Organ and Tissue Donations
March 19, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Minister for Multicultural Affairs Kate Lundy and Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing Catherine King have announced the release of a national community education kit about organ and tissue donation for Australians of diverse faith, cultural and language groups. Read more
Pesach message from NSW Premier
Barry O’Farrell, Premier of NSW, has sent a Pesach message to the NSW Jewish Community. Read more
Community briefs on Sexual Abuse Royal Commission
March 18, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Director of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Peter Wertheim and Immediate Past President, Robert Goot, have met with the Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Read more
Chag Sameach from Tony Abbott
March 15, 2013 by J-Wire
The Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott has sent a Pesach message to J-Wire readers… Read more
Blow by Blow
March 15, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
A bitter debate erupted in the NSW Parliament following remarks made by Labor Councillor Shaoquett Moselmane who called Gaza “an open air”prison camp and said that Israel’s plan was “to expand the borders of the Jewish colonial state”.
The debate was on the recent trip to Israel by a group of NSW politicians organised by the The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more
Pesach greetings from the Prime Minister
March 14, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has a Pesach message for Jewish Australians… Read more
Tzedek severs links with Sydney Yeshiva
March 14, 2013 by Judy Singer
Tzedek, the advocacy group for victims of child sexual abuse, has formally severed its links with the Sydney Yeshiva Centre. Read more
Big Night Out for Young Leadership
March 14, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
United Israel Appeal’s NSW Young Leadership have held their 2013 function at the Paddington Town Hall in Sydney. Read more
World Jewry Welcomes New Pope
March 14, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder has congratulated Cardinal Jorge Maria Bergoglio on his election to the Papacy. He will be known as Pope Francis I. Read more
Temporary borders for Palestine and an Iranian attack
March 14, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Steve Rosen, a former top official with American Israel Public Affairs Committee has predicted a Palestinian State with temporary borders and an American strike on Iran. Read more
Lowy joins his granddaughter on March of the Living
March 14, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Westfield co-founder Frank Lowy will be a keynote speaker at this year’s March of the living in Auschwitz…with his 16-yr-old granddaughter Rina joining him as a member of the Australian contingent. Read more
Tel Aviv – Yafo Municipal Councillors visit NSW Parliament
March 13, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Labor Parliamentarians have hosted a visit to State Parliament by a delegation of senior Tel Aviv City councillors. Read more
ADC calls for peaceful peace conference
March 13, 2013 by Geoffrey Zygier
Dr Dvir Abramovich, chair of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), today emphasised that the forthcoming Australian Islamic Peace Conference must not be allowed to undermine social harmony in this country. Read more
Australian Islamic Peace Conference
March 12, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia has raised concerns about an Australian Islamic Peace conference being held in Melbourne this week. Read more
Jew-Hating Imam not to be a speaker
March 12, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
A headline in today’s “The Australian” proclaiming that a “Jew-hating” Imam was to be a speaker at Australian Islamic Peace Conference is unlikely to carry any truth as the man in question has not applied for a visa. Read more
Tel Aviv University visits Sydney
March 11, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Top level administrators of Tel Aviv University are visiting Sydney to strengthen ties between its campus and major universities in Australia. Read more
Jewish Agency helping small communities
March 11, 2013 by Benjamin Rutland
One year after the tragic terror attack in Toulouse, France the Chairperson of the Executive of The Jewish agency for Israel, Natan Sharansky has met with the parents of the late Rabbi Jonathan Sandler who was killed with his two children. Read more
Israel contributes to Samoan relief
March 11, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Shemi Tzur, the Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand has donated NZ$ 12,200.00 on behalf of the State of Israel to the President of the Samoa Victim Support Group. Read more
Inter-community Passover dinner
March 11, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
100 young leaders from a broad cross-section of faith, ethnic and political communities will participate in a unique Passover dinner next week. Read more
Prisoner “X” and the effect on Jewish Australians
March 8, 2013 by Michael Danby
I wanted to raise some strong responses to the charges of ‘Dual Loyalty’ made against the Australian Jewish community. For perhaps the most ugly outcome of the tragedy of Prisoner X – Ben Zygier affair is the exploitation of this issue by the usual suspects to denigrate Israel and the Australian Jewish community…writes Michael Danby. Read more
Coles prepare for Pesach
March 8, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Coles Supermarkets are selling Pesach goods quickly…but many products bought have been given away by customers before they leave the store. Read more
UIA’s Melbourne Major Event
Over 800 United Israel Appeal supporters gathered on Wednesday evening at The Peninsula in the Docklands to hear from international guests Former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman and Former IDF Helicopter Pilot and gold medal Paralympian Noam Gershony. Guests were also honoured to be in the presence of Gilad Shalit who made a grand entrance following a highly emotional video capturing imagery from his release. Read more
Triathlon star on the rise
March 8, 2013 by David Weiner-Maccabi NSW
Adriel Young turned up for his first ever Maccabi triathlon about a year ago on a borrowed bike … by his third major non-Maccabi race in January, he’d qualified for the Hawaii Iron Man, which he’ll tackle in October after representing Australia at the Maccabiah Games. Read more
Australia and New Zealand walk out of nuclear meeting
March 8, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Both the Australian and New Zealand ambassadors to the International Atomic Energy Agency walked out of a meeting in Vienna after the Iranian ambassador accused Israel of genocide. Read more
Award for Kevin
March 7, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Gateways has named Kevin Bermeister the Guest of Honor at its Fifteenth Anniversary Banquet celebrating The Brownstone Experience, a collegiate and young adult leadership center that offers young men and women worldwide an opportunity to strengthen their Jewish identity and deepen their connection to Israel. Read more
ABC gets a letter from Judy
Judy Singer watched how ABC-TV’s 7:3o Report handled the Ben Zygier case following the release of findings by Foreign Minister Bob Carr. She penned this off to them… Read more
Family visited Zygier more than 50 times
March 6, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Turkel Observer Praises Israel
March 6, 2013 by David Marlow
Professor Tim McCormack has complimented Israel on being the only country in the world to conduct an extensive independent inquiry into its military justice system, and said that it had broken new ground in terms of analysis of international law. Read more
Federal Minister visits The Jewish House
March 6, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Mental Health, Ageing, Social Inclusion, Housing and Homelessness Minister Mark Butler has paid a private visit to The Jewish House in Bondi. Read more
Big night for UIA
March 5, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Over 1600 United Israel Appeal supporters packed Sydney’s Central Synagogue this week to listen to international luminaries former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, Gilad Shalit and Israeli paralympic gold-medal winning wheelchair tennis star Noam Gershony. Read more
