Yeshiva lights the real thing

Last week, Sydney Yeshiva along with the NSWJBD ran a dummy run of lighting the Menorah at the NSW State Parliament. Last night, they lit the real thing on the second night of Chanukah…the giant menorah in the city’s Martin Place. Read more

Why Australia is right to challenge the UN’s anti-Israel bias…writes Alex Ryvchin

The Government’s decision to revert to Howard-era voting patterns on Israel at the United Nations General Assembly has been criticised as a betrayal of the Palestinians. Read more

Palestinian Authority approves Australian Initiative

Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank now have access to improved healthcare thanks to a unique multi-faith partnership created in Australia that has won the endorsement of the Palestinian Authority. Read more

A safe camp is a good camp

With the summer holiday period approaching, child sexual abuse advocacy group Tzedek has issued guidelines ensuring a safer environment for you children and grandchildren planning a camp holiday. Read more

Hebrew Language Courses at the University of Melbourne

Hebrew is at the core of our Jewish studies program and has been part of the teaching at The University of Melbourne, Australia’s number one university, for more than 60 years. Read more

B’nai B’rith on Mitzvah Day

Beth Weizmann, the Lamm Library, the Zionist Council of Victoria and B’nai B’rith Victoria co-hosted a concert for senior citizens from Jewish Care produced by B’nai B’rith’s Esther Gross at Beth Weizmann on Mitzvah Day, Sunday 17 November 2013.

Music students from Sholem Aleichem College’s choir wowed the audience with songs from Broadway in Yiddish.  Young violinist brothers, Nathan and Max Needleman from Bialik College played Chopin and Brahms to an astonished audience.

Fifteen-year-old Noa Opat, representing the King David School, sang from musical comedy.

Eight students from Leibler Yavneh College with Director of Music, Jonathan Skovron on guitar, sang in Hebrew; their ‘Yerushalayim shel zahav’ brought the house down!

Afternoon tea was kindly donated by ‘Cakes of Art’, ‘Eshel’, ‘Goldies Biscuits’, ‘Kosher Classique’, ‘Menorah Catering’, ‘Naomi’s Kitchen’, ‘Peter Unger Catering’, ‘ To Catch a Thief’, and ‘The Shook’.

The Concert was part of 61 Mitzvah Day activities Australia-wide, organised by inspirational co-ordinator, Judy Feiglin.

Signing objections to Section 18 changes

A group representing multicultural communities in NSW has met at the NSW Parliament to sign a single document expressing objection to changes to the Race Discrimination Act. Read more

A Dummies’ Guide to the Iranian Nuclear Deal…from Gabsy Debinski

Coverage of the Iranian nuclear deal has abounded. Read more

New Religious Leadership Needed…writes Isi Leibler

There was hardly a murmur when former Chief Rabbi Metzger was arrested for the second time and placed under house arrest on suspicion of money laundering, bribery and obstruction of justice.  Read more

Iran: ZFA makes a statement

Philip Chester, the president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, has expressed his concern about the latest deal impacting on Iran’s nuclear program. Read more

Drawing by Judy Cassab at 12 on show at Jewish Museum

The first drawing renowned artist Judy Cassab ever committed to paper is currently hanging in the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

Journos report back

The journalists who participated in the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ recent Journalists Mission to Israel will address a public meeting in Sydney next week. Read more

Perth rabbi is national treasure

Australia’s most senior Rabbi is celebrating his 95th birthday with the launch of a biography and tribute. Read more

Melbourne welcomes new ambassador

Israel’s new ambassador to Australia Shmuel Ben-Shmuel has been welcomed by the Melbourne community. Read more

Chanukah: All ready in the city

Sydney’s traditional giant menorah is in place and ready for Chanukah. Read more

Jerusalem Prize for Julia

Former Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard has been awarded the 2013 Jerusalem Prize. Read more

Billy Crystal’s Serious Side…writes Robert Gluck

After suffering a tough personal loss early in life, there has always been a serious side to the comedy of famed Jewish entertainer Billy Crystal. Read more

Seeking the abused

Melbourne’s Jewish Care has been made aware of sexual abuse incidents involving children in residential care in the 1960s. Read more

NSW Multicultural funding not being reduced

NSW Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello has dismissed claims, rehashed by Labor for a third time, that the NSW Government has reduced funding for multicultural communities in the 2013-14 State Budget. Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 5

The NSWJBD joint mission to Israel with Honest Reporting has a Canadian member. Alan Perlmutter from London, Canada files the report on Day 5… Read more

Israeli stamp magazines on offer

A J-Wire reader wants to donate a valuable set of Israeli philately magazines to an organisation which could use them for fund-raising or to an appreciative collector… Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 4

Today was a day for true ‘honest reporting’…writes Diane  Shteinman Read more

A Doctor in the Kitchen

Our Big Kitchen’s CEO Rabbi Dovid Slavin has attained a PHD from Sydney University for a twenty year study of Jewish yeshiva life in Poland between the two World Wars of the 20th century – “Successful Innovation to Preserve Tradition”. Read more

White Ribbon Day: marking awareness of violence against women

Former  Senator and former leader of the National Democrats Natasha Stott Despoja spoke to a packed men’s breakfast at Sydney’s JewishCare Bondi headquarters on White Ribbon Day which marks the awareness to all levels of society of the problems of violence against women. And in Melbourne, businessman David Werdiger writes on the changing face of domestic violence … how it affected Jewish society in the old country and how it affects that same society in contemporary Australia. Read more

Anti-Semitism up 21%

In his report covering the 12 months’ period ending on September 30, 2013, Jeremy Jones has reported 657 incidents defined by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission as “racist violence” against Jews. Read more

Been There – Done That…writes Michael Kuttner

Like some horror movie from the past but no surprise for anyone attuned to the siren sound of appeasement emanating from the corridors of power in Washington, London, Europe and the UN and the chorus of hallelujahs from the usual useful idiots in the media, academia and politics, the curtain has gone up on the latest production to be concocted by the heirs of Chamberlain and friends. Read more

Mahathir Ten Years Ago: Jews rule the World

Ten years ago in the last months of 2003, the since-forgotten yet highly instructive Mahathir Affair took place. At the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit in 2003 in Kuala Lumpur, then-Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir, the conference host, presented relations between Muslims and Jews as a worldwide frontal confrontation.[1] Read more

NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission Day 3

 

This report from the NSWJBD/Honest Reporting Israel Mission has been written by participants Mel and Brenda Braun… Read more

Goot back at ECAJ

The presidency of  The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has moved from Melbourne to Sydney marking the end of Dr Danny Lamm’s tenure as head of the organisations head and the return to the office of Sydney’s Robert Goot who held the position once before. Read more

Kinky Friedman of the Texas Jewboys for Shir Madness

Musician, author, politician, cigar purveyor, animal saviour… Kinky Friedman has worn many hats over his long career. Read more

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