South Head Synagogue: One week’s reprieve
July 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The creditors’ meeting of the cash-strapped Sydney’s South Head Synagogue has been postponed for one week as discussions continue to break the impasse between the shul and its spiritual leader. Read more
Sydney’s Jewish Youth in focus
July 14, 2017 by Community newsdesk
The unique role which Sydney’s Jewish youth movements play within the community will come under the spotlight next Tuesday night at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum. Read more
Fake News and No News…writes Michael Kuttner
July 14, 2017 by Michael Kuttner
It is very rare for the international media to have no news about Israel. Likewise our local media hardly misses an opportunity to inform us about developments here in Israel. Read more
The Jerusalem Beth Din serves an injunction to protect South Head Synagogue
July 13, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
An order has been made by a special Beth Din court in Jerusalem to block any action which “could lead to the destruction” of Sydney’s South Head Synagogue. Read more
Holocaust survivors of Iasi death trains, pogrom and ghettos eligible for compensation pensions
July 13, 2017 by Agencies
Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has announced that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust era “death trains,” pogrom and subsequent open ghettos in Iasi, Romania will be eligible to receive compensation pensions. Read more
Barak’s big day – Paralympian finally breaks through for a medal at fourth Maccabiah.
July 13, 2017 by David Weiner
It has been four Maccabiah Games without medal success and four long years for table tennis star Barak Mizrachi in search of redemption from an opportunity missed last time here. Read more
South Head closing its doors again
July 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A member of the Management Advisory Committee of the embattled South Head Synagogue has told J-Wire its administrator will close the building today. Read more
The rabbi’s answer is questioned
July 12, 2017 by Rabbi Fred Morgan
Rabbi Raymond Apple’s column on Orthodoxy and Reform is expressed with his customary courtesy and wit, but I believe it misses the point as far as Progressive Judaism is concerned. Read more
South Head Synagogue Unity Plan scrapped
July 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
A group of “concerned South Head congregants” working behind the scenes to broker a deal between Rabbi Benzion Milecki , the Board and the synagogue’s secured creditors has announced it can do no more to bring the parties together. Read more
The Shtick gets a reprieve…again
July 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Henry Greener’s The Shtick was about to be consigned to the internet jungle after two previous reprieves. from Melbourne’s Channel 31…when it got a third one. Read more
Correction: Egypt allocates $2.2 million to restore historic Alexandria synagogue
July 12, 2017 by J-Wire
The original story supplied by a news agency stated that Egypt had allocated US$22 million to restore synagogue. Read more
Matt Levy breaks a world record – first in the Maccabiah’s history.
July 12, 2017 by David Weiner
For someone who has been to four Paralympics, the competition at Maccabiah was never going to be Matt Levy’s biggest challenge…writes David Weiner. Read more
Swimming in the family
July 12, 2017 by David Weiner
Ashley and Asher Weill are not brother and sister teammates in the Maccabiah…but grandfather and granddaughter. Read more
To Israel and back for one day
July 11, 2017 by J-Wire
Sydney Rabbi Levi Wolff flew to Israel last week in time to officiate at a Barmitzvah and left the next day to return…but the ceremony had a special meaning for him. Read more
Delegates meet the president
July 11, 2017 by Agencies
President Reuven and First Lady Nechama Rivlin have hosted a special reception at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem in honor of the athletes and supporters of the 20th Maccabiah Games. Read more
Manic Maccabiah Monday
July 11, 2017 by David Weiner
David Weiner reports from the Maccabiah in Israel… Read more
Ike’s conversion
July 11, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
On Saturday, July 15, ABC TV’s Compass will screen Ike’s Conversion a fascinating personal story about a young man’s journey to become an orthodox Jew. Read more
Sydney Rabbi exonerated
July 11, 2017 by Roz Tarszisz
An article published in The Jerusalem Post this week has caused an upset among Sydney’s orthodox rabbinate. Read more
Egypt allocates $2.2 million to restore historic Alexandria synagogue
July 11, 2017 by Agencies
The Egyptian government has reportedly approved a budget of US$2.2 million for the restoration of the centuries-old Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria. Read more
Is UNESCO’s denial of Israel’s ties to Jewish heritage sites irrelevant?
July 11, 2017 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
For most countries, the United Nations body UNESCO is a relatively innocuous organization, dedicated to preserving some of humanity’s most important cultural treasures as well as promoting scientific and educational collaborations between nations…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more
Israel has experienced its best ever six months for tourists
July 11, 2017 by Agencies
For the first six months of 2017, a record 1.74 million tourists visited Israel. Read more
The Merchants of Helsinki
July 11, 2017 by Community Editor
Jac Weinstein’s (1883-1976) cabaret show The Merchants of Helsinki from 1930 depicts -with dollops of characteristic Jewish humour – the economic and existential crisis of the Jewish community in Helsinki in the late 1920s. Read more
A dream comes true for Rina
July 11, 2017 by Agencies
Magen David Adom’s “Make a Wish Ambulance” has taken a teacher battling with terminal cancer to her students’ graduation party. Read more
Kelly says no change to Labor’s support for Israel
July 10, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
There is no change and there won’t be any change to Labor’s support for the continuing existence of the state of Israel, its right to exist, its right to exist in secure and stable borders says Labor MP for Eden-Monaro. Read more
IHRA Geneva plenary: hate speech a global threat
July 10, 2017 by Suzanne Rutland
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) has successfully concluded its first bi-annual Plenary Meeting under the Swiss Chairmanship in Geneva. Read more
Architecture Design Award for The Coppel & Piekarski Family Disability Respite Centre
July 10, 2017 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Jackson Clements Burrows Architects have won the Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award at the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Awards, for the design of The Coppel & Piekarski Family Disability Respite Centre in Caulfield. Read more
South Head: creditors’ meeting this week
July 10, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Administrator’s report on the cash-strapped South Head Synagogue in Sydney’s Rose Bay has recommended that the company running the shule should be wound up. Read more
Orthodoxy and Reform
July 10, 2017 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple deals with this oft-discussed subject. Read more
Trump can end Israel-PLO impasse using India’s Vedanta Solution…writes David Singer
July 10, 2017 by David Singer
The first state visit ever to Israel by an Indian prime minister – Narendra Modi – could generate the impetus President Trump needs to end the diplomatic void caused by the breakdown in negotiations between Israel and the PLO since 2014. Read more
Feintooner: UNESCO
July 10, 2017 by Feintooner
Feintooner’s weekly cartoon… Read more
