South Head members invited to help avoid liquidation

James Hochroth, Curtis Mann and Rodney Naumburger have emailed members of South Head Synagogue giving them an opportunity to pledge funds to avoid the synagogue being placed in liquidation on Friday or deferring the process. Read more

Labor support for a Palestine state – now WA joins in

Joining NSW and SA, WA Labour has indicated it will push for the recognition of a Palestinian state at its State conference. Read more

South Head Synagogue: from the rabbi’s corner

As Friday approaches and the real possibility that the administrator will put Sydney’s South Head Synagogue into liquidation, the shule’s spiritual leader has answered a letter to the congregation sent by the president yesterday updating the membership of the impasse which could lead to the demise of a once vibrant congregation. Read more

Warm welcome in Fiji

I have just returned from an overseas vacation with my family. My husband is Israeli and for some reason, I will sometimes get nervous if people ask where he comes from. Read more

Melton changes for Sydney

The world renowned adult Jewish education Melton program has exciting changes ahead in Sydney. Read more

AIJAC complaint upheld by SBS

SBS has upheld a complaint made by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) concerning a radio news podcast, “50th Anniversary of Middle East’s Critical Six Day War”.

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Nominate Now for Victorian Multicultural Awards for Excellence

Victorian Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Inga Peulich MLC has to announced the opening of the Multicultural Awards for Excellence 2017. Read more

Temple Mount terror attack highlights sharp dichotomy between Israeli minorities

Last Friday’s deadly terror attack near the Temple Mount shows how Israel is at the forefront of the clash of civilisations between the Islamic world and the West—not only with the Palestinians and surrounding Arab countries, but also from within its own minority populations…writes Ariel Ben Solomon. Read more

Get ahead in Hebrew

>Sydney’s BJE is proud to introduce its new PRE- Bar and Bat Mitzvah Hebrew reading classes to help students improve their fluency before they start learning for the Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Read more

Feintooner

Feintooner turns his crayons to the Al-Aqsa mosque… Read more

UIA Women’s Division world president’s event

In her first event as KH-UIA  International President of Women’s Division Sydney-based Penny Hurst has led an incredible and productive five-day seminar (Mifgash) in Israel. Read more

South Head Synagogue: Liquidation on Friday…but it’s not too late for Rabbi Milecki

President of the embattled Sydney’s South Head James Hockroth has written to its membership saying there is no way out from liquidating the synagogue but there is time for Rabbi Benzion Milecki to accept the boards’s offer. Read more

Indian organisations condemn NSW Labor Palestine resolution

Eight Australian Indian organisations have condemned the resolution urging unconditional recognition of Palestine proposed for the NSW Labor conference later this month. Read more

Win a double pass for Obsession

Jude Law (The Young Pope, Closer, The Talented Mr Ripley) stars in the stage production of Obsession, captured live from the Barbican Theatre in London. Ivo van Hove (NT Live: A View from the Bridge, Hedda Gabler) directs this new stage adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s 1943 film which will be screened on Wednesday evening at Sydney’s Dendy Cinema in Newtown. Read more

Religious leaders tackle domestic violence and sexual assault

Religious leaders from across the state have joined NSW Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Pru Goward to discuss how they can work with their communities to tackle domestic and family violence. Read more

How the Israeli Air Force is becoming like Google and IBM

High up in the Israeli Air Force’s (IAF) building at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, a unique department is hard at work, bringing problem-solving techniques from the world of high-tech firms into the Middle East’s most powerful air force…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS.org. Read more

Maccabiah Games yield ‘positive connections’ to Israel for athletes worldwide

Some 7,000 Jewish athletes from 80 countries prepared to head back to their home countries this week following the 20th Maccabiah Games, a two-week event that is being praised for helping create “positive connections” to Israel…writes Adam Abrams/JNS.org. Read more

Macron denounces anti-Zionism as a new form of antisemitism

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has applauded and thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for denouncing anti-Zionism as a ‘renewed form of antisemitism’, and for his pledge to ‘never surrender to the messages of hate’.   Read more

Netanyahu visits Budapest

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visitingBudapest, Hungary, where he will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and ministers in his government. Read more

New principal for Emanuel

Sydney’s Emanuel School has appointed Andrew Watt as its new principal to replace Anne Hastings who is retiring at the end of this year. Read more

ADC criticises AFL Hitler reference

The  B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has criticised gender adviser to the AFL Catharine Lumby for comparing legislation that would seek to regulate relationships between co-workers to Hitler’s regime. Read more

What is a Din Torah?

Almost everyone has heard of it…but Rabbi Apple explains it in depth. Read more

Bob Carr, Theodor Meron: settlements and recognition

Former Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, has on several occasions cited the well-known opinion of Theodor Meron to Israel’s Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in September 1967, when Mr Meron (now Judge Meron) was Legal Adviser to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which he concluded that “civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention”. Read more

Two Israeli policemen murdered by terrorist

Two police officers were murdered and a third is in hospital in serious condition following a terror attack by three Arabs from Um Al Fahum in the area of the Temple Mount. Read more

A great result for Maccabiah cyclists

Cycling captain Sean Bloch beamed that he ‘couldn’t have asked for a better result’ after his amazing team picked up four more medals at the 20th Maccabiah Friday’s road race, backing up their fine time trial results. Read more

Maccabiah proves an opportunity for Jordi Swibel

To Jordi Swibel, football is life. The young Sydneysider trains daily, sometimes twice, in the hope of one day making the world game his career – and thanks to the Maccabiah Games, he has a big opportunity to do so. Read more

So now American Zionists want to boycott Israel

Several prominent American Zionists – including long-time supporters of Israel – are so outraged at the Israeli government’s recent decision regarding the Western Wall and non-orthodox conversion, that they are urging American Jews to reduce or even eliminate their support for Israel…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Meet the president

The speaker at the monthly Honours Club meeting of  The Australian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will be the university’s president who is visiting Sydney this week. Read more

On the other hand…writes Michael Kuttner

Living in Israel is exciting and rewarding for those of us not consumed by the endless stream of negative dramas which the media loves to peddle. Read more

Eliot reaches for his target

‘I had a scare … that doesn’t happen very often’…and with that, the No.1 Maccabiah seed gave a ringing endorsement of the talents of 19-year-old Australian Eliot Vogel’s display at the archery where he finished a fantastic fifth. Read more

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