A Yossele in trouble
April 21, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
We call them Joeys but perhaps Israelis may refer them to as Yosseles…either way one found himself in trouble in Ramat Gan. Read more
A community centre for Melbourne
April 21, 2015 by Rachel Mihalovich
The members of the Caulfield Hebrew Congregation have formally endorsed the master plan for a Jewish community centre in the heart of Caulfield. Read more
Bibi meets children of fallen IDF members
April 21, 2015 by Agencies
Ahead of Yom Hazikaron, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with the children of members of the Israeli Defence Forces who lost their lives on active service. Read more
An ANZAC message from Australia’s ambassador to Israel
April 21, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
J-Wire meets the Australian Ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma, in Tel Aviv ahead of ANZAC Day. Read more
Centenary of the ANZAC
April 20, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
NSW will participate in the Centenary of The Anzac Jewish Program with a special commemorative service to be held at Sydney’s The Great Synagogue on Sunday 3 May. Read more
New Kosher Café in Melbourne
April 20, 2015 by Sarah Bendetsky
Spot On, A new kosher café in Melbourne, has opened its doors to over 600 customers with the help of Jewish Care’s Jump Start Interest Free Loans Program. Read more
ANZAC Day: 38 Australian Jews among the 9,000 who perished
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has sent a message to the country ahead of this year’s 100th anniversary of the tragic loss of lives at Gallipoli. Read more
The occupation under a microscope
April 17, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Students and academics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney will hold a symposium to examine “Law, Rights and Resistance in Occupied Palestine”. Read more
A Yom Hashoah message in music from Miriam Waks
April 17, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
To mark the beginning of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and it is with great pride that I share with you two previously unreleased pieces with which to mark the occasion. Read more
ANZAC exhibition
April 17, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
To mark the Centenary of ANZAC commemorations, the Sydney Jewish Museum will display a collection of photographs and diary extracts belonging to serviceman and NAJEX founding member, Harold Emanuel Collins. Read more
Holocaust survivors in Israel observe Yom Hashoah
April 17, 2015 by Agencies
Thousands of Holocaust survivors have observed Yom HaShoah—Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day—at ceremonies held today (Thursday, April 16) in the 57 residential facilities operated by The Jewish Agency for Israel’s sheltered housing subsidiary, Amigour. Read more
SJM staff to present at International Holocaust Conference
April 17, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney Jewish Museum will make a presentation at an International Holocaust Conference in Krakow, Poland next week.
Netanyahu at Yad Vashem
April 17, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at Yad Vashem on Yom Hashoah. Read more
Yom Hashoah in Melbourne
April 17, 2015 by David Marlow
In a very moving and meaningful ceremony at the Robert Blackwood Hall at Monash University, the annual Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) Yom Hashoah Commemoration was held to a packed auditorium. Read more
March of the Living 2015
April 17, 2015 by Agencies
70 years after the end of the Second World War 11,000 participants, both Jews and non-Jews, joined the 27th March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Read more
March of the Living – Live on J-Wire
April 16, 2015 by J-Wire
J-Wire presents a live feed from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sydney cantor Shimon Farkas will sing El Male Rachamim and leading the Kaddish at the end of the ceremony in Birkenau. Starts 9pm Sydney time. The transmission was also recorded and can be viewed in its entirety. Read more
Dialogue and friendship core values for Abrahamic Council relaunch
April 16, 2015 by Keren Cook
The Christian and Jewish communities have expanded to included Muslims in an effort to foster dialogue and friendship. Read more
Yom Hashoah in Sydney
April 16, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Over 1200 people packed Sydney’s City Recital Hall to commemorate the passing of 70 years since the end of WWII and the liberation from the Nazi concentration camps. Read more
Yom Hashoah at Yad Vashem
April 16, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin spoke at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Yom Hashoah. Read more
Israel honors a righteous Gentile
April 15, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
The son of a Dutch couple who saved a Jewish child’s life during the Nazi occupation will receive a Righteous Among Nations award on their behalf at the Yom Hashoah commemoration in Sydney tonight. Read more
Stand Up CEO selected for international leadership program
April 15, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Nuclear threat from Iran concerns children of survivors
As Israel readies to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new Bar-Ilan University study reveals that the adult children of Holocaust survivors are more preoccupied with the threat of a nuclear Iran than their peers whose parents are not Holocaust survivors. Read more
A question for Julie
April 14, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Federal Labor MP has a question he wants Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to ask when she visits Tehran next week on the country’s documented threat to eliminate Israel. Read more
Sydney filmmaker makes an ABC-TV Foreign Correspondent program on Palestinian footballers
April 14, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
I may as well have a Star of David tattooed onto my forehead…writes Dan Goldberg. Read more
Deputy Walt
April 13, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
State Labor MP and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair, Mr Walt Secord has been elected Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the NSW Legislative Council (Upper House) in the NSW Parliament. Read more
US movie release for Sydney Filmmaker
April 13, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Sydney filmmaker Kane Senes will have his feature film Echoes of War released in the US next month.
Strong Jewish themes at Catholic convention
April 13, 2015 by Keren Cook
The 22nd Eucharistic Convention held in Auckland has featured strong Jewish themes. Read more
March of the Living 2015
April 13, 2015 by Agencies
70 years after the end of the Second World War the March of the Living will once again take over 10,000 young people, Jews and non-Jews, from across the world on an emotional and inspiring educational journey. Read more
We visit the new Children in the Holocaust Exhibition at Yad Vashem
April 13, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
Yesterday, a few days before Yom Hashoah, Yad Vashem opened a new exhibition entitled “Children in the Holocaust: Stars without a Heaven.” Read more
“BDS isn’t Anti-Semitic” – University forum.
April 11, 2015 by J-Wire
In the wake of the protest during the recent lecture by Colonel Richard Kemp resulting in an investigation under way at the behest of the University of Sydney, university staff have been invited to a forum entitled “Why Boycotting Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic”.
