An Israeli reflects on Rosh Hashanah in Sydney
For years I couldn’t understand why Rosh Hashanah came before Yom Kippur. Read more
Ron Klinger on J-Wire
J-Wire is proud to launch today the first of weekly bridge columns from one of Australia’s foremost players and teachers. Read more
Kesser Torah College beats The King’s School…at rugby!
The Chant “Who Are We? KTC!” rises above all other sounds as Sydney’s KTC Under 13’s Rugby Team prepare to run out against their opposition The King’s School. Read more
A Rosh Hashanah message from Bill Shorten
Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten has sent J-Wire readers a Rosh Hashanah message… Read more
Writers Festival 50% discount
Volunteer for the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival and save 50% Read more
Photo Gallery: JCA Major Donor Dinners
Were you at a JCA Major Donor dinner? Giselle Haber may have photographed you. Read more
Photo Gallery: JCA East Communal Awards Event
Did you attend JCA’s East Communal Awards Event? Giselle Haber may have photographed you. Read more
JCA Casino night – a J-Wire Photo Gallery
Were you at the JCA Casino night in Sydney? Giselle Haber may have photographed you. Read more
50 years of AUJS Academy
Naomi Dorevitch still clearly remembers when she was just four-years old, waving goodbye as her grandmother boarded a boat that was to take her Safta to Israel. She pleaded with her father who promised that when she was finished school she could visit her Safta. So it came to be that thirteen years later, in 1964, she joined the first Academy group of students from Australia to Israel. Read more
Homelessness Prevention Week
Homelessness Prevention Week is an annual event that reminds us all that there are people currently homeless or at risk of homelessness. But what do we really understand about the issue of homelessness, especially how it is experienced by the Victorian Jewish community? Read more
Movie giveaways – “Gett”
J-Wire has three double passes for award-winning Israeli film “GETT THE TRIAL OF VIVIANNE AMSALEM”…screening in Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart. Read more
Examining Breaking the Silence
To be the only democracy in the Middle East, possessing the most moral army in the world, is a noble aspiration. Read more
Movie giveaways
J-Wire has three double passes to give away for Israeli movie Zero Motivation opening at the brand new Lido Cinema in Melbourne’s Hawthorn on June 25. Read more
Netanyahu v Blatter
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter. Read more
Movie giveaways
The Palm Springs International ShortFest will feature at the St Kilda Film Festival this weekend. J-Wire has five double passes to give away. Read more
Seeking an old friend
Were you in Kibbutz Shomrat in the summer of 1970? Read more
Let My People Go
A book detailing the efforts made by the Australian Jewish community to relieve the plight of Soviet Jewry, an operation which spanned 30 years, was launched in Sydney yesterday. Read more
Lag B’Omer: Sydney Yeshiva Centre
Were you at the Sydney Yeshiva Lag B’Omer celebrations? A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more
ANZAC commemoration well under way
With less the two weeks to go before Sydney’s Jewish Community gathers to commemorate and honour our ANZAC diggers, the Event Organising Committee is already assured a huge turn-out. Read more
Interview: Arnold Zable
Arnold Zable is an author, storyteller, refugee advocate and passionate activist for asylum seekers and human rights. Melbourne-based Zable talks with The Shtick’s Henry Greener. Read more
Protesters disown their university values…writes Richard Kemp
Tactical responses to insurgencies by the conventional armed forces of democratic states, and the ethical challenges of fighting an enemy that uses civilians as human shields and as targets, are topics of obvious relevance to Australian foreign policy and contemporary international affairs.
White City is Not For Sale
A message to members of Sydney’s Hakoah Club from the Board…White City is not for sale. This story has been repeated as four important and significant comments have been appended to it.
Treasures of the Venetian Ghetto – Restored by Venetian Heritage
It is almost two decades since Australian hosted a major a major international exhibition on Judaica.
In a world of their own
According to Melbourne’s Monash University research, the fully observant or frum community in Victoria accounts for about 15% of the Victorian Jewish community. Read more
70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz – Sydney event
Did you attend this function at the Jewish Museum…check here for your photo…gallery images by Ben Apfelbaum Read more
A personal account of the liberation of the Bergen concentration camp
Lt-Col Leonard Berney RA TD tells J-Wire of his participation and the events surrounding the liberation of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Read more
A letter from the Monte
Serafima Lapteva joined her busband Moissei Fidler at a special dinner at the Montefiore Home in Hunter’s Hill…she tells J-Wire how it went. Read more
Complete a survey and win a movie ticket
Matteo is a PhD student at Melbourne’s Monash University and has questions for 18-29 yr-olds living in Balaclava, Caulfield or Elsternwick… Read more
Slovakian Jewish Renaissance
A cache of family memorabilia connected to a Sydney family discovered in the Slovakian town of Presov has brought back memories for Jana Vytrhlik a member of the Sydney Jewish Museum’s curatorial staff. Read more
Scopus Shines
2014 has been an outstanding year for Melbourne’s Year 12 Mount Scopus students. Read more
