Beresheet takes a selfie
March 6, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Rev Lenzer’s historic piano gets a rebirth
March 6, 2019 by David Marlow
The East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (EMHC) and the Australia Jewish Historical Society Vic (AJHS) have teamed up to celebrate the reinauguration of Reverend Jacob Lenzer’s historic piano at EMHC. Read more
Visa waiver deal between Israel and Samoa
March 5, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Prime Minister of Samoa Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has made his first trip to Israel securing a waiver agreement between the two countries. Read more
The Jerusalem embassy in a Eastern Suburbs conflict
March 5, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A supporter of the Federal Liberal candidate for the Eastern Suburbs seat of Wentworth Dave Sharma was blocked on Twitter for taking the incumbent Independent member Dr Kerryn Phelps to task for her remarks about Israelis’ feelings on Jerusalem being the country’s capital. Read more
Federal Minister for Education spends a morning at Yeshivah – Beth Rivkah
March 5, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Colleges hosted the Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan MP. Read more
Pope Francis announces Vatican will open Holocaust-era archives
March 5, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Pope Francis has announced that the Vatican archive surrounding the Holocaust when Pope Pius XII, who has been criticized for doing little to save Jews and for being silent during the atrocities, led the Catholic Church. Read more
The Israeli election: how the players line up
March 4, 2019 by Ron Weiser
A month ago we raised three questions in regards to the forthcoming Israeli elections. Read more
UIA NSW Major Donors – a J-Wire photo gallery
March 4, 2019 by Community newsdesk
300 Sydney supporters attended the 2019 Major Donor Dinner, with headline speaker David Cameron – Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, along with other guest speakers Nataly Zagaya – UIA success story and David Koschitzky – Chairman, Keren Hayesod-UIA World Board of Trustees….were you there? Read more
Netanyahu calls on all European countries to follow UK in labelling Hezbollah a terror group
March 4, 2019 by TPS
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on all European countries to follow the United Kingdom and completely proscribe the Hezbollah terror organization. Read more
A Daley Labor Government to support Shalom Gamarada
March 4, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A Daley Labor Government – as part of its Aboriginal Affairs policy – will fund up to six scholarships for Indigenous medical doctors through a highly successful program sponsored by Sydney’s Jewish community and Shalom College at the University of NSW. Read more
Limmud Oz Sydney 2019 – Call for presenters
March 4, 2019 by Community newsdesk
Presenter applications are now open to anyone in the community whose talk can promise to take Limmud Oz participants ‘one step further on their Jewish journey’. Read more
Why not to keep Kosher? Ask the rabbi
March 4, 2019 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
I can almost see you shaking your head in puzzlement: “Has he gone meshugga, that rabbi, writing an article about not keeping kosher?” Read more
Milestone event draws high praise from federal treasurer
March 4, 2019 by Kirsten Young
Jewish Care Victoria has marked the halfway point in the construction of The Hannah & Daryl Cohen Family Building. Read more
Rabbi on the Mardi Gras float
March 4, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Feintooner
March 4, 2019 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon – Angry left winds lob incendiary balloons Read more
Trump’s plan is opportunity to change paradigm
March 3, 2019 by Efraim Inbar
There are clear signs that the Trump administration’s “deal of the century” – the plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is in its last stages of formulation, and will be submitted to the quarrelling parties after Israel’s elections and the formation of a new government. Read more
On the other hand
March 3, 2019 by Michael Kuttner
Purim is fast approaching which means that children and adults alike have some hard decisions to make as to which fancy dress costume they will cavort around in this year. Read more
Mardi Gras 2019
March 3, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jewish LGBTI Dayenu has once again participated in Sydney’s Mardi Gras with special guests Dr Kerryn Phelps MP and her wife Jackie Stricker-Phelps. Read more
Medical cannabis in Australia
March 3, 2019 by Elana Bowman
25 Years after the AMIA bombing, justice is again denied
March 3, 2019 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
This July, Argentina’s Jewish community will mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were murdered and hundreds more were seriously wounded. Read more
Making news, rather than dealing with real problems in Israel
March 3, 2019 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Israel is shaken and wounded. On Thursday, the country’s top prosecutor, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, with 57 pages of allegations, announced his intention to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, thereby not only undermining a great leader—a key political figure both at home and abroad—but also clearly trying of influencing heavily the outcome of the upcoming general elections to be held on April 9. Read more
To Me There’s No Choice
March 3, 2019 by Elana Bowman
Courage to Care heads for Hamilton
March 3, 2019 by Community newsdesk
The Courage to Care Educational Program will take important Holocaust messages to the Victorian city of Hamilton. Read more
The Hollow Bones launched
March 1, 2019 by Elana Bowman
Shalom Sydney Jewish Writer’s Festival hosted the book launch for Leah Kaminsky’s latest novel, The Hollow Bones. Read more
Kahane
March 1, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
To me, the name Meir Kahane conjures up an aspect of the Jewish people that I deplore. Read more
Werther: an opera review by Victor Grynberg
March 1, 2019 by Victor Grynberg
Suicide is painless when Massenet pulls the strings. Read more
The Netanyahu indictments: unfair and inevitable
March 1, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s foes are cheering. Read more
Multi choice mayhem
March 1, 2019 by Michael Kuttner
Registration for Israel’s election has closed and voters now have the task of making an informed choice from a bewildering array of no less than a record forty-six political parties. Read more
Israel’s attorney general issues charges against Netanyahu for bribery, breach of trust
March 1, 2019 by JNS
With less than six weeks before Israel’s general elections on April 9, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted in all three ongoing corruption cases against him, including bribery in the Bezeq corruption investigation. Read more
“Muslims played no part in 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo”
March 1, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Audiences in mosques across Australia have heard a visiting Egyptian sheik denounce the 9/11 and the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris as being comedy films
