Australia’s Maccabiah delegation could top Rio numbers
April 25, 2016 by David Weiner
The Australian delegation to the 2017 Maccabiah in Israel could top 500 according to organisers. Read more
ANZAC Day in Jerusalem
April 25, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
At the Commonwealth War Cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem the annual commemorative service has been held to honour servicemen and women from Australia and New Zealand who died serving their countries during the first and second world wars. Read more
B’nai B’rith salutes ANZACs
April 25, 2016 by J-Wire News Service
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has saluted the Australians and New Zealanders who lost their lives fighting for their countries. Read more
A place for Gays and Lesbians in Jewish society
April 25, 2016 by J-Wire
The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia NSW will hold a forum next month to discuss issues impacting on gay members of Sydney society. Read more
Pesach message from Bill Shorten
April 22, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Leader of the Opposition in Australia has sent a Peach message to the Jewish community. Read more
New Zealand Race Relations Commissioner slams antisemitic Facebook posts
April 22, 2016 by J-Wire
New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has slammed antisemitic Facebook posts made following a politician’s visit to Auckland’s Jewish Community Centre. Read more
Pesach in Sydney
April 22, 2016 by J-Wire
NSW Liberal politician David Clarke has once again bought the chometz from Sydney Yeshiva’s Rabbi Pinchus Feldman…and a 12-yr-old boy has delivered a siyum. Read more
Happy birthday Your Majesty
April 21, 2016 by Agencies
Israel’s ninth President Shimon Peres has wished Queen Elizabeth II a happy birthday through a video message on the occasion of her 90th birthday. Read more
Wakils make record donation to Sydney University
April 21, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The University of Sydney has received a $35 million gift from the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation. Read more
Adass documentary for SBS
April 21, 2016 by Henry Benjamin
Filmmakers Dan Goldberg, Adam Kay and Danny Ben-Moshe have teamed together to produce a documentary for SBS television on an orthodox Jewish community in Melbourne. Read more
Australian chosen for prestigious leadership program
The US-based Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation has selected 29 outstanding Jewish professional and volunteer leaders from around the world for the second cohort of the Schusterman Fellowship including Australia’s Brandon Srot. Read more
Bialik wins Technion first prize
April 21, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Australian Government’s drive towards innovation took a major step forward with a first prize being awarded by Israel’s The Technion to Melbourne’s Bialik College…watch the video. Read more
Pre-Pesach Programs Brings Bar and Bat Mitzvah Happiness to 120 children
April 21, 2016 by Agencies
In advance of the Pesach holiday, seventy Israeli Bar Mitzvah boys and forty Bat Mitzvah girls were invited to participate in a large celebration hosted by the Chesed Menachem Mendel program of the Colel Chabad charitable organisation. Read more
Freelander to stand for Macarthur
April 21, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Prominent NSW Jewish paediatrician and university lecturer, Dr Mike Freelander has been selected as the Federal Labor’s candidate in the marginal electorate of Macarthur in Sydney’s south. Read more
Labor’s plans for security upgrade in Melbourne
April 20, 2016 by J-Wire
A Shorten Labor Government will match the Victorian Government’s commitment to provide $500,000 for major security upgrades to the Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Melbourne. Read more
New Zealand Opposition leader samples Pesach
April 20, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand’s Opposition Leader Andrew Little got a taste of Pesach this week when he visited the Auckland Jewish Community Centre. Read more
Rising From the Ashes: Jewish Care Launches Holocaust Documentary Series
April 20, 2016 by Ayal Tusia
As Melbourne is home to the largest number of Holocaust survivors per capita outside of Israel, Melbourne’s Jewish Care believes it was crucial to create this short film, in order to share the survivors’ stories to ensure that we will never forget. Read more
Rivlin helps the needy
April 20, 2016 by Agencies
Lauder lauds Putin
April 20, 2016 by Agencies
A delegation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC), led by WJC President Ronald S. Lauder, has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Read more
ADC slams Nazi comparison
April 20, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC)has decried the comparison made by South Australian Liberal MP Adrian Pederick between allowing voluntary euthanasia in Australia and Hitler’s Nazi regime. Read more
ANZAC Museum cornerstone set in Beersheba
April 19, 2016 by Ahuva Bar-Lev
The cornerstone for the ANZAC Museum in Beersheba has been set at a ceremony attended by JNF officials from Australia and the Australian ambassador to Israel. Read more
J-Safe launches in Melbourne
April 19, 2016 by J-Wire
Melbourne businessman Avi Yemini who runs self defence school IDF Training is behind a new Facebook page designed to protect the Jewish community in the city’s south-east. Read more
Disabled children perform for Netanyahu
April 19, 2016 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ‘deeply moved’ by a musical performance by disabled children at his annual pre-Pesach reception last week. Read more
McCully says two state solution “moving beyond reach”
April 19, 2016 by J-Wire News Service
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully has addressed the U.N. Security Council saying that trust between Israel and the Palestinians has been eroded.
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Shalom, Ian
April 19, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney UIA supporter and communal stalwart, Ian Miller has become an Israeli citizen after officially making Aliyah two weeks ago. Read more
Man charged following synagogue stabbing
April 19, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A man has been charged by Victorian police following a stabbing incident in a Melbourne synagogue last Shabbat following a dispute over food. Read more
Jeremy Jones attends Catholic/Jewish liaison meeting in Warsaw
April 19, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
On line Pesach exhibition from Yad Vashem
April 19, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
In advance of Passover, Yad Vashem has uploaded a number of unique items related to and stories about Passover from before, during the Holocaust and in its aftermath. Read more
Leeser wins Berowra preselection
April 18, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Julian Leeser has won preselection for the strong Federal Liberal seat of Berowra in Sydney following the retirement of Philip Ruddock. Read more
A Pesach story
April 18, 2016 by Henry Benjamin
A 91-yr-old Christian woman will hold her own version of a Seder for the first time in the remote NSW town of Jindabyne nestling at the foot of the Snowy Mountains. Read more
