From Temple times through today, Pesach conveys message of Jewish unity
February 4, 2015 by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman - JNS.org
Between 19 BCE and 4 BCE, King Herod I renovated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, enlarging and beautifying it. Read more
“Everyone hates us”
February 3, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
The wife of a victim of child sexual abuse at Melbourne’s Yeshivah College told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that her daughter told her on the eve of her Batmitzvah “everyone hates us”. Read more
Royal Commission Day Two – Zephania Waks
February 3, 2015 by J-Wire
Zephania Waks is the father of Manny Waks who appeared at the Commission yesterday. Zephania Waks has three sons who were abused at Melbourne’s Yeshivah College. Read more
Living side by side…
February 3, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
In 2001, Polish-American historian Jan T. Gross published a controversial monograph entitled Neighbours in which he described the destruction of the Jewish community in the Polish city of Jedwabne at the hands of the local Polish population. Read more
What does new citizenship law mean for Portuguese and world Jewry?…aska Alina Dain Sharon
February 3, 2015 by Alina Dain Sharon-JNS.org
Five-hundred years after thousands of Jews were burned at the stake or forcefully converted, and many others expelled due to the Inquisition, the Portuguese Cabinet has decided to grant citizenship to the descendants of those Jews as reparation for that persecution. Read more
Israel by choice
February 3, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
37 young adults have left Australia to participate in the Israel by Choice program. Read more
Gehry’s first building in Australia opens for business
February 3, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
When world-renowned architect Frank Gehry was asked at the opening of his first building in Australia if there was anything he could not achieve in its planning he replied: “I’m Jewish and I feel guilty about everything”. Read more
93-yr-old Auschwitz guard to face court
February 3, 2015 by Agencies
Oskar Groening, a 93-year-old former guard at the Auschwitz death camp, will go on trial in Germany in April on at least 300,000 counts of accessory to murder. Read more
Royal Commission gets underway
February 2, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Royal Commission started today into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse at the Yeshiva Centre and Yeshiva College Melbourne and Yeshiva Centre and Yeshiva College, Bondi. Read more
Waikato Jewish community shocked by antisemitic graffiti
February 2, 2015 by J-Wire
The Waikato Jewish community has issued a statement detailing antisemitic graffiti daubed on Hamilton’s Cenotaph. Read more
Lara receives inaugural scholarship
February 2, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The winner of the inaugural Maccabi Australia Rudi Roth Sports Scholarship was announced at the closing ceremony of the 33rd Maccabi Australia Junior Carnival held in Melbourne last week,and Maccabi Australia is excited to announce NSW Junior tennis player Lara Kaplan as the recipient. Read more
Obama Honouring Presidential Commitments Trumps Protocol…writes David Singer
February 2, 2015 by David Singer
The furore engendered by House Speaker John Boehner inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress on March 3 – supposedly in breach of Presidential protocol – marks the first step in Congress flexing its muscles to persuade President Obama to re-think his concerted attempts to undermine the written commitments made by President Bush to Israel’s then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in his letter dated 14 April 2004 – as overwhelmingly endorsed by the House of Representatives 407-9 on 23 June 2004 and the Senate 95-3 the next day (“American Written Commitments”). Read more
Confronting European Antisemitism
February 1, 2015 by Alan Dershowitz
I just completed a three-day visit to Prague and the former Terezin concentration camp…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more
David Landau, Z”L. Farewell to a gentleman and an adversary
February 1, 2015 by David Bedein
Jerusalem journalist David Landau, who died this week at the age of 67, was a reporter of the old school. When he was criticised, he remained a gentleman. Read more
Tu B’shevat – a message from Jerusalem
February 1, 2015 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
MAZEL TOV TO THE TREES Read more
