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
Netanyahu rejects ICC’s decision to open preliminary examination
January 18, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a decision by the International Criminal Court to open a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine. Read more
School bus terror attack: youth to tour Holocaust museum
January 16, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand at the UN Security Council: “a return to the pre-1967 borders”
January 16, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand’s Ambassador to the United Nations Jim McLay has delivered his first address at the UN Security Council open debate on the Middle East. Read more
Meet Luke Foley
January 16, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Luke Foley, brand new Leader of the NSW Labour Party was introduced to the multicultural press of New South Wales by Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Communities Guy Zangari. Read more
‘This is your land,’ Netanyahu tells Birthright participants
January 16, 2015 by Agencies
The Taglit-Birthright Israel program has celebrated 15 years of bringing young Jews (ages 18-26) on free 10-day trips to Israel on Wednesday evening in Jerusalem. Read more
WIZO Conference in Israel
January 15, 2015 by Agencies
Two hundred WIZO leaders from 25 countries including Australia will participate this week in the World WIZO AGM. Read more
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Matteo is a PhD student at Melbourne’s Monash University and has questions for 18-29 yr-olds living in Balaclava, Caulfield or Elsternwick… Read more
JNF Australia backs new children’s centre
January 15, 2015 by Ahuva Bar-Lev
JNF Australia has dedicated the new Arava Children’s Environmental Centre in the Negev village of Sapir. Read more
Supermarket victims buried in Jerusalem
The four slain victims of last week’s kosher supermarket siege in Paris have been buried in Jerusalem…and President Rivlin declared “Jewish blood is not worthless”. Read more
Netanyahu in Paris
January 13, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Israeli media reports that France asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay away from a weekend solidarity march in Paris but he ignored the request and chose to attend. Read more
Netanyahu visits supermarket scene
January 13, 2015 by Agencies
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday visited Hyper Cacher, the kosher supermarket in Paris where Muslim terrorist Amedy Coulibaly took nearly 20 shoppers hostage and killed four of the hostages. Read more
The state of French Jewry
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder has met with French President François Hollande at the Élysée Palace in Paris to discuss the situation of the Jewish community in France. Read more
The growth of antisemitism on the U.N.’s agenda
January 13, 2015 by Agencies
The General Assembly of the United Nations will meet later this months to discuss the growth of antisemitism at the request of 37 countries including Australia. Read more
Academics preaching BDS again
January 12, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
A group of Sydney academics continue to push for BDS sanctions to be more widely adopted by National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). Read more
Moving out?
January 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Hundreds of French Jews have attended a Jewish Agency for Israel Aliyah (immigration to Israel) information fair under tight security in central Paris. Read more
Palestine – Mapping The Truth Erases A Long-running Fiction
January 12, 2015 by David Singer
The US State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs has featured a map on its website – which both rejects and corrects the misleading use of the terms “1967 boundaries” and “1967 borders” – which have never existed in relation to any territorial subdivision between Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Read more
Supermarket victims to be buried in Israel
January 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The four Jewish victims of the terrorist attack on the Parisian Kosher supermarket will be buried in Israel. Read more
Paris: a message from the rabbis and the embassy
January 12, 2015 by J-Wire
The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia has spoken out following the murderous attacks at Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher supermarket in Paris…as has Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand. Read more
