Record year for Maccabi Basketball

2010 has been a wonderful year for the NSW Maccabi Basketball Club, which enjoyed excellent results and also a big surge in membership – and therefore teams – in both the junior and senior age groups. Read more

Four score top marks in NSW

Four students from Sydney’s Moriah College have scored the top mark of 99.95% in the HSC resuts announced this week. Read more

Voyage of the Damned – Take Two

A Jewish anti-racism group has drawn parallels between the deaths of asylum seekers headed for Australia and the refugees from Nazism who died because they were turned away from refuge on the eve of World War II. Read more

Open Letter to Paul McGeough

You may recall that we corresponded during last March about the Mabhouh brouhaha in Dubai during which we discussed media accuracy. Read more

Rudd talks with Liberman

Before he left Israel, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd joined Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman in a press conference to discuss the Australia-Israel relationship and non-nuclear proliferation….J-Wire publishes the text. Read more

Dec-27 to Jan-23 Sydney: Summer learning experience

Bina stands for Jewish Wisdom for Life and the organisation is running a special summer course… Read more

Open Day at the Burger Centre

Five mosaics were unveiled at Sydney’s Burger Centre’s first Open Day….created by artist Vicki Moliver and the clients of The Burger Centre. Read more

Rudd meets Shalit’s Parents

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has met with the parents of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who has been held captive by Hamas since June 2006.
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Holocaust Studies Welcomed

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has welcomed the mandatory inclusion of the Holocaust as a topic of study in the latest version of the National Education Curriculum for Year 10 history. Read more

Should I Hebracize My Name?

Many new citizens of Australia still retain a great deal of pride in their original culture; there are thriving Asian and European sub-sectors of Australian society. In Israel many new immigrants change their name as soon as they arrive. Read more

Join the Birthday Club

A joint initiative has been launched by Sydney’s The Jewish House and Maccabi Hakoah Junior Football Club offering young soccer players the opportunity to share their birthdays with underprivileged children sharing the same date. Read more

Beethoven and the Zipper

Musica Viva is the largest entrepreneurial chamber music organisation in the world…its origins lie in the realised dreams of a Viennese Jew who fled war-torn Europe  to Sydney and made his fortune from zippers. Read more

Moriah students shine in the HSC

Four students from Sydney’s Moriah College were among a select group  presented with awards today for topping subjects in the HSC. Read more

Rudd Addresses the Australia-Israel Leadership Forum

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has addressed the Australia-Israel Leadership Forum in Jerusalem on “Future Directions for the Middle East Peace Process”.

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Rudd, Yad Vashem and William Cooper

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem attending the inauguration of the Chair for the Study of Resistance during the Holocaust…a tribute to William Cooper, a 77-year-old Aboriginal who led a march in 1938 to the German Consulate in Melbourne to protest against Kristallnacht…the only recorded demonstration in history world-wide. Read more

Solidarity for Fire Victims

The Zionist Council of NSW together with NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, held a solidarity gathering  lastnight for the Sydney Jewish community to remember the fallen, stand with the victims and salute the heroes of the Carmel Fire Tragedy. Read more

Palestine, Brazil and Argentina – Outing the Jew-Haters

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas openly espouses Jew-hating qualities under the three hats he currently wears. Read more

Tefillin Spark Bomb Alert

An Israeli putting on his tefillin on an interisland New Zealand ferry has sparked a massive bomb scare alert.
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Zuroff v Zentai

Efraim Zuroff, the Executive Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, will head to Budapest this week to appeal with authorities to continue to push for the extradition of 89-yr-old Charles Zentai wanted for questioning over the 1944 murder of Peter Balazs. Read more

Montefiore Thanks Volunteers with Hollywood Party

Sydney’s Montefiore has thanked its valuable volunteers with a Hollywood party. Read more

Jewish Jazz Online

An Internet radio station in London is broadcasting jazz featuring Jewish artists and/or composers. Read more

Leo Baeck Centre’s New Memorial Sculpture

“….and the wind whispered your name ” was created by artist, Konstantin Dimopoulos for the Leo Baeck Centre (LBC) in Melbourne. The sculpture is intimate and reverential, moving very gently, whispering softly. Read more

Jemima walks the walk

12-yr-old Jemima Montag won the 14.3 km race walk at the Australian All Schools Track and Field Championships becoming the fastest for her age in the country. Read more

Israeli Academics in new Partnership with Sydney University

The University of Sydney  has approved the establishment of a forum with the proposed title of  “University of Sydney – Israel Research Partnership Forum: Shared Challenges,  Future Solutions”. Read more

AIJAC/ECAJ welcomes latest ACMA report on al-Manar as significant step forward

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has welcomed ACMA’s finding that al-Manar breached Australia’s broadcasting codes in regards to racism. Read more

Meanwhile back in Sydney….

Dan Goldberg has picked up the Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Television Award for his heart-warming documentary “Football United: Passport to Hope”.

The Sydney-based journalist/film-maker made the film about Professor Anne Bunde-Birouste’s use of soccer to help integrate refugee children into Australian society. “Football United” was made for Foxtel. Read more

Walkley for Linton

Investigative journalist Linton Besser has been awarded the 2010 Walkley award for investigative journalism for his report on the Defence Department chalking up $1.4 billion on travel, accommodation and conferences in a four year period. Read more

Be a Child – Your weekly message from Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

Growth, change and self-development aren’t always easy. They require a lot of effort, and some risk taking. Read more

Military Menorah

A Menorah was lit on the last day of Chanukah in the officers’ mess at Sydney’s Victoria Barracks. Read more

Bilson at Our Big Kitchen – Now here’s news for Foodies.

Mastcherchef judge and iconic Sydney restauranteur Tony Bilson has become a consultant to Bondi’s Our Big Kitchen. Read more

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