New Zealand Holocaust Centre offers ‘ground breaking’ programme to high school students in South Canterbury
May 19, 2016 by Keren Cook
South Canterbury High School students are the first in New Zealand to engage in a new programme that raises awareness and knowledge about the Holocaust. Read more
NSW Labor leader calls for better school security
May 19, 2016 by J-Wire
NSW Labor president Mark Lennon has pledged to do whatever possible to ensure all Jewish schools “have the same gates and fences as all other schools”. Read more
Meet Amir Ohana
May 18, 2016 by Henry Benjamin
Amir Ohana is the first openly gay member of the Likud…and a man who would like to see marijuana legalised in Israel and to see responsible Israelis having the right to carry a gun. He talks to J-Wire. Read more
800 Jewish mothers celebrate Israel journey
May 18, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
More than 800 Jewish mothers from 10 countries around the world celebrated a life-changing journey to Israel this month, at a Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) Mega Event on Monday in partnership with the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs. Read more
Remembering the Light Horse
NSW State MP Ron Hoenig and the Mascot RSL Sub-branch have joined Eran Tearosh Chairman of The Society for the Heritage of WWI in Israel and Vicky Gonda from the Israel Tourism Centre in commemorating the Charge of the Australian Light Horse Regiment at Beersheba in 1917. Read more
Israeli divers discover 1,600-yr-old shipwreck
May 17, 2016 by Agencies
Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists diving in the ancient harbor in the Caesarea National Park have recovered beautiful statues, thousands of coins 1,600 years old and other finds from the seabed…the largest assemblage of marine artifacts to be recovered in the past thirty years. Read more
Senator authorises pro-Palestinian poster
May 17, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A Pro-Palestinian poster advertising a Nakba Day rally was “authorised and printed” by Senator Lee Rhiannon together with leaflets distributed at the event. Read more
McKosher is treif
May 16, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A NSW lawyer who claims he is of Scottish/Jewish descent, has failed in a bid to register the trademark “McKosher”. Read more
Holocaust cartoon contest in Iran
May 14, 2016 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder is “disgusted” by the fact that Iran is once again staging a global competition showcasing cartoons denying and mocking the Holocaust, adding that the Iranian government is insulting the international community by portraying itself as moderate while allowing such a display to be carried out under its name. Read more
AIJAC welcomes MPs on their return from Israel
May 14, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has played host to ALP Victorian government MPs recently returned from a study visit to Israel. Read more
Reform at Rookwood
May 13, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
An investigation of the running of Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery has shown that Jews, Muslims and Chinese communities have paid abnormally high prices for their burials. Read more
Yom Ha’azmaut: Sydney
May 13, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Over 650 people heard NSW Premier Mike Baird speak of his recent trip to Israel at the Yom Ha’azmaut celebration in Sydney. Read more
Netanyahu proposes return of Israeli Independence Day military parades
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested that Israel reinstate the tradition of military parades on the country’s Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut). Read more
World diplomats join in Yom Ha’azmaut celebrations
May 13, 2016 by Agencies
Ambassadors to Israel, honorary consuls, and military attachés from around the world arrived at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem this afternoon (Thursday), hosted by President Reuven & First Lady Nechama Rivlin for a celebratory reception in honor of Israel’s 68th Independence Day. The President welcomed the guests in the garden of the President’s Residence, before both he and Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the event. Read more
Mike Baird sends Yom Ha’azmaut greetings
May 12, 2016 by J-Wire News Service
A message to the NSW Jewish community from Premier Mike Baird on Yom Ha’azmaut. Read more
Freelander under fire…but apologises
May 12, 2016 by Henry Benjamin
Political hopeful Dr Mike Freelander has apologised for remarks he made describing Australia’s detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island as “concentration camps”. Read more
Remembering Malki
May 12, 2016 by J-Wire News Service
On Yom HaZikaron, Arnold and Frimet Roth, who left Melbourne to make Aliyah in 1988, remember their daughter Malki who died in a terrorist attack on a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001. Read more
V-Day commemoration
May 11, 2016 by Warren Hurst
Over 100 members of the Russian-speaking community joined various community leaders in attending the V-Day commemoration at Waverley Park in Sydney. Read more
Peres Centre’s Mini World Cup
May 11, 2016 by Agencies
With racism and violence in football stadiums rampant around the world the Peres Center for Peace’s “Mini Mondial for Peace” soccer tournament has taken place in Herzliya. Read more
Anti-Israel rhetoric at the U.N.
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder says that anti-Israel rhetoric at the United Nations had exceeded proportion and was extending into the realm of the absurd, adding that the Venezuelan ambassador’s recent remarks questioning Israel’s “final solution” for the Palestinians proved that the “conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism is all too real.” Read more
More cultural funding from the NSW government…and a Yom Ha’azmaut message
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Minister for Multiculturalism John Ajaka has announced that funding is available for events that help bring communities together and celebrate cultural diversity…and has sent a message to the NSW Jewish community for Yom Ha’azmaut. Read more
Yom HaZikaron: Canberra
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Embassy of the State of Israel and the ACT Jewish Community, in conjunction with the ACT Zionist Council have hosted the national Yom HaZikaron ceremony, on behalf of the State of Israel, as well as all of Australian Jewry. Read more
Yom Hazikaron: Sydney
May 11, 2016 by Lauren Finn
Israel at 68: a video message from the president
May 11, 2016 by Agencies
Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin sends the Jewish world a message on Yom Ha’azmaut , celebrating Israel’s 68th anniversary of its independence. Read more
London’s first Muslim mayor open to visiting Tel Aviv
May 11, 2016 by Agencies
London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan has suggested that he would be open to visiting Tel Aviv. Read more
New burial ground for Sydney
May 10, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A new Jewish burial ground in the Sutherland area of Sydney will be consecrated later this month. Read more
“This is not education – this is propaganda”
May 10, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
First ever all-women trade mission to Israel
May 9, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
CEO of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce Charles Nightingale will be the only male joining 36 delegates in the first ever all-women trade mission to Israel. Read more
Jewish-African dinner
May 9, 2016 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has hosted the first Jewish – African Communities Friendship Dinner. Read more
Send her back
May 9, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Child sexual abuse advocate Manny Waks has called on Israeli authorities to proceed with extradition hearings involving Malka Leifer wanted in Melbourne to face charges of child sexual abuse. Read more
