Time to have a laugh

We all need a laugh more than ever, and what better way than to support the next generation of Australian Jewish comedians? Read more

No need to go hungry in Sydney

J-Wire is publishing a list of organisations that are providing food for the needy in these tough times. Read more

Albanese pledges support and denounces “apartheid” and BDS

Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has denounced the use of the apartheid analogy to demonise Israel during a zoom meeting organised by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Read more

We all bleed the same

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NSW State Parliament Labor MPS speak out against BDS

Two senior NSW ALP Shadow Ministers have spoken against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement within the NSW ALP and vowed to oppose motions at the State-level. Read more

A chat with Yaron Hallis

Yaron Hallis zooms in from Sydney to do an interview with Henry Greener in Melbourne, discussing his band, Monsieur Camembert and the Camelot Lounge, the venue he owns in Marrickville. Read more

Love makes the world go round fundraiser

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Jewish Aboriginal woman appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Sydney University

Professor Lisa Pulver Jackson has been appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous Strategy and Services at the University of Sydney. Read more

Ryvchin at Yale

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin was recently invited to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut to lecture on the anti-Israel movement and his new book, “The Anti-Israel Agenda – Inside the Political War on the Jewish State.” Read more

Labor’s support for Israel

It’s becoming abundantly clear that Labor is abandoning its support for Israel, and the few remaining pro-Israel Labor MPs appear incapable of stopping it…writes Senator James Paterson. Read more

Klezmatics and David Krakauer heading to Australia

In news for lovers of Jewish music, Sydney is set to thrill to a double dose of the finest international world music stars in the genre. Read more

Short+Sweet Turns “Sweet 16” in January 2017

Short+Sweet has spread the popular 10-minute format in theatre, dance, cabaret & comedy across Australia and the globe – with festivals now as far afield as Hollywood, India, Malaysia, Dubai and NZ. But the original theatre festival in its Sydney home is ‘sweet 16’ this year… and plans to celebrate in style! Read more

London Klezmer to tour Australasia

Much-loved international klezmer ensemble the London Klezmer Quartet return to Australasia in January 2017  and will feature music from  their latest hit album. Read more

Rivka Hartman’s play Let’s Talk About You…a theatre review by Deb Meyer

Let’s Talk About You is the newest offering by playwright Rivka Hartman (My Mother & Other Catastrophes) – a Melbourne born, Yiddish speaking thespian who’s Jewish identity informs much of her writing. Read more

The Xenophon team

With the Nick Xenophon Team likely to gain a number of Senate seats, and possibly a couple of lower house seats, at the looming election, and thus possibly holding or sharing the balance of power in one or both Houses, the Australia/Israel Review (AIR) examined the Senator’s record on Israel, and found much that concerns it. Read more

Anti-BDS book launched by Melbourne academics

Over 100 people packed into popular St Kilda bookstore ‘Readings’ to attend the launch of a noteworthy book, ‘Boycotting Israel is Wrong,’ authored by Monash University academics Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth. Read more

BDS and Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects

Melbourne academic Philip Mendes will address the Caulfield branch of the ALP on the negative effects BDS has on the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Read more

A Trying Subject…writes Emily Gian

In medieval England, a separate court was established with the purpose of providing redress for people in a fair and just manner. Read more

Red Rattler: Apology accepted

A Sydney theatre which refused to consider a booking from a Jewish organisation has apologised…and the apology has been accepted. Read more

Red Rattler apologises

A Sydney theatre which refused to offer its facilities to a Jewish group saying that the organisation “does not support colonialism/Zionism” has apologised to the applicant. Read more

Sydney theatre rejects Jewish production

A Sydney theatre has refused to rent its premises to a Jewish group on the grounds that their policy “does not support colonialism/Zionism”. Read more

EcoPeace explained

Sydneysiders thirsting for signs of hope from the Middle East filled Newtown Synagogue’s Community Hall to hear leading Israeli environmentalist Gidon Bromberg, co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, deliver some encouraging news. Read more

On the one hand…

Israeli-born Marcelo Svirsky has been criticised by federal MP Michael Danby for supporting the BDS movement by walking from Wollongong to Canberra…Svirsky responds to the criticism. Read more

Alhadeff opens Children’s Festival

The 2014 Multicultural Children’s Festival  has attracted massive crowds to Sydney’s Belmore Park. Read more

Media man’s take on the Middle East

Top media industry guru Rowan Dean will address this month’s NSWJBD plenum. Read more

The BDS movement and the opportunistic exploitation of self-denying Jews…writes Philip Mendes

Australian and other western Jews are just as divided as the Israelis themselves on potential solutions to the Middle East conflict. Read more

NSW Parliament condemns racism

Following last week’s attack on a group of Jewish people walking to their homes following Shabbat dinner, 18 NSW politicians have made statements in parliament condemning racism. Read more

BDS Litigation “inappropriate” says ECAJ

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has issued a statement detailing their reasons as to why they are not aligned with Israeli Human Rights group Shurat HaDin’s move to litigate against a NSW professor who advocates BDS against Israeli academics. Read more

An evening with Richard Falk in Parallel Narrative Land

It was a big night out for Sydney’s anti-Israel community, about 300 of whom turned out at Sydney University’s Footbridge Theatre on Thursday to hear Emeritus Professor Richard Falk, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories. Read more

Musical reconciliation in Poland

Fay’s Journey’ (working title) is feature documentary in the making examining  the issues of reconciliation between young Jews and Poles members of the 3rd generation following WWII. Read more

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