Monash oration
July 31, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
General Peter Cosgrove, former head of the Australian Defence Forces has delivered the Monash oration at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more
Lebanese team refuses to train in view of Israelis
July 31, 2012 by J-Wire
Reuters has reported that prior to the opening ceremony at which International Olympic Committee refused a minute’s silence to honor the memory of the 11 Israeli athletes massacred in Munich in 1972 because it did not want to introduce politics into the event, the IOC ceded to a Lebanese complaint about training in the same space as the Israelis. Read more
Jewish leaders at Iftar dinner
July 31, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Premier The Hon Barry O’Farrell MP has hosted an “Iftar Dinner to celebrate Interfaith Harmony” at Parliament House. Read more
MP to address community parliament
July 31, 2012 by Michelle Coleman
Nicholas Kotsiras, Victorian State Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, will visit Beth Weizmann next Monday to address the Plenum of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV). Read more
Adding the French Touch
July 31, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
It was standing room only at popular Sydney music venue Camelot when Dahlia Dior presented her personal tribute to French singing legend Edith Piaf. Read more
Send a message to Steven
Want to let Steven Solomon know you are barracking for him when he competes in the 400m this weekend? J-Wire shows you how… Read more
B’nai B’rith remembers Munich
B’nai B’rith Melbourne has commemorated the memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympic Games 40 years ago. Read more
Yes, they stood
July 30, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Out of the range of cameras which for whatever reason did not want to record the moment, Israel’s Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat stood in silence in respect for the 11 Israelis murdered in Munich at the 1972 Olympic Games during the opening ceremony speech made by IOC President Jacques Rogge in London. Read more
To give when you love
As Tisha B’Av finishes, yahrzeit for their daughter Malki approaches for Arnold and Frimet Roth. Arnold writes to J-Wire… Read more
Danby critical of Brenner protesters’ defence lawyer
July 29, 2012 by J-Wire
C
riminal defence lawyer Rob Stary’s self-congratulation on his successful defence of his clients’ rights to protest in his opinion piece in the Herald-Sun (”Peaceful Protestors Justified ) ventured into wider issues of foreign policy and history, far from his narrow sphere of expertise. Read more
BJE Invites you to the Weekend Escape Camp
July 29, 2012 by Nanette Horak
The annual BJE Weekend Escape Camp is happening again this year, and is open to all NSW high school students from years 7 – 12. Read more
Holocaust/Genocide exhibition opens in Melbourne
July 29, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne is hosting an exhibition from the USA of photographs and extraordinary stories from the Holocaust and genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Cambodia. Read more
Waks, WIZO and Sexual Abuse
Manny Waks has spoken to a Melbourne WIZO group about his personal experiences as a victim of child sexual abuse… Read more
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
July 29, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Olympic 400m runner Steven Solomon has participated in his first Olympic opening ceremony… Read more
Palestine – Jews and Arabs, the Mandate and the Law
July 27, 2012 by David Singer
The Levy Commission’s resurrection of the Mandate for Palestine as the legal title deed establishing Israel’s entitlement to claim sovereignty in the West Bank has come 48 years after the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) first tried to bury it…writes David Singer. Read more
Families to stand
July 27, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
The families of the eleven Israeli athletes brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Munich in 1972 will stand during tonight’s opening speech at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Israel’s Minister of Sport Limor Livnat will join them as Jacques Rogge makes his opening address. J-Wire calls on all Australians to do the same as a symbolic gesture of support for the grieving families whose bid to have one minute’s silence was rejected by the IOC.
Australia Remembers
July 27, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
One minute’s silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Olympic Games was held at Jewish community headquarters in Melbourne and Sydney. Read more
The Temple of Soul
July 27, 2012 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
This Sunday is Tisha B’av – 9th of Av, the day we mourn the destruction of the first and second Temples…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie. Read more
Waks asks Egyptian Ambassador for answers
July 27, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
An Egyptian TV station has screened a candid camera style program in which celebrities were hoodwinked into believing they had been tricked into appearing on an Israeli TV production. The results are disturbing. View the clips on J-Wire and Waks’s response to the Egyptian Embassy… Read more
Brenner expanding
July 27, 2012 by J-Wire
The boycott campaign against the Max Brenner Chocolate Shops had more wind taken out of its sails this week when the group announced it was expanding its Australian activities into the hotel market. Read more
What’s all the Fuss About?
July 27, 2012 by Nanette Horak
The NSW Board of Jewish Education (BJE) has spent considerable time and energy rebranding and creating an awareness campaign. Why? Whats all the fuss about? Read more
Australia donates $500,000 to Auschwitz-Birkenau Preservation Fund
July 27, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne yesterday at which she announced that Australia is donating half a million to a fund established to preserve the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Read more
Leader for Leadership
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students has appointed Rachel Flitman to lead its 2012/13 Leadership Development Program (LDP) – AUJS’s flagship international program. Read more
Our Big Kitchen and JewishCare – Cooking Together
July 26, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
In a bold new initiative, Our Big Kitchen and JewishCare have held a fun cooking competition the real winners of which will be needy members of the Sydney Jewish community. Read more
Response to the continuing saga afflicting Anglo Jewry
July 26, 2012 by Isi Leibler
Mr. Millis spins an extraordinary fantasy portraying himself as a devoted Zionist and yet was unable to refute even a single quote attributed to him in my recent column New scandal impacts on Anglo-Jewry. …writes Isi Leibler. Read more
The runner and the rabbi
July 25, 2012 by Henry Benjamin
It was erev Pesach and the runner had a problem. He needed lots of carbohydrates before a major meet and that meant eating chometz…could the rabbi help? Read more
JewishCare and Wolper grief assist
July 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s JewishCare has signed an agreement with the Wolper Jewish Hospital to utilise its programs assisting those grief-stricken following the loss of a loved one. Read more
Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival
July 25, 2012 by Arts Editor
The Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival recently launched its 2012 program which boasts an outstanding line-up of writers and sessions. Read more
Call for silence
July 25, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Zionist Federation of Australia have called for all Australians to observe one minute’s silence on Friday at 11am in memory of the eleven athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Read more
No Illusions about Egypt
July 25, 2012 by Isi Leibler
The government of Israel is making all the right noises and appropriate statements expressing hope that the new government of Egypt will maintain the cold peace…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
