UN head discusses Palestinian distortion of history
March 23, 2017 by Agencies
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has met with World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder and reiterated an earlier comment he made on Israeli radio that there is an absolute tie between the Jewish people and the land of Israel. Read more
Yeshiva faces eviction
March 22, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Entities in Sydney which hold the lease for the Sydney Yeshiva Centre in Bondi have received an eviction to vacate the premises after Pesach. Read more
Ancient coins discovered near Jerusalem
The Israel Antiquities Authority said the cache of nine bronze coins—discovered in a large complex that served Christian pilgrims en route to Jerusalem—serves as “evidence of the Persian invasion at the end of the Byzantine period.” Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping a t the official guest house in Beijing. Read more
Jewish Muslim comedy debate
March 22, 2017 by David Marlow
During Cultural Diversity Week, the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) and the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) teamed up together to host the 2017 Jewish – Muslim Comedy Debate with the topic ‘North of the Yarra is Better than South of the Yarra.’ Read more
Eighty countries – one heart
March 22, 2017 by David Weiner
Maccabi World Union has unveiled their slogan for the 20th edition of the Maccabiah Games to be held later this year. Read more
Netanyahu meets Chinese business leaders
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning has met with the heads of China’s largest corporations, each of which has a turnover of tens of billions of dollars. Read more
Malcolm Turnbull’s 18C message
March 21, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Prime Minister speaks on planned changes to section 18C in the Racial Discrimination Act. A video report. Read more
NZ prime minister shielding foreign affairs minister over Israel blunder
March 21, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Prime Minister Bill English has confirmed Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully did not have approval from cabinet to support a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution criticising Israel, says New Zealand First. Read more
18C proposed changes: Reactions
March 21, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Community organisations have reacted strongly to the Government’s plans to change Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more
Victorian Beth Din Dayanim
March 21, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Victoria has announced the ratification of the Dayanim of Melbourne Beth Din. Read more
Out: “offend” “insult” “humiliate” In: “harassment”
March 21, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Government Party Room has agreed to reforms to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986, which will strengthen Australia’s anti-vilification laws, enhance freedom of speech and improve the complaint-handling processes of the Australian Human Rights Commission. Read more
Prime Minister Turnbull opens Sydney Jewish Museum’s permanent Holocaust Exhibition
March 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told the guests at the opening of the Sydney Jewish Museum’s permanent Holocaust Exhibition “Why this museum, this memorial is so important? Because it reminds us of what can happen when respect is gone, when hatred takes its place. It reminds us of the depths to which people can sink”. Read more
New spiritual head at the NSTE
March 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Following the results of an ambitious community research project at Sydney’s North Shore Temple Emanuel (NSTE), the Board of Directors announced its unanimous decision to appoint Rabbi Nicole Roberts as its Senior Rabbi. Read more
Gidon spurs parking change
March 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Patients who need the most support will save as much as $200 a week on public hospital parking fees under changes to be introduced by the NSW Government. Read more
Emanuel principal to retire
March 20, 2017 by Michelle Favero
After 41 years in education, the last eight as Principal of Emanuel School, Anne Hastings has announced her decision to retire at the end of this year. Read more
MDA Mobile app to shorten stroke treatment time and minimise stroke damage
March 20, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Magen David Adom has unveiled a new lifesaving app to 25 neurologists and emergency medicine doctors from various hospitals in Israel. Read more
Peres as graffiti
March 20, 2017 by Agencies
International graffiti artist and actor, American Corin Nemec has showed his support for Israel by painting a giant graffiti wall for peace centred on a portrait of the late Ninth President of Israel, Shimon Peres, at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Read more
Limmud awarded the Jerusalem Unity Prize
March 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Jerusalem Unity Prize has announced the 2017 prize in the “global” category will be awarded to Limmud, the international network of Jewish learning communities. Read more
Feldman litigation settled
Litigation in which Sydney Rabbi Yosef Feldman sought damages against the Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia, The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has been settled through mediation. Read more
WJC CEO slams U.N. report branding Israel an apartheid state
The CEO of the World Jewish Congress has called the publication of a UN report which brands Israel a racist apartheid state “a sad attempt to reinstate the infamous 1975 UN resolution that considered Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Read more
Top honours for Friedlander’s Harmony Walk
March 17, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A volunteer organisation that established a solidarity walk confronting racism and discrimination has received top honours at the 2017 Premier’s Harmony Dinner. Read more
Netanyahu China bound
March 17, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will leave on Sunday on an official visit to China. Read more
Generations connecting through tech, tea & tales
March 17, 2017 by Jenna Chaitowitz
An innovative intergenerational program, ‘Tech, Tea & Tales’ recently launched at Jewish Care Victoria – the first of its kind in Australia. Read more
Shift trends in the West
March 16, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Jewry’s role as arguably the most successful diaspora Jewish community was included in discussions at the Jewish World’s most significant think tank, the Jewish People’s Policy Institute, in Jerusalem recently. Read more
Speaking for Bill
March 16, 2017 by Suzanne Rutland
Last week I read with shock about cartoonist Bill Leak’s sudden death from a heart attack at the age of 61. When I read he is being attacked as a racist and a bigot, even after his passing, I felt I wanted to speak out…writes Suzanne Rutland. Read more
Jewish Canadian to compete in Melbourne’s Formula One.
March 15, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Lance Stroll, is set to compete in the 2017 Formula One Car Race next week in Melbourne making the 18-yr-0ld Lance the first Canadian F1 driver since the 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, as well as the second-youngest driver in F1 history. Read more
World’s first beach pop-hotel in Tel Aviv
March 15, 2017 by Lydia Weitzman
The first pop-up hotel of its kind in the world has been opened in a lifeguard tower on Tel Aviv beach. Read more
Hobart synagogue short-listed for a raft of honours
March 14, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Jordana Schmidt, president of the Hobart Hebrew Congregation, has been recognised for her work in community and education and has been shortlisted in two categories of the Tasmanian Young Achievers’ Awards for the second year running. Read more
Trump invites Abbas to White House to discuss peace process
March 14, 2017 by Agencies
President Donald Trump invited Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to visit the White House following their first phone conversation since Trump took office in late January. Read more
