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
A travelling Holocaust exhibition created by non-Jews
March 5, 2013 by Michael Kuttner
A devoted Christian couple in Auckland has created a project called Shadows of Shoah (SOS) initiated by them in Israel in 2008 when they photographed and interviewed Holocaust survivors. Read more
How Israel Investigates War Crimes
March 5, 2013 by Community Editor
The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies plenum will receive insights as to how Israel investigates allegations of war crimes from a member of the investigating committee later this month. Read more
Klezmer in Canberra
March 4, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Sydney performer Fay Sussman will perform at the National Gallery in Canberra this weekend as an added attraction to the Touluse Lautrec exhibition. Read more
Not Israel’s favourite song
Dr Dvir Abramovich, chairperson of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission, has questioned the Australian Broadcasting Commission about program content that apparently endorses genocide and the destruction of the State of Israel. Read more
Times at Tatura
March 4, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Memories of another day are no stranger to Eva de Jong-Duldig a director of a museum which has made a sizable contribution to “Behind Barbed Wire: POW and Interment Camps in Victoria 1939-1945” an exhibition showing the lives and times of internees and prisoners of war in Victoria opened recently at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance. Read more
Mardi Gras
More than 80 members of the community turned last night to join the Dayenu float in the 2013 Mardi Gras parade. Read more
Aleph welcomes Bialik joining SSCV
March 3, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Aleph Melbourne congratulates Bialik College on joining Safe Schools Coalition Victoria today. Read more
A Mardi Gras Story
March 3, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Penny Sharpe, Shadow Minister for Transport, a member of Rainbow Labor and senior campaigner for Gay and Lesbian rights paid tribute to the late-Ron Quilter-Fienberg in the NSW Parliament this week ahead of Sydney’s 35th Mardi Gras. Read more
Bye Bye Joan?
March 2, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Internationally-renowned Jewish comedienne Joan Rivers may have distanced herself permanently from her Jewish fan base after using a line referring to Germans “pushing Jews into the ovens”. Read more
A special art exhibition
March 1, 2013 by Ayal Tusia
Melbourne’s Jewish Care has launched an exhibition of artwork by adults living with a mental health condition to raise awareness and support participants in their journey to recovery. Read more
JewishCare co-operating on Mental Health
March 1, 2013 by Warren Hurst
Sydney’s JewishCare has hosted a Mental Health – Meet your Neighbour meeting. Read more
Shalom scholarships for outstanding Jewish students
March 1, 2013 by Community Editor
Sydney’s Shalom college has offered for the first time scholarships to Jewish students on the basis of their academic record and leadership potential. Read more
Carr welcomes Israeli enquiry
February 28, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Foreign Minister Bob Carr has been advised by the Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv that Israel will conduct an investigation into the death in custody of a Palestinian prisoner. Read more
Cemetery desecrator sentenced
February 28, 2013 by Miriam Bell
Punishment for the man who desecrated 15 Jewish graves in Auckland’s oldest cemetery, with swastikas and crude anti-Israeli graffiti, is to be 320 hours community service, nine months supervision and $3000 reparation. Read more
ECAJ complains to your ABC
February 28, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The ABC’s Elizabeth Jackson recently interviewed co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices’ Antony Loewenstein about the Ben Zygier case. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has lodged an official complaint to the ABC about its content. Read more
Carr condemns rocket attacks
February 27, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Foreign Minister Senator Bob Carr has condemned the rocket attacks on Israel launched from Gaza yesterday. Read more
Israeli trip motion in NSW Parliament
February 27, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Nationals Whip in the NSW Legislative Council Rick Colless will move a motion in parliament following what he described as “a successful trip” to Israel recently. Read more
Shalit meets Sydney school students
February 27, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who spent five years as a prisoner of Hamas, has addressed over 1800 senior school students in Sydney. Read more
The university facilities you want
February 26, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students is providing an opportunity for university students and the Jewish youth of the community to participate in a special survey during Orientation Week (O-week) and the first few weeks of university this semester. Read more
The Struggle for the Negev
Ari Briggs – International Director of Regavim, an Israeli Non-Government Organization, and JNF Shaliach Ygal Shapir have shared a platform at Sydney’s The Central Synagogue discussing good and bad news coming out of the Negev. Read more
Face to Face with Ari Briggs
February 25, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Former Sydneysider Ari Briggs now lives in Ra’anana and is Director of International Relations with Regavim…a Jerusalem-based organisation which contests in court claims made the Bedouin over ownership of State and privately-owned land in the Negev. Watch the video Face to Face interview ahead of his public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne. Read more
Two for One Offer from J-Wire
February 24, 2013 by J-Wire
J-Wire is offering twelve readers the opportunity to buy one ticket and get one free for the Australian Chamber’s Orchestra’s concert in Sydney’s The Great Synagogue on Tuesday. Read more
New Old Torah for Central
February 22, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Thanks to investigative work by New York-based George Klas, a Torah captured by the Germans from a synagogue in Czechoslovakia has been found..in Sydney. Read more
New Board Members for the Lowy Institute
February 22, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
James Spigelman and David Gonski have been appointed board members of the privately funded Australian think tank The Lowy Institute for International Policy. Read more
Melbourne Science Writer visits JNF Projects
February 22, 2013 by Ahuva Bar-Lev
Melbourne-based science writer Dr. Elizabeth Finkel has visited KKL-JNF agricultural projects in Israel, as part of her research for her upcoming book on feeding the world in the future. Read more
Purim – Sobering Thoughts
February 22, 2013 by Community Editor
The Rabbinical Council of Victoria has issued a warning about the overindulgence of liquor during Purim…and so has The Jewish Community Council of Victoria. Read more
165 Years of Care
February 21, 2013 by Michelle Coleman
Victorian Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu has formally recognised and congratulated Jewish Care Victoria on its pivotal role in the community. Read more
Roman Polanski: A film memoir
February 21, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Andrew Braunsberg, is a close friend and former business partner of iconic movie director Roman Polanski. Their intimate filmed conversation originally intended to be private, during Polanski’s house arrest in Zurich are the subject of a new film “Roman Polanski – a Film Memoir”. Read more
Israeli prime Minister’s Office say Zygier had no contact with Australian security agencies
February 20, 2013 by J-Wire
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims all is well between Israel and Australia. Read more
