Jewish leaders at Iftar dinner
July 31, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Premier The Hon Barry O’Farrell MP has hosted an “Iftar Dinner to celebrate Interfaith Harmony” at Parliament House. Read more
MP to address community parliament
July 31, 2012 by Michelle Coleman
Nicholas Kotsiras, Victorian State Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, will visit Beth Weizmann next Monday to address the Plenum of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV). Read more
Adding the French Touch
July 31, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
It was standing room only at popular Sydney music venue Camelot when Dahlia Dior presented her personal tribute to French singing legend Edith Piaf. Read more
Send a message to Steven
Want to let Steven Solomon know you are barracking for him when he competes in the 400m this weekend? J-Wire shows you how… Read more
B’nai B’rith remembers Munich
B’nai B’rith Melbourne has commemorated the memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympic Games 40 years ago. Read more
Yes, they stood
July 30, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Out of the range of cameras which for whatever reason did not want to record the moment, Israel’s Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat stood in silence in respect for the 11 Israelis murdered in Munich at the 1972 Olympic Games during the opening ceremony speech made by IOC President Jacques Rogge in London. Read more
To give when you love
As Tisha B’Av finishes, yahrzeit for their daughter Malki approaches for Arnold and Frimet Roth. Arnold writes to J-Wire… Read more
Danby critical of Brenner protesters’ defence lawyer
July 29, 2012 by J-Wire
C
riminal defence lawyer Rob Stary’s self-congratulation on his successful defence of his clients’ rights to protest in his opinion piece in the Herald-Sun (”Peaceful Protestors Justified ) ventured into wider issues of foreign policy and history, far from his narrow sphere of expertise. Read more
Holocaust/Genocide exhibition opens in Melbourne
July 29, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne is hosting an exhibition from the USA of photographs and extraordinary stories from the Holocaust and genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Cambodia. Read more
Waks, WIZO and Sexual Abuse
Manny Waks has spoken to a Melbourne WIZO group about his personal experiences as a victim of child sexual abuse… Read more
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
July 29, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Olympic 400m runner Steven Solomon has participated in his first Olympic opening ceremony… Read more
Families to stand
July 27, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
The families of the eleven Israeli athletes brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Munich in 1972 will stand during tonight’s opening speech at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Israel’s Minister of Sport Limor Livnat will join them as Jacques Rogge makes his opening address. J-Wire calls on all Australians to do the same as a symbolic gesture of support for the grieving families whose bid to have one minute’s silence was rejected by the IOC.
Australia Remembers
July 27, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
One minute’s silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Olympic Games was held at Jewish community headquarters in Melbourne and Sydney. Read more
Waks asks Egyptian Ambassador for answers
July 27, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
An Egyptian TV station has screened a candid camera style program in which celebrities were hoodwinked into believing they had been tricked into appearing on an Israeli TV production. The results are disturbing. View the clips on J-Wire and Waks’s response to the Egyptian Embassy… Read more
Brenner expanding
July 27, 2012 by J-Wire
The boycott campaign against the Max Brenner Chocolate Shops had more wind taken out of its sails this week when the group announced it was expanding its Australian activities into the hotel market. Read more
Australia donates $500,000 to Auschwitz-Birkenau Preservation Fund
July 27, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne yesterday at which she announced that Australia is donating half a million to a fund established to preserve the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Read more
Our Big Kitchen and JewishCare – Cooking Together
July 26, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
In a bold new initiative, Our Big Kitchen and JewishCare have held a fun cooking competition the real winners of which will be needy members of the Sydney Jewish community. Read more
The runner and the rabbi
July 25, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
It was erev Pesach and the runner had a problem. He needed lots of carbohydrates before a major meet and that meant eating chometz…could the rabbi help? Read more
JewishCare and Wolper grief assist
July 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s JewishCare has signed an agreement with the Wolper Jewish Hospital to utilise its programs assisting those grief-stricken following the loss of a loved one. Read more
Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival
July 25, 2012 by Arts Editor
The Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival recently launched its 2012 program which boasts an outstanding line-up of writers and sessions. Read more
Call for silence
July 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Zionist Federation of Australia have called for all Australians to observe one minute’s silence on Friday at 11am in memory of the eleven athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Read more
The Shtick’s One Minute’s Silence
July 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Henry Greener produces The Shtick, a Melbourne-based video program dealing with contemporary Jewish themes. Watch his video interview with Rabbi Shmuli Block…and share a minute’s silence. Read more
Gift of Life at work
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Three men linked to each other through the Gift of Life donor program have met Australian program organiser Shula Endrey-Walder in New York. Read more
NSW call for a minute’s silence
July 24, 2012 by Community Editor
The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and the Zionist Council of NSW have joined the call for a minute’s silence on the 40th anniversary of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Read more
Award-winning play for Wellington
July 24, 2012 by Community Editor
B‘nai B’rith and the Wellington Jewish Community Centre will stage award-winning play “Nuclear Family” in which Yael Gezentsvey will play twelve characters. Read more
New Zealand’s Nazi Hunter
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Did New Zealand give a home to genocidal killers? Wayne Stringer was New Zealand’s Nazi Hunter. He investigated 47 “displaced persons”, suspected of complicity in Nazi era war crimes, who came to New Zealand at the end of WW2. Read more
Yair Miller appointed to Parole Authority
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The President of the The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Yair Miller has been appointed to the State’s Parole Authority. Read more
Olympics protest – Danby adds his name
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire
The International Council of Jewish Parliament MPS has called for a minute’s at the Olympic Games which open in London this Friday evening…and Australian Federal Labor MP Michael Danby is a signatory. Read more
Busy year for the Jewish Film Foundation
The Jewish Film Foundation of Australia is gearing up for its most ambitious year yet. Read more
…and the signatories are
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
A petition has been presented to the Australian Jewish Community demanding “Israel end detention of Palestinians without charge. J-Wire publishes the signatories and The Executive Council of Australian Jewry response… Read more
