Palestine: Obama Should Quit While he is Ahead

President Obama has now shown his hand on what he believes is possible in order for a new Palestinian Arab state to be created between Israel, Jordan and Egypt. Read more

BJE students head to Israel

Fifteen year 10 students from Sydney are participating in the Board of Jewish Education’s Discover Israel Program. Read more

Sydney’s Young Adult Chanukah Party

The biggest party of the year for young Jewish Sydney adults.  It is collaboration with JNFuture, Hagshama, j-junction and Studio Central.  Last year over 500 attended and this year promises to be even bigger. Read more

Victorian Police to consult JCCV on crimes involving prejudice

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) will be among community stakeholders consulted by Victoria Police about the latter’s new strategy to improve its response to crimes motivated by prejudice. Read more

Education Initiative at the Jewish Museum of Australia

Melbourne’s The Jewish Museum of Australia (JMA) has announced its new Adult Education Program as part of a move towards elevating education to one of its core functions…and has discontinued its Melton program. Read more

Dec-01 7:30p.m. SBS2-TV: A Walk in the Park

The fight is on for the holiest city in the holy land. Read more

Dec-01 10:05p.m. SBS1-TV: Movie – The Band’s Visit

A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab cultural centre, only to find themselves stranded, penniless and still wearing their sky blue uniforms in the middle of nowhere. Read more

Dec-01 5:30p.m. SBS1-TV: Global Village: Visions of Israel

This episode takes an aerial trip to Israel, flying over many historic and holy sites, including the Western Wall, the Temple Mount and Church of the Holy Sepulchre, alongside such modern achievements as the ingenious irrigation system that actually helped make a desert bloom. (From the US) (Documentary Series) (Part 2) (Rpt) G WS

Nov-30 5:30p.m. SBS1-TV: Global Village: Visions of Israel

No Compensation for Zentai

Charles Zentai, the 89-yr-old Perth man wanted by the Hungarian authorities over the assault and murder of a Jewish teenager in Budapest in 1944 will not claim compensation for wrongful imprisonment. Read more

Is Cyber Racism an Untameable Beast?

‘Cyber racism’ refers to material published on the internet which is freely accessible and vilifies or harasses a person or group of persons because of their actual or presumed colour, nationality, descent or ethnic, ethno-religious or national origin. Read more

Dec-08 6:00p.m. SBS2-TV: Global Village: Visions of Israel

This episode takes an aerial trip to Israel, flying over many historic and holy sites, including the Western Wall, the Temple Mount and Church of the Holy Sepulchre, alongside such modern achievements as the ingenious irrigation system that actually helped make a desert bloom. (From the US) (Documentary Series) (Part 2) (Rpt) G WS

Dec-07 6:00p.m. SBS2-TV: Global Village: Visions of Israel

This episode takes an aerial trip to Israel, flying over many historic and holy sites, including the Western Wall, the Temple Mount and Church of the Holy Sepulchre, alongside such modern achievements as the ingenious irrigation system that actually helped make a desert bloom. (From the US) (Documentary Series) (Part 1) (Rpt) G WS

Dec-11 10:15p.m. SBS1-TV: Movie: The Counterfeiters

Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch is an expert Jewish counterfeiter enjoying the good life until he’s sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Read more

Dec-10 2:30p.m. SBS1-TV: My Biggest Fan

Tara Morice of Strictly Ballroom fame travels to Coconut Creek, Florida to meet 75 year old Mildred Levine, her unabashed “greatest fan”. Read more

From Alan Gold to Peter Slezak

Of all the many half-truths, omissions, predispositions and bigotries in Peter Slezak’s letter concerning his support for the Palestinians, the most egregious – indeed the one which virtually disqualifies him from serious contention – is his reliance upon the alleged Jewish expulsion of Palestinians during the 1948 war. Read more

Marathon Man helps raise $1m for cancer research

Jeremy Balkin has arrived back in Sydney from New York where he participated in the world famous New York Marathon…and helped raise $1 million for cancer research. Read more

Tara Winkler nominated for NSW Young Australian of the Year

Tara Winkler, whose grandmother was a Holocaust survivor, visited Cambodia, another country subjected to genocide…and stayed, setting up orphanages. She has been nominated for NSW Young AUstralian of the Year. Read more

Holocaust Centre oration delivered by Auschwitz director

Mebourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre held the Annual Betty and Shmuel Rosenkranz Oration, delivered by Dr Piotr Cywinski, Driector of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at the Jewish Holocaust Centre. Read more

A hundred years in the Hill

The centenary of the establishment of a syngaogue in Broken Hill will be celebrated at the end of November. Read more

David Singer’s Reply to Peter Slezak

Peter – I gave you five specific cases of Arab lies and propaganda that you propagated in your article – which I claimed were factually false or misleading. The veracity of these five matters relied on by you are critical to a proper understanding of the conflict, the reasons that have failed to see it resolved for the last 130 years and that are preventing it being concluded at the present time. Read more

Historic graves vandalised in Auckland

Historic Jewish graves dating back to Auckland’s founding are among the headstones that have been again badly vandalised in the Symonds Street cemetery. Read more

Australian ambassador participates in Israel’s Clean-Up Day

Leslie Erdi nominated for AUstralian of the Year Award

Toorak resident Leslie Erdi has been named as a finalist as  Victoria Senior Australian of the Year. Read more

Dec-20 8:00p.m. ABC1-TV: The Mundines

This documentary on the Mundine family was made for the ABC by Aviva Ziegler. Read more

Chanukah in Brisbane

Response to Gold and Singer

The debate following Alan Gold’s piece on Anna Baltzer is to be welcomed and Jwire is to be commended for giving space to divergent views that are too infrequently aired publicly in the Jewish community. Nevertheless, one might have hoped for a more productive and appropriate, not to mention more courteous, exchange. Read more

Lillian Felldman Kessler

LILLIAN FELDMAN KESSLER

died November 15, 1987

In loving memory of my mother Lillian Felldman Kessler of New York, then Florida, on the 21st anniversary of your death

You are missed daily.

Love, your daughter Lisa

The Good Weekend and Gaza

Last weekend, the Good Weekend magazine from the Age published a six page spread entitled ‘Project: Gaza’ by Paul McGeough. The article focused on six activists involved in the Free Gaza Movement, how they came to be involved and their involvement with the flotillas, in particular, the fleet that was involved in clashes with the IDF in late May. Read more

Will Israel have an Arab Prime Minister before it has a Haredi Prime Minister?

A hospital and a parking lot. Two innocuous structures that are at the very heart of a modern society yet in Israel they are icons of the deep chasm between two major elements of that society. The Haredim, anti-Zionist Jews, so-called because of their ultra-religious “anxiety” over the coming of the messiah, and the secular in Israel are often at loggerheads over the direction of the country with one claiming to be the spiritual heart of the Jewish State whilst the other declares that it is the national protector. A schism between the two is currently threatening the soul of the country and the two sides are adamantly opposed to each other having a majority. This begs the question; will Israel have an Arab Prime Minister before it has one who is Haredi? Read more

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