Chris Cannan meets the community head
May 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Incoming Australian Ambassador to Israel, Chris Cannan, has met with some Jewish community leaders in Sydney and Melbourne. He met with The Executive Council of Australian Jewry President Anton Block in Melbourne. Read more
Jewish Care awards $85million for new building
May 19, 2017 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Jewish Care Victoria has approved its $85 million St Kilda Road Senior Living Precinct with the awarding of the construction contract to Watpac Limited (Watpac). Read more
Jewish ANZACS book launch
May 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie AC DSC CSM [Retired] has launched the book “JEWISH ANZACS – Jews in the Australia Military”. Read more
Peres commemorated on a stamp
May 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The tiny Pacific country of Tuvalu has issued a postage stamp featuring the late Israeli President Shimon Peres. Read more
Learning by choice…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
May 19, 2017 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
Yesterday I came across a podcast in which Alan Jones (a Sydney radio host) discusses the value of daily homework, with a school principal. Read more
Will common sense finally Trump endemic bias?
May 19, 2017 by Michael Kuttner
We are currently in the throes of a frenetic frenzy in advance of the visit of Donald Trump to Israel…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
From matzo balls to footballs
May 18, 2017 by Arts Editor
Yvette Wroby has written a love story about family and footy, a story which involves both matzo balls and footballs. Read more
A new look for fundraising
May 18, 2017 by Community newsdesk
JCA is yet again stepping out of the box to bring unique and innovative fundraising events to the Sydney Jewish Community. Read more
Israel State Archives makes available material from the Six Day War
May 18, 2017 by Agencies
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, the Israel State Archives, a unit within the Prime Minister’s Office, has made available material from the Six Day War. Read more
Fiddler on the Moriah roof
May 18, 2017 by Community newsdesk
It’s one of the greatest and most loved musicals of all time, capturing the hearts and imagination of audiences around the world – and it’s coming back to Sydney’s Moriah College in 2018, for the first time in close to three decades. Read more
Jewish-Aboriginal relationships
May 18, 2017 by Community newsdesk
Shadow Federal Minister for Human Services Linda Burney addressed the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum on the Jewish-Aboriginal relationship. Read more
President Rivlin receives diplomatic credentials of new US Ambassador to Israel
May 18, 2017 by Agencies
Following receiving the new U.S. ambassador’s credentials, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin said: “It is time for the whole world to recognise Jerusalem as the official capital of the State of Israel.” Read more
Win a free pass for “Norman”
May 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
J-Wire has double passes to give away for Richard Gere’s new movie “Norman” reviewed on J-Wire by Roz Tarszisz. Read more
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
May 18, 2017 by Roz Tarszisz
Shlemazel* is the best Yiddish word to describe Norman.
Israel’s First World Problems: On Aerosmith and security prisoners
May 18, 2017 by Gidon Ben-Zvi
Israel’s much touted economic miracle, given official sanction when the country joined the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2010, has brought with it a slew of first world injuries…writes Gidon Ben-Zvi. Read more
The Battle for Jerusalem
May 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Five days before the Six Day War broke out in June 1967, Abraham Rabinovich arrived in Jerusalem as an American reporter. Read more
Trump must honour Bush-Congress deal with Israel…writes David Singer
May 18, 2017 by David Singer
President Trump’s historic visit to Israel on 22 May presents the perfect opportunity for him to deliver on the promises he made to Israel during last year’s Presidential election campaign. Read more
Ten pin bowling dropped from the Maccabiah but Josh Small will go
May 17, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Josh Small father Greg died in the 1997 Maccabiah bridge collapse and he has followed his father’s footsteps in competing in the same sport ten pin bowling since 2009…but the sport has been dropped from the world Jewish Games. Read more
In Jerusalem, now reunified for 50 years, ‘conflict is not a bug, it is a feature’
May 17, 2017 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
For Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat—who has navigated numerous conflicts, while simultaneously supervising the rapid growth of residential neighbourhoods, commercial centres, parks and transportation infrastructure during nearly nine years in office—conflict is part of his city’s DNA…writes Alex Traiman/JNS.org. Read more
Israel braces for its latest battlefront: the sea
May 17, 2017 by Yaakov Lappin
Amid a quiet-yet-massive arms race between Israel and Hezbollah, both sides are preparing for the possibility of a war branching out to sea…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS.org Read more
Dr Julia Gillard
May 17, 2017 by Ehud Zion Waldoks
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has conferred an Honorary Doctorate to former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard. Read more
The Sense of an Ending – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
May 16, 2017 by Roz Tarszisz
British actors can do grumpy old men really well, and the protagonist here is very good at it.
The drumbeat against Jewish ritual in Europe sounds once more…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org
May 16, 2017 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
This past week, Jewish ritual observance has come under attack in both Belgium and Norway. While there is nothing suggesting the respective moves against shechita (kosher slaughter) in Belgium and brit milah (Jewish circumcision) in Norway were coordinated, both speak to an ingrained tendency in Europe that dismisses these core requirements for Jews as no more and no less than cruelty of a particularly Jewish sort. Read more
The foolish embassy expectations game
May 16, 2017 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
When President Donald Trump heads to the Middle East later this month, the world will be primarily watching closely to see if he makes any of his trademark gaffes that set off a cultural land mine in Saudi Arabia or Israel. But the more important question is whether he will use the trip to actually make policy…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Read more
Two former Aussie Prime Ministers to be conferred with doctorates
May 15, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are to be conferred with honorary doctorates in separate universities in Israel this week. Read more
Feintooner
May 15, 2017 by Feintooner
This week cartoon: Relativity Read more
The (not-so-hungry) Hunger Strike…writes Emily Gian
May 15, 2017 by Emily Gian
I took a gap year from University in the early days of the Second Intifada. At that time, sadly, there were terrorist attacks occurring in Israel, sometimes on a daily basis. In those days, there was one Palestinian terrorist whose name kept popping up again and again – Marwan Barghouti. Read more
Russian Mum’s Day
May 15, 2017 by Hayley Hadassin
The Russian-speaking Jewish community has celebrated both Mother’s Day and Lag Ba Omer in what have become traditional events for the community. Read more
What sort of relationship does New Zealand want with Israel?…asks Shalom.Kiwi
May 15, 2017 by Agencies
Both New Zealand’s Prime Minister Bill English and new Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee have said they want to repair the relationship with Israel in the wake of New Zealand co-sponsoring anti-Israel UNSC Resolution 2334. However, they seem to disagree on what that relationship might look like and how to go about it. Read more
Lauder promoting Abbas as respectable moderate fraught with danger
May 14, 2017 by Isi Leibler
Last week, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder released a series of statements confirming that he had encouraged U.S. President Donald Trump to recognise that peace between Israelis and Palestinians was now attainable. He also stressed that he considers PA President Mahmoud Abbas to be a moderate committed to peace…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
