Racist threats on Sydney Jewish school bus
August 6, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Eight youths boarded a specially charted school bus carrying students from Sydney Jewish schools Moriah College and Mt Sinai College taunting the students with antiSemitic remarks and threatening to slit their throats.
An open letter to Rabbi Gutnick
August 6, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick has been elected president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria. Social worker Vivien Resofsky has sent him an open letter. Read more
Carlton resigns
August 6, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton has resigned following demands that he must apologise for using anti-semitic comments when responding to readers criticising him for an article written in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Read more
Mike Carlton to apologise
August 6, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton has been asked to apologise to readers who corresponded with him following his article on the Israel-Gaza conflict and to whom he used inappropriate language. Read more
Farewell changes to 18C
August 5, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The Abbott government has backed down on plans to water down the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more
Australia welcomes ceasefire
August 5, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has welcomed the latest 72 hour ceasefire. Read more
Australia raises its counter-terrorism ante
August 5, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced new measures to deal with counter-terrorism. Read more
Rabbi accosted in Perth
August 5, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
A visiting rabbi from Jerusalem has been accosted in a Perth shopping mall. Read more
Herald apology welcomed
August 5, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the NSW Jewish Board Deputies have welcomed the editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald unreservedly apologising for the publication of an antisemitic cartoon on 26 July 2014. Read more
Antisemitism flaunted at fourth Sydney rally
August 5, 2014 by Julie Nathan
About 1500 to 2000 people attended Sunday’s anti-Israel rally in Sydney, for the fourth week in a row. The event was again noticeable for its anti-Jewish expressions and for the prominence of the militant black flags of jihad.”
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Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick heads RCV
August 5, 2014 by J-Wire
Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick has been elected President of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria. Read more
Concern for Jewish Education
August 4, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The United Jewish Education Board (UJEB) is deeply concerned about recent developments relating to the implementation of the revised Special Religious Instruction (SRI) framework by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) and a number of schools. Read more
Fairfax apologises
August 4, 2014 by J-Wire
The Sydney Morning Herald has apologised for publishing a cartoon depicting an elderly man with a hook nose, wearing a kippah sitting on an armchair with a Magen David on its back appearing to be using a remote to control bombing on Gaza. Read more
Behind the scenes
August 4, 2014 by J-Wire
There are small organisations within our community whose profile does not loom large as life as the majors’.
Stand with Israel
August 3, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
At 7:30am this morning, a text message was sent to thousands of members of the Sydney Jewish community planning on attending a pro-Israel rally advising them that “due to logistics” the venue had been changed. The message got through. Over 7,000 people answered the Read more
Netanyahu says troops are “completing the work”
August 3, 2014 by Agencies
“Hamas wants the residents of Gaza to suffer and be hurt and thinks that the world will blame Israel for their suffering. There are many people in the world who understand exactly what Hamas is, the same organization that, together with Qatar, assured US Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon regarding a ceasefire. It misled both of them.” Read more
Conference draws condemnation from JCCV
August 3, 2014 by J-Wire
Aleph Melbourne welcomes a statement from David Marlow, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) regarding the attendance of some Victorian politicians at an upcoming conference organised by the World Congress of Families. Read more
Limmud-Oz is coming to Queensland
August 3, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Queensland is to join the Limmud family bringing the Jewish cultural event to the Sunshine state. Read more
WJC condemns kidnapping
August 2, 2014 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress has condemned the kidnapping by Hamas of an Israeli soldier. Read more
Gaza update – official information
August 2, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
J-Wire brings you updates sent to us by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Read more
Medals for the museum
August 1, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women (NAJEX) has acquired at auction the medals of Captain John Harris Samuels (z”l) a surgeon struck by enemy fire as he was operating during the Battle of El Alamein. Read more
Labor calls for ceasefire
July 31, 2014 by J-Wire
The Australian Government must use its position on the United Nations Security Council to push for an immediate ceasefire in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Read more
Rockets over Melbourne and Sydney campuses
July 31, 2014 by J-Wire
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students has launched a new campaign to put Israel in context for university students. Read more
Story confirmed
July 31, 2014 by J-Wire
This story has been viral on the internet…but was not official. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has checked it out. It’s true. Read more
Solomon out of Games
July 30, 2014 by J-Wire
Sydney track star Steve Solomon failed to finish his semi-final of the men’s 400m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow due to a hamstring injury sustained during the race. Read more
Equal opportunity Maccabi
Maccabi Australia has announced the appointment of two fabulous women to the positions of Head of Delegation. Read more
Unholy War out of kilter
July 30, 2014 by J-Wire
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has complained to Channel 9’s “60 Minutes” producer about factual errors in their production “Unholy War” which focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict screened last Sunday. Read more
Letter to and from the editor
July 30, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, as did the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, sought an apology from the Sydney Morning Herald for publishing a cartoon portraying “an ugly stereotype of a Jew”. Read more
Graf oration and the concentric circles of siege
July 30, 2014 by Roz Tarszisz
Yossi Klein Halevi , author, commentator , political philosopher and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, was guest speaker at the annual Ervin Graf Memorial Oration for The Shalom Institute this week. An audience of 450 gathered to listen to his view of current events in Israel. He likened the situation Israelis are experiencing as “concentric circles of siege”. Read more
Pyne in Jerusalem
July 30, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Federal Minister for Education Christopher Pyne was the keynote speaker at the opening of the third Australia-Israel-UK leadership dialogue held in Jerusalem. Read more
