Jewish League footballers discovered
August 6, 2015 by Ashley Browne
As part of activities around the AFL’s multicultural round, historians have discovered the identity of two more Jewish League footballers. Read more
Ancient symbols found in Jerusalem
August 6, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
An extraordinary find that has fired archaeologists’ imagination was discovered about two months ago in the Arnona quarter during a routine archaeological inspection by the Israel Antiquities Authority of the construction of a nursery school being built at the initiative of the Jerusalem municipality has revealed ancient finds. Read more
Mayor of Jerusalem keynote speaker for JNF
August 5, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
JNF Australia has announced that Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem will be the keynote speaker at this year’s JNF Annual Dinners. Read more
Silence is filth
August 5, 2015 by Asher Kozma
The recent treatment of Indigenous AFL player Adam Goodes is an unfortunate reminder of how we as humans can band together in nastiness against those who are different. Read more
Two milestone events for JCCV
August 4, 2015 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) Plenum month plenum was a game changer for Melbourne LGBT community and for those members of the community with a disability. Read more
New Children’s Gallery for Museum Victoria
August 4, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Museum Victoria has announced a $1 million partnership with one of Australia’s largest private family foundations, Gandel Philanthropy, to develop its innovative new Children’s Gallery representing the single largest gift from an individual in Museum Victoria’s history. Read more
New Anne Frank exhibition
August 4, 2015 by Eileen Freed
A new travelling exhibition Let Me Be Myself – The Story of Anne Frank has been officially opened at the Lamm Jewish Library of Australia in Melbourne. Read more
Maccabi JCC Games Dallas
August 3, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Dallas – August 2015 and 300 local competitors have joined 1000 international visitors to take to track, field and pool to compete in the JCC Maccabi Games. Read more
Attacks in Israel condemned
August 2, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Israel and the Jewish world were shocked by two incidents on Thursday and Friday last week in which a Palestinian child died when his home was firebombed by suspected Jewish terrorists and six people became victims of a vicious knife attack during a Gay parade in Jerusalem. Read more
A message to the Arab community
August 2, 2015 by J-Wire
Following the arson attack on a Palestinian home which claimed the life of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha in the West Bank village of Duma, President Reuven Rivlin has sent a message to Israel’s Arab community…and the Palestinian people. Read more
President Rivlin visits 4-yr-old attack victim in hospital
August 2, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin visited four-year-old Ahmed Dawabsha being treated in Tel HaShomer hospital following an arson terror attack on his family’s home in Duma, in which his baby brother Ali, was killed. Read more
Citizens of Israel: A wake-up call
August 2, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin has addressed a rally in Jerusalem which promoted tolerance protested against violence. Read more
Australian legislators visit the Gaza border
July 31, 2015 by Ahuva Bar-Lev
A delegation of legislators and political advisors from Australia toured the Gaza perimeter to learn first hand about life on the border and to hear about different projects promoted by KKL-JNF for the benefit of frontline residents. Read more
Academic protestors criticised at professor’s farewell
July 31, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
The provost of the University of Sydney has told a farewell event for retiring Professor Suzanne Rutland at the University of Sydney that there were within the campus those “who confuse academic freedom with the right to disrupt”. Read more
Victoria-Israel innovation partnership saved
July 30, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Victoria-Israel Science Innovation and Technology Scheme placed on hold by former Innovation Minister Adem Somyurek, has been reopened the economic-collaboration. Read more
Peres supports Pollard release
July 30, 2015 by Agencies
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has expressed his support for the pending release of Jonathan Pollard. Read more
Providing for Holocaust survivors
July 30, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Claims Conference has come under fire recently for frauds some critics have reported as approaching $100 million. Read more
35 years later: man charged with the murder of Justice David Opas
July 29, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
A man has been charged with four counts of murder relating to the Family Court murders of the 1980s which claimed the life, amongst others, of Justice David Opas…shot at his family home in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra. Read more
Hebrew University reaching out for Australian alumni
July 29, 2015 by Dov Smith
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem want to hear from Australian alumni who would like join their new networking platform. Read more
Labor’s one-eyed misanthropes
July 28, 2015 by J-Wire
Sam Tatarka, the president of the Zionist Council of Victoria has added to the analyses of the Federal Labor Party’s resolution on the Middle East at its recent conference. Read more
Immigration to Israel from France up 11% on last year
July 28, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Over 200 French Jews, half of whom are children, arrived in Israel last night aboard a special Aliyah flight organized by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption. Read more
ALP resolution: a not so happy ZFA
July 27, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Dr Danny Lamm, president of the Zionist Federation of Australia has called the ALP resolution on the Middle East at its national conference “a laundry list of complaints against Israel”. Read more
ALP Resolution: Statement from Labor MPS
July 26, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Federal Labor politicians Mark Dreyfus and Michael Danby have welcomed the outcome of today’s Middle East resolution at the ALP conference. Read more
ALP resolution analysed
July 26, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has analysed the resolution passed at the ALP conference in Melbourne dealing with the Israel-Palestine conflict. Read more
ALP resolution: AIJAC has its say
July 26, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council’s chairman Mark Leibler and executive director Dr Colin Rubenstein have issued a statement on the ALP Middle East resolution. Read more
Schindler’s List Oscar has a new home – Yad Vashem
July 24, 2015 by Agencies
Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig has presented to Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev the Oscar awarded to him by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Schindler’s List, Best Picture of 1993. Read more
New Zealand: The UN Security Council and the Middle East
July 24, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully has addressed the United Nations Security Council’s open debate on the Middle East. Read more
Call for youth to get involved in government
July 24, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Member for Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton and Member for Coogee Bruce Notley-Smith have called for local young people to nominate for the 2015 NSW Youth Advisory Council (YAC). Read more
Australia’s stand at ECOSOC welcomed
July 24, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council has welcomed the principled stand Australia took in opposing the viciously anti-Israel resolution at the recent UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) annual session. Read more
SJWF: full program released
July 24, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Ground breaking Israeli television director and writer of Prisoners of War and Homeland, Gideon Raff, New York Times foreign affairs editor Roger Cohen and German-Nigerian author Jennifer Teege, whose grandfather was a brutal Nazi commandant, are three of the headline speakers at the upcoming Sydney Jewish Writers Festival (SJWF) this August 29-30. Read more
