After marathon talks, Iran and world powers reach nuclear framework deal
April 3, 2015 by Agencies
Iran and the P5+1 (U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China and Germany) world powers have announced that a framework deal on Iran’s nuclear program has been reached after marathon talks in Switzerland that blew past the March 31 deadline, setting the stage for a final comprehensive agreement to be reached by June 30. Read more
President’s Pesach
April 3, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has been preparing for Peach…with the help of his grandson. Read more
WJC’s reaction to Iran deal
April 3, 2015 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder has reacted to the preliminary agreement reached by the negotiators of the P5+1 group in Lausanne. Read more
UIA Victoria – Seniors’ Afternoon Tea
March 29, 2015 by Agencies
UIA Victoria’s recently hosted a community afternoon tea for seniors..were you there? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
Melbourne YoungUIA events
March 27, 2015 by Agencies
Over the UIA Victoria campaign period, YoungUIA held a couple of successful events. Read more
Pesach recipes: a link to the past
March 24, 2015 by Agencies
Does memory have a taste? Anyone who has tried to replicate their favourite family dishes without a recipe will tell you it does. Read more
A visit to Wolper
March 23, 2015 by Agencies
Ahead of this weekend’s NSW State election, Liberal MP Gabrielle Upton took time out to tour Sydney’s Wolper Jewish Hospital. Read more
BDS concerns in South Africa
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has expressed concern that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel is creating a climate of increased antisemitism in South Africa. Read more
How Pesach’s four cups of red wine can save your life
March 15, 2015 by Agencies
Research, released by researchers from the University of Leeds, UK, reports that resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine, may halt Alzheimer’s disease progression. Read more
French police issue arrest warrants for suspects in 1982 Jewish deli attack
March 6, 2015 by Agencies
French police have identified three suspects in a terror attack on a Jewish deli in Paris that occurred 32 years ago. Read more
UIA NSW Women’s Division – Photo Gallery
March 3, 2015 by Agencies
Did you attend a UIA NSW Women’s Division function? Check here for the photos… Read more
The meaning of light
February 11, 2015 by Agencies
2015 is the United Nations proclaimed ‘Year of Light’ and who better to explain the ‘meaning of light’ than a man who has played a key role in unravelling its mysteries, Technion Distinguished Professor Mordechai ‘Moti’ Segev. Read more
French Jews on the move
February 10, 2015 by Agencies
A record 8,000 people, mostly between the ages of 16 and 35, have visited Israel opportunity fairs held by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption this week across France. Read more
Distinguished author Martin Gilbert passes away
February 5, 2015 by Agencies
British-Jewish historian Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of United Kingdom prime minister Winston Churchill, has passed away from cancer at 78. Read more
93-yr-old Auschwitz guard to face court
February 3, 2015 by Agencies
Oskar Groening, a 93-year-old former guard at the Auschwitz death camp, will go on trial in Germany in April on at least 300,000 counts of accessory to murder. Read more
The price of security
January 31, 2015 by Agencies
Two Israeli soldiers were killed on the country’s northern borders this week. President Rivlin has visited their families. Read more
President Rivlin addresses United Nations
January 29, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York…and tells its members “never again”. Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Yad Vashem on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spoke at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem at yesterday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration. Read more
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, victims and leaders mark 70 years since Auschwitz liberation
More than 300 Holocaust survivors along with world leaders gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Tuesday to commemorate the 1.1 million people killed there, as well as the millions of other victims killed during the Holocaust, as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Australia Day message from Tony Abbott
January 26, 2015 by Agencies
Prime Minister Tony Abbott delivers his Australia Day message for 2015. Read more
Israel releases world antisemitism report
2014 marked a distinct shift in the level of antisemitism around the world, and especially in Europe according to the annual report on Anti-Semitism presented to the Israeli cabinet today by the Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, Naftali Bennett. Read more
‘This is your land,’ Netanyahu tells Birthright participants
January 16, 2015 by Agencies
The Taglit-Birthright Israel program has celebrated 15 years of bringing young Jews (ages 18-26) on free 10-day trips to Israel on Wednesday evening in Jerusalem. Read more
WIZO Conference in Israel
January 15, 2015 by Agencies
Two hundred WIZO leaders from 25 countries including Australia will participate this week in the World WIZO AGM. Read more
Supermarket victims buried in Jerusalem
The four slain victims of last week’s kosher supermarket siege in Paris have been buried in Jerusalem…and President Rivlin declared “Jewish blood is not worthless”. Read more
Netanyahu visits supermarket scene
January 13, 2015 by Agencies
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday visited Hyper Cacher, the kosher supermarket in Paris where Muslim terrorist Amedy Coulibaly took nearly 20 shoppers hostage and killed four of the hostages. Read more
The state of French Jewry
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder has met with French President François Hollande at the Élysée Palace in Paris to discuss the situation of the Jewish community in France. Read more
The growth of antisemitism on the U.N.’s agenda
January 13, 2015 by Agencies
The General Assembly of the United Nations will meet later this months to discuss the growth of antisemitism at the request of 37 countries including Australia. Read more
Paris: The Jewish world sends condolences
Israeli, Australasian and other world leaders have sent condolences following the terrorist attack on the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which has resulted in 12 deaths. Read more
Holocaust survivors and the President
President Reuven Rivlin lit Chanukah candles at the President’s Residence, together with survivors of the Holocaust. Read more
Australia opts out of Geneva conference
December 18, 2014 by Agencies
Australia boycotted a conference in Switzerland discussing the Fourth Geneva Convention and the situation in the Palestinian territories due to concerns about the conference’s anti-Israel bias. Read more
