Yeshivah Centre call to sexual abuse victims
August 13, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The new Committee of Management at Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre has written to its community and supporters calling for any victim of child sexual abuse to make contact with the police. Read more
Doctor tells Channel 9 “no overweight people in concentration camps”
August 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
A doctor who told Channel 9’s “Today” host Karl Stefanovic that “there were no overweight people in the concentration camps” when talking about obesity has been strongly criticised by community leaders. Read more
Man sentenced for daubing Cenotaph with anti-Jewish slogans
August 12, 2015 by Keren Cook
A man has been sentenced in New Zealand for stencilling and painting anti-Jewish slogans and swastikas on the Cenotaph in Hamilton shortly before a service marking International Holocaust Day. Read more
Anti-Semitism gets a boost from the Iran deal
August 12, 2015 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
In Europe, Jewish communities are still licking the wounds from a miserable 12 months that saw deadly jihadist violence erupt against them in Paris, Brussels, and Copenhagen. Read more
B’nai B’rith International and ADC call for rejection of the Iran deal
August 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The B’nai Brith International and The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) have concluded that the Iran nuclear agreement is unlikely to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and are urging the U.S Congress to reject the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and to vote to disapprove of the agreement. Read more
Five terror organisations re-listed
August 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Australian Federal Government has re-listed Al-Shabaab, Hamas’ Izz al-Din al Qassam Brigades, Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as ‘terrorist organisations’ under the country’s Criminal Code. Read more
Paul Sheehan for NSWJBD AGM
August 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Columnist and senior Sydney Morning Herald writer Paul Sheehan will be the keynote speaker at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ 2015 Annual General Meeting next Tuesday evening. Read more
The Ausraeli Approach: the Diasporic identity of Israelis in Australia
August 11, 2015 by Ran Porat
Approximately 15,000 Israelis live in Australia, mostly in Melbourne and Sydney, and almost all of them are Jews…but Ran Porat says “most Israelis remain estranged from organised Jewish Australia. Read more
UIA thanks RCV
August 11, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Melbourne arm of the United Israel Appeal (UIA) has hosted a luncheon for the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV). Read more
Israeli badminton player cleared to enter Indonesia
August 11, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Israeli badminton player has been Misha Zilberman cleared to enter Indonesia to participate in the World Badminton Championships in Jakarta following reports that the Indonesian authorities were unwilling to grant him a visa. Read more
Tachlis…writes Michael Kuttner
August 11, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
According to those who know Yiddish this term, especially popular amongst Israelis, is used when someone wants to quickly (and often very bluntly) get to the point. Read more
Does Europe need a new enlightenment?….asks Ron Jontof-Hutter
August 11, 2015 by Ron Jontof-Hutter
Recently, on Jenny Brockie’s Insight program on SBS, I was intrigued by the appearances of Niklas Frank, the son of Hans Frank, Hitler’s governor in Poland, who was hanged in 1946, and West Australian MP Peter Abetz whose family came from blue chip Nazi stock. Read more
Multicultural leadership conference hosted by the JCCV
August 10, 2015 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has held its inaugural JCCV Community Leadership Conference. Read more
Another Opening Another Games
An Australian Maccabi team is currently in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where the participated in the opening ceremony of the JCC Maccabi Games and Artfest. Read more
Tourism in Israel back to normal
August 10, 2015 by Agencies
One year after Operation Protective Edge, tourism in Israel is showing signs of recovery with the number of tourist entries in the period Jan-July this year returning to the level of 2013. Read more
Vengeance in Israel?…ask the Rabbi
August 10, 2015 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Q. On the wall of a house in Israel where an Arab baby and his father were killed and members of the family badly injured, someone scrawled “N’kamah” – “Vengeance!” What is the Jewish perspective on acts of vengeance? Read more
OBK does C2S
August 10, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
A team from Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen participated in this year’s City to Surf run. Read more
Isi Leibler visits Australia
August 10, 2015 by Glenn Falkenstein
Force of Destiny – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
August 10, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Billed as “a journey of love on a transplant waiting list”, this latest offering from veteran writer/director Paul Cox is not as grim as it sounds.
New acts for Shir Madness
August 10, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne will host Jewish music festival Shir Madness on September 6. New acts have just been announced. Read more
The Shabbat Project 2015
August 9, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
Sydney’s The Shabbat Project 2015 promises to be bigger and better than last year’s. Read more
Amnesty official under fire
August 9, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has denounced a series of anti-Israel twitter posts by Kristyan Benedict, campaigns manager for Amnesty UK, in which he accuses the Israeli government of “getting away with murder every day” and “facilitating the murder” of Ali Saad Dawabsheh. Read more
New rabbi for Bondi Mizrachi
August 8, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The members of Sydney’s Bondi Mizrachi synagogue have welcomed their new young Rabbi and Rebbetzen Rabbi Shua and Michal Solomon. Read more
Indonesia refuses visa to Israeli badminton player
August 7, 2015 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress (WJC) CEO Robert Singer has criticized the authorities in Indonesia for “unfairly mixing politics and sports” and denying a visa to Israel player Misha Zilberman which would allow him to compete in the World Badminton Championships held in the capital Jakarta next week. Read more
50 years of AUJS Academy
Naomi Dorevitch still clearly remembers when she was just four-years old, waving goodbye as her grandmother boarded a boat that was to take her Safta to Israel. She pleaded with her father who promised that when she was finished school she could visit her Safta. So it came to be that thirteen years later, in 1964, she joined the first Academy group of students from Australia to Israel. Read more
Homelessness Prevention Week
Homelessness Prevention Week is an annual event that reminds us all that there are people currently homeless or at risk of homelessness. But what do we really understand about the issue of homelessness, especially how it is experienced by the Victorian Jewish community? Read more
Former High Court Judge to launch revealing memoir
August 7, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Former High Court judge Michael Kirby is to launch Greg Fisher’s memoirs revealing how his life hit the depths of despair and how he found the road to recovery. Read more
Up and coming Scout
August 7, 2015 by Geoff Sirmai
Talented Sydney North Shore teenager Scout Clementine Silbersher is set to star in the cult teen musical “13” when it opens in late September. Read more
From the Arava to Melbourne
August 7, 2015 by Hayley Hadassin
Twelve Israeli students from the Acacia School in the small desert community in the Arava region have visited Melbourne for a ten-day visit as part of the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Partnership 2GETHER (P2G) program. Read more
New UIA group for Melbourne
August 7, 2015 by Carli Diamond
YoungUIA and UIA Women’s Division are delighted to announce the launch of a new and exciting group – the YoungUIA Women’s Division – a group aimed at engaging and connecting Jewish female professionals, predominately in the 20-40 age bracket. Read more
