80-yr-old to star in a play about his own fabled coffee shop
January 18, 2015 by Geoff Sirmai
What do a street girl, a nun and a taxi driver have in common? They all drink coffee at the Piccolo Bar in Sydney’s Kings Cross! Read more
Sydney Morning Herald cartoon breached Press Council’s Standards of Practice
January 18, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Press Council has deemed a controversial cartoon published in the Sydney Morning Herald in July last year during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza to have “emphasised religious persuasion rather than Israeli nationality” and had breached the Council’s Standards of Practice. Read more
Netanyahu rejects ICC’s decision to open preliminary examination
January 18, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a decision by the International Criminal Court to open a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine. Read more
School bus terror attack: youth to tour Holocaust museum
January 16, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Wild – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
January 16, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
A road movie with blisters? As someone who likes her outdoors neatly packaged, I wondered if Wild would hold my interest. There are indeed plenty of sores and blisters but as the miles are chalked up, it becomes so much more. Read more
New Zealand at the UN Security Council: “a return to the pre-1967 borders”
January 16, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand’s Ambassador to the United Nations Jim McLay has delivered his first address at the UN Security Council open debate on the Middle East. Read more
Gallic Gall…writes Michael Kuttner
January 16, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
The capacity for France as a country and the French themselves to display unmitigated hypocrisy has been on full display for all to witness. Read more
Meet Luke Foley
January 16, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Luke Foley, brand new Leader of the NSW Labour Party was introduced to the multicultural press of New South Wales by Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Communities Guy Zangari. Read more
‘This is your land,’ Netanyahu tells Birthright participants
January 16, 2015 by Agencies
The Taglit-Birthright Israel program has celebrated 15 years of bringing young Jews (ages 18-26) on free 10-day trips to Israel on Wednesday evening in Jerusalem. Read more
Palestinian leader two-faced on suppressing satirists
January 16, 2015 by Stephen M.Flatow - JNS.org
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas denounced as “heinous” the attack on French satirists who mocked Islam…writes Stephen M Flatow/JNS.org Read more
For Israeli families bereaved by Gaza war, a ‘lonely journey’ is still in its early stages
January 16, 2015 by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman - JNS.org
“There isn’t a day that I don’t think about him.” Shosh Goldmacher tells Maayan Jaffe [JNS.org] Read more
WIZO Conference in Israel
January 15, 2015 by Agencies
Two hundred WIZO leaders from 25 countries including Australia will participate this week in the World WIZO AGM. Read more
Complete a survey and win a movie ticket
Matteo is a PhD student at Melbourne’s Monash University and has questions for 18-29 yr-olds living in Balaclava, Caulfield or Elsternwick… Read more
Reflections on the murders in Paris
January 15, 2015 by Jonathan Spyer
The Islamic world is currently in the midst of a great historic convulsion…writes Jonathan Spyer. Read more
Winter dishes – Israeli wines
January 15, 2015 by Talia Zimmerman
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, top winemakers shared delicious recipes for the people of the land. Read more
JNF Australia backs new children’s centre
January 15, 2015 by Ahuva Bar-Lev
JNF Australia has dedicated the new Arava Children’s Environmental Centre in the Negev village of Sapir. Read more
Supermarket victims buried in Jerusalem
The four slain victims of last week’s kosher supermarket siege in Paris have been buried in Jerusalem…and President Rivlin declared “Jewish blood is not worthless”. Read more
Netanyahu in Paris
January 13, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Israeli media reports that France asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay away from a weekend solidarity march in Paris but he ignored the request and chose to attend. Read more
The Fruits of Cowardice and Appeasement…writes Isi Leibler
January 13, 2015 by Isi Leibler
The ill winds that have been gathering over Europe descended with a tornado last week in Paris with the barbaric Charlie Hebdo massacre, followed by the horrific terror attack at a kosher supermarket – a total of 17 dead in three days. But alas, the horrors will in all likelihood soon recede and life will continue as usual until the next attack. Read more
Netanyahu visits supermarket scene
January 13, 2015 by Agencies
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday visited Hyper Cacher, the kosher supermarket in Paris where Muslim terrorist Amedy Coulibaly took nearly 20 shoppers hostage and killed four of the hostages. Read more
The state of French Jewry
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder has met with French President François Hollande at the Élysée Palace in Paris to discuss the situation of the Jewish community in France. Read more
The growth of antisemitism on the U.N.’s agenda
January 13, 2015 by Agencies
The General Assembly of the United Nations will meet later this months to discuss the growth of antisemitism at the request of 37 countries including Australia. Read more
A rage against history…writes Clive Kessler
January 12, 2015 by Clive Kessler
The Ottawa parliament, Café Lindt, Charlie Hebdo and so many others too: these are all separate incidents. But they are all part of the same global phenomenon. Read more
Academics preaching BDS again
January 12, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
A group of Sydney academics continue to push for BDS sanctions to be more widely adopted by National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). Read more
Moving out?
January 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Hundreds of French Jews have attended a Jewish Agency for Israel Aliyah (immigration to Israel) information fair under tight security in central Paris. Read more
Palestine – Mapping The Truth Erases A Long-running Fiction
January 12, 2015 by David Singer
The US State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs has featured a map on its website – which both rejects and corrects the misleading use of the terms “1967 boundaries” and “1967 borders” – which have never existed in relation to any territorial subdivision between Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Read more
Supermarket victims to be buried in Israel
January 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The four Jewish victims of the terrorist attack on the Parisian Kosher supermarket will be buried in Israel. Read more
The status of the father
January 12, 2015 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple explains the status of the father, why we sway when we pray and public service ethics. Read more
Paris: a message from the rabbis and the embassy
January 12, 2015 by J-Wire
The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia has spoken out following the murderous attacks at Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher supermarket in Paris…as has Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand. Read more
Canberra and Paris
January 11, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
A memorial ceremony has been held outside the French Cultural Centre, the “Alliance Francaise”, in Australia’s Capital city Canberra to pay tribute to those killed and injured in the recent terror attacks in Paris. Read more
