JIFF off to a stirring start
October 29, 2015 by Deahne Hemphill
Pro BDS move condemned by the ADC
October 29, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has condemned the vote by the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) to back the BDS campaign. Read more
Mitzvah Day: Bar and Bat Mitzvah students to cook for the homeless
October 29, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Mitzvah Day is on November 15 around the world and Kids Giving Back will offer Cook4Good: Mitzvah on a Plate in Sydney for the third year running. Read more
Canberra community awards
October 28, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Three long serving members of ACT Jewish Community Inc were awarded Life Membership for a lifetime of service to the Jewish Community in Canberra. Read more
The Jewish Comedy Festival
October 28, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
The Shtick’s Henry Greener presents Justine Sless with highlights of the Jewish Comedy Festival held recently in Melbourne. Read more
Student Number 20,000
October 27, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
Sydney Jewish Museum has welcomed it 20,000th school student visitor this year…an all-time record. Read more
Remembering Yitzhak Rabin
October 27, 2015 by Eileen Freed
Over 200 people gathered at Melbourne’s Beth Weizmann Community Centre to remember the life and legacy of Yitzhak Rabin z”l who was assassinated 4 November 1995, twenty years ago. Read more
Danby welcomes FM’s Iranian consulate position
October 27, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Labor Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby has welcomed Foreign Minister’s Julie Bishop’s comments about Iranian consulates in Sydney and Melbourne as a step in the right direction, but has called on her to rule out approving such consulates. Read more
Australia’s new Chief Scientist
October 27, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Dr Alan Finkel has been appointed Australia’s next Chief Scientist. Read more
Yeshiva rabbi named in ticket-dodging report
October 27, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
A Sydney rabbi has been named in an ABC report on drivers who have dodged the NSW traffic penalty system. Read more
Ehud Yaari addresses AIJAC in Sydney
October 26, 2015 by Glenn Falkenstein
Prominent Israeli journalist and commentator Ehud Yaari visited Australia last week, giving an exclusive briefing on the recent spate of violence in Israel and conflict in the Middle East generally to an AIJAC gathering in Sydney. Read more
ECAJ meets with Julie Bishop
October 26, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s President Robert Goot, and Executive Director, Peter Wertheim, have met with Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop. Read more
Righteous Gentile living in New Zealand
October 26, 2015 by Keren Cook
Taisia Kharchenks is now in her late 80’s and living out her twilight years in a rest home in Wanganui, New Zealand. Read more
Not sorry for Shylock comment
October 26, 2015 by Keren Cook
One time New Zealand Labour candidate Steven Gibson has retracted his apology issued last year for labeling prime minister John Key a “Shonkey Jonkey Shylock” in an August 2014 Facebook post. Read more
Remembering Rabin
October 26, 2015 by Agencies
Jewish leaders from around the world participating in The Jewish Agency for Israel Board of Governors’ autumn meetings have observed a moment of silence in memory of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during the opening session of the Board meetings in Jerusalem’s Old City. Read more
Meeting Bill Shorten
October 26, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Representatives of the Jewish community including its national and state leadership, have met with opposition leader Bill Shorten and his parliamentary colleagues Mark Dreyfus and Michael Danby, to discuss the ALP’s approach to Israel and other issues of concern to the community. Read more
Mitzvah Day Project: The Kehilat Nitzan Food Van
October 26, 2015 by Debra Korman
Every week members of Kehilat Nitzan are rostered on to serve food in Port Melbourne to homeless and disadvantaged people. Read more
Shavua Tov: Shabbat Project ends
October 26, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Shabbat Project for 2015 is over. Ingrid Shakenovsky photographed Havdalah at Sydney’s Maroubra Synagogue…and the organisers want your feedback! Read more
Police Remembrance Shabbat
October 25, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
Sydney’s Central Synagogue has hosted the NSW Police Remembrance Shabbat in an event marked with musical entertainment and sombre prayers. Read more
On ABC Radio National
October 24, 2015 by Agencies
Coptic Christian Samuel Tadros and The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council’s Jeremy Jones talk to ABC’s Rachael Kohn on this weeks “The Spirit of Things”. Read more
JNF NSW Gala dinner – photo gallery
October 24, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Did you attend the JNF NSW gala dinner? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
Ron Castan humanitarian awards presented in Melbourne
October 24, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Stand Up’s Ron Castan Humanitarian Award and Young Humanitarian Award have been conferred on Kathy Kaplan and Dean Cohen. Read more
Lowy retires from Scentre
October 23, 2015 by Agencies
Frank Lowy will retire as Chairman of Scentre Group ) at the company’s Annual General Meeting in May next year. Read more
Challah Bake: Take Two
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s The Shabbat Project has hosted two more Challah bakes…one at Kesser Torah College and the other at Moriah College…and a Shabbat Project visit to the Israeli Embassy. Read more
NZ dismayed about lack of progress in peace talks
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully has expressed dismay about the “lack of progress on relations between Israel and Palestine” in an address to the United Nations Security Council. Read more
Rivlin visits Theriesenstadt
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has visited the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, accompanied by President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman. Read more
ABC follows up Code of Silence
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Breaking the Silence, a one hour COMPASS special, follows the journey of Australian Jew Manny Waks who was, until recently, the only survivor of child sexual abuse within Melbourne’s Jewish community to speak publicly…Waks meets with an abuser and confronts one who abused him. Read more
Conversion needed for Israeli citizenship to start in the Ukraine
October 23, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
A new project has been launched in Kiev to assist Olim eligible by the Law of return to begin their conversion process right in their country of origin, in light of the increase in the number of Olim from the Ukraine. Read more
Newts News
October 23, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
The Shtick presents on J-wire Newts News…video covering current events including bombs in Turkey, stabbings in Israel, Palestinian incitement on the Temple Mount issue, Moshe Feiglin and his critics, Medical Marijuana and UNPLUG for the Shabbat Project, Read more
Netanyahu: what he said
October 22, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister has been slammed for stating that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem played a vital part in the extermination of the Jews during WWII – Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel states her country must take responsibility for the Holocaust. Read more
