A Capital Offence
One of the synonyms for a capital offence is a heinous crime. Read more
May-30 5:10pm SBS-World Movies: The Great Dictator
May 17, 2023 by J-Wire
A Jewish barber loses his memory after a plane crash. Read more
Jun-08 3:55pm SBS: Who Do You Think Are? – Mark Wright
May 17, 2023 by J-Wire
Intrigued by family stories from his granddad Eddie, former Towie star and presenter Mark Wright investigates his dad’s side of the family. Read more
May-28 00:25 SBS – World Movies: The Catcher Was A Spy
May 11, 2023 by J-Wire
This gripping, stranger-than-fiction espionage thriller brings to life the incredible true story of Moe Berg, a professional baseball player who became a World War II spy.
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Maurice Salom – South Australian businessman and politician
May 9, 2023 by J-Wire
Maurice was born in London on 1 July 1831 into an old family of Sephardic Jews. Read more
Until May-31 Melbourne: Photographic exhibition
May 7, 2023 by J-Wire
Funds raised from photo sales will be donated to the Leo Baeck Centre and Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Read more
Antisemitism training now online for government Victorian teachers
May 2, 2023 by J-Wire
All Victorian government school teachers now have access to free, on-demand, specialised antisemitism training. Read more
South African Film Festival
April 30, 2023 by J-Wire
The fifth annual South African Film Festival ANZ will be a hybrid festival and will take place from 4 May to 31 May 2023 in Sydney and Melbourne. Read more
May-03 8PM AEST Zoom: Hearing issues in autistic children
April 24, 2023 by J-Wire
A Melbourne paediatrician talks with a researcher at the Ariel University in Israel. Read more
The Voice: Two Jewish views
April 21, 2023 by J-Wire
Henry Greener talks with two community members with opposing points of view.
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‘You chose life. You believed in good. You helped others,’ Netanyahu tells survivors
April 19, 2023 by J-Wire
A Hungarian Jew whose whole family was killed in the Holocaust was sent to various concentration camps. Read more
May-16 Sydney 7pm and 9:30pm: The Great alive with the sound of music
April 19, 2023 by J-Wire
Australia’s highest-profile piano quartet will perform together for the very first time, uniting SSO’s Concertmaster Andrew Haveron, ACO Principal Violist Stefanie Farrands, QSO Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici and international concert pianist Konstantin Shamray when Sydney’s The Great Synagogue presents its second concert of the year. Read more
Apr-30 Sydney 1:45pm: Jewish Speed Dating
April 18, 2023 by J-Wire
This event is open to 40-50-year-olds only. Read more
May-03 Sydney: The Jewish Comedy Showcase is back with a stellar line-up of the best Jewish comedians
April 18, 2023 by J-Wire
A Sydney Comedy Festival must-see, with rising stars and established knockouts, this sensational showcase will be held at The Comedy Store on Wednesday 3rd of May. This event always sells out, so make sure you book tickets quickly. Read more
May-02 10:45am SBS-World Movies: The Song of Names
April 13, 2023 by J-Wire
Tim Roth and Clive Owen star in this sweeping historical drama about a man searching for his childhood best friend – a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust – who vanished decades before on the night of his first solo concert. Read more
May-03 2:45pm SBS-Viceland: Cyberwar
April 13, 2023 by J-Wire
Israel is one of the world’s cyber superpowers. So how did this tiny nation grow so strong, and who is it targeting? Read more
Apr-20 7:40pm SBS World Movies: The Catcher was a Spy
April 7, 2023 by J-Wire
This gripping, stranger-than-fiction espionage thriller brings to life the incredible true story of Moe Berg, a professional baseball player who became a World War II spy. Read more
Apr-18 4:55pm SBS World Movies: The Scarlet and The Black
April 7, 2023 by J-Wire
Based on the humanitarian works of Irish-born Vatican priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who saved thousands of escaped prisoners of war, Jews and Italian Resistance families in occupied Rome during the World War Two, by hiding them in the church. Read more
Apr-17 11:55pm SBS-World Movies: The Invisibles
April 7, 2023 by J-Wire
While Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin ‘free of Jews’ in 1943, 1,700 Jews managed to survive in the Nazi capital through to the end of World War II. Read more
Apr-25 9:00am SBS World Movies: Between Worlds
April 7, 2023 by J-Wire
25-year-old Oliel lies severely injured and unconscious in hospital after a terror attack in Jerusalem. Read more
Apr-24 11:40pm SBS- World Movies: The Counterfeiters
April 7, 2023 by J-Wire
Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch is an expert Jewish counterfeiter, enjoying the good life, until he’s sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. Read more
Apr-25 10:25am SBS-TV: Belsen: The Untold Story
Belsen: The Untold Story is a film telling the untold story of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where over 50,000 people, mostly Jews, died primarily from starvation and disease in the last phase of WWII.
The IDF’s ‘Special in Uniform’ gives disabled Israelis a chance to serve
March 31, 2023 by J-Wire
The IDF offers people with developmental disorders such as autism an opportunity to serve in the military, giving them a chance to integrate into Israeli society along with everyone else through a program called “Special in Uniform” (SIU). Read more
In My Pocket
Mar-29 11am Sydney: AFHU Honours Club
March 19, 2023 by J-Wire
The Australian Friends of the Hebrew University Honours Club presents guest speaker Professor Peter Gonski. Read more
No signs of White House visit for Israel’s Netanyahu
March 16, 2023 by J-Wire
Eleven weeks into his third stint as Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to be received at the White House, signalling apparent US unhappiness over his right-wing government’s policies. Read more
Mar-23 7:30pm Melbourne: Australian Jewish Historical Society AGM
March 16, 2023 by J-Wire
To be addressed by Holocaust historian and author Paul Bartrop. Read more
Inside the memoirs of Palestinian Oslo architect Ahmed Qurei
March 15, 2023 by J-Wire
On February 22, Ahmed Qurei, the Palestinian architect of the 1993 Oslo peace accords, died of a blood infection at the age of 86. Read more
Apr-05 9:30pm SBS-Viceland: The Operative
March 15, 2023 by J-Wire
Mossad recruits a woman to become an agent and sends her to Tehran on an undercover mission. Read more
Apr-06 9:20am SBS-World Movies: The Crossing
March 15, 2023 by J-Wire
December, 1942. Following their parent’s arrest for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the war, young siblings Gerda and Otto are left on their own. Read more
