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
A second arm for Sydney’s Jewish Museum
March 14, 2023 by J-Wire
Plans to transform and expand the Sydney Jewish Museum will become a reality through a $10 million investment by a re-elected NSW Liberal Government announced at the museum today. Read more
Mar-20 7:30pm Melbourne: Community Conversations
March 8, 2023 by J-Wire
A conversation on Pesach. Read more
Mar-20 00:45am SBS-World Movies: Septembers of Shiraz
March 3, 2023 by J-Wire
This is the story, based on true events, of a secular Jewish family caught up in the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 – and their heroic journey to overcome and ultimately escape from the deadly tyranny that swept their country and threatened to extinguish their lives at every turn. Read more
Mar-19 4:30pm SBS-TV: The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis – The Reckoning
March 3, 2023 by J-Wire
How do you deal with a people who remained loyal to their regime until the end, who carried out the extermination of the Jews and the destruction of Europe? Read more
Mar-12 Sydney: The Great Synagogue’s WOW ‘Women of Worth’
February 26, 2023 by J-Wire
Sydney’s The Great Synagogue’s WOW ‘Women of Worth’ is back, and this must-do special day will be held on Sunday 12 March 2023. Read more
Mar-15 10:35pm SBS-World Movies: Once Upon a Time in America
February 26, 2023 by J-Wire
Sergio Leone’s internationally acclaimed masterpiece ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ is an epic gangster film spanning decades. Read more
Mar-12 5:30pm SBS-TV: The Abyss – Rise And Fall Of The Nazis – Genocide
February 26, 2023 by J-Wire
The only goal of Sobibor – to kill hundreds and thousands of Jews from the Polish ghettos in the most efficient way. Read more
Mar-18 5:30pm SBS-TV: The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis – Armaggedon
The defeat of Stalingrad in 1943 is not only the turning point of the war but also the signal for the Nazi leadership to intensify terror and propaganda once again. Read more
Mar-19 1:45pm Sydney: Speed Dating for 50 to 60-yr-olds
Sydney Shadchan Debbie Katz to hold yet another get-together. Read more
Mar-06 8:30pm SBS-World Movies: Sophie’s Choice
February 25, 2023 by J-Wire
A tragic tale of a writer’s love for a Holocaust survivor. Read more
Mar-11 5:30pm SBS-TV: The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis
February 25, 2023 by J-Wire
The Gate of Hell: On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. His goal – to deprive Great Britain in Europe and gain ‘Lebensraum (habitat)’ in the East. Read more
Mar-07 7:30pm SBS-TV: Who do you think you are?
February 25, 2023 by J-Wire
Pundit, presenter and former world-class footballer Alex Scott delves into both sides of her family history in Who Do You Think You Are? Read more
Mar-07 7:00pm Sydney: Hamiltashen: A Purim Revue
February 23, 2023 by J-Wire
“I can’t believe it!” said Emanuel Synagogue’s Rabbi Ninio, “I never thought the day would come when I am being replaced by a robot, and not even a very good-looking one either!” Read more
2022 NSW Jewish Board of Deputies President’s Award goes to Vic Alhadeff
February 22, 2023 by J-Wire
Vic Alhadeff spent 17 years steering The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies as its CEO. Yesterday, he became the recipient of the 2022 NSW Jewish Board of Deputies President’s Award. Read more
Feb-28 Sydney 6:39pm: Rooftop solar for Eastern Suburbs residents
February 22, 2023 by J-Wire
The Jewish Sustainability Initiative presents a rooftop solar information event. Read more
‘Operation Olive Branches’: IDF team saves 19 in quake-struck Turkey
February 13, 2023 by J-Wire
The Israel Defence Forces’ “Operation Olive Branches” in Turkey had as of Saturday rescued 19 people from the rubble caused by the massive earthquakes that killed more than 28,000 people in that country and Syria. Read more