Teach your children…writes Michael Kuttner
April 3, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
Every Passover eve Jews worldwide sit down with family and friends to recount the story of the Exodus from Egypt and learn its lessons. Read more
Asylum seekers in Israel
April 3, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Australian Reform Zionist Association has written a letter of complaint to Shmuel Ben-Shmuel, Israel’s ambassador to Australia protesting the treatment os asylum seekers in Israel. Read more
Palestine – Obama Admits Defeat On Renewed Negotiations For Two-State Solution
April 3, 2015 by David Singer
President Obama has finally admitted the death of any renewed negotiations for a two-state solution between Israel and the PLO for the next several years – telling the media on 24 March: Read more
New children’s exhibition at Yad Vashem
April 2, 2015 by Estee Yaari
A new exhibition giving expression to the lives of the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust will open in Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem later this month. Read more
Pesach: Another question
April 2, 2015 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
Rabbi Michoel Gourarie has another question about Peach… Read more
Al-Taqwa College asked to explain
April 2, 2015 by J-Wire
Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne has issued a please explain to the principle of Al-Taqwa College, in Melbourne’s outer west. Read more
Iraq: did we leave too soon?
April 2, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Major General Jim Molan spent 40 years in the Australian army and will deal with deal with this question at this month’s NSW Board of Deputies plenum. Read more
A new age of Middle East insecurity…writes Ben Cohen
April 2, 2015 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
Back in 2010, I interviewed Gerard Araud, who is now the French ambassador in Washington, DC, while he was still serving as France’s envoy to the United Nations in New York.We talked at length about Iran, and this was the first thing he told me: “The Iranian nuclear program has no civilian explanation whatsoever. You don’t start a civilian nuclear program by enriching uranium. It’s like if you buy the gas before the car.” Read more
Jewish Changemaker Awards
April 1, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
A large increase in nominations for the fourth annual Jewish Changemakers Awards made for a lively audience when the Awards were announced.
Chag Sameach from Tony Abbott
April 1, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has sent greetings to the Jewish community for Pesach… Read more
Jewish Agency at work in the Ukraine
April 1, 2015 by J-Wire
Dozens of Jews from war-torn eastern Ukraine who will be immigrating to Israel in the coming days celebrated the upcoming holiday of Passover at a simulated seder (ritual meal) held at The Jewish Agency for Israel’s refugee center outside the city of Dnepropetrovsk. Read more
Eat, Pray, Naches…. in Waverley
April 1, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Waverley Council invites people to share their post-war immigration stories for its Jewish community stories project – Eat, Pray, Naches.
