Help for Australian Olim
July 16, 2013 by Lana Lachyani
The official launch of the agreement between the Zionist Federation of Australia and Telfed has been held in Ra’anana, Israel. Read more
Maccabi contingent plants trees
July 16, 2013 by Ahuva Bar-Lev
The Australian delegation to the Maccabiah Games sets out to plant trees at KKL-JNF’s planting center in Nahshon Forest. Read more
Maccabiah remembers 1997
July 16, 2013 by David Weiner-Maccabi NSW
While members of Australia’s 19th Maccabiah contingent eagerly count down the seconds until this year’s Games Opening Ceremony, the entire Maccabi community continues to remember four members if the 1997 contingent who lost their lives when a bridge they were crossing to reach the Ramat Gan stadium collapsed. Read more
Blending of cultures
July 15, 2013 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) and the Buddhist Council of Victoria (BCV) have hosted a Jewish Buddhist Friendship dinner. Read more
The Gift of Life
July 15, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Sarah is five and in need of the Gift of Life…matching blood stem cells or bone marrow to give her the opportunity of a normal healthy life. Read more
The Twenty-Percenter – Beyond Jewish stereotypes –
July 15, 2013 by Judy Singer
A column dedicated to the centrality of “marginal” Jews to the Diaspora experience….
Trying to get upstairs to a session on social justice at Limmud Oz this year was like being a homing salmon swimming upstream…against a torrent of angry bears all rushing headlong towards the latest visiting overseas luminary holding court on “The Situation” in Israel. Read more
Gold Medallist Prepares to Defend Title
July 15, 2013 by Michael Kuttner
One of Australia’s brightest prospects for a gold medal at the 2013 Maccabiah Games is squash player, Irvin Gordon of Sydney, who is preparing to defend the medal he won at the last Maccabiah in 2009. Read more
Our man in Tel Aviv
July 14, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Dave Sharma has settled in quickly as Australia’s new ambassador to Israel. J-Wire catches up on some of his activities…. Read more
The shuk comes to Caulfield
July 13, 2013 by Michelle Coleman
It’s a highlight those who have travelled to Israel know all too well… The sights, smells, sounds and treasures of “the Shuk”. Be it Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehudah or Tel-Aviv’s Carmel markets, it’s an experience so quintessentially Israeli that any trip to the Middle East would be sadly incomplete if one were to return without at least one bargain discovered and haggled over at the shuk. Read more
The Collective at Our Big Kitchen
July 13, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Australian boy band The Collective has visited Our Big Kitchen in Bondi where the baked food for the needy…and followed up the session by delivering what they produced to the needy. Read more
Getting a share of $10 billion
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) recently held a session on ‘How to Win the Most Grants Possible for your Community Organisation’ Read more
Palestine – Jordan/West Bank Bi-National State Under Discussion…writes David Singer
July 13, 2013 by David Singer
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have been discussing the creation of a bi- national State in the West Bank and Jordan according to Professor Richard Falk – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967. Read more
Not Everyone – Just You
July 12, 2013 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
This Tuesday 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
No end in sight for an unstable Egypt…writes Gabsy Debinski
July 11, 2013 by Gabsy Debinski
Disturbing footage of the brewing violence in Egypt has proliferated in the past week. Read more
Aiding the kennel-less
July 11, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Sydney’s Jewish House is taking care to a new level…by offering aid to homeless dogs. Read more
En route to becoming a banana republic…writes Isi Leibler
July 11, 2013 by Isi Leibler
In recent months there has been mounting indiscriminate criticism of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s policies by government officials. Read more
The Whole Megillah
July 11, 2013 by Fraser Beath McEwing
A well stocked orchestra plus two choirs and four vocal soloists hardly left room for conductor, David Robertson, to thread his way to the podium to launch Verdi’s Requiem…writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read more
Turnbull down to business
July 10, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Liberal MP for the Sydney Eastern Suburbs electorate of Wentworth Malcolm Turnbull has delivered the Sir John Monah Oration at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more
Kellerman Courting a Medal
July 10, 2013 by David Weiner-Maccabi NSW
Adam Kellerman’s participation at the 2013 Maccabiah Games adds another chapter to one of Australia’s Jewish community’s most inspiring stories of resilience. Read more
Strangers amongst their own
A group of 38 Russian speaking Jews from Australia arrived in Israel earlier this month for a 10 day Birthright tour…the first of its kind catered especially for the Russian speaking community. Read more
Seeking Child Survivors
July 9, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
There are officially less than 500 child survivors of the Holocaust registered with in Australia…but the Claims Conference has announced that financial compensation may soon become available through the Government of Germany and needs to make widespread contact with those eligible to claim. Read more
Labelling Jews Again…writes Michael Kuttner
July 9, 2013 by Michael Kuttner
During the last 2,000 years Jews have at various times been forced to wear distinctive clothing marking us as Jews plus badges or labels usually of the yellow variety. Read more
Meeting Shimon Peres
Incoming UIA WA Chairperson, Melanie Greenfeld, reports on her recent visit to Israel where she was invited to attend the Keren Hayesod World Conference and the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem… Read more
Bibi addresses Young Leadership
July 8, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu recently addressed the UIA Young Leadership Kesher Conference in Jerusalem. Read more
Palestine – Accentuate The Positive Eliminate the Negative…writes David Singer
July 8, 2013 by David Singer
Jordan’s Minister of Culture Barakat Awajan recently received Palestinian Minister of Culture Anwar Abu Aisha in Amman and reportedly took the opportunity to highlight these fundamental facts… Read more
Kerry’s Invisible ‘Breakthrough’
July 8, 2013 by Gabsy Debinski
Last week saw John Kerry’s fifth visit to the Middle East since he became Secretary of State in February this year…writes Gabsy Debinski. Read more
10th Maccabiah for Vandersluis
July 7, 2013 by David Weiner-Maccabi NSW
Roy Vandersluis entered his first Maccabiah Games in 1977 – and has been back every four years to compete since. Read more
Rabbi Woolstone honoured
July 7, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Jewish House has honoured Rabbi Pinchos Woolstone by officially acknowledging that he was the care organisation’s first rabbi. Read more
AusAID and UNRWA
July 5, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
A Jerusalem-based research organisation has written to AusAID’s office in Ramallah quoting passages in textbooks used in UNRWA funded Palestinian schools inciting strong anti-Israel sentiment. UNRWA is partially funded by AusAID who receive financial support through Australian taxes….and AusAID says the Australian Government supports “the important work UNRWA does for Palestinians”. Read more
Multicultural Q&A
July 5, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Government’s Ministerial Consultative Committees’ Winter Symposium, which allowed leaders of multicultural communities access to leading government, broadcasting and sports figures, was hosted last night by the Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello. Read more
