New Executive Director for the JCCV
June 20, 2011 by J-Wire
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) have appointed a new executive director. Read more
Israel in Australian Electric Car Venture
June 20, 2011 by Agencies
Shai Agassi‘s electric car venture Better Place LLC has signed a $60 million 10-year deal with Australia’s ActewAGL Ltd. for the supply of renewable energy to Better Place’s electric car charging network in Canberra. This is the largest renewable energy deal of its kind in Australia. ActewAGL will supply the renewable energy from wind, hydro, and solar sources. Read more
Heated Israel-Palestine Debate at the Opera House
June 20, 2011 by Agencies
A panel debate at the Sydney Opera House discussed “Israel & Palestine In The New Middle East” yesterday in front of a packed – and sometimes angry – audience. Read more
Wolfensohn Receives Honorary PhD
June 20, 2011 by Agencies
Former president of the World Bank, ex-Sydneysider Sir James Wolfensohn, yesterday received an honorary PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Read more
New face at Jewish Care
June 18, 2011 by Ayal Tusia
Meigan Lefebure has been appointed as General Manager, Services for Older People at Melbourne’s Jewish Care. Read more
Palestine – Unleashing the Self-Determination Genie
June 18, 2011 by David Singer
It is hard to believe that the possibility of the Palestinians successfully approaching the UN in September and obtaining “a license to statehood “ is even being seriously contemplated. Read more
You Don’t Need Time or Money
June 17, 2011 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
Charity and kindness are of the most important aspects of Jewish tradition. The Talmud teaches that compassion and acts of goodness are the trademarks of the Jewish soul. Charity brings blessing, hastens the final redemption and is compared to all of the Mitzvot put together. Read more
Chazan tells why BDS is counter-productive
June 17, 2011 by Agencies
Professor Naomi Chazan, president of the New Israel Fund, spoke this week at the Newtown Synagogue, Sydney on why the global BDS is counter-productive. Her address was titled “The Other Israel, BDS and the Quest for a Two-State Solution”. Read more
Limmud-Oz: The organisers report
June 17, 2011 by Agencies
On a rainy and windy long weekend, over 1000 people heard over 200 presenters talk, act, sing, and argue about everything from Israel to asylum seekers. Read more
The Legacy of William Cooper
June 17, 2011 by Agencies
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd spoke last night of the legacy of William Cooper, the Aboriginal who lead a group of indigenous people in a march from Footscray to the German Consulate in Melbourne in1938 to lodge a protest against Kristellnacht…the only protest recorded world-wide. Read more
$100,000 for Queensland Flood Appeal from Jewish Aid
June 16, 2011 by Agencies
Jewish Aid Australia CEO, Gary Samowitz, met with Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh yesterday handing over a $100,000 cheque for the QLD Flood appeal . Read more
New Exhibition at the Great
June 16, 2011 by Susan Bures
A specially commissioned art glass Seder plate and a ruby Bohemian glass Kiddush cup, a silver, brass and gilt pair of rimmonim and a silver circumcision knife, the earliest Australian Jewish marriage records and the portraits of the first bride and groom from that list – Sydney’s The Great Synagogue’s heritage collection is vibrant and diverse. Read more
Robbie Franco at Jewish Care
June 16, 2011 by Ayal Tusia
Bill Appleby, CEO of Melbourne’s Jewish Care, has announced the appointment of Robbie Franco to the Jewish Care Executive team in the role of General Manager of Development. Read more
Raoul Wallenberg Stamp Sheet Launch
June 16, 2011 by Community Editor
Established in 1985, Raoul Wallenberg Unit of B’nai B’rith celebrated its 25th anniversary recently. Read more
Singles Weekend in Sydney
June 16, 2011 by Community Editor
Deborah Katz organised a weekend for Jewish singles in Melbourne last year and in August she will repeat the successful event in Sydney. Read more
Frank Lowy in Hospital
June 15, 2011 by J-Wire
Westfield co-founder Frank Lowy is being treated in hospital for an inflamed bile duct. Read more
Award Winning Israeli Singer performing in Marrickville
June 15, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
Efrat Goshhas won the World Music Cabaret Award as Artist of the Decade…and tonight she will perform in the heart of Marrickville whose municipal council recently attempted to boycott Israeli artists. Read more
Changes at the ZCV
June 15, 2011 by Agencies
The Zionist Council of Victoria is entering a fresh era of professional and lay leadership with newly-appointed executive director Jane Rapke at the helm in the Beth Weizmann office, working together with president Sam Tatarka, who began the honorary role late last year. Read more
Kicking Goals for Charity
June 15, 2011 by Ayal Tusia
A group 0f men aged 30+ participated in an exciting AFL football match on the Queens Birthday holiday at Princes Park, South Caulfield, to raise money for Jewish Care and Melbourne Jewish Charity Fund (MJCF). Read more
Dipper leaves for Israel
June 15, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
AFL icon Robert “Dipper” Dipierdomenico leaves for Israel today heading a delegation which will prepare the combined Israeli/Palestinian Peace Team for the AFL 2011 International Cup. Read more
In Search of Arrow-minded Jews
June 15, 2011 by Agencies
The Israeli Archery Association has contacted J-Wire hoping that Australia may be able to send an Archery team to the 2013 Maccabiah in Israel. Read more
Hebrew University awards Honorary PhD to Wolfensohn
June 14, 2011 by Agencies
Former president of the World Bank and special envoy for the Quartet on the Middle East, Australian-born Sir James Wolfensohn KBE AO, will receive an honorary doctor of philosophy degree at the opening session of the meeting of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Board of Governors. Read more
…and a new Broadcasting Entity is Born
June 14, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
Hot on the heels of the demise of Melbourne community radio station Lion FM follows the establishment of JBC – Jewish Broadcasting for the community. Read more
Melbourne loses its Jewish Radio Station
June 14, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has notified MJR Inc.(Melbourne Jewish Radio) that it would not renew its temporary community broadcasting licence for “Lion FM”. The station ceased broadcasting at midnight on Monday. Read more
Christchurch community green-lighted following after shocks
June 14, 2011 by Henry Benjamin
The severe aftershocks reported from Christchurch yesterday have not affected the local Jewish community. Read more
ABC to screen top Holocaust documentary
June 14, 2011 by Arts Editor
UK distributor Mercury Media has sold Inheritance, an Emmy-winning documentary telling the story of a woman facing the legacy of her Nazi leader father, to Australia’s ABC. Read more
Questions for the New Israel Fund
June 13, 2011 by Ian Lacey
Some time ago on J-Wire I suggested that the controversy about the appearance of the New Israel Fund in Australia might be simply resolved by publishing a list of current recipients of funding with their website addresses. It now seems that this may not be enough. Read more
Mourn the Israeli Peace Camp
June 13, 2011 by Raffe Gold
Green Left Weekly posted an article this week entitled ‘After 44 Years of Occupation: Where is the Israeli Peace Camp?’ in which the paper outlined that in Netanyahu’s recent address to the US Congress he may have espoused the cause of a two state solution but it was ineffectual and nothing close to reality. The paper then continued to lambast Israelis saying that there was no Israeli peace camp and if there was one it has become ‘weak and marginalised’. Read more
IPO and the Flamenco Dancer
June 13, 2011 by Agencies
Deanna Blacher was awarded an OAM in today’s Queen’s Birthday list…but her skills with the castanets have been acknowledged by the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. Read more
Queen’s Birthday Awards
June 13, 2011 by J-Wire Staff
This year’s Queen’s Birthday awards, recognises amongst others, the achievements of Lisa Jackson Pulver…a Jewish Aboriginal who is president of the Newtown Synagogue in Sydney…. Read more
