A chorus of regulars

Opera Australia is very proud of its chorus – proud enough to stage a new production of Chorus! in which each and every one of the 48 performers combines to be the stars of the show. Read more

Waverley Council moves to protect shule

Sydney’s Waverley Council has passed a motion to protect the Flood Street shule. Read more

Jewish graves vandalised in Maitland

Ten gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in the NSW town of Maitland have been daubed with swastikas and splashed with white paint. Read more

Chyrisse Heine: another OAM to add to the list

It looked like being the first time in ten years we did not miss an awardee in the Australia Days Honours – but then we learned about Chyrisse Heine in Victoria who is a recipient of an  OAM. Read more

More criticism on the ALP reversal of west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admits Australia’s decision to reverse recognising West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel could have been handled better, as one government MP blasted his own party’s handling of the matter. Read more

Radar finds Jewish graves in Goulburn

Records show that thirty people were buried between 1844 and 1943 at the Goulburn Jewish Cemetery, but only eleven remain today as being marked by headstones and some broken masonry. Read more

Antisemitic rant gets a rap on the knuckles by cops

Having spent Rosh Hashanah with family in Melbourne, Adelaide-based Norman Schueler got a taste of the antisemitism being experienced in Victoria. Read more

The Dreyfus Affair Act II

Queensland Liberal Senator Paul Scarr has always been a good friend of the Australian Jewish community and is pained by the upset caused by the analogy of the Dreyfus Affair he used in the Senate debating the ministerial conduct alleged demonstrated by Attorney General Mark Dreyfus. Read more

The Dreyfus Affair

A Liberal senator has compared with Attorney-GeneralMark Dreyfus with Alfred Dreyfus, the French army officer accused of treason at the end of the 19th century. Read more

JNF NSW family back together again

This week’s JNF’s Gala event hosted over 600 supporters in the first in-person major event since 2019. Read more

Antisemitism and bullying rife in Sydney schools

The antisemitism displayed in Sydney’s elite Knox Grammar as part of social media group established by students is spreading throughout the city with bullying of Jewish students in two Eastern Suburbs schools. Read more

Meet Rivka Carmi, former president of Ben-Gurion University

JNF Australia has had a long association with the Negev, and so it is no surprise that one of the guest speakers at next week’s gala events shares that association. Read more

Fancy an 11 hour swim? Sam Abeshouse takes the challenge

For the most enthusiastic Jewish sportsperson, you can rarely go past a triathlon. Chickenfeed for Sydney’s Sam Abeshouse who has just swum the channel separating Northern Ireland and Scotland in a gruelling 11 hours and 16 mins. Read more

A paramedic in Israel

Aryeh Myers is a paramedic working with Magen David Adom. He previously worked as a paramedic in the UK and tells J-Wire about the major differences he has experienced in working in two very different environments. Read more

Rabbi on demand

Rabbi Yossi Friedman will cease to be the spiritual leader of Sydney’s Maroubra Shule and retire from his engagement at Mount Sinai College on November 1 but no particular pulpit is waiting for his considerable talent. Read more

Barry Smorgon talks Maccabiah Games

Next week, 570 Jewish Australians who will participate in the 21st Maccabiah will fly to Israel. Read more

SBS reporting on Al Jazeera journalist’s death breaches Code of Practice

A tweet by SBS News published on May 11 stated that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqla was shot dead by a member of the Israeli Defence Forces. Read more

Queen’s Birthday Honours – the Jewish list for 2022

The percentage of women receiving awards today across Australia is 45%. Within the Jewish community, the percentage is 43%. Among those to receive their awards in the coming weeks is a Melbourne woman who will collect her partner’s. He died in August 2021 and she was awarded an OAM in January but did not receive it physically. This time she will be presented with her own award and her late partner’s.
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At each side of the court

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What Jubilee?

As technicians prepare to colour the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge purple tomorrow as part of the Jubilee celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne, Australia and New Zealand’s Jewish communities will be spectators only. Read more

The angel of death?

It started with a comment by an unnamed Liberal quoted in The Saturday Paper describing former Prime Minister John Howard as “the angel of death” as he ventured forth to rally support for Josh Frydenberg in the battle for Kooyong. Read more

The Big Debate

It was billed as a debate, but the meeting of Independent candidate Allegra Spender, Liberal MP Dave Sharma and Labor MP Matt Thistlewaite took the form as a forum as each speaker fielded questions from moderator Peter Wertheim. Read more

Neo-Nazi slogans deface ACT Senate candidate’s signs

Signs for Independent ACT candidate for the senate Kim Rubenstein have been defaced with antisemitic slogans. Read more

A letter to Zoe Daniels

A failure to respond to his direct letter to the Independent candidate for Goldstein former ABC journalist Zoe Daniels has prompted Rabbi James Kennard to write n open letter to her on Facebook. Read more

NSW first state to adopt the IHRA definition

The NSW parliament has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. Read more

Wollongong Art Gallery may be lauding an ex-Nazi

Bronius Sredersas was not a big earner but he amassed a fortune in carefully selecting prime Australian art and objets d’art which covered the walls of his very humble home on the Wollongong. But now there is hunt for the  verification that the Lithuanian was a member of the SD death squads which killed tens of thousands of Jews during WWII. Read more

The governor thanks OBK

The Governor of NSW Margaret Beazley made a special visit to Our Big Kitchen in Bondi to express her personal  gratitude to Rabbi Doctor Dovid Slavin and Rebbitzin Laya and their volunteers for their never-ending support to those in trouble. Read more

Five local Jewish boys join Opera Australia

Director of the French opera La Juive about a Jewish young woman who is in love with a Christian man Constantine Costi directed local Jewish actor Geoff Sirmai as Shylock in a spectacular and sympathetic production of The Merchant of Venice a few years ago. Read more

Meet Gillian Wess

Gillian Wess has recently been appointed as the CEO of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand. She talks with J-Wire. Read more

The Power of the Dog – a second Oscar for Emile Sherman?

A western shot in New Zealand with a British actor playing the top role as a rancher has been nominated for 12 awards at this year’s Oscars. Read more

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