Richard Gere’s stunning pro-Palestinian hypocrisy
March 21, 2017 by Stephen M.Flatow - JNS.org
Diplomats never pretend to be experts on acting, yet for some reason actors constantly present themselves as experts on international affairs. Hollywood award ceremonies are now dominated by awardees delivering pretentious political diatribes. Read more
Prime Minister Turnbull opens Sydney Jewish Museum’s permanent Holocaust Exhibition
March 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told the guests at the opening of the Sydney Jewish Museum’s permanent Holocaust Exhibition “Why this museum, this memorial is so important? Because it reminds us of what can happen when respect is gone, when hatred takes its place. It reminds us of the depths to which people can sink”. Read more
New spiritual head at the NSTE
March 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Following the results of an ambitious community research project at Sydney’s North Shore Temple Emanuel (NSTE), the Board of Directors announced its unanimous decision to appoint Rabbi Nicole Roberts as its Senior Rabbi. Read more
Gidon spurs parking change
March 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Patients who need the most support will save as much as $200 a week on public hospital parking fees under changes to be introduced by the NSW Government. Read more
Koran is negative to Jews?…ask the rabbi
March 20, 2017 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple answers the question… Read more
Emanuel principal to retire
March 20, 2017 by Michelle Favero
After 41 years in education, the last eight as Principal of Emanuel School, Anne Hastings has announced her decision to retire at the end of this year. Read more
MDA Mobile app to shorten stroke treatment time and minimise stroke damage
March 20, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Magen David Adom has unveiled a new lifesaving app to 25 neurologists and emergency medicine doctors from various hospitals in Israel. Read more
Peres as graffiti
March 20, 2017 by Agencies
International graffiti artist and actor, American Corin Nemec has showed his support for Israel by painting a giant graffiti wall for peace centred on a portrait of the late Ninth President of Israel, Shimon Peres, at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Read more
Limmud awarded the Jerusalem Unity Prize
March 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Jerusalem Unity Prize has announced the 2017 prize in the “global” category will be awarded to Limmud, the international network of Jewish learning communities. Read more
Feldman litigation settled
Litigation in which Sydney Rabbi Yosef Feldman sought damages against the Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia, The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has been settled through mediation. Read more
An American resits his driving test in Israel
March 19, 2017 by Gidon Ben-Zvi
It’s akin to déjà vu on acid, being a 43-year-old driver’s student. The last time I sat through a lesson on defensive driving, the Los Angeles Police Department was caught on video behaving badly – firing a taser into Rodney King’s spine and beating him down with batons for good measure…writes Gidon Ben-Zvi. Read more
UIA NSW Gala Event: Photo Gallery
Did you attend the UIA NSW Gala Event at which Canadian former prime minister Stephen Harper spoke?…a J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
UIA NSW Major Donors: A J-Wire photo gallery
Did you attend the UIA NSW Major Donors function…. Read more
Unbelievable…writes Simon Plosker
March 17, 2017 by Simon Plosker
A newly released UN report, “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid,” says that “available evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that Israel is guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crime of apartheid as legally defined in instruments of international law.” Read more
Never a dull moment…writes Michael Kuttner
March 17, 2017 by Michael Kuttner
One of the unique aspects of living in Israel is that there is never a dull moment. Read more
WJC CEO slams U.N. report branding Israel an apartheid state
The CEO of the World Jewish Congress has called the publication of a UN report which brands Israel a racist apartheid state “a sad attempt to reinstate the infamous 1975 UN resolution that considered Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Read more
Top honours for Friedlander’s Harmony Walk
March 17, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A volunteer organisation that established a solidarity walk confronting racism and discrimination has received top honours at the 2017 Premier’s Harmony Dinner. Read more
Netanyahu China bound
March 17, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will leave on Sunday on an official visit to China. Read more
Generations connecting through tech, tea & tales
March 17, 2017 by Jenna Chaitowitz
An innovative intergenerational program, ‘Tech, Tea & Tales’ recently launched at Jewish Care Victoria – the first of its kind in Australia. Read more
Shift trends in the West
March 16, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Australian Jewry’s role as arguably the most successful diaspora Jewish community was included in discussions at the Jewish World’s most significant think tank, the Jewish People’s Policy Institute, in Jerusalem recently. Read more
Speaking for Bill
March 16, 2017 by Suzanne Rutland
Last week I read with shock about cartoonist Bill Leak’s sudden death from a heart attack at the age of 61. When I read he is being attacked as a racist and a bigot, even after his passing, I felt I wanted to speak out…writes Suzanne Rutland. Read more
Palestine – Netanyahu sends clear message to Trump, Putin, May and UN
March 16, 2017 by David Singer
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has had a busy week meeting with UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson in Jerusalem, President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and then back to Jerusalem for a five-hour meeting with President Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations – Jason Greenblatt…writes David Singer. Read more
American liberal Jewish leaders fuel antisemitism
March 16, 2017 by Isi Leibler
We try to rationalise that the anti-Zionist behaviour of individual Jews does not justify antisemitic bigotry. Read more
Uncommon music for the common man…a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing
March 15, 2017 by Fraser Beath McEwing
Calling its program ‘Symphony for the Common Man’, the SSO presented music by Ford, Rachmaninov and Copeland in an interesting mix of Australian, Russian and American composers. Read more
Jewish Canadian to compete in Melbourne’s Formula One.
March 15, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Lance Stroll, is set to compete in the 2017 Formula One Car Race next week in Melbourne making the 18-yr-0ld Lance the first Canadian F1 driver since the 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, as well as the second-youngest driver in F1 history. Read more
Purim gallery
Photos from Purim events Read more
“Smitten by Catherine”: A book review by Ron Jontof-Hutter
March 15, 2017 by Romy Leibler
Henry Lew has written a colourful book about Catherine da Costa bringing to life the times in which she lived and describing her world in interesting and compelling detail. Read more
Professional women’s workshops
March 15, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
In 2016, Sydney’s Shalom surveyed 90+ young women and found out that high on their priority list was professional development, career advancement and a need for workshops that offer hands-on and practical skills. Read more
World’s first beach pop-hotel in Tel Aviv
March 15, 2017 by Lydia Weitzman
The first pop-up hotel of its kind in the world has been opened in a lifeguard tower on Tel Aviv beach. Read more
MDA Lunch with Robert Goot…a photo gallery
Did you attend the Magen David Adom Solicitors and Professionals Lunch in Sydney with speaker Robert Goot? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
