to focus on Greek Holocaust victims; Israeli, Polish top leaders not expected
May 2, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Ahead of the annual International March of the Living beginning on Thursday, no senior Israeli and Polish officials are expected to be on the trip amid tensions between Jerusalem and Warsaw. Read more
Remembering Hungary’s Jews on Yom Hashoah
May 2, 2019 by David Zwartz
The focus of Wellington’s Yom Hashoah observance on 1 May was the sad fate of Hungarian Jewry 75 years ago when hundreds of thousands were deported to their death in Auschwitz-Birkenau between May and July 1944. Read more
