Mullum Mixes it up with Indie Jewish Folk Songs

Jewish folk songs are to take on a new and exciting form as singer-songwriter cousins Husky Gawenda and Gideon Presiss prepare a unique one-off performance with their young sister and cousin, Evie Gawenda for the Mullum Music Festival. Read more

Islamic State – APEC A Fizzer – G20 Promises No Better

The 2014 APEC Conference in Beijing this past week has been and gone and the G20 Conference in Brisbane is taking place in Brisbane this weekend…writes David Singer. Read more

Broken Glass, Shattered Illusions

The anniversary of Kristallnacht occurs on 9 November every year and is commemorated by Jewish communities all over the world…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Glick cartoon in Palestinian media

A Palestinian Authority newspaper printed a cartoon portraying wounded Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehudah Glick as a snake, Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday. Read more

Book launch leads to calls for Monash’s posthumous promotion

The Remembrance Day launch earlier this week of a new book about Sir John Monash has led to calls for the military commander to be posthumously promoted to the rank of field marshal. Read more

Liberal campaigner resigns over neo-Nazi revelations

A Victorian Liberal Party campaigner resigned on Wednesday after it was revealed that he was a former neo-Nazi. Read more

40 Years of Volunteering

Recently retired NSW Governor Dame Marie Bashir recently attended Sydney’s Montefiore which has celebrated 40 years of volunteering. Read more

ECAJ AGM: Carr gets a mention

President of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Robert Goot made reference to Foreign Minister Bob Carr  in Julia Gillard’s former Labor Australian government. Read more

An honour for Norman

The president of the Jewish Community Council of South Australia has been appointed a director of The National Australia Day Council. Read more

What to do about car terrorism…writes Stephen Flatow

As I prepare for an upcoming visit to Israel, I can’t help but feel a twinge of apprehension. How could it be otherwise? Read more

Bob Carr: Danby has his say

Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has responded to Bob Carr’s proclaimed support for the Palestinian cause… Read more

Victorian schools thank government

The Australia Council of Jewish Schools representing students in Jewish schools in Victoria has welcomed the State Liberal and ALP commitments made today to assist our schools develop implement and maintain emergency management procedures. Read more

The West meets the Negev

Allison Speiser travelled from the Negev to tell the Perth community of life in this developing area of Israel. Read more

My Old Lady …a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

While the raison d’etre of this drama is peculiarly French, at its centre are universal human foibles and secrets. Read more

Budding artists – in their golden years

Thirteen residents at Sydney’s Montefiore Home in Randwick entered their artworks to Moriah College’s Artbeat ’14 artshow. Read more

A Greek Jewish Odyssey

A lifelong passion for Greece led Carol Gordon to explore the history of the country’s once vibrant Jewish communities. Read more

JEMs says thank you

JEMs (Jewish Education Matters) has held its fourth banquet and graduation ceremony and donated $1,800 to Kesser Torah College. Read more

Listen to your body

Jessica Abelsohn is a woman on a mission. She wants to encourage more people to listen to what their bodies are telling them. Read more

Moriah on tour

Sixty members of Sydney’s Moriah College Band/Orchestra are about to leave on a tour of the USA and Israel. Read more

Confronting campus vilification

Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has expressed concern about antisemitic bigotry experienced at Australian universities. Read more

Double genocide – contemporary revisionism

The founders of The Seventy Years Declaration on the Anniversary of the Final Solution Wannsee Conference are urging Australian individuals and organisations to support their movement against Holocaust revisionism. Read more

Rabin remembered

More than 200 people attended an event honouring  the life and memory of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Read more

A fair go at Moriah

Gift of Life volunteers and donors at Sydney’s Moriah College Fair have learned that a donation made at the same venue last year has proved positive and that a life-saving match had been found. Read more

Labor’s emergency plans for Victorian schools

The Victorian State Labor party will provide $600,000 to help schools develop and implement their Emergency Management Plans to be prepared for incidents resulting from racial or religious intolerance. Read more

Russian speaking Limmud Australia bound

An American Jewish astronaut who learned to speak Russian while training with cosmonauts walks into a lecture hall filled with Russian-American Jews. No, it’s not a priest-and-rabbi-style joke, but a real-life event that exemplifies the spirit of the Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) educational conferences. Read more

The skeptic and the messiah…writes Rabbi Laibl Wolf

So you want to ‘grow up’ and become a prophet? Read more

Labor MP’s support of BDS an embarrassment…write Peter Wertheim and Alex Ryvchin

Perhaps it was the pig’s head placed in the kosher section of a Johannesburg Woolworths by anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) “activists” last week. Read more

The Drop…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Still waters run deep – very deep indeed, in this gritty crime drama by director Michael R. Rosken. Read more

Kristallnacht commemorated

The President of the Australian Human Rights Commission was the guest speaker at Sydney’s 2014 Kristallnacht commemoration. Read more

Photoshopping Judaism

In this week’s Ask the Rabbi, Rabbi Raymond Apple answers a question about retouching images in order to deceive people…  Read more

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