WJC condemns anti-Jewish songs on YouTube
May 7, 2016 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has condemned the internet giant Google’s ongoing refusal to remove all anti-Jewish and racist hate songs from its YouTube video platform. Read more
British Labour Party engulfed by convergence of the far left and antisemitism
May 7, 2016 by Agencies
Jewish leaders in the United Kingdom have voiced their displeasure with the Labour Party in the wake of a scandal on antisemitism within its ranks continuing to engulf the country’s second-largest party. Read more
Yom Hashoah at Jewish Care
May 7, 2016 by Ayal Tusia
Jewish Care Victoria held commemorative services for Yom Hashoah across all of its aged care residences. Read more
Block 16 in Birkenau
May 6, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Australian students currently in Poland for the March of the Living have visited the former Birkenau concentration camp and madrich Sam Kozlowski has reported on the impact on the MOTL participants. Read more
A rare insight into the making of “Shoah”
‘Shoah’ is a gruelling nine-and-a-half-hour-long documentary about the Holocaust, with secretly filmed footage of former Nazi officers and interviews in which survivors relive their experiences of the Holocaust. Read more
Yom Hashoah – Canberra
May 6, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
The ACT Jewish Community in conjunction with the Executive Council of Australian Jewry has hosted the National Yom HaShoah Ceremony in the nation’s capital. Read more
Yom Hashoah – Sydney
May 6, 2016 by David Sokol
The Sydney commemoration of Yom Hashoah featured a conversation between Lily Brett and Avril Alba. Read more
Rising from the ashes
May 6, 2016 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Our Israel. Our Home.’ is the second video in the ‘Rising From The Ashes’ series created by Melbourne’s Jewish Care. Read more
One day or one lifetime
May 6, 2016 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
There is an interesting halachic discussion regarding the Mitzvah of Sefirat Haomer – the forty nine days that we count between the festival of Pesach and Shavuot. Read more
Honorary doctorate for Isi Leibler
The Jerusalem-based former president of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Isi Leibler is to be conferred with an honorary doctorate from Bar Ilan University. Read more
‘No statute of limitations on genocide,’ Nuremberg anniversary confab reminds
May 6, 2016 by Jacob Kamaras
Why should the casual observer care about the seemingly obvious need to prosecute and convict Nazi war criminals, whether it be during the Nuremberg trials of the 1940s or similar proceedings in more recent years?…asks Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org. Read more
Never again?…writes Michael Kuttner
May 6, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
Who in their wildest dreams could have imagined as the horrors of the Shoah were exposed in 1945 that a mere seventy-one years later we would be faced once again with a global outbreak of the same hatred which resulted in the murder of six million Jews and countless others? Read more
Filmmaker says “Never Forget”
May 5, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Filmmaker Adam Dostalek chronicled the March of the Living on film and today on Yom Hashoah the film has been released along with its maker’s feelings posted on Facebook on this emotion-charged day. Watch the film on J-Wire. Read more
Keeping them honest
May 5, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
Israel-based Honest Reporting recently expanded their monitoring of the media to include Australia and New Zealand and have already highlighted their first case. Read more
Debunking the deniers
May 5, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
A New Zealand father and son have published a book debunking Holocaust deniers’ theories. Read more
Waks calls for the elimination of the statute of limitations in the U.S.
May 5, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Advocate for victims of child sexual abuse Manny Waks has called for the elimination of the statute of limitations in the U.S. Read more
Holocaust remembered at Bergen-Belsen
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Dr Dore Gold has addressed a Holocaust Memorial Service at Bergen-Belsen. Read more
Call for restitution
May 5, 2016 by Agencies
Holocaust survivors are still waiting for governments across Europe to provide restitution of, or compensation for, property stolen during the Shoah. Read more
The erosion of Holocaust memory
May 4, 2016 by Isi Leibler
My grandparents and many members of my family were exterminated by the Nazis…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
NSW Maccabi Awards
May 4, 2016 by J-Wire
Maccabi NSW has held its annual Jewish Sports Awards for achievements in 2015. Read more
Mt Scopus gets an insight into refugees
May 4, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne’s Mount Scopus College Year 10 students have taken part in an educational, informative and eye-opening Refugee Awareness Day, as part of their Community Service Program. Read more
Monica Goldberg at the SWF
May 4, 2016 by Geoff Sirmai
Work by Sydney Jewish writer Monica Goldberg will feature in the Sydney Writers’ Festival later this month. Read more
Brownlee visits Israel…and the Golan Heights
May 4, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand’s Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has made his first visit to NZ Defence Force (NZDF) troops at South Camp in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Israel, and the Golan Heights. Read more
ADC says “never again”
May 4, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission reflects on Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Memorial Day. Read more
Decision-making expert to visit Australia
May 3, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
World decision-making expert Gary Klein will visit Australia next month to speak on how market disruption challenges established wisdom. Read more
Yom Hashoah QandA from Rabbi Raymond Apple
May 3, 2016 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Why didn’t God send a miracle to save us? Read more
Beyond Paranoia
May 3, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
Filmmaker Monique Schwarz felt so strongly about the importance of making her documentary – Beyond Paranoia: East-West, the New antisemitism – she couldn’t wait for traditional funding and used her own money.
Newt’s News
May 3, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Newt’s News on Forgiveness and the Holocaust, with clips of Kosher Weed, as cannabis is condoned by chabad, interviews with IDF Lone Soldiers, Eva Moses’ amazing attitude to forgiveness and Angela Merkel’s friendship with Israel. Read more
Arnold Zable talks about his new book
May 3, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Arnold Zable is a fighter for truth and social justice in his work as a writer, storyteller, educator, and human rights advocate…he talks with The Shtick’s Henry Greener about his new book “The Fighter”. Read more
Bad Jews: a theatre review by Toni Susskind
May 2, 2016 by Toni Susskind
Touted as the “The funniest play of the year” by The Washington Post, Bad Jews is a black comedy set in a New York Studio Apartment. Read more
