Update from MFA
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem updates the current situation… Read more
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs update
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs praised the conclusions of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council (22 July) in regard to Operation Protective Edge. Read more
Facts and figures…Civilian assistance to Gaza
Facts and figures from the Israeli Ministry of Defense… Read more
UNRWA finds more rockets in a second school
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has discovered yet again rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip. Read more
Anatomy of Protective Edge
The Israeli Embassy in Wellingotn, New Zealand says that the current operation in Gaza is not of Israel’s choosing. Read more
Meeting Ban Ki-Moon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Read more
Victoria Parliamentary Friends of Israel condemn violence
The Victorian Parliamentary Friends of Israel condemns the recent violence that has left many men, women, and children dead and injured in both Gaza and Israel. Read more
Update by Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv last night… Read more
Coming to terms with 6,000,000
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has launched ‘6 Million Friends’, an innovative social media campaign designed to help people conceptualise the number of Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. Read more
Claims conference plans for the future
After extensive discussion among more than 60 representatives from its member organizations at the annual meeting of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), the Board of Directors voted on the long-term future direction of the organization that has, for over the past six decades, advocated on behalf of Jewish Holocaust victims and their heirs. Read more
My dearest Israel
My dearest Israel,
Why do you weep so? There is no shame in shedding a tear for an enemy which you have to crush. We do this every Passover when we remember those Egyptians who died at the Red Sea. How may I comfort you? Your deep soul-searching shows that you have not lost the good inclination for you do not rejoice at the killing of your foes as does your enemy. Read more
Support from leslie
I want to offer you my whole-hearted support in your ongoing conflict with your neighbours.
Shame on all of us
We in Australia, many of us immigrants or children of immigrants, enjoy a wonderful life. Read more
Australia condemns Hamas ceasefire refusal
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has condemned Hamas’s rejection of a proposed ceasefire. Read more
Not a time for complacency
Dear Jewish Communities and Israelis overseas,
This is not a time for complacency! We cannot afford it. Read more
A letter from Israel
Melbourne-born Delilah Schwartz is in the IDF training as an officer…and writes from Israel. Read more
Five Double Passes to give away
J-Wire has five double passes on offer to Melbourne readers for French/Israeli movie “Rock the Casbah”. Read more
Statement from the Embassy of Israel in Australia
On July 15th at 9am [Israel time], Israel accepted the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire. Israel stopped its military action in the Gaza Strip in order to restore routine life to Israeli citizens having been subjected to constant rocket attacks by Hamas. Read more
Winning on the Third Front…by Dvir Kahana
Last week, the State of Israel began an extensive military operation designed to restore order and allow Israeli citizens to go back and live their lives in peace. Read more
Why Israel Has Been Forced to Go to War…writes Dennis MacEoin
I want you to imagine this. An independent Scotland, fired up by new-found freedoms and ruled by President Robbie Burns II, bursts into ructions of tartan nationalism. Read more
Healing Garden in Jerusalem
Hadassah Mt. Scopus has celebrated the inauguration of the Jack and Robert Smorgon Families’ Foundation Healing Garden Project in Jerusalem. Read more
Six days that changed the world…write Peter Wertheim and Alex Ryvchin
It is one of those ironies of history that the controversy surrounding the federal government’s refusal to label any part of Jerusalem as “occupied” by Israel broke in the media on June 5, the anniversary of the start of the Six Day war in 1967. Read more
Jewish Agency Chairman visits families
Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky and Avital Sharansky today (Monday, June 16) visited the families of 19-year-old Eyal Yifrah and 16-year-old Gil-Ad Shaer, two of the three Israeli teens kidnapped by terrorists on Thursday evening and currently held. Read more
JCA Eastern Suburbs Communal event
Wendy Harmer entertained the huge crowd at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney attending the JCA event…were you there? Check the pix… Read more
JCA Communal North Shore Event with guest speaker Wendy Harmer at The Pavilion, Chatwood Concourse
Sydney’s JCA Major Donors Dinner
Were you at the JCA Major Donors Dinner? Maybe your photo is in this gallery… Read more
JCA Major donors function
Sydney’s JCA recently held their major donors brunch…check the photo gallery Read more
ECAJ on the A-G’s statement on East Jerusalem
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has defended the Federal government’s statement that “the description of East Jerusalem as ‘Occupied East Jerusalem’ is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful.” Read more
WJC praises investigative work
The World Jewish Congress has welcomed the arrest of the suspected gunman in the May 24 shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, which killed three people and gravely injured another. Read more
Diaspora in partnership with Israel to ensure continuity
The Government of Israel has approved the Government of Israel-World Jewry Joint Initiative, which aims to help ensure the continuity of the Jewish people by strengthening young Jews’ Jewish identity and enhancing connections between world Jewry and the State of Israel. Read more
