“Bullying” leaders

Australian Zionist leaders have been accused of bullying, blackmail and “carpet bombing” progressive voices on Israel. Read more

Chief Rabbinate Electoral Machinations…writes Isi Leibler

The sleazy political machinations surrounding the impending elections for the Chief Rabbinate are shameful. Read more

New destination – new permanent exhibition at Auschwitz-Birkenau

The new Permanent Exhibition SHOAH at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Block 27 has been opened in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, other Israeli government ministers, Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Piotr Cywinski, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate and exhibition curator Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Rabbi Israel Meir Lau and Holocaust survivors. Read more

NZ doubles Auschwitz support

The New Zealand government has doubled the grant of €50,000 it made in 2011 to support the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site. Read more

McCully heads to Israel

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister heads to the Middle East today. 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

Palestine – Pantomime and Paradox…writes David Singer

Any cynicism or disbelief that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu was seriously interested in trying to reach a two-state solution with the PLO was dispelled this week with the revelation that Netanyahu last year offered to free 50 long term Palestinian security prisoners sentenced before the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993 – in a vain bid to entice Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table. 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

Sir John Monash Remembered

NSW Governor Marie Bashir was guest of honour at a recent Commemoration Service for the late Sir John Monash hosted at Sydney’s Moriah College. Read more

One Day with the ZFA

J-Wire recently spent a day with the Zionist Federation of Australia in Israel…checking out Australian youth working as volunteers in its Israel By Choice program. Read more

Match made in Maccabiah heaven

Bec and Adam Joseph, Australian football players in Australia’s Women’s and Men’s open football sides, met at the 2005 Maccabiah Games – Adam popped the question at the 2009 Games – and in 2013, the happily married couple will return to Israel with Gerry, their 18-month-old baby boy. Read more

The Diaspora minus the United States

Zionist Federation of Australia president Philip Chester will be a presenter at the Israeli Presidential Conference. Read more

Implications for Israel in the US Global Retreat…writes Isi Leibler

The appointment of Samantha Power as America’s UN ambassador combined with recent US foreign policy statements, reinforce concerns that the US administration is accelerating its policies of global withdrawal, engaging rather than confronting rogue states, and appeasing Islamic extremism. Read more

Malcolm Turnbull?: “I don’t think he’s got a hope in hell”

Marsha Foxman has been declareda candidate for mining magnate Clive Palmer’s Palmer United Party and will challenge incumbent Malcolm Turnbull for the Sydney Liberal seat of Wentworth, home to many of the city’s Jewish community in the upcoming September federal election. Read more

Queen’s Birthday Honours 2013

An engineer blessed with vision and a Holocaust survivor who has dedicated her award to those who saved Jews and a woman whose career sharpened to perfection the French accents of Australian Opera are among those honored within the Jewish community… Read more

$45,000 grant for FREE

More than 200 guests, mainly young adults from Sydney’s Russian Jewish community in Sydney have attended the 2013 FREE Gala Dinner. Read more

Finding Jewish roots for Israel’s Russians

J-Wire visited the Knesset recently to talk with MK Elazar Stern who is spearheading an effort to facilitate conversions for Russian immigrants who have difficulty in proving their Jewish roots. Read more

Maccabiah: Five sets of brothers in rugby squad

Glen Ella, coach of the Australian Maccabiah rugby squad is a member of one of Australian sports’ most famous brother acts…but not even the Wallabies rugby legend, who starred for the green and gold alongside brothers Gary and Mark in the 1980s, can believe what he’s seeing in his Maccabiah rugby squad headingl to Israel to defend their gold medal…FIVE sets of brothers! Read more

Maccabiah: Five soccer teams for Israel

Australia will send five teams to compete in the highly anticipated football tournament at the 19th Maccabiah games in Israel next month. Read more

“My Bubala” – murdered girl’s father tells court

The son of Holocaust survivors came to Australia for a new life but the horrors of the past have revisited him following the brutal murder of his 18-yr-old daughter in Sydney in 2011. Read more

J-Wire visits Sha’ar HaNegev

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

Maccabi and Jewish Care join forces to help the disabled

Maccabi Victoria and Jewish Care have released their joint Research Project Report “All Abilities Needs Analysis”, seeking to improve the positive outcomes of people with disabilities in the Victorian Jewish community through sport and active recreation. Read more

Religious Tolerance and Mutual Respect rather than Polarization…writes Isi Leibler

The pivotal breakthrough which now seems likely to oblige haredim to share the burden in terms of conscription and gainful employment, heralds a belated and dramatic review of the relationship between the State and Religion. The question is whether these changes will intensify the trends towards divisiveness and polarization or lead to mutual understanding and national unity.    Read more

Fantasia – Illusions, Delusions and Confusion…writes Michael Kuttner

I remember as a child in New Zealand many years ago watching the first animated Walt Disney movie called Fantasia. Read more

A Musical Jigsaw in Three Parts

Maybe it was my imagination that discovered some lateral thinking by the programmers for this stimulating Master Series concert…writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read more

Rabbi Ulman, the Supreme Court and the Beth Din…

Sydney-based Rabbi Yehoram Ulman has sent J-Wire a statement following a Supreme Court  decision that a Beth Din ruling was biased… Read more

Palestine – The Abhorrent Arab Aberration…writes David Singer

Continuing international demands for an Israeli withdrawal from every square metre of the territory occupied by Israel in the Six Day War – now misleadingly termed ” The occupied Palestinian Territories ” (OPT) in countless UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions – acquires particular resonance on the 46th anniversary of the outbreak of that War on 5 June. Read more

Child sexual abuse advocacy group launches in Sydney

Tzedek  has announced its inaugural NSW event, an information session on ‘Child Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community’ Read more

Danby believes Liberals are backing the Greens

Labor Federal MP for Melobourne Ports Michael Danby believes than an alliance is underway between the Liberals and the Greens to oust him from his seat in the forthcoming September 14 election. Read more

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