Dayenu remembers the gay victims of the Holocaust
April 30, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney-based Dayenu representing the Jewish Gay and Lesbian community have commemorated Yom HaShoah at the GLBTI War Memorial in Darlinghurst. Read more
Commemorating Yom HaShoah in Melbourne
April 30, 2014 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) hosted Melbourne’s annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration Evening on Sunday evening at Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University. The theme of the evening was the commemoration of the terrible destruction of Hungarian Jewry. Read more
Faces of the future sing of shadows of the past
April 29, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
An audience of over 900 sat enraptured in the auditorium of Sydney’s Moriah College as a choir of 48 schoolchildren sang songs of the past to commemorate Yom HaShoah…remembering the Holocaust. Read more
Strengthening Jewish-Chinese relations
April 29, 2014 by Agencies
The two top professionals of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) have held a series of meetings in Beijing with senior Chinese officials aimed at strengthening Sino-Judeo relations. Read more
ECAJ makes its submission on Section 18C
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has made the following submission (Submission) in response to the Exposure Draft Exposure Draft of Freedom of Speech (Repeal of s.18C) Bill 2014 (the Exposure Draft). Read more
Australian students commemorate Anzac Day in Israel
April 29, 2014 by Hayley Hadassin
The Zionist Federation of Australia organised a full two day program for 240 Australian gap year participants from Bnei Akiva, Betar, Habonim Dror, Hashomer Hatzair, Netzer, Hineni, IBC and AUJS Aviv, in conjunction with KKL (JNF Israel) to commemorate Anzac Day in Israel. Read more
Actors reveal the effects of racial vilification
April 28, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students has launched a video campaign on Yom HaShoah to test the reaction of bystanders to acts of racial vilification on university campuses. Read more
Yom HaShoah…Benjamin Netanyahu at Yad Vashem
April 28, 2014 by Agencies
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Yom HaShoah at Yad Vashem… Read more
Yom HaShoah…from President Shimon Peres
April 28, 2014 by Agencies
The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, spoke at the official commemoration ceremony for the Holocaust Martys’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem. Read more
Anzac Day – Remembered in Israel as we prepare for the 100th
April 28, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Anzac Day was commemorated in Semakh at the souther end of Lake Tiberias…and at the War memorial in Darlinghurst, Sydney, where plans are underway for next year’s centenary. Read more
Shurat HaDin gets a pleasing result…or did they?
April 25, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
Rabbi Doctor Dovid Slavin
April 24, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
After 20 years of candle burning including raising a family and running Our Big Kitchen in Bondi, Rabbi Dovid Slavin has been conferred with a PhD at the University of Sydney. Read more
WJC President Lauder condemns Palestinian unity accord
April 24, 2014 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder today condemned the reconciliation deal announced by Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, which could lead to a unity government between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, which is led by Mahmoud Abbas, and the Hamas government in Gaza. Read more
Government grant for NSW Jewish military history
April 23, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The ANZAC Day service was held on Sunday at the War Memorial in Sydney ahead of the main commemoration to be held on Friday to allow jewish participants to march. Read more
In the month of March, 2004
April 22, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
In March 2004, Michael Striegold tested for the Gift of Life, an organisation he had never heard, at a community function in San Francisco. In the same month 12,000 kms across the Pacific, Michael Faust is Sydney learned that he had an aggressive form of leukaemia for which was their no cure. The only hope for survival was finding a matching stem cell donor. Streigold gave Faust the Gift of Life and is in Sydney to attend Faust’s wedding. Read more
Danby calls Q&A “a setup”
April 21, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has lashed out at ABC-TV’s choice of panellists on tonight’s Q&A calling it a set-up. He has written to ABC Managing Director Mark Scott pointing out that once again the ABC was presenting a panel whose members hold strong views on Israel and “the Jewish lobby” on a Jewish festival without a strong representation of opposing opinion. Read more
Golden Dawn in Australia
April 17, 2014 by J-Wire
The NSW Greek community has expressed its concern in an statement issued by the Australian Hellenic Council [NSW] following Channel 9’s Sixty Minutes program during which a member of the Greek far-right group Golden Dawn admitted the party had established branches in Sydney and Melbourne. Read more
JCA: Campaign on its way
April 17, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Jewish Communal Appeal has held its 2014 campaign launch event for hosts, key stakeholders and community leaders. Read more
Remembering Hungary
April 16, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
This year’s NSW Yom Hashoah ceremonies will honour the Jews of Hungary and other European centres who were deported in 1944. Read more
Watching YouTube
April 16, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
The Online Hate Prevention Institute has launched a new initiative inviting the community members to register for access to an online system which will lodge complaints of hate content on YouTube. Read more
Pesach in Townsville
April 14, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
An innocent game of frisbee has brought Jake Altholz’s parents from the USA to the north Queensland city of Townsville where they will Seder tonight with members of the tiny local Jewish community. Jake was badly injured in a car accident last month and parents Reed and Elyse were at his bedside as he fought to recover from serious injury. Read more
No green light for hate speech
April 14, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Communities has said that Victor Dominello, the Liberal Minister for the portfolio, had “disappointed” the Harmony Dinner held in Sydney by failing tp speak out against the proposed moves by the Federal Liberal government to water down the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more
88% say “No” to changing the Race Discrimination Act
April 14, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Today’s Nielsen poll showing 88% of respondents disagree with the contention that it should be lawful to offend, insult or humiliate a person on the basis of race is further evidence that changes to the Racial Discrimination Act are unwarranted and unwanted, said Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane. Read more
Chag Sameach from the Prime Minister
Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of Australia sends a Pesach message to J-Wire readers…. Read more
Overseas news alert – 3 killed in Jewish community centres in Kansas
April 14, 2014 by J-Wire
USA Today reports that at least three people are dead after a gunman went on a rampage at a Jewish Community Centre and retirement home in Kansas. As he was led away by police the alleged gunman yelled “Heil Hitler” Read more
Bob Carr – AIJAC has its say…and Danby watches the 7:30 Report
April 14, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
What we think
April 14, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Thirty one multicultural and religious communities in Victoria have responded to the opportunity offered by Attorney-General Senator George Brandis and the Federal Government to comment on the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). Read more
NZ luminary passes away
April 13, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
Mike Nathan, an outstanding leader of the New Zealand Jewish community has passed away at the age of 67. Read more
Julia Gillard makes a surprise appearance
April 13, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
The iconic Jerusalem Theatre was the venue for Keren Malki’s third Rainbow of Music annual concert. Tickets had already been completely sold out by the previous week…but for the more than 450 people in the audience, a highlight of the performance was the opening speech delivered by surprise visitor, former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard. Read more
In the eyes of the beholder
April 13, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
A poster in which the eye may be tricked into believing that New Zealand’s Prime Minister is a Nazi posing in front of a flag in which the swastika has been replaced by a dollar sign is being distributed in Wellington and offered for sale on the internet. Read more
