Palestine – No Jews, Soon No Christians
January 12, 2011 by David Singer
“All these attacks prove that settlers are dangerous and that it’s impossible to live with them. If these settlers are allowed to stay, that would mean more friction and confrontation. Peace can be achieved only if Israel withdraws to the last centimeter of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967” – Ahmed Qurei, Head of Palestinian Authority Negotiating Team, Jerusalem Post December 13, 2008.
Jewish Gays and Lesbians running in the Sun Run…for JewishCare
January 11, 2011 by Warren Hurst
A team of Dayenu members will compete in next month’s Sydney Morning Herald’s Sun Run and is asking its supporters as well as members of the Jewish community to sponsor them. All funds raised will go directly to JewishCare.
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Help on its way to Toowoomba
January 11, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
Chabad for Rural and Regional Australia have reported that Jewish families in Toowoomba have been affected by the floods…but help is on its way. Read more
MAIGS Ocean Swim
January 11, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The Maccabi Australia International Games recently held in Sydney hosted the first ever ocean swim at Bondi. Check out the video…. Read more
Marrickville Council Boycott
All parties that support economic boycott of Israeli goods made in Palestine, are blocking j ventures for peace and employment within the two states of Israel and Palestine. They are blocking peaceful co.operation and econmic sustenance between the 2 states.. The boycotters are therefore supporting chaos
Sandra Hepner
Maccabi In The Swim
January 10, 2011 by Agencies
Maccabi has restructured its swimming program to meet contemporary needs. Read more
Marrickville Council and its Israel Boycott
January 7, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
An online petition has to date netted almost 1300 signatures protesting the resolution passed last month by a Sydney council to introduce boycotts against Israel. Read more
Aliyah 2.0
January 7, 2011 by Raffe Gold
My birth makes me part of a people who, for millennia, have been wanderers across the face of the earth. Now I am about to wander, not on a two week holiday or even across Europe on a gap year, but permanently. I am about to go on Aliyah and move my life and loyalties permanently to Israel. Read more
“Tragic echoes of the Voyage of the Dammed”
January 7, 2011 by J-Wire
In response to the B’nai B’rith ADC media release of 16 December 2010, it is truly unfortunate that a Jewish organisation would make such an odious comparison of the plight of current refugees with Holocaust Survivors. Whilst there is no doubt that survivors and their families would have some empathy and understanding of the tragic circumstances in which asylum seekers find themselves that is surely where any comparison ends. Understandable sympathy for asylum seekers coming to Australia does not justify comparing their plight to that of European Jewry under the Nazis. Read more
Zentai’s Reaction
January 6, 2011 by J-Wire
Charles Zentai’s extradition to Hungary to face questioning over the death of 18-yr-old Peter Balazs in Budapest in 1944 was overturned in a Federal Court appeal last year. The Government has appealed the decision. Zentai’s son Ernie talks to J-Wire… Read more
MAIGS Competitors Enjoy Sydney
January 6, 2011 by J-Wire
The Maccabi Australia International Games (MAIGS) provided Sydney with a festival of sport, community spirit and international flavour. Read more
Literary Masterpieces on Display
January 6, 2011 by Susan Bures
Three generations of the descendants of Rabbi Leib Aisack Falk have participated in the opening of an exhibition at The Great Synagogue on masterpieces from the Falk Library.
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Palestine: Tea for Two and 242
January 5, 2011 by David Singer
“I’m discontented with homes that I’ve rented
So I have invented my own.”
The above lines from the refrain of the well known song “Tea for Two” could well have been sung by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to Brazil’s outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Abbas laid the cornerstone in Brasilia for his nation’s first embassy in the Western hemisphere. Read more
AIJAC Welcomes Durban Decision
January 5, 2011 by Agencies
Dr. Colin Rubenstein, Executive Director of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council has welcomed the December 24 vote by Australia at the UN against the ‘Durban III’ conference. Read more
Zentai Decision Appealed
January 5, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
A decision by the Federal Court in Perth not to extradite Charles Zentai to Hungary to face questioning about the murder of a Jewish youth in 1944 has been appealed by the Federal Government. Read more
Medal for Aussie in US team
January 3, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
Los Angeles based Australian-born basketballer Jacqui Lowy has won a Gold Medal in the Maccabi Australia International Games….beating Australia in the final.
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Christmas in Bethlehem…New Year in Ramallah
Did you hear the one about the Jew, the Christian and the Muslim?…. a view from the “inside” of the West Bank. Read more
Rough Crossing – Smooth Result
January 1, 2011 by J-Wire
Sydney sailor Andrew Pryer was a member of the 24-man crew aboard the maxi-yacht Lahana which won third place overall in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race. Read more
