All You Need is Love…writes Rabbi Laibl Wolff
October 28, 2014 by Rabbi Laibl Wolf
I like Beatles’ music. It is original, fresh, and quirkily meaningful. But on 25th June 1967 John Lennon got it decidedly wrong. Not the music – just the title. Nothing wrong with the love part, but expressing love as a need has got it all wrong. Read more
Scopus hits the streets
October 28, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
As part of the Mount Scopus College Achshav program, Year 9 students have spent an eye-opening week at City Cite on Flinders Street. Read more
The Rabbi and I
October 28, 2014 by Roz Tarszisz
Star of the King and I Teddy Tahu Rhodes will depart from his operatic repertoire to include My Yiddishe Mama when he performs at a Jewish House fundraiser in December. Read more
Do You Believe In Love? (Ha’shadchanit)…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
October 28, 2014 by Roz Tarszisz
“One must make compromises, life is not a bed of roses” sums up Tova the Matchmaker’s philosophy of relationships. Read more
The return of Palestinian unilateralism…writes Ben Cohen
October 28, 2014 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
It sometimes seems as if the see-saw debate about the true intentions of Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority has been with us for an eternity. Read more
Rivlin attends massacre commemoration
October 27, 2014 by Agencies
Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin attended the memorial ceremony in Kafr Qasim commemorating the murders of 48 Arabs by Israeli soldiers in 1956. Read more
Found!
October 27, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
Michelle Levy has been found. Read more
Gough remembered again
October 27, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
Jana Vytrhlik was the curator of the Precious Legacy exhibition at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum in 1998 when it was visited by the late Gough Whitlam…. Read more
Michelle – still missing
October 27, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
As dawn breaks on a Sydney Monday morning, there is still no news of the whereabouts of missing Sydney 11-yr-old Michelle Levy. Read more
Volunteers urgently needed to find Michelle
October 26, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
Over 500 members of the Sydney Jewish community have been mobilised in the search to find missing 11-yr-old Michelle Levy. Read more
Have you seen Michelle?
October 26, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
NSW police are appealing for public assistance to find 11-year-old Michelle Levy who went missing from her North Bondi home yesterday evening. Read more
The Shabbat Project – redefining community
October 26, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
More than 2,500 members of Sydney’s Jewish community participated in the concluding event of the Shabbat Project…celebrating Havdallah at the conclusion of Sydney’s involvement in the wold-wide Shabbat Project. Read more
Metropolitan Opera Stifles Free Exchange of Ideas About a Propaganda Opera…writes Alan Dershowitz
October 25, 2014 by Alan Dershowitz
On Monday night I went to the Metropolitan Opera. I went for two reasons: to see and hear John Adams’ controversial opera, The Death of Klinghoffer; and to see and hear what those protesting the Met’s judgment in presenting the opera had to say. Read more
Truth is stranger than fiction…writes Michael Kuttner
October 25, 2014 by Michael Kuttner
Very often, especially in this part of the world, actual events, either in the past or currently, indeed seem stranger than fiction. Read more
2,500 uplifted at the Sydney Challah Bake
October 24, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
More than 2,500 women baked their Shabbat challahs to launch Sydney’s Shabbat Project bringing together Jews across the entire religious spectrum and reconnecting many who had been unaffiliated. Read more
Waiting for December
October 24, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The 2014 Walkley Awards have shortlisted “Code of Silence” in their documentary category. Read more
Netanyahu sends condolences
October 24, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sent condolences to the family of 3-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun murdered in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem and met the policeman who killed the perpetrator. Read more
Middle East ambassador
October 24, 2014 by Michelle Favero
Sydney’s Emanuel School’s Alia Huberman has been selected as one of 10 students nationally to represent Australia as a Middle East Youth Ambassador. Read more
Eponymous award
October 24, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Dr Peter Schiff has presented the 15th annual Peter Schiff Award to Associate Professor Mark Dean, senior staff specialist at Gosford Hospital in NSW. Read more
The first Challah Bake – Perth kickstarts the world
October 24, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
All over the world, women will be baking challah for the world-wide Shabbat Project. Perth has kicked off the project! Read more
Improving the connection
October 23, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
The Zionist Federation of Australia has expanded its initiatives to engage the Russian Speaking Jewish community (RSJC) with Israel, Zionism and Jewish identity. Read more
The man who chronicled Sydney Jewish life
October 23, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Former NSW Premier, Barry O’Farrell MP, has joined communal identities in paying tribute to the commitment and contribution of veteran Sydney Jewish community photographer, George Denes, who has passed away aged 82 years. Read more
Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
October 23, 2014 by Roz Tarszisz
Divorce is painful for all participants. Obtaining a gett, a Jewish divorce, is a confronting procedure, particularly for a woman. Read more
The Shabbat Project Unveiled
October 23, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
J-Wire, in conjunction with The Shtick presents two videos telling the story of this weekend’s Shabbat Project which will be embraced this year in over 350 cities throughout the world. Read more
Café Monte Coffee Wins Bronze Award
October 22, 2014 by Natalie Shymko
At the Annual Golden Bean Coffee Roasters Competition, Montefiore’s Café Monte blend won a Bronze medal out of 1500 entries in the ’Milk Based (Latte)’ category. Read more
Age is no bar to excellence
October 22, 2014 by Roz Tarszisz
Following 10 years’ work and 200,000 words, a Holocaust survivor’s unfinished PhD thesis has been recognised by an Adelaide university. Read more
Aussies and Israelis gain mutual holiday visas
October 22, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s work and holiday visa programme has an exciting new addition, with the signing of an arrangement with Israel to allow young people from both countries a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience each other’s culture. Read more
Gough Whitlam – a personal memory
October 22, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Federal Labor MP Michael Danby talks of his memories of Gough Whitlam, Australia’s 21st Prime Minister who passed away this week at the age of 98… Read more
British vote epitomizes ignorance, opportunism and malice
October 22, 2014 by Isi Leibler
The British parliamentary resolution that called for the immediate and unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, endorsed by an overwhelming majority of 274 to 12, was an unprecedentedly aggressive act…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
Skirt-fronting Putin Can Help Eradicate Islamic State Crisis…writes David Singer
October 22, 2014 by David Singer
The possibility of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott shirt-fronting Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Brisbane next month over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 in Ukrainian sovereign territory with the loss of all on board – including 38 Australians – has receded following Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s 25 minute meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the Asian Europe Summit held in Milan this week. Read more
