A Feast of a Festival – a look at JIFF 2015
October 13, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
A rich line-up of features, documentaries and special events are lined up for the 2015 Jewish International Film Festival.
Remembering Bali
October 13, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
NSW State politician Ron Hoenig and Rabbi Elozer Gestetner have attended a commemoration marking the Bali bombing in 2002 which claimed 88 Australian lives. Read more
The most successful multicultural society in the world
October 13, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has described his country as being the most successful multicultural country in the world. Read more
Pink hope
October 13, 2015 by J-Wire
A counsellor specialising in breast cancer consulted by movie icon Angelina Jolie will be the guest speaker at this year’s Pink Monday Tea in Sydney. Read more
Hebrew Uni award for Julie Bishop
October 12, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is to receive “A Torch of Learning Award” from The Australian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Read more
JCCV opposed to Feiglin’s views
October 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria finds views of former MK Moshe Feiglin are “inconsistent with the values and the policies” of the JCCV. Read more
Organise a minyan on line
October 12, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
WhatsApp and Facebook groups have been launched in Sydney to find those willing to make up a minyan at funerals. Read more
Shabbat Project street dinner plus
October 11, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The Sydney Shabbat Project succeeded in closing a Bellevue Hill street to traffic last year and they will do the same in 2015 with a difference. Read more
West Side Story to star Anthony Levin
October 11, 2015 by Geoff Sirmai
West Side Story – arguably the greatest musical of all time – comes to Sydney’s Zenith Theatre in Chatswood this November with Sydney actor-singer and human rights lawyer Anthony Levin performing the plum role of ‘Tony’. Read more
Reporting on Israel
October 11, 2015 by Asher Kozma
In June 2014 I wrote an opinion piece calling for more equal and accurate reporting of the Middle-East in Australian mainstream media, it was following an embarrassing spate of articles demonising Israel in a time when three Israeli teenagers had been kidnapped…writes Asher Kozma. Read more
ADC distressed about escalating violence
October 11, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has expressed its profound distress and alarm about the escalating wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks sweeping Israel that has resulted in the wounding of more than a dozen of Israeli civilians and soldiers. Read more
Eleven organisations object to Feiglin views
October 9, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Eleven Jewish organisations have publicly objected to the views of Israeli right-wing politician Moshe Feiglin…a self-confessed “proud homophobe” scheduled to speak at meetings in Australia. Read more
A shocking start to Israel’s new year
October 9, 2015 by Ron Weiser
The chagim of 5776 have ushered in a new year that has so far been quite a shocking one for the citizens of Israel…writes Ron Weiser. Read more
Jones visits Paramatta mosque
October 9, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
AIJAC’s Jeremy Jones has laid flowers at the Parramatta site at which police employee Curtis Cheng was gunned down last week. Read more
ZFA responds to ambassador’s call for Australia to tell Israel home truths
October 9, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The president of the Zionist Federation of Australia has responded to an article written by a former Australian ambassador to Israel entitled “High time Australia told Israel a few home truths”. Read more
150 years of Jewish life in Queensland
October 9, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
This year, Queensland Jewry community celebrates its 150th year and the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies (QJBD), is organising a series of activities to mark this special occasion. Read more
Becoming financially literate
October 9, 2015 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Jewish Care’s Financial Services Team, led by Doron Abramovici has launched its early intervention Financial Literacy Project, specific to Victorian Jewish Secondary School students. Read more
Award for Masha
October 9, 2015 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Melbourne’s Jewish Care Victoria’s longstanding volunteer, Masha Zeleznikow has won the Council on the Ageing Senior Achiever Award at the Victorian Senior of the Year Awards. Read more
Can you unpack?…asks Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
October 9, 2015 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
The most difficult part of any trip is unpacking when we return home. Read more
Kangarusski camp
October 9, 2015 by Hayley Hadassin
Kangarusski has held its first holiday camp in Sydney. Read more
Standing up for refugees
October 9, 2015 by Henry Benjamin
A “Jews for Refugees” banner is expected to spearhead a sizeable number of Sydney’s Jewish community at this Sunday’s Stand Up For Refugees rally. Read more
Boundless double standards
October 9, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
The annual irrelevant circus at UN headquarters in New York has been taking place once again…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
Temple Mount out of bounds to politicians
October 9, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered both Jewish and Arab politicians not to go up to the Temple Mount. Read more
Looking for Jews from Olomouc
Olomouc is the historical capital of Moravia in the east of the Czech Republic and a researcher is trying to locate families who may have roots there. Read more
Beer garden in the sukkah
October 9, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
The I-Society, together with Sydney’s Central Synagogue put on a pop-up beer garden in the synagogue’s Sukkah in celebration of Sukkot. Read more
Miss You Already – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
October 8, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
This may be a film about women, written and directed by women, but that does not make it a chick flick.
A soulless foreign policy…writes Michael Danby
October 8, 2015 by Michael Danby
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve found myself in the unusual position of pointing out the main source of human misery, civilian deaths, and refugee outflow in Syria, is the result of the brutal Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Read more
Our Israel experience
October 8, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Members of the Australian parliament who recently participated in a Rambam study visit to Israel, have spoken of their experiences. Read more
Jerusalem mayor cancels JNF visit
October 8, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Due to recent tragic events in Jerusalem, the city’s mayor Nir Barkat has been forced to cancel his visit to Australia next week during which he was to address JNF’s gala functions in Melbourne and Sydney. Read more
Iraq Exacerbates America-Russia Standoff on Destroying Islamic State
October 8, 2015 by David Singer
America and its 62 nation coalition is becoming increasingly isolated and irrelevant as Russia maintains its airstrikes in Syria and has now commenced firing cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea 1500 kilometres away. Read more
