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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
Canberra and Paris
January 11, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
A memorial ceremony has been held outside the French Cultural Centre, the “Alliance Francaise”, in Australia’s Capital city Canberra to pay tribute to those killed and injured in the recent terror attacks in Paris. Read more
Supermarket victims named
January 11, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The names of the four Jews murdered during the siege of a kosher supermarket in Paris have been named…and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with one of the survivors. Read more
Charlie Hebdo: Another Jewish victim
The only woman killed in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris was Jewish. Read more
Charlie Hebdo – the supermarket siege: Condolences
January 10, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Following the deaths of four shoppers held hostage in a Kosher supermarket in the Parisian suburb of Vincennes, messages of condolence are reaching J-Wire. Read more
Islamist terrorism in France accompanied by anti-Israel conspiracy theories
January 10, 2015 by Alina Dain Sharon-JNS.org
In a traumatic week for Paris that saw the murders of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, four hostages at a kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, and a police officer in Montrouge—all coming at the hands of Islamist terrorists—the violence was accompanied by the usual anti-Israel conspiracy theories. Read more
Paris: The Jewish world sends condolences
Israeli, Australasian and other world leaders have sent condolences following the terrorist attack on the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which has resulted in 12 deaths. Read more
Dotcom blames ‘Jewish’ Hollywood
January 8, 2015 by Keren Cook
Kim Dotcom has angered the New Zealand Jewish community after lashing out on Twitter over the FBI’s new legal move against his estranged wife Mona. Read more
Life at La Trobe
January 8, 2015 by Michael Danby
Jessica Cornish tackled intense anti-Israel sentiment at Melbourne’s La Trobe University. Read more
An attic reveals its secret
January 5, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
A roof in need of repair in the Slovakian city of Presov has provided a Sydney family with memories of a precious past…a cache of photographs, documents and personal effects hidden by a rabbi before he was transported to his death in Auschwitz. Read more
Israel’s 2014 tourism figures
January 5, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Despite Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, the number of tourists in 2014 remains similar to that in 2013, thanks to the significant increase in the first half of 2013. Read more
Tagging a Jihadist’s tweets
January 2, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Mark John Taylor, the New Zealand jihadist who burned his NZ passport last year, suspended his Twitter account this week when he realised he had been broadcasting his Syrian location to every intelligence agency – and anyone else – who was keeping tabs on him. Read more
Aliyah hits a ten year high
January 1, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
According to end-of-year figures released by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, Aliyah hit a ten-year high in 2014, with the arrival of some 26,500 new immigrants. Read more
Anti-Defamation Commission slams publisher
January 1, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has lashed out at publisher Harper Collins for producing a special edition of its Collins Bartholomew Atlas for sale in the Arabian Gulf…the atlas omits Israel. Read more
Happy New Year from the Prime Minister
January 1, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott sends a message on New Year’s Day… Read more
Liberman on the UN Vote
January 1, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on the failure of the UN Security Council vote to establish a Palestinian state. Read more
Israel and the UN Vote
December 31, 2014 by J-Wire News Service
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement on the defeated UN vote on a draft resolution for the establishment of a Palestinian state. Read more
Australia votes against Palestinian state resolution
December 31, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
In one of its last acts before vacating its seat on the United Nations Security Council, Australia has voted against a draft resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state. Read more
Child victims of terrorism celebrate Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
December 30, 2014 by J-Wire News Service
Israel’s President Reuven and First Lady Nechama Rivlin, have held a Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebration, at the President’s residence for 50 children… victims of terrorist attacks. Read more
