A Wider View – Another Rabbinic Response
August 21, 2019 by Rabbi Nicole K. Roberts
As a female rabbi of the Progressive movement, I wish to share where my position diverges from that expressed by the President of the NSW Rabbinical Council in the 18 August 2019 article in J-Wire The NSWRC calls for status quo on abortion legislation Read more
Apology from ACHPER?
August 21, 2019 by Emily Gian
The Victorian Deputy Premier and Minister for Education James Merlino has met with Zionist Federation of Australia President Jeremy Leibler and Zionism Victoria President Sharene Hambur who are confident that the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER), an organisation representing Victorian teachers, will offer a belated apology for distributing a factually inaccurate and deeply offensive Year 12 practice resource. Read more
Australia joins international maritime security construct in the Gulf
August 21, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Morrison Government is reaffirming its commitment to freedom of navigation and safe passage through the Gulf by announcing it will support an international maritime security mission. Read more
AIJAC supporters learn about populism
August 21, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
James Kirchick, author of the influential book “The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age” and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, has addressed an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) supporters function. Read more
A close look at the Sydney Beth Din
August 21, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum of June 18 resolved to establish a Sydney Beth Din Working Group. Read more
Jewish Care Victoria hosts Claims Conference CEO
August 21, 2019 by Kirsten Young
Jewish Care Victoria has hosted Greg Schneider, Executive Vice-President and CEO of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc., also known as The Claims Conference. Read more
Sep-10 7:30pm SBS World Movies – Norman
August 21, 2019 by J-Wire
Norman Oppenheimer, a financial schemer living in New York City, tries to be everyone’s friend. Read more
Sep-14 9:10pm SBS World Movies: Son of Saul
August 21, 2019 by J-Wire
A look at Saul Auslander, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from Auschwitz in 1944 who were forced to assist the Nazis by cremating the bodies of the dead. Read more
New Chair for The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
August 19, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand has elected its board naming Deborah Hart at its new Chair. Read more
Volunteers wanted
August 19, 2019 by Community Editor
The Australian Jewish Historical Society based within the Sydney Jewish Museum is looking for volunteers to help with specific projects as the Society continues to move from paper preservation of documents to the digital age. Read more
The Secret Life of Death
August 19, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A new documentary by award-winning Dan Goldberg and Adam Kay will be screened on SBS on Wednesday days after being nominated for best doco of the year by the Screen Producers of Australia.
Feintooner
August 19, 2019 by Feintooner
Feintooner: Bus-ted Read more
Why Jews should care about the Hong Kong democracy protests
August 19, 2019 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
It’s more than 30 years since pro-democracy student demonstrators were brutally crushed by Chinese security forces in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square—a graphic sign that while communism was in the process of collapsing elsewhere in the world, China was to be a bloody exception. Read more
Tlaib two-step quickly validates Bibi ban
August 19, 2019 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
When Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri informed U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) they would not be receiving entry visas for their “trip to Palestine” as they described it, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately followed with a lengthy statement in support of Deri’s action. Read more
Jeffrey Epstein: the status of suicide in Judaism
August 19, 2019 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
World attention has focused this week on the apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein and his deeds or misdeeds are not the subject of this article, but his apparent suicide is. Read more
Democrats backing Jew-haters over Israel play into Trump’s hands
August 18, 2019 by David Singer
The Democratic Party House majority is now in freefall backing two of its openly-avowed Jew-hating members – Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib – against decisions made by Israel banning them from unconditional entry into the Jewish State. Read more
After being granted entry by Israel to visit grandmother, Tlaib cancels West Bank trip
August 18, 2019 by JNS
After rejecting entry to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and fellow congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday due to their support for the anti-Israel BDS movement, Israel’s Interior Minister, Aryeh Deri suddenly approved on Friday a request by Tlaib to visit her elderly grandmother in the West Bank on humanitarian grounds. Read more
Palestinian groups behind Omar-Tlaib cancelled trip express antisemitism, links to terrorism
August 18, 2019 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
The Palestinian groups that were part of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) cancelled trip to Israel and the West Bank have a public record of openly expressing antisemitism, supporting the BDS movement, as well as fostering sympathy of and links to terrorist groups. Read more
Australia and Israel on groundbreaking diabetes development
August 18, 2019 by Elana Bowman
NSW and Israeli Governments are supporting Israeli medical research company Kadimastem and the Australian Foundation for Diabetes Research’s Bioengineering Diabetes Therapy Project aiming to remove the need for insulin injections and pumps for diabetes patients.
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The NSWRC calls for status quo on abortion legislation
August 18, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The NSW Rabbinical Council has sat on a three-person panel where President, Rabbi Nochum Schapiro delivered a statement regarding the religious Jewish view on the abortion bill to be presented to the NSW Upper House Committee in which he called for zero change to abortion legislation. Read more
Meet George Halasz
August 18, 2019 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist Dr George Halasz an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash Uni., on the Editorial Board of Australasian Psychiatry and several other positions, past and present, talks to Henry Greener. Read more
Jewish partisan songs seeks support against prejudice
August 18, 2019 by Eli Rabinowitz
On the other hand
August 18, 2019 by Michael Kuttner
The stark contrasts between tragedy and triumph, mourning and joy, are often evident in overabundance in Israel. Read more
Fake email claiming to be from NSWJBD sent 100s community members.
August 16, 2019 by Roz Tarszisz
A fake email requesting payment of $310 purporting to be from the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (NSWJBD) was circulated this week.
Religio Fascism
August 16, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
I have often expressed my frustration with politics – in particular, Israeli politics Read more
Israel should have ignored Trump’s pressure on Omar and Tlaib
August 16, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Unlike his predecessor, Barack Obama, President Donald Trump doesn’t think more “daylight” between the United States and Israel is needed, and he has had Israel’s back on all the major issues regarding the peace process and threats like Iran. Read more
Never say never
August 16, 2019 by Michael Kuttner
Whenever you hear or read about politicians or political parties stating that they will never embark on a particular course of action your alarm bells should start ringing. Read more
US ‘squad’ congresswomen denied entry to Israel
August 16, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel’s Minister of the Interior Aryeh Machluf Deri has denied entry to two US Congresswomen members of ‘The Squad’ a group of four who call on boycotts on Israel. Read more
A bunch of love
August 16, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel’s President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin and members of his family have been presented with a new variety of grapes, named ‘Rivlin’ in memory of his wife, Nechama ז”ל. Read more
Birth of the Cool
August 16, 2019 by Arts Editor
MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL – a documentary featuring the life and career of musical giant and cultural icon Miles Davis, a true visionary, innovator and originator who defied categorization and embodied the word, will be screened in a short season. Read more
