Meeting Shimon Peres
Incoming UIA WA Chairperson, Melanie Greenfeld, reports on her recent visit to Israel where she was invited to attend the Keren Hayesod World Conference and the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem… Read more
Bibi addresses Young Leadership
July 8, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu recently addressed the UIA Young Leadership Kesher Conference in Jerusalem. Read more
Jewish umbrella body supports use of Quran in front bench swearing in
July 4, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has congratulated the first Muslim to be appointed to the front bench of the Australian government…and supports the use of the Quran for his swearing in. Read more
J-Wire visits Sha’ar HaNegev
June 6, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
On a recent visit to Israel, J-Wire visited the secondary school at Sha’ar HaNegev, 4kms from Israel’s border with Gaza…and still a weekly target for Qassam rockets launched from Gaza. Read more
ZFA Welcomes New Israeli Government
March 19, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Philip Chester, the president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, has welcomed the new Israeli government. Read more
Community briefs on Sexual Abuse Royal Commission
March 18, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Director of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Peter Wertheim and Immediate Past President, Robert Goot, have met with the Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Read more
Big Night Out for Young Leadership
March 14, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
United Israel Appeal’s NSW Young Leadership have held their 2013 function at the Paddington Town Hall in Sydney. Read more
AUJS up and running
March 13, 2013 by Community Editor
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has launched the 2013 academic year with its first Israel campaign. The campaign, entitled ‘My Israel’, is a positive campaign that gives voices to Israelis representing the many diverse communities and groups that exist in Israeli society. Read more
ADC calls for peaceful peace conference
March 13, 2013 by Geoffrey Zygier
Dr Dvir Abramovich, chair of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), today emphasised that the forthcoming Australian Islamic Peace Conference must not be allowed to undermine social harmony in this country. Read more
Jewish Agency helping small communities
March 11, 2013 by Benjamin Rutland
One year after the tragic terror attack in Toulouse, France the Chairperson of the Executive of The Jewish agency for Israel, Natan Sharansky has met with the parents of the late Rabbi Jonathan Sandler who was killed with his two children. Read more
Love letter to Hamas – Paul McGeough’s front-page profiles of Khaled Meshal…writes Sharon Mittelman
March 6, 2013 by Sharyn Mittelman
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday dedicated their front pages to a profile of Hamas leader Khaled Meshal – interviewed in Qatar by Fairfax senior journalist Paul McGeough. There were also a number of subsequent articles on Meshal by McGeough over the weekend in those papers. Read more
Big night for UIA
March 5, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Over 1600 United Israel Appeal supporters packed Sydney’s Central Synagogue this week to listen to international luminaries former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, Gilad Shalit and Israeli paralympic gold-medal winning wheelchair tennis star Noam Gershony. Read more
Not Israel’s favourite song
Dr Dvir Abramovich, chairperson of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission, has questioned the Australian Broadcasting Commission about program content that apparently endorses genocide and the destruction of the State of Israel. Read more
The ZFA beats to a different drum
ABC-TV’s “The Drum” recently addressed the issue of Israelis who hold an Australian passport or vice versa following the death in custody of Bez Zygier. The Zionist Federation of Australia’s president t Philip Chester responds…. Read more
ECAJ complains to your ABC
February 28, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The ABC’s Elizabeth Jackson recently interviewed co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices’ Antony Loewenstein about the Ben Zygier case. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has lodged an official complaint to the ABC about its content. Read more
Shalit meets Sydney school students
February 27, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who spent five years as a prisoner of Hamas, has addressed over 1800 senior school students in Sydney. Read more
The university facilities you want
February 26, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students is providing an opportunity for university students and the Jewish youth of the community to participate in a special survey during Orientation Week (O-week) and the first few weeks of university this semester. Read more
The Struggle for the Negev
Ari Briggs – International Director of Regavim, an Israeli Non-Government Organization, and JNF Shaliach Ygal Shapir have shared a platform at Sydney’s The Central Synagogue discussing good and bad news coming out of the Negev. Read more
Melbourne Science Writer visits JNF Projects
February 22, 2013 by Ahuva Bar-Lev
Melbourne-based science writer Dr. Elizabeth Finkel has visited KKL-JNF agricultural projects in Israel, as part of her research for her upcoming book on feeding the world in the future. Read more
Stick to the facts
February 20, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Zionist Federation of Australia president Phillip Chester has described as “totally uninformed and mischievous” claims by some media commentators that the purpose of Israel-experience programs supported by community organisations is to recruit Australian Jews to serve in Israel’s intelligence organisations. Read more
ECAJ welcomes Zygier inquiries
February 19, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has welcomed announcements by the Australian and Israeli governments of further inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Ben Zygier, a dual Israeli and Australian citizen who had immigrated to Israel in the early 2000’s and reportedly died while in custody in Israel in December 2010. Read more
2013 Green Sunday
February 4, 2013 by J-Wire
New Attorney-General to be sworn in tomorrow
February 3, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Mark Dreyfus QC entered parliament in 2007. Tomorrow will be sworn in as Australia’s Attorney-General. Read more
Election comment from the PM’s office
January 31, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
As Jewish voters across Australia ponder the ramifications of an election to be held on Yom Kippur, J-Wire has received a comment from one of Julia Gillard’s senior advisors as the debate about the date Read more
Hitler as a meal guest? – no way says the ADC
January 30, 2013 by Geoffrey Zygier
The Melbourne-based B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has had a positive outcome to its complaint to local radio Nova 100 FM following a recent breakfast show segment in which Hitler was suggested as a suitable person to join in a mealtime conversation. Read more
Mazeltov Bibi
January 29, 2013 by Emily Gian
The Zionist Federation of Australia has congratulated Bibi Netanyahu on behalf of the Australian Jewish community. Read more
Your UIA helping Holocaust survivors in Israel
January 25, 2013 by Benjamin Rutland
Popular Israeli performers will next week honor 300 volunteers of Laad, a joint project of The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry for Senior Citizens which trains volunteers to assist Holocaust survivors. Read more
Student leaders end world tour
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students’ premier Leadership Development Program to the United States, United Kingdom and Israel has ended after five weeks jam-packed with meeting inspiring speakers, lobbyists, academics, politicians, diplomats and leaders from all over the Jewish world. Read more
AIJAC welcomes call for negotiations…but
January 20, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
A call for a return to negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians by the the Foreign Ministers of Australia and the U.K. has been welcomed by The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council…but not their views on the settlements. Read more
Heavy rain brings silver lining
January 19, 2013 by Ahuva Bar-Lev
The stormy weather in Israel last week caused a lot of damage but also brought great blessings, filling the reservoirs, and making the waterfalls rush and the ravines overflow. Read more
