Labor support for a Palestine state – now WA joins in
July 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Joining NSW and SA, WA Labour has indicated it will push for the recognition of a Palestinian state at its State conference. Read more
South Head Synagogue: from the rabbi’s corner
July 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
As Friday approaches and the real possibility that the administrator will put Sydney’s South Head Synagogue into liquidation, the shule’s spiritual leader has answered a letter to the congregation sent by the president yesterday updating the membership of the impasse which could lead to the demise of a once vibrant congregation. Read more
Melton changes for Sydney
July 19, 2017 by Community newsdesk
The world renowned adult Jewish education Melton program has exciting changes ahead in Sydney. Read more
AIJAC complaint upheld by SBS
July 19, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
SBS has upheld a complaint made by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) concerning a radio news podcast, “50th Anniversary of Middle East’s Critical Six Day War”.
Nominate Now for Victorian Multicultural Awards for Excellence
July 19, 2017 by Community newsdesk
Victorian Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Inga Peulich MLC has to announced the opening of the Multicultural Awards for Excellence 2017. Read more
South Head Synagogue: Liquidation on Friday…but it’s not too late for Rabbi Milecki
July 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
President of the embattled Sydney’s South Head James Hockroth has written to its membership saying there is no way out from liquidating the synagogue but there is time for Rabbi Benzion Milecki to accept the boards’s offer. Read more
Indian organisations condemn NSW Labor Palestine resolution
July 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Eight Australian Indian organisations have condemned the resolution urging unconditional recognition of Palestine proposed for the NSW Labor conference later this month. Read more
Win a double pass for Obsession
July 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Jude Law (The Young Pope, Closer, The Talented Mr Ripley) stars in the stage production of Obsession, captured live from the Barbican Theatre in London. Ivo van Hove (NT Live: A View from the Bridge, Hedda Gabler) directs this new stage adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s 1943 film which will be screened on Wednesday evening at Sydney’s Dendy Cinema in Newtown. Read more
Religious leaders tackle domestic violence and sexual assault
July 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Religious leaders from across the state have joined NSW Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Pru Goward to discuss how they can work with their communities to tackle domestic and family violence. Read more
Maccabiah Games yield ‘positive connections’ to Israel for athletes worldwide
July 18, 2017 by Adam Abrams - JNS.org
Some 7,000 Jewish athletes from 80 countries prepared to head back to their home countries this week following the 20th Maccabiah Games, a two-week event that is being praised for helping create “positive connections” to Israel…writes Adam Abrams/JNS.org. Read more
Macron denounces anti-Zionism as a new form of antisemitism
July 18, 2017 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has applauded and thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for denouncing anti-Zionism as a ‘renewed form of antisemitism’, and for his pledge to ‘never surrender to the messages of hate’. Read more
Netanyahu visits Budapest
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visitingBudapest, Hungary, where he will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and ministers in his government. Read more
New principal for Emanuel
July 18, 2017 by Michelle Favero
Sydney’s Emanuel School has appointed Andrew Watt as its new principal to replace Anne Hastings who is retiring at the end of this year. Read more
ADC criticises AFL Hitler reference
July 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has criticised gender adviser to the AFL Catharine Lumby for comparing legislation that would seek to regulate relationships between co-workers to Hitler’s regime. Read more
Bob Carr, Theodor Meron: settlements and recognition
July 17, 2017 by Peter Wertheim
Former Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, has on several occasions cited the well-known opinion of Theodor Meron to Israel’s Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in September 1967, when Mr Meron (now Judge Meron) was Legal Adviser to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which he concluded that “civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention”. Read more
Two Israeli policemen murdered by terrorist
Two police officers were murdered and a third is in hospital in serious condition following a terror attack by three Arabs from Um Al Fahum in the area of the Temple Mount. Read more
A great result for Maccabiah cyclists
July 16, 2017 by David Weiner
Cycling captain Sean Bloch beamed that he ‘couldn’t have asked for a better result’ after his amazing team picked up four more medals at the 20th Maccabiah Friday’s road race, backing up their fine time trial results. Read more
Maccabiah proves an opportunity for Jordi Swibel
July 16, 2017 by Jake Rosengarten
To Jordi Swibel, football is life. The young Sydneysider trains daily, sometimes twice, in the hope of one day making the world game his career – and thanks to the Maccabiah Games, he has a big opportunity to do so. Read more
Eliot reaches for his target
‘I had a scare … that doesn’t happen very often’…and with that, the No.1 Maccabiah seed gave a ringing endorsement of the talents of 19-year-old Australian Eliot Vogel’s display at the archery where he finished a fantastic fifth. Read more
South Head Synagogue: One week’s reprieve
July 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The creditors’ meeting of the cash-strapped Sydney’s South Head Synagogue has been postponed for one week as discussions continue to break the impasse between the shul and its spiritual leader. Read more
The Jerusalem Beth Din serves an injunction to protect South Head Synagogue
July 13, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
An order has been made by a special Beth Din court in Jerusalem to block any action which “could lead to the destruction” of Sydney’s South Head Synagogue. Read more
Holocaust survivors of Iasi death trains, pogrom and ghettos eligible for compensation pensions
July 13, 2017 by Agencies
Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has announced that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust era “death trains,” pogrom and subsequent open ghettos in Iasi, Romania will be eligible to receive compensation pensions. Read more
Barak’s big day – Paralympian finally breaks through for a medal at fourth Maccabiah.
July 13, 2017 by David Weiner
It has been four Maccabiah Games without medal success and four long years for table tennis star Barak Mizrachi in search of redemption from an opportunity missed last time here. Read more
South Head closing its doors again
July 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A member of the Management Advisory Committee of the embattled South Head Synagogue has told J-Wire its administrator will close the building today. Read more
South Head Synagogue Unity Plan scrapped
July 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A group of “concerned South Head congregants” working behind the scenes to broker a deal between Rabbi Benzion Milecki , the Board and the synagogue’s secured creditors has announced it can do no more to bring the parties together. Read more
The Shtick gets a reprieve…again
July 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Henry Greener’s The Shtick was about to be consigned to the internet jungle after two previous reprieves. from Melbourne’s Channel 31…when it got a third one. Read more
Correction: Egypt allocates $2.2 million to restore historic Alexandria synagogue
July 12, 2017 by J-Wire
The original story supplied by a news agency stated that Egypt had allocated US$22 million to restore synagogue. Read more
Matt Levy breaks a world record – first in the Maccabiah’s history.
July 12, 2017 by David Weiner
For someone who has been to four Paralympics, the competition at Maccabiah was never going to be Matt Levy’s biggest challenge…writes David Weiner. Read more
Swimming in the family
July 12, 2017 by David Weiner
Ashley and Asher Weill are not brother and sister teammates in the Maccabiah…but grandfather and granddaughter. Read more
To Israel and back for one day
July 11, 2017 by J-Wire
Sydney Rabbi Levi Wolff flew to Israel last week in time to officiate at a Barmitzvah and left the next day to return…but the ceremony had a special meaning for him. Read more
