ADC speaks out against online hate

Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission ADC), has spoken out against the ever-growing proliferation of online hate speech, in particular on Facebook. Read more

L’hitrahot Shemi

Ambassador Shemi Tzur headed the diplomatic team which re-opened the embassy in Wellington ending a hiatus created by economic cuts made by Israel’s Foreign Ministry. Read more

Jewish Agency works to assure women the right to pray at the Kotel

The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Chairman Natan Sharansky has met  with Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Chairman of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation expressing his shock at a letter sent by the Israeli Police stating that they would arrest women who recite Kaddish (the mourner’s prayer) at the Western Wall. Read more

Jewish Agency funds US Summer Camps’ Shlichim

More than 5,500 young Israelis applied to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem to work as shlichim in American summer camps. Read more

April Fools

The dust has hardly settled after the Obama big top packed up and left town and we are faced with yet another act. This one is entirely predictable with the performers being second grade material but this neither detracts from their brazen chutzpah nor the reaction of the local and international media…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

ZFA not impressed with AJDS

The Zionist Federation of Australia and the Zionist Council of Victoria have joined in the backlash against a campaign organised by an affiliate of The Jewish Community Council of Victoria to launch a boycott against Israeli goods manufactured in the settlements. Read more

Birth of the Blues

Maccabi Rugby started in Newcastle in 1968…today it has over 400 members – all invited to a pre-Maccabiah reunion. Read more

Waks’s testimony made public

Manny Waks and his father Zephaniah gave their testimonies to the Victorian Government Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations late last year. They have been made public. Zephaniah Waks  talks of Yeshiva intimidation of the sexually abused in Brooklyn being harsher than that meted out by the mob and Manny Waks goes on the front foot in dealing with communal leadership…. Read more

Community group calls for Israeli boycott

An affiliate member of The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has called for the boycott of goods produced in Israel’s disputed settlements. Read more

Walt Secord endorses J-Wire

Member of the Legislative Council and Shadow Minister for Water, Shadow Special Minister of State Walt Secord has endorsed J-Wire in the NSW State Parliament. Read more

Danby’s New Role

Michael Danby has been sworn in as the new Parliamentary Secretary for the Arts. Read more

Victorian community says “NO” to Homophobia

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) at the recommendation of the JCCV GLBTI Reference Group is joining the “No to Homophobia Campaign” and will ask its affiliate organisations to sign up. Read more

Pushing the button

A 23-yr-old Israeli backpacker has become the first person to donate funds to a planned Holocaust memorial in Wellington which will feature 1.5 million buttons collected by local  schoolchildren. Read more

Auckland farewells ambassador

Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand Shemi Tzur’s posting is drawing to a close. The Auckland Jewish community has bade him farewell. Read more

Israel at work in the South Pacific

Israel is coordinating efforts by philanthropists and NGOs to improve life for the inhabitants of many South Seas islanders. Read more

Bibi Plummets to Victory?…questions Dr Ron Weiser

[mpoverlay]Israel has a new Government and at the time of writing, President Obama has arrived in Israel for his first trip there as President of the USA. Read more

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