Rabbi Lesches: more reaction
The reaction to the Fairfx article detailing a legally taped conversation with Rabbi Baruch Lasches in which he refers to young victims of sexual assault being “consenting” continues with statements to J-Wire from the Rabbinical Council of NSW and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and child abuse advocacy group Tzedek. Read more
Miko Peled on New Zealand TV
U.S.-based Israeli author Miko Peled has appeared on New Zealand television discussing a one state solution….watch the interview on J-Wire. Read more
Iran: Carr agrees with Netanyahu
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr today welcomed the peaceful outcome of Iran’s national elections but said Australia would continue to raise concerns about human rights and nuclear issues…and agrees with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position. Read more
Australians prominent in global antisemitism Forum
Australians played a prominent role in the deliberations of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism, which took place recently in Jerusalem. Read more
A letter to Jake
A Tel Aviv-based civil rights group warned Australian supporters of a proposed boycott against Israel on Thursday that their activities were racist, and in violation of Australian Federal anti-discrimination laws. Recently, faculty and students at Sydney University called for the severing of links with Israeli institutions. Read more
Shoah Exhibition at Auckland University
The Shadows of Shoah Exhibition was opened recently at Auckland University of Technology by Auckland Mayor Len Brown. Read more
Changes at Mebourne Eruv
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Melbourne Eruv, Mr Romy Leibler, has announced that the Foundation Administrator of the Melbourne Eruv, Dr Peter Kloot, has retired.
Melbourne identity passes away
Holocaust survivor and Melbourne identity Avram Zeleznikow has died. Read more
Meet Blinky Bill’s creator
The Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne will host a special event attended by iconic animator of “Blinky Bill”, Yoram Gross and filmmaker Tomasz Magierski later this month. Read more
JCA Eastern Suburbs Communal Event and Awards Night
J-Wire Photo Gallery of the JCA function on Sunday night in Sydney…were you there? Check the pix from Giselle Haber.
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Claims Conference: Berman responds
Chair of the Claims Conference Rabbi Julius Berman has written to the organisation’s directors has responded to a newspaper’s claim that he had been aware of fraud allegations directs at the Conference for eight years. The Conference administers funds allocated to Holocaust survivors. Read more
Visiting Israel? New exhibition at the Israel Museum
This year’s annual exhibition in the Museum’s Ruth Youth Wing for Art Education focuses on sensory deception and on the gap between visual perception and reality. Read more
Prize-winning short story
Claudia Kaplan, a Year 8 student at Sydney’s Moriah College, was the Overall Winner of the Sydney Writers’ Festival’s Writenow! Competition. Read more
Our man in Tel Aviv
Dave Sharma is Australia’s new ambassador to Israel. Rohit Revo, the editor of the Indian Herald, provides background on the new ambassador… Read more
Maccabiah 2013 gets community support
Maccabi’s Melbourne and Sydney communities have shown their support for Team Australia heading to the 19th Maccabiah Games in Israel in July. Read more
Stem cell donation may have saved life
Melbourne’s Craig Rosen may have saved the life of another Jew who is believed to be dying from a rare blood disorder. Read more
Greens say “No Thank You” to signing the London Declaration
Greens MPs John Kaye and David Shoebridge said they won’t sign the London Declaration into Combatting Anti-Semitism even though it “contains a number of laudable commitments to stamp out any resurgence of hatred against a people who have historically suffered more than most.” Read more
Yiddish in court evidence
A judge of the NSW Supreme Court has rejected a ruling by the Sydney Beth Din that ordered Benjamin Amzalak to pay an Israeli businessman more than $300,000 for the apparent sale of shares in a company. Read more
Petition for Buckingham Palace
The grandson of William Cooper, the aboriginal who led the only known private protest against Kristallnacht in 1938 is campaigning to send his grandfather’s petition to the Queen. Read more
Call to step up boycott of Israel
Stepping up the boycott of Israel will be on the agenda of a conference in solidarity with Palestine to be held in New Zealand next month. Read more
Anne Frank in Sovereign Hill
Touring exhibition “Anne Frank – A History for Today” is now on show at Sovereign Hill’s Gold Museum in Victoria.
Senior Yeshivah Officials may face tribunal
The father of child sex abuse victim Manny Waks is taking two senior officials at the Yeshivah Centre to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Mossad man in Canberra will not be replaced – report
Israel’s Mossad representative in Canberra, who was expelled in the aftermath of the 2010 Dubai passport scandal, will not be replaced, according to a report in The Weekend Australian. Read more
Open email to the Claims Conference
J-Wire has received a copy of an email sent to the Claims Conference…. Read more
94-yr-old publishes e-book
When in 1997, eminent scholar Dr. Israel Kipen penned Ahad Ha-am: The Zionism of the Future, widely regarded as the definitive and standard study of one of Zionism’s most towering and influential figures, he never imagined that his much lauded and classic text would be republished as an e-book in the second decade of the 21st century. Read more
Better healthcare for Palestinian kids – thanks to Australian interfaith group
Hundreds of Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip will have access to improved healthcare thanks to a unique multi-faith partnership based in Australia. Read more
World Vision: Shurat HaDin responds
Shurat HaDin’s Akiva Hamilton has responded to World Vision’s defence of “taxpayer funded support for UAWC”… Read more
Australian Muslim web site attacks Zionism
An article published on a website “designed to bind together” Muslims in Australia calls Zionism a “colonial expansionist terrorist movement” and brands the occupation as “religiously racist” and “genocidal”. Read more
UK chair of coalition into combatting antisemitism hails Australian support
The chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism has hailed the deluge of Australian state and federal MPs and Senators who have signed the London Declaration into Combatting Anti-Semitism. Read more
World Vision Rejects Shurat HaDin’s Allegations
The Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Centre) first wrote to World Vision Australia (WVA) in February 2012 claiming that our AusAID-funded agricultural development project with the Palestinian organisation – the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) – violated Australian and US counter-terrorism legislation because, they claimed, UAWC is an arm of the proscribed terrorist organisation the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Read more
