Yom Hashoah in Melbourne and Sydney’s North Shore

President of the The Jewish Community Council of Victoria Nina Bassat gave the keynote address at the Yom Hashoah function in Melbourne. Read more

Warm Bodies 2½/4 – a movie review by James Berardinelli

As if it wasn’t bad enough that Twilight defanged vampires, turning them into whiny emo Harlequin romance heroes, now Warm Bodies has done something similar for zombies. Read more

ADC continues the battle against on line hate

The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has commented on fresh media allegations of growing racism in Australia. Read more

Sydney Yeshiva says “no connection with LA organisation sheltering alleged paedophile”

Sydney Yeshiva say they have no connection with the Los Angeles welfare organisation reported to be sheltering a Los Angeles resident once associated with the Bondi community and  alleged to be a paedophile . Read more

Your ABC rejects ECAJ complaint

A complaint to the ABC by The Executive Council of Australian Jewry following a radio interview with journalist Antony Loewenstein dealing with the activities of the late Ben Zygier has been dismissed by the national broadcaster. Read more

Yom Hashoah in Sydney

More than 900 guests packed Sydney’s Moriah College as the NSW Jewish community commemorated Yom Hashoah and the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Read more

Condolences for the Thatcher family

The Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has joined Australian leaders in sending condolences to the family of the late Margaret Thatcher. Read more

Sanctimonious Jewish Bleeding Hearts…writes Isi Leibler

I was somewhat taken aback by a letter released in the wake of President Obama’s visit to Israel, signed by 100 American Jews including a number of rabbis, communal leaders and academics, many, if not most of whom are politically inclined to the left but regard themselves as committed Zionists. Read more

Remembering the Past – Learning Lessons for Today…writes Michael Kuttner

Anyone who has been in Israel during Yom Hashoa and Yom Hazikaron/Yom Ha’Atzmaut  will remember the eerie feeling as the haunting sound of the wailing siren reverberates throughout the country and most people stand in silent tribute as they recall those martyred during the Holocaust and those who made the supreme sacrifice in defending the Jewish People’s rebirth as a nation in their homeland. Read more

The Other Son – Double Passes to give away fot his highly rated movie

J-Wire has 20 double passes for a special screening of the movie “The Other Son” in Sydney. But more are on the way for readers in other cities. Read more

Yom Ha’azmaut message from the Prime Minister

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has sent greetings to the Jewish community for Yom Ha’azmaut. Read more

Lowy fights back tears at Auschwitz

Shopping centre magnate Frank Lowy fought back tears as he told a hushed March of the Living at Auschwitz the story of his father Hugo who was murdered close to the spot from where the Westfield co-founder made his address. Read more

NSW Community Leaders and the Racial Vilification Law

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Palestine – Obama Chooses Zionism Over Rejectionism…writes David Singer

Veteran Israeli peace activist and former Knesset member Uri Avnery points out in his latest article “Obama’s Empathy Deficit in Palestine” that there are  two completely divergent Jewish and Arab narratives driving each other’s current claims to the territory once called Palestine. Read more

Australia disappoints

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has released the initial findings of its twelfth Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, which covers the period from April 1, 2012 until March 31, 2013 and awarded grades ranging from A (highest) to F to evaluate the efforts and results achieved by more than three dozen countries which were either the site of Nazi crimes or admitted Holocaust perpetrators after World War II. Australia scored an F and “the most disappointing result”. Read more

Cloud over Golden Dawn

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has spoken out against the reported formation of an Australian branch of a Greek political party founded by a Holocaust denier. Read more

ADC speaks out against online hate

Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission ADC), has spoken out against the ever-growing proliferation of online hate speech, in particular on Facebook. Read more

L’hitrahot Shemi

Ambassador Shemi Tzur headed the diplomatic team which re-opened the embassy in Wellington ending a hiatus created by economic cuts made by Israel’s Foreign Ministry. Read more

The Final Movement

Bandleader, musician and composer Tommy Tycho has passed away in Sydney at the age of 84…sending many of his fans on a journey down memory lane. Read more

Be a Child

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

Jewish Agency works to assure women the right to pray at the Kotel

The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Chairman Natan Sharansky has met  with Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Chairman of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation expressing his shock at a letter sent by the Israeli Police stating that they would arrest women who recite Kaddish (the mourner’s prayer) at the Western Wall. Read more

Jewish Agency funds US Summer Camps’ Shlichim

More than 5,500 young Israelis applied to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem to work as shlichim in American summer camps. Read more

April Fools

The dust has hardly settled after the Obama big top packed up and left town and we are faced with yet another act. This one is entirely predictable with the performers being second grade material but this neither detracts from their brazen chutzpah nor the reaction of the local and international media…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Yom Hashoah Message from the PM

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has sent a message to the community to mark Yom Hashoah. Read more

ZFA not impressed with AJDS

The Zionist Federation of Australia and the Zionist Council of Victoria have joined in the backlash against a campaign organised by an affiliate of The Jewish Community Council of Victoria to launch a boycott against Israeli goods manufactured in the settlements. Read more

Al-Durah: A lethal narrative and the innocent lives it continues to destroy…writes Arnold Roth

A court of appeal in Paris will hand down an important judgment today that serves as a kind of microcosm of how the media establishment can act in a co-ordinated way to protect its members’ perceived interests.  It also, by the way, throws a sharp light on the way Israel’s interests are under attack far from the physical battlefield – while the casualties are all too real. Read more

Klezmer Divas to perform in Poland

Sydney’s Fay Sussman will take her Klezmer Divas to the land in which many of the songs she sings have their roots…Poland, the country of her birth. Read more

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Yad Vashem commemorates 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The central theme for this year’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’  Remembrance Day is Defiance and Rebellion during the Holocaust: 70 Years Since the Warsaw Ghetto  Uprising. Read more

Pesach at the Monte

If Passover is a celebration of the handing of our cultural baton from generation to generation, then few seders could have been as moving as the Pesach concert given by mother and daughter duo, Dahlia and Lily Dior at Sydney’s Hunters Hill Montefiore. As I sat between my own mother and daughter I was moved to tears by the beauty, power and passion of the Dior women’s singing…writes Judy Singer. Read more

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