A message to world Jewry

Israel ‘s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has sent a message to world Jewry…. Read more

Premier in Shul

Victorian Premier Denis Naphtine has visited Mizrachi Shul in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield. Read more

Responding to a growing threat…writes Dr Andre Oboler

Online antisemitism is a growing threat to the Jewish community in Australia and around the world. This hate does not stay on the internet, it affects society around us. Antisemitism in social media damages the confidence of our children and creates stress and health impacts across the community. It creates a physical environment which is less safe for the Jewish community. Read more

When the fog lifts…writes Emily Gian

Over the past four weeks since Operation Protective Edge began, we have been subjected to images shrouded by the fog of war. Read more

Rallies supporting Israel at both sides of the Tasman

Successful rallies expressing support for and solidarity with Israel took place today in Auckland and Melbourne. Read more

Let them eat cake

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes on smoking, eating cake and not thinking… Read more

Recovering Forbidden Voices

The New Zealand School of Music is hosting a conference highlighting music composed in ghettos and concentration camps. Read more

Rami Bar-Niv in New Zealand

Internationally acclaimed Israeli concert pianist, Rami Bar-Niv, is to perform in concert at Rotorua’s Civic Theatre on 19 August. Read more

Michael Danby battles the media

“If in the past year you didn’t CRY OUT when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad (at the Yamouk camp) in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terror attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you ONLY cry out for GAZA, then you are not pro HUMAN RIGHTS, you are only ANTI-ISRAEL.”

 — Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, July 15, 2014 Read more

A note of support

J-Wire received the attached note from a reader who wants to express her support for all those involved in the horrendous attack on the Bondi school bus this week… Read more

AUJS slams student council

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students has condemned a University of Sydney Student Representative Council motion that condemns Israel’s ongoing self-defence efforts, supports the antisemitic Boycotts Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and claims falsely Israel is responsible for “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing”. Read more

Gaza: Ambassador Livne speaks on Gaza

Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand Yosef Livne has a video message on the Israel-Gaza conflict… Read more

Is the “Mirror Theory” always true?…asks Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

Question:

Last week , you explained the “mirror theory”. You said that when we look at others we are looking at a mirror. Noticing defects in other people is really the undeveloped parts of our own personality showing up. Read more

New Zealand calls for community peace

The Human Rights Commission is backing a call from local religious communities for New Zealanders to stand alongside them in peace and compassion: and not in hatred. Read more

Muslim woman wins prize dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg

Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello has announced Maha Krayem Abdo, Executive Officer of the Muslim Women’s Association, as the winner of this year’s NSW Human Rights Award during a ceremony at State Parliament. Read more

Bus attack mentioned in parliament

NSW State Labor MP Ron Hoenig has condemned the attack on Wednesday by a group of youths on a bus carrying pupils from three Jewish day schools. Read more

Jewish anti-Zionism? Not in our name

I recently journeyed to Columbus Circle in Manhattan to savor the atmosphere at two rival demonstrations over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Read more

When You Are Called ‘Child-Killer’…writes Rabbi Laibl Wolf

The world underwent a major test these past few weeks. Truth versus Lies. Good versus Bad. Innocent versus Guilty. I refer to the Gaza War. Did the world pass? The jury is out. Read more

Spike in antisemitic incidents in Australia in the wake of the recent Conflict in Gaza

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has expressed its concern about increasing levels of antisemitism in Australia. Read more

In Defence of Whataboutery

“Whataboutery” for those who are blissfully unaware, is the dismissive response given by anti-Israel campaigners when they are accused of applying double standards to Israel. Read more

Five youths arrested over bus attack

Five youths were arrested at 3:30am this morning in Dover Heights following an antisemitic attack on a school bus yesterday during which terrified students were told they throats would be slit. Read more

Prime Minister explains

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has chaired a major media conference. J-Wire takes you there… Read more

International media intimidated?

The international media will have to answer for the intimidation by Hamas of journalists working in Gaza, which has produced a one-sided anti-Israel narrative in the mainstream press, World Jewish Congress spokeswoman E.J. Kessler declared today. Read more

It’s at times like these…writes Michael Kuttner

There have been very few times in the last 66 years when Israel has enjoyed peace and quiet. Since independence and even before, Jews were targeted by terror groups of one sort or another. Prior to the fictitious green line the presence of Jews in pre 1967 Israel provoked terrorist attacks. The mere fact that we were building flourishing communities, turning the desert into fertile agricultural land and draining malarial infested swamps was enough excuse for the predecessors of Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and comrades to launch murderous raids and murder innocent Israeli citizens. Read more

Racist threats on Sydney Jewish school bus

Eight  youths boarded a specially charted school bus carrying students from Sydney Jewish schools Moriah College and Mt Sinai College taunting the students with antiSemitic remarks and threatening to slit their throats.

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An open letter to Rabbi Gutnick

Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick has been elected president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria. Social worker Vivien Resofsky has sent him an open letter. Read more

Freedom of speech is essential to our democracy…writes Mike Baird

When I became Premier, the Australian community was debating proposed changes to federal racial discrimination laws. My first column outlined my opposition to the proposals being put forward, and sought to address concerns being discussed within communities across NSW. Read more

Carlton resigns

Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton has resigned following demands that he must apologise for using anti-semitic comments when responding to readers criticising him for an article written in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Read more

Mike Carlton to apologise

Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton has been asked to apologise to readers who corresponded with him following his article on the Israel-Gaza conflict and to whom he used inappropriate language. Read more

Farewell changes to 18C

The Abbott government has backed down on plans to water down the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more

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