NSW State Parliament debates condolence motion for Shimon Peres
October 14, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Parliament’s Legislative Council has debated a condolence motion in honour of the late-Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres. Read more
Limmud Fest for Shalom
October 14, 2016 by Paula Towers
Next month, Limmud Fest provides a chance for parents to play and learn along with their kids. Read more
“Jewish People have no connection to the Western Wall” – UNESCO
October 14, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed a UNESCO decision claiming the Jewish People have no connection to the Temple Mount or the Western Wall. Read more
Shadows of Shoah
October 14, 2016 by Sheila Levine
A traveling exhibition using cutting-edge technology in which Holocaust survivors tell their stories will visit the Gold Coast next month. Read more
New chairperson for AUJS
October 13, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Isabella Polgar has been elected National Chairperson of The Australasian Union of Jewish Students. Read more
And now it’s time for Sukkot
October 13, 2016 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple explains Sukkot… Read more
New CEO for Shalom
October 13, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Tamara Samuel has been appointed new CEO of Sydney’s Shalom to succeed Dr Hilton Immerman. Read more
New MDA app helps save lives
Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency medicine service and Red Cross national society, has released a mobile app that aims to significantly streamline the process of locating, reaching, and saving people’s lives. Read more
Two killed in Jerusalem terrorist shooting
October 12, 2016 by Sam Sokol - JNS.org
A police officer and a civilian were killed and six were wounded during a drive-by shooting in Jerusalem this weekend, raising concerns about the possible resumption of the wave of lone wolf terror attacks that convulsed Israel earlier this year. Read more
NZDF engineers deployed to Sinai
October 12, 2016 by Keren Cook
New Zealand’s Cabinet has agreed to deploy an additional 25 New Zealand Defence Force personnel to an international peacekeeping mission in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Read more
Jewish House launches JH Kids
October 12, 2016 by J-Wire
Sydney’s Jewish House has officially launched JH Kids their child development program. Read more
Newspaper column Goers beyond the pale
October 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council has expressed concern after columnist and ABC radio host Peter Goers published an inflammatory anti-Israel piece in Adelaide’s Sunday Mail on October 9. Read more
Parliamentary tributes to Shimon Peres
October 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Israel’s embassy in Australia opened a condolences book at the Federal Parliament to record tributes on the passing way of Shimon Peres the last of the surviving founders of the modern State of Israel. Read more
Peres Condolence Book in NSW Parliament
October 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
In a show of multi-party support at the NSW State Parliament, the NSW Multiculturalism Minister John Ajaka, the Christian Democrats MLC Paul Green and NSW Labor frontbencher and Labor’s deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel Walt Secord this week officially signed the condolence book in honour of Israel President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Read more
Flotilla mission a media ‘stunt’ for deported Green MP Marama Davidson
October 9, 2016 by Keren Cook
New Zealand Green MP Marama Davidson has arrived back in New Zealand after being deported from Israel. Read more
NSW Anti-Discrimination Board without board members for 10 months
October 9, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Shadow Attorney-General Paul Lynch has criticised the State’s A-G Gabrielle Upton for failing to review paper work needed to fill vacancies in Government boards including the Anti-Discrimination Board. Read more
Award for Alba
October 9, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Dr Avril Alba from the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney has awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Early Career Researcher Award for Excellence. Read more
WJC says Santos deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
October 9, 2016 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has welcomed the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to give this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos. Read more
Ryvchin in Kiev for Babi Yar
October 7, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The ECAJ’s Alex Ryvchin joined with heads of state and representatives of Jewish communities from around the world to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine last week. Read more
Who gave you permission?…a review by Alan Gold
Alan Gold is reviews the memoir of a child sexual-abuse survivor who fought back. Read more
Pakistani speaking tour cut short
October 7, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A Pakistani who was in Australia on a speaking tour has left the country ahead of schedule after a video had surfaced in which he made antisemitic remarks. Read more
Remembering Shimon Peres
October 7, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
As the world leaders gathered in Jerusalem last Friday to pay tribute to Shimon Peres, the Zionist Council of NSW and the Embassy of the State of the Israel have opened a condolence book in Sydney as a mark of respect from the NSW community. Read more
Forbidden Music: Composers banned by the Third Reich
October 7, 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 Leo Smit. Read more
Women are the peacemakers
October 6, 2016 by Natalee Pozniak
Over 300 women leaders from diverse cultural and faith backgrounds have shared a festive meal in Sydney. Read more
The right thing
October 5, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre “has done the right thing” in apologising to Manny Waks according to the child sexual abuse advocate. Read more
The Prime Minister’s Rosh Hashanah Message
October 2, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Rosh Hashanah message. Read more
Shimon Peres: In his own words
Some of Shimon Peres’ best quotes…
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Israel and the world mourn ‘founding father’ Shimon Peres
October 2, 2016 by Agencies
The State of Israel, as well as dignitaries and Jewish groups around the world, came together on Sept. 30 for the funeral service of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, who passed away on Sept. 28 two weeks after suffering a massive stroke. He was 93 years old. Read more
WJC President calls Filipino leader’s Hitler praise ‘revolting’ and ‘unacceptable’
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder today condemned the statement of President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and saying that he would be happy to slaughter drug addicts in his country just as Hitler slaughtered the Jews. Read more
75 years after Babi Yar, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder praises ‘miracle of Jewish revival in Ukraine’
October 1, 2016 by Agencies
On the 75th anniversary of the murder more than 33,000 Jews at Babi Yar, leaders of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) were in Ukraine to take part in events to remember the atrocity committed by Nazi Germany on 29/30 September 1941 near Kyiv. Read more
