Remembering Malki
May 12, 2016 by J-Wire News Service
On Yom HaZikaron, Arnold and Frimet Roth, who left Melbourne to make Aliyah in 1988, remember their daughter Malki who died in a terrorist attack on a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001. Read more
Meet Ronen Heine: a video interview from The Shtick
May 11, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Ronen Heine is a Start Up Lawyer, working with The Mamilla Project, where Coaches work with game-changing entrepreneurs who would benefit from start-up boot camps, a trip to Israel and on-going coaching. Read more
National Volunteer Week at the Monte
May 11, 2016 by Natalie Shymko
Sydney’s Montefiore Home celebrated National Volunteer Week 2016 with an Israeli breakfast and presentation of service awards at the Randwick Campus. Read more
V-Day commemoration
May 11, 2016 by Warren Hurst
Over 100 members of the Russian-speaking community joined various community leaders in attending the V-Day commemoration at Waverley Park in Sydney. Read more
Peres Centre’s Mini World Cup
May 11, 2016 by Agencies
With racism and violence in football stadiums rampant around the world the Peres Center for Peace’s “Mini Mondial for Peace” soccer tournament has taken place in Herzliya. Read more
Anti-Israel rhetoric at the U.N.
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder says that anti-Israel rhetoric at the United Nations had exceeded proportion and was extending into the realm of the absurd, adding that the Venezuelan ambassador’s recent remarks questioning Israel’s “final solution” for the Palestinians proved that the “conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism is all too real.” Read more
More cultural funding from the NSW government…and a Yom Ha’azmaut message
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Minister for Multiculturalism John Ajaka has announced that funding is available for events that help bring communities together and celebrate cultural diversity…and has sent a message to the NSW Jewish community for Yom Ha’azmaut. Read more
Yom HaZikaron: Canberra
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Embassy of the State of Israel and the ACT Jewish Community, in conjunction with the ACT Zionist Council have hosted the national Yom HaZikaron ceremony, on behalf of the State of Israel, as well as all of Australian Jewry. Read more
Yom Hazikaron: Sydney
May 11, 2016 by Lauren Finn
Israel at 68: a video message from the president
May 11, 2016 by Agencies
Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin sends the Jewish world a message on Yom Ha’azmaut , celebrating Israel’s 68th anniversary of its independence. Read more
Jewish novelist Michael Chabon rails against fictional ‘occupation’
May 11, 2016 by Stephen M.Flatow - JNS.org
As a novelist, Michael Chabon has a vivid imagination…writes Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org. Read more
London’s first Muslim mayor open to visiting Tel Aviv
May 11, 2016 by Agencies
London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan has suggested that he would be open to visiting Tel Aviv. Read more
Yom Ha’azmaut: Sydney
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The Zionist Council of NSW has celebrated Yom Ha’azmaut at Sydney’s Moriah College. Read more
NSW Labor president to address plenum
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
NSW Labor president Mark Lennon will address the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum next week. Read more
Holocaust commemoration in cathedral
May 11, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The NSW Council of Christians and Jews has held a Holocaust commemoration at Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral. Read more
On celebrating Independence Day…writes Isi Leibler
May 10, 2016 by Isi Leibler
Last week, we commemorated the genocidal murder of 6 million Jews – the most barbaric episode in our 2,000 years of exile which was sporadically interspersed with discrimination, persecution, expulsion and pogroms. Read more
My Name is Naama Potok
May 10, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
Naama Potok, daughter of acclaimed Jewish author, Chaim Potok, is in Sydney to promote the stage version of his novel My Name is Asher Lev.
Newt’s News
May 10, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
UK’s Left in disarray over Ken Livingston, SBS Doco on Haredi sect life in Melbourne and the Commemoration with Celebration on Israel’s 68th Birthday…a video production from The Shtick’s Henry Greener. Read more
STC’s play Disgraced lays bare a modern Muslim’s crisis of identity …a theatre review by Deb Meyer
May 10, 2016 by Deb Meyer
Arab-American playwright Ayad Akhtar is the most produced playwright in America at the moment and for good reason. Read more
New burial ground for Sydney
May 10, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A new Jewish burial ground in the Sutherland area of Sydney will be consecrated later this month. Read more
“This is not education – this is propaganda”
May 10, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Eileen Freed talks about Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’azmaut
May 10, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Eileen Freed manages Zionist Victoria’s Special Events. She tells us about the several Events related to Israel’s 68th Birthday Celebrations. Read more
First ever all-women trade mission to Israel
May 9, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
CEO of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce Charles Nightingale will be the only male joining 36 delegates in the first ever all-women trade mission to Israel. Read more
Jewish-African dinner
May 9, 2016 by David Marlow
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has hosted the first Jewish – African Communities Friendship Dinner. Read more
Send her back
May 9, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Child sexual abuse advocate Manny Waks has called on Israeli authorities to proceed with extradition hearings involving Malka Leifer wanted in Melbourne to face charges of child sexual abuse. Read more
Yom Ha’azmaut: The story of Hatikvah
May 9, 2016 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Want to know the story of Hatikvah? Ask the rabbi. Read more
Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories…a book review by Alan Gold
May 9, 2016 by Alan Gold
Some books are ‘must-read’. Others are ‘should read’. And a lot are ‘toss away without reading so you don’t let the facts bother you.’ Read more
Dunera boy to fashion photographer
May 9, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The work of fashion photographer Henry Talbot will be featured in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
Palestine: perpetuating propaganda plagues peace process
May 8, 2016 by David Singer
McGraw Hill’s decision to trash copies of its textbook Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World –has been subjected to intense criticism on web sites propagating the “Palestinian Narrative” of the 100 years old Arab-Jewish conflict. Read more
Sky News and ethnic cleansing
May 7, 2016 by J-Wire News Service
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has expressed its strong disappointment with Sky News for accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. In a recent news item dealing with a U.N report on house demolitions in the West Bank, the item carried the headline ‘Ethnic Cleansing’. Read more
