OBK and SmartAID support for California

Yossi Segelman worked with Rabbi David Slavin in Bondi’s Our Big Kitchen for 12 years before moving to Los Angeles, where he established a sister OBK and now working around the clock offering support wherever needed by those affected by the wildfires. Read more

Two Australians recipients of Israel’s Presidential Medal of Honour

President Isaac Herzog has presented the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour to seven leaders from around the globe in recognition of their longstanding contributions to the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
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Friday night with the Murdochs

A packed Central Synagogue in Sydney where Rabbi Levi Wolff publicly thanked media giant Rupert Murdoch for his support for Israel and the Jewish community. Read more

JNF Blue Box needs emptying?…call Paul

“I’ll travel anywhere to collect for JNF”, says Sydneysider Paul Lowinger. Read more

Vice Chancellor watches as a new mezuzah is affixed to Miriam’s door

Vice Chancellor Mark Scott watched as Miriam Itzkowitz’s grandfather affixed a new mezuzah after someone ripped off and stole hers in the students’ quarters at Sydney University. Read more

Anthony Albanese announces $8.5m for the Sydney Jewish Museum

The Albanes Government will gift $8.5 million to the cost of rebuilding the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

Crisis point – ECAJ calls for action

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calling for action rather than words. Read more

Antisemitic incidents top 2000

It took only two days for the ugly repercussions of the October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel to make themselves known not only in Sydney but throughout Australia and worldwide. Read more

Fraser 1938-2024

At the end of September, I drove Fraser McEwing to the Opera House to review the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing a program including Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Read more

Fraser Beath McEwing 1938-2024

J-Wire has lost one of its closest friends with the passing of music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing who passed away overnight at the age of 86. Read more

A conversation with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya

Lidiya Yankovskaya left her home city of St Petersburg in 1995 to seek a new home with her family in Albany, New York, escaping the rampant antisemitism sweeping the Russian city. Read more

Surviving Nova creates new objectives for Millet

Millet Ben Haim hid in bushes after escaping a barrage of terrorists who were chasing her while she was trying to escape from the October 7 attack on the Nova Peace Festival. Read more

Sydney University deal removes encampment and riles the community

Community response to a proposal accepted by Sydney University pro-Palestine students to remove encampments ahead of the upcoming semester has blasted the university’s administrators. Read more

JCA fills the Opera House

Six months ago, pro-Palestinian supporters caused NSW authorities to block Sydney’s Jewish community from attending the area where the Opera House’s sails were a giant blue and white banner following the Oct 7 incursion into Israel by blood-thirsty Hamas terrorists. Read more

Broadway bound via Opera Australia

Doron Chester has plans to head to Broadway, but before that, the ex-Moriah student will perform in Opera Australia’s production of West Side Story on Sydney Harbour. Read more

Oscar a bitter sweet pill for Zionist chief

Yaakov Hagoel has posted on X his reaction to British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer’s prepared acceptance speech following being awarded the Oscar for the Best International Film Zone of Interest. Read more

An icon dies – Rabbi Raymond Apple passes away in Jerusalem

Sydney’s The Great Synagogue community has been saddened to hear of the passing of Rabbi Raymond Apple AO, who was the spiritual head of the congregation for over three decades. Read more

Don’t drink Coca-Cola says ABC’s TikTok channel

National broadcaster ABC has removed a post on its TikTok account promoting the boycott of Israeli goods. Read more

“Gas the Jews” – stat decs with the police

The Daily Telegraph has sighted four statuary declarations from witnesses who heard pro-Palestinian supporters chant “gas the Jews” outside the Sydney  Opera House. Read more

Words of support from Boris and Scott

It was almost an impromptu event when UIA major donors received a week’s notice to hear former prime ministers Australian Scott Morrison and British Boris Johnson following their visit to the Oct 7 kibbutzim. Read more

Leigh takes Wagner into the 21st century

Two years after the wall dividing West and East Germany was destroyed, 21-year-old Leigh Haas farewelled her family in her native Glasgow to live in the burgeoning creative city of Berlin. Read more

A vigil of solidarity

David Ossip, president of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, retold 5,500 participants at a solidarity vigil in Sydney that 240 human beings are sitting in dark tunnels, disoriented. Read more

Meanwhile back in Australia

In Melbourne, Nazi salutes are now illegal, a crane shows the Palestinian colours. In Sydney, an  ugly beach incident and an unwanted musical interlude. Read more

A Shabbat at the beach but guests fail to show

There were two hundred chairs at one long table, with the photo of each guest at the back of a chair. Read more

Waverley Council deputy mayor votes against the condemnation of Hamas

The deputy mayor of Sydney’s Waverley Council has voted against a motion condemning the Hamas October 7 attack. Read more

10,000 attend Sydney support rally for Israel

Thousands gathered in Sydney’s east on Wednesday night to commemorate the deaths of civilians and show support for Israel. Read more

Israel is not alone

Support continues to be voiced for Israel from across the world. Read more

Two top appointments for Richard

Richard Shields has been appointed the NSW State Director of the Liberal Party and, in the same week, elected as Mayor of Woollahra. Read more

Mary-Louise McLaws b. March 17, 1953 d. August 12 , 2023

Australia has mourned the passing of epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws who has succumbed to a brain tumour at the age of 70. Read more

A cocktail definition for antisemitism mixed by La Trobe University

Melbourne’s La Trobe University has combined the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) definitions of antisemitism. Read more

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