Indonesian journalists on an AIJAC visit to Israel

Indonesia, home to the world’’s largest Muslim population, does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, but that did not stop five respected Indonesian journalists from joining two Thai counterparts on a five-day  fact-finding study visit sponsored by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affair Council’s Rambam Program last month. Read more

A Touch of Sweetness and Light

It could have been the lure of sweet, pillowy balls of sufganiyot – traditional jam donuts– that brought a large gathering to NSW State Parliament House this week where politicians, diplomats, community and religious leaders from many faiths mingled to mark the upcoming  Festival of Lights, Channukah. Read more

Melbourne awards community leaders

Over 200 people from across Melbourne’s Jewish community have attended  the JCCV 2015 Community Recognition Awards. Read more

Frydenberg visits Bataclan

Melbourne MP Josh Frydenberg has paid a visit to the Bataclan Concert Hall in Paris…scene of one the most horrific terrorist attacks in recent times. Read more

World’s Jewish leaders send condolences to France

Top Jewish community professionals from 40 countries world-wide have met in Lisbon  for a two-day conference organized by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and sent a combined message of condolence to the France’s Prime Minister. Read more

Masorti France

Claude Machline, founder of Massorti France and Masorti Europe has issued a statement following  the massacre in the Bataclan Theatre following the murder of one of their congregant’s granddaughter. Read more

Hebrew University’s Melton Centre launches Distance Learning M.A. in Jewish Education

The Melton Centre of Jewish Education from the prestigious Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel’s top ranking college, is launching a new distance learning Masters degree track. Read more

Royal visit to Oz Harvest

During her recent visit to Australia with Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall visited Oz Harvest. Read more

B’nai B’rith Retirement Village Benefactor Honoured

The late Karla Zolshan was a determined and feisty woman who lived simply and frugally but whose success as a businesswoman gave her the means to give generously to others.

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Paris

World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder has expressed “shock and outrage” at the terrorist attacks in Paris, calling them “an unspeakable crime against humanity.” On behalf of world Jewry, Lauder expressed his deep condolences to the French people in a message sent to President François Hollande. Read more

Red Crescent abandons terrorist victims

Prime Minister Netanyahu has instructed Israel’s Foreign Ministry to file a sharp protest with the International Committee of the Red Cross responsible for the Red Crescent requesting explanations for the abandonment of Jewish injured following a terrorist attack in Oltniel which claimed two lives. Read more

The Rabbi and the Prince

Rabbi Ben Elton and his wife Hinda met Prince Charles at a garden party in Sydney and answered questions from His Royal Highness about Sydney’s Jewish community. Read more

EU “guilty of double standards”

The World Jewish Congress’ (WJC) says the European Union is guilty of applying “blatant double standards” after the European Commission, the EU’s executive, adopted new guidelines requiring the mandatory labelling of certain products made in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Read more

Holocaust theme in winning dance performance

Rosebud is a small town on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula…a local school has won a dance competition with a performance using the Holocaust as its theme. Watch it here… Read more

Six honorary doctorates conferred by the Weizmann Institute

Lord Robert Winston and Israeli musician Shlomo Bar have joined  two Nobel laureates and two distinguished philanthropists tin receiving honorary doctorates from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science. Read more

European court finds France’s ban on Dieudonne lawful

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder has hailed Tuesday’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights against the antisemitic French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala as a ‘milestone’ in the fight against hate speech, antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Read more

Boris scores a goal

President of Israel Reuven Rivlin this afternoon joined with Mayor of London Boris Johnson, in kicking off the new ‘Equaliser’ organisation soccer season in Jerusalem. Read more

Netanyahu to Jewish Federations: U.S., Israel ‘should work together now’ on Iran

Despite their disagreement over the Iran nuclear deal, the U.S. and Israel “can and should work together now” to ensure that Iran complies with the agreement and to curb Iranian aggression throughout the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) in Washington, DC. Read more

Amnesty International’s New Zealand director against peace resolution

Amnesty International has criticised New Zealand’s recently proposed resolution to the U.N. Security Council which calls for the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) as well as halting the Palestinian campaign to bring Israel to trial at the International Criminal Court. Read more

Defence lawyer under fire

Experienced Melbourne criminal defence lawyer, Alex Lewenberg, is under investigation by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) into comments he made to a victim of child sexual abuse according to a report in The Herald Sun. Read more

The Prime Minister and the President

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with U.S. President Barak Obama in the The White House in Washington. Here is what they had to say… Read more

Kristallnacht Commemoration

Representatives from many communal and religious organisations, including the Consul-Generals of Austria, Germany and Greece gathered at the Sydney Jewish Museum for the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies’ (NSWJBD) annual Kristallnacht Commemoration.

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Come sing with me

Australian jazz singer Emma Pask who featured with the John Morrison Swing City Band yesterday at Sydney’s Montefiore Home Jazz in the Grounds concert was discovered as a schoolgirl singer by James Morrison. Yesterday she “discovered” another student this time from Moriah College. Read more

Britain’s Chief rabbi knew of the Holocaust

Rabbi Ben Elton has told the NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women that Britain’s rabbonim were aware of the tragic murder of Europe’s Jews during WWII but were unable to help stop the slaughter. Read more

Yitzhak Navon passes away

Israel’s fifth president Yitzhak Navon has passed away at the age of 94. Read more

Taking a gamble

In recent weeks there has been a minor media frenzy surrounding Australian media and business mogul James Packer who has purchased a home in Israel and spends quite a bit of time there. Read more

A final resting place

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has become the final resting place for the memories of parents, grandparents and siblings of Australian Jewish families whose family members perished in the Holocaust. Read more

Racial discrimination law under the microscope

Former president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies David Knoll has spoken at a conference convened by the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) and the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW (ECC NSW) on  “40 Years of the Racial Discrimination Act. Are We Still Protected?”. Read more

Sydney remembers Rabin

Over 200 people have joined together to honour the life and memory of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin who was assassinated 20 years ago at a Peace Rally in Tel Aviv. Read more

The Spirit of Poland

On this weekend’s Radio National’s “The Spirit of Things”, Rachael Kohn talks to filmmaker Judy Menczel, Klezmer singer Fay Sussman and Warsaw Jewish museum curator Dr Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Read more

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