The Holocaust remembered in New Zealand’s capital.
January 29, 2015 by David Zwartz
Due to the significance of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the commemoration of United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day was more extensive in New Zealand this year. Read more
President Rivlin addresses United Nations
January 29, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York…and tells its members “never again”. Read more
Rabbis respond to Fairfax quotes
January 28, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia (ORA) is deeply concerned about comments attributed to criminal lawyer Alex Lewenberg which have appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. Read more
Josh Frydenberg at Auschwitz
January 28, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
Among the world dignitaries attending the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was Australian Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Read more
Major Israeli honour for former NSW Governor
The Technion in Israel is to award a Doctor Honoris Causa, the Technion’s highest recognition for scientific and humanitarian contribution to former NSW Governor, Professor Dame Marie Bashir Read more
Sydney remembers Auschwitz
January 28, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Around 350 members of the community including diplomats from many countries, gathered at the Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM) to commemorate 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Read more
Rabbis meet the Prime Minister
January 28, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Tthe first ever delegation from Australia’s peak and preeminent Jewish religious leadership body – ORA – The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, has met with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra. Read more
A personal account of the liberation of the Bergen concentration camp
Lt-Col Leonard Berney RA TD tells J-Wire of his participation and the events surrounding the liberation of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Yad Vashem on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spoke at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem at yesterday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration. Read more
Learn online about the Holocaust
January 28, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
To mark the International Holocaust Memorial Day, FutureLearn, a social medialearning platform, has launched free online courses exploring the history and ongoing scholarship of the Holocaust…one created by Tel Aviv University and the other by Yad Vashem. Read more
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, victims and leaders mark 70 years since Auschwitz liberation
More than 300 Holocaust survivors along with world leaders gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Tuesday to commemorate the 1.1 million people killed there, as well as the millions of other victims killed during the Holocaust, as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
The Holocaust remembered in Auckland
January 27, 2015 by Keren Cook
Auckland has hosted an International Holocaust Remembrance day…a J-Wire video report from Keren Cook. Read more
Israeli may have survived car crash if she had been wearing a seatbelt
January 27, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Irit Wilder, an Israeli tourist who died in a car accident in New Zealand would probably have survived had she been wearing a seatbelt. Read more
Those left standing
January 26, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Around 160 Holocaust survivors accompanied by family, friends and carers commemorated 70 years of survival…when survivors were asked to stand only about 80 made their presence felt. Read more
Australia Day message from Tony Abbott
January 26, 2015 by Agencies
Prime Minister Tony Abbott delivers his Australia Day message for 2015. Read more
Israel smoothing the waters with New Zealand
January 26, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
An Israeli diplomat has made a special trip to New Zealand to deliver a letter to the country’s Foreign Minister in an attempt to reconcile diplomatic differences between the two countries. Read more
Australia Day Awards – did we leave anyone out?
January 26, 2015 by J-Wire
If you know of someone within the community who received an Australia Day award and did not appear on our list, email us at [email protected]
Israel releases world antisemitism report
2014 marked a distinct shift in the level of antisemitism around the world, and especially in Europe according to the annual report on Anti-Semitism presented to the Israeli cabinet today by the Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, Naftali Bennett. Read more
Presidents will not meet
January 25, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin is currently in the United States but hopes that a meeting with U.S. president Barak Obama might be arranged will not be realised. Read more
An Australia Day story – friendship triumphs over hate
January 25, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Each January 26, Czechoslovakian-born Holocaust survivors Eva Grinston and Ibi Wertheim have celebrated Australia Day as their national holiday and also as an anniversary with deep personal significance. Read more
A yarmulke in disguise
January 25, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
An Israeli barber has developed a yarmulke to wear when you are not wearing a yarmulke…it is made from hair! Read more
This was no ordinary tour – UIA Australia in Israel
January 25, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Miriam Lewin reports on a recent UIA study mission to Israel…
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EcoPeace explained
January 22, 2015 by Judy Singer
Sydneysiders thirsting for signs of hope from the Middle East filled Newtown Synagogue’s Community Hall to hear leading Israeli environmentalist Gidon Bromberg, co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, deliver some encouraging news. Read more
ADC condemns Tel Aviv bus attack
January 22, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has strongly condemned this week’s terrorist attack on a bus line in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian man from the West Bank in which 13 Israelis passengers were injured. Read more
Anti-Defamation Commission takes issue with President Carter
January 22, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has severely criticised as wrong and offensive comments by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter last week that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was one of the contributing reasons for the heinous murders in Paris. Read more
Museum to Host Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 21, 2015 by Keren Cook
For the second year Auckland will host the United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Bus hate youth tours the Sydney Jewish Museum
January 21, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
A youth who was a member of a group who boarded a bus transporting Jewish schoolchildren and verbally abused them has toured the Holocaust section of the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more
Melbourne JNF supporters tour the Negev
January 21, 2015 by Ahuva Bar-Lev
JNF supporters from Melbourne have toured the Negev and Gaza Border. Read more
On the beach
January 18, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Following the success of previous Tamarama beach Shabbat experiences, Our Big Kitchen will again host this year’s biggest Shabbat dinner under the stars. Read more
Sydney Morning Herald cartoon breached Press Council’s Standards of Practice
January 18, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Press Council has deemed a controversial cartoon published in the Sydney Morning Herald in July last year during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza to have “emphasised religious persuasion rather than Israeli nationality” and had breached the Council’s Standards of Practice. Read more
