…and the signatories are

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

A community remembers – Munich widows express disappointment

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) and Zionist Council of Victoria (ZCV) have put a call out to the community this week to remember the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games…but their widows have not given up. The World Jewish Congress has added its voice to the please for remembrance. Read more

Emanuel Students Connect in Jilkminggan

Eight Year 6 Emanuel students and their parents have  returned from a nine-day adventure in the Northern Territory. Read more

Brenner Protesters – not over yet

A Melbourne magistrate has found that five of the sixteen protesters who campaigned outside a Max Brenner store in Melbourne have a case to answer on charges of hindering, assaulting or resisting police. Read more

Jonathan Safran Foer edits a new Haggadah…a review by Alan Gold

One of the most precious and memorable moments of my year, every year, is opening the Haggadah I was given as a gift by my mother-in-law, and seeing the familiar wine stains and shadows of matzah crumbs from ages past…writes Alan Gold. Read more

Courage to Care holds Barmitzvah Party

It has been thirteen years since NSW B’na B’rith established Courage to Care…a special unit which travels to regional Australia hosting mobile exhibits and explaining the Holocaust and Jewish culture to communities some of which have never met a Jew. Read more

Honoring Nelson Mandela

The plan was to host 67 guests to spend 67 minutes baking at Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen to commemorate the 67 years of Nelson Mandela’s public life…but  the kitchen was packed to capacity. Read more

Local businessman on Playing for Change Global Board

Playing for Change is a multimedia global movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music…writes Odile Faludi. Read more

David Burnett Award winner named

NSW Young Labor president Michael Buckland has announced the fourth recipient of the David Burnett Memorial Award – named after the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) National Vice-President and Young Labor activist who died in Jordan in 2008. Read more

Danby “uncomfortable” with Rhiannon

Federal Labor Michael Danby has appeared on the ABC’s 24  Political show Capital Hill  with Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon and questioned her Soviet Connections. Read more

Jumping for joy

The NSW Government has provided $20,000 to help fund the Maccabi Junior Carnival being held in Sydney in January next year. Read more

Anglo-Jewry’s PR – Millis responds

Columnist Isi Leibler wrote an article on the appointment of the UK’s United Jewish Israel Appeal’s PR chief – Joseph Millis responds… Read more

Thoughts and prayers

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has issued a statement following the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria… Read more

Jo Sails for New Zealand

26-yr-old Jo Aleh is now completing final preparations for competition in the 2012 Olympics at which she will sail representing New Zealand. Read more

Crisis Line Training Course for Volunteers at Jewish House

Sydney’s Jewish House runs a 24/7 crisis line where people can get assistance any time of the day or night.  To date the crisis line has been manned by Rabbi Kastel with backup of the staff at Jewish House.  We put a call out for volunteers who were interested in helping us man the phones, and we were pleasantly surprised at the many responses that we received. Read more

Tzedakah Mascot Shares True Meaning of Charity

Arriving in time for Rosh Hashana, Melbourne’s Jewish Care’s tzedakah box mascot is a friendly face to raise awareness and teach kids the importance of giving. Read more

Exciting Semester of Melton

The Florence Melton Adult Mini-School classes begin next week in Sydney. Read more

Hope found – hope lost

Last year Gift of Life Australia invited the Jewish Community to help save Ezra and Ayelet’s lives by joining the Aussie Stem cell registry  ABMDR  in order to find miracle matches for two very young patients…for one a miracle can still happen, for the other it is too late. Read more

Eyewitness account of Cherbourg

At 2a.m. on Christmas Day 1969 the French city of Cherbourg lay deeply asleep following the traditional dinners and late Mass…so deeply asleep that the roar of twenty diesel engines starting up failed to awake them and five patrol boats paid for by Israel and embargoed by the French were on their way to Haifa. Read more

Bialik video producers visit Israel

Two Melbourne high school students who won 2nd prize in an international competition to produce a music video marking  KKL-JNF’s 110th anniversary have visited Israel. Read more

Greens no longer automatically preferred

The NSW Labor Party’s annual conference has this weekend overwhelmingly resolved to deny the Greens automatic preferences at elections and reaffirmed Labor will continue to put One Nation and other “racist right” parties last. Read more

Steven Solomon to run individual 400m at the 2012 Olympics

Already competing in the 4 x 400m relay in London , Sydney athlete Steven Solomon will face the starter’s pistol in the individual 400m at the 2012 Olympics following a racially tainted outburst by athlete John Steffensen whose current time for the event lags Solomons. Read more

A letter from Julia

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has written to the president of the International Olympic Committee requesting one minute’s silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinians at the 1972 Munich games. Read more

Cyprys to fight charges

At the adjourned Directions Hearing in Melbourne’s County Court today Judge Sue Pullen set the date for the trial of David Cyprys who will face 41 charges brought by 12 alleged victims of sexual abuse. Read more

Solomon wins bronze

Three years ago 19-yr-old Steven Solomon bought his first pair of running shoes…yesterday he won bronze in the 400m at the World Junior Championships in Barcelona in a personal best time of 45.52s…watch the race. Read more

Sh’aar HaNegev: A school fit for heroes

For most of the 1,200 students at Yitzhak Shavit Sha’ar HaNegev High School scrambling for cover amid the wail of sirens has been a mundane part of growing up for as long as they can remember…writes Stefan Bialogiski. Read more

Sydney Ironman New York bound

Ironman Jason Shein is heading to New York to push his body to the limit in the most grueling race of his life –  all in the name of charity. Read more

Solomon through to final

Three days of tough competition has seen 19-yr-old Sydneysider Steven Solomon run his way into the final of the 400m Junior World championship to be run tomorrow morning in Barcelona at 5 a.m. Sydney time. Read more

Schneider to leave JNF top job

Rob Schneider has been the National CEO of JNF Australia for the last 13 years driving the JNF vision and its many achievements. After 13 years of dedicated service in this role, Rob has decided to relinquish his position as National CEO and is likely to take on a regional role within the broader KKL-JNF organisation. Read more

Religions get together

A  group of over 50 which included rabbis, priests, imams and lay people have lived and talked together for three days at Pallotti College, a Catholic retreat in the  Yarra Valley participating in the ninth annual winter conference of the Jewish Christian Muslim Association. Read more

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