25th anniversary of Clean-up Australia Day
January 31, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
In 2014 more than 572,406 volunteers including members of the Jewish community. removed an estimated 15,708 tonnes of rubbish from 7,140 sites across Australia, Read more
The price of security
January 31, 2015 by Agencies
Two Israeli soldiers were killed on the country’s northern borders this week. President Rivlin has visited their families. Read more
Israeli university offering conflict resolution courses in English
January 30, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Bar-Ilan University is to launch Israel’s first academic international summer certificate program, taught entirely in English, in the field of conflict resolution. Read more
Kiwi educators at Yad Vashem
January 30, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
A group of twenty New Zealand high school teachers and educators have been attending a course on Holocaust studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more
Australia Day Awards 2015
January 30, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
As normally happens, we missed someone in our Australia Day Honours List – Marcia Hatfield of Sydney received an OAM and has been added top the republished list. Mazel Tov and our apologies Marcia. Read more
ZFA expresses concern
January 30, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Zionist Federation of Australia has raised concern about recent incidents on Israel’s northern border resulting in the loss of lives. Read more
Here we go again!…writes Michael Kuttner
January 30, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
The year has launched off with a flying start of outrageous terror, political hypocrisy and ramped up rhetoric. Read more
B’nai B’rith in the running for Glen Eira award
January 30, 2015 by Frances Stiglec
B’nai B’rith Victoria has been selected as one of two finalists in the Glen Eira Community Group of the Year Award 2015. Read more
Effective Relationship Program
January 30, 2015 by Annette Sweet
The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Victorian Section is offering a nine session program to support single Jewish women improve their intimate relationships. Read more
NCJWA Caring Mums expands seeks volunteers.
January 30, 2015 by Annette Sweet
Melbourne’s Caring Mums program run by the NCJWA is expanding its activities to the city’s northern suburbs. Read more
Getting antisemitism wrong at the United Nations…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org
January 30, 2015 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
You have to hand it to the United Nations, I guess. It’s hard to think of another body that would organise a special meeting on the subject of rising antisemitism with anti-Semites not just in attendance, but making speeches as well. Read more
70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz – Sydney event
Did you attend this function at the Jewish Museum…check here for your photo…gallery images by Ben Apfelbaum Read more
Holocaust anniversary acknowledged by Aboriginal community
January 29, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney’s Redfern has acknowledged the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Jews from the Auschwitz death camp. Read more
Maccabi meets Montefiore
January 29, 2015 by Donna Surdut
Participants in Maccabi’s Junior Carnival from across Australia converged at Jewish Care recently to participate in Maccabi-Jewish Care Community Day. Read more
The Holocaust remembered in New Zealand’s capital.
January 29, 2015 by David Zwartz
Due to the significance of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the commemoration of United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day was more extensive in New Zealand this year. Read more
President Rivlin addresses United Nations
January 29, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York…and tells its members “never again”. Read more
Rabbis respond to Fairfax quotes
January 28, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia (ORA) is deeply concerned about comments attributed to criminal lawyer Alex Lewenberg which have appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. Read more
Josh Frydenberg at Auschwitz
January 28, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
Among the world dignitaries attending the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was Australian Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Read more
Major Israeli honour for former NSW Governor
The Technion in Israel is to award a Doctor Honoris Causa, the Technion’s highest recognition for scientific and humanitarian contribution to former NSW Governor, Professor Dame Marie Bashir Read more
Sydney remembers Auschwitz
January 28, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Around 350 members of the community including diplomats from many countries, gathered at the Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM) to commemorate 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Read more
Rabbis meet the Prime Minister
January 28, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Tthe first ever delegation from Australia’s peak and preeminent Jewish religious leadership body – ORA – The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, has met with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra. Read more
A personal account of the liberation of the Bergen concentration camp
Lt-Col Leonard Berney RA TD tells J-Wire of his participation and the events surrounding the liberation of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Yad Vashem on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spoke at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem at yesterday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration. Read more
Learn online about the Holocaust
January 28, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
To mark the International Holocaust Memorial Day, FutureLearn, a social medialearning platform, has launched free online courses exploring the history and ongoing scholarship of the Holocaust…one created by Tel Aviv University and the other by Yad Vashem. Read more
Should Netanyahu address Congress?…asks Isi Leibler
January 28, 2015 by Isi Leibler
Presumably, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed his options carefully before accepting U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to address the joint session of Congress. Read more
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, victims and leaders mark 70 years since Auschwitz liberation
More than 300 Holocaust survivors along with world leaders gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Tuesday to commemorate the 1.1 million people killed there, as well as the millions of other victims killed during the Holocaust, as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Never Again?…writes Emily Gian
January 27, 2015 by Emily Gian
All four of my grandparents were Holocaust survivors. I heard snippets of their stories my whole life but it was always difficult for me to truly imagine how it all began, how it continued, and how it became the greatest human tragedy of all time. Read more
The Holocaust remembered in Auckland
January 27, 2015 by Keren Cook
Auckland has hosted an International Holocaust Remembrance day…a J-Wire video report from Keren Cook. Read more
When Heimish Doesn’t Mean Amish!…writes Rabbi Laibl Wolf
January 27, 2015 by Rabbi Laibl Wolf
I am sitting in the 23rd floor lounge of the Nikko Hotel in San Francisco looking out onto the bay watching a string of bulky container ships making their slow motion to port.
Israeli may have survived car crash if she had been wearing a seatbelt
January 27, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Irit Wilder, an Israeli tourist who died in a car accident in New Zealand would probably have survived had she been wearing a seatbelt. Read more
