DonateLife Thank You Day

November 19, 2016 by  

DonateLife Thank You Day is a national day to honour all living and deceased organ and tissue donors and their families and to acknowledge their generosity, which saves and transforms the lives of others. Read more

Community leadership distances itself from the IJCA

November 19, 2016 by  

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and The Jewish Community Council of Victoria have distanced themselves from a new Jewish group which has invited Senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts to address it. Read more

The Odd Couple…a Henry Greener interview

November 19, 2016 by  

David Maeir-Epstein and Rabbi Moshe Shapoff are the “Odd Couple”….working to address an issue that is divisive, yet essential to a functional Israeli Society… Read more

Newts News

November 19, 2016 by  

Newt’s News: Trumpism & Judaism, Women of The Wall and Leonard Cohen… Read more

Walking for friendship

November 19, 2016 by  

Jews, Christians and Muslims Walking for Friendship in Melbourne…a video report. Read more

Israeli minister to talk in Australia

November 18, 2016 by  

Those who can’t wait for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit in February won’t want to miss Minister Tzachi Hanegbi’s public talks in Melbourne and Sydney. Read more

McCully meets Netanyahu

November 18, 2016 by  

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has met with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully, who is on an official visit to Israel. Read more

US election after shocks

November 18, 2016 by  

The reverberations from the US elections continue to rumble throughout the world…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Chanukah in the air

November 17, 2016 by  

NSW Premier Mike Baird and Opposition leader Luke Foley have addressed a special function at the NSW Parliament to mark Chanukah. Read more

Hanson and Roberts to address new Jewish group

November 17, 2016 by  

The owner of IDF Training in Melbourne has invited Senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts to address a new Jewish group in the city. Read more

NZ earthquakes

November 17, 2016 by  

Three Israeli tourists were trapped in Kaikoura. Read more

Palestine – Brexit 1922 Key To Trump Resolving Arab-Jewish Conflict

November 17, 2016 by  

President-elect Donald Trump has lost no time in stressing his desire to end the Arab-Jewish conflict which has seen many proposals in the last 100 years fall by the wayside as a result of unrelenting Arab rejection to any Jewish State in former Palestine…writes David Singer. Read more

Special Religious Education Celebration at the NSW Parliament

November 16, 2016 by  

The 2017 Special Religious Education event celebrating the potential for religious teaching to unite, rather than divide, communities within NSW was addressed by the CEO of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more

Advice from Israeli entrepreneur behind Waze at the United Israel Appeal AGM

November 16, 2016 by  

As one of Israel’s most prolific business innovators, Uri Levine is in a privileged position to shed light on the highs and lows of starting a successful business venture. Read more

Once-verdant Irish Jewish community paling over time

An Israeli and an Irish Jew walk into a bar. After a shot of whiskey and a pint of Guinness, they discuss neither leprechauns nor the verdant landscape, but rabbinics…writes Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS.org. Read more

Underground blood bank

November 16, 2016 by  

 Israel’s national emergency medicine service Magen David Adom will break ground today on the world’s first innovative underground blood bank facility in Ramla. Read more

Lamm elected to the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency

November 15, 2016 by  

ZFA President Dr Danny Lamm has been elected to serve as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency as a representative of the World Zionist Organisation. Read more

Protecting the memory of the Holocaust

November 15, 2016 by  

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) has held a conference in Romania attended by Australian experts. Read more

New Zealand earthquakes: community safe but property damaged

November 15, 2016 by  

Reports from New Zealand have not revealed any personal injury of any members of the country’s Jewish community following yesterday’s earthquakes. Read more

A new system to alert security issues

November 15, 2016 by  

The World Jewish Congress has acquired a security alert system to enable Jewish communities around the world to communicate efficiently and immediately in the event of emergency antisemitic or terror situations. Read more

The Founder – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

November 15, 2016 by  

You don’t need to have entered a McDonald’s restaurant to appreciate how a hamburger stand became a billion dollar empire.  Director John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr Banks) has brought to life the American success story of the man who saw gold in a beef patty.

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Meeting with the African community

November 15, 2016 by  

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) held a Jewish – African ‘Jeffersonian’ Dinner in partnership with Africa Media Australia (AMA) and the African Professionals Association. Read more

Over 1m Jews in 1,150 cities across 94 countries in a record-shattering Shabbat Project

November 15, 2016 by  

The 2016 global Shabbat Project – now in its third year – outdid its predecessors on all fronts, reaching 1,150 cities in 94 countries around the world, and attracting record numbers of participants.  Read more

Will Donald Trump fire the Iran nuclear deal?…asks Sean Savage/JNS.org

November 15, 2016 by  

The election victory by Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman who has never held political office and is a neophyte on foreign policy, has left many observers wondering about the future direction of U.S. policy abroad. Read more

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

November 14, 2016 by  

The Royal Commission will hold a series of public hearings in Sydney to inquire into the current policies and procedures of the Jewish institutions in relation to child protection and child-safe standards, including responding to allegations of child sexual abuse. Read more

Police Shabbat

November 14, 2016 by  

Sydney’s Central Synagogue hosted members of the NSW Police force at their Police Remembrance Shabbat. Read more

Anxiety Awareness Week

November 14, 2016 by  

In support of Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Awareness Week  Melbourne’s Jewish Care have published Miriam & Schneier’s Story, the final video instalment from its  Reach Out, Speak Out campaign. Read more

Are there too many prayers and too much Kaddish?…ask the rabbi

November 14, 2016 by  

Rabbi Raymond Apple deals with questions on Judaism. Read more

Members of the IDF sing Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

November 13, 2016 by  

An inspiring version of the beautiful song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen who passed away last week. Read more

Henry Greener interviews Hayley Southwick

November 13, 2016 by  

Hayley Southwick is a successful multi-tasker… Read more

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