Slipper calls for the dismissal of anti-Israel campaigner

Independent Queensland MP Peter Slipper has called on Sydney University to sack Professor Stuart Rees of the Sydney Peace Foundation. Read more

Danby announces voting dates

Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has announced dates for voting in his electorate for the upcoming General Election to be held on Yom Kippur. Read more

Wallenberg citizenship on display

The certificate conferring Australian citizenship on Raoul Wallenberg by Prime Minister Julia Gillard at a recent ceremony held at Government House in Canberra is on public display in Melbourne. Read more

Coalition MPs get behind the London Declaration…but Labor says it is bi-partisan

Sapphires in Tel Aviv

The Australian movie “The Sapphires” had its Israeli premiere in Tel Aviv this week. Read more

Swastika in Wellington

A swastika has been daubed on the wall of the Wellington Jewish Community Centre. Read more

NSW Young Labor Women stand up to BDS

The NSW Young Labor Women’s Network has held a planning session at Max Brenner in Sydney…a gesture demonstrating their opposition to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Read more

Israel Makes History in Fiji

Freemasonry in Fiji has a Jewish factor in its history. Read more

Will the Stephen Hawking boycott of Israel lead to peace in the Middle East?

Many of you would have read last week of a decision by renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking to join the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of the upcoming 2013 President’s Conference in Jerusalem.

..writes Emily Gian. Read more

Palestine – Hawking Needs to do More Talking…writes David Singer

The decision by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking to not attend the Presidential Conference organised by Israel’s President Shimon Peres has aroused dismay by his Israeli hosts and applause from the Palestinian academic community. Read more

Déjà Vu: “Peace in Our Time”…writes Isi Leibler

“Peace in Our Time” was proclaimed by Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in defense of his disastrous Munich Agreement with Hitler. History testifies that his policy of appeasement and failure to confront the aggressive Nazi barbarians virtually made World War II inevitable. Read more

Workshops on safety for children

Tzedek, a not-for-profit organisation which advocates for Jewish victims and survivors of childhood sexual abuse, is to launch its first public workshop for the Melbourne Jewish community on parenting safe children. Read more

Pyne Signs

Liberal MP Christopher Pyne, a longstanding friend of Israel and the Jewish community, has signed the London Agreement. Read more

A case of shameful silence and deliberate inaction…writes Michael Kuttner

The United States of America which prides itself as the torch bearer of justice, liberty and morality in the world is shockingly guilty of betraying these very virtues over its continued failure to bring to justice the murderers of many of its citizens at the hands of Palestinian Arab terrorists. Read more

Stamps of friendship

Stamps marking the heroic charge of the Australian Light Horse Brigade in Beersheba in 1917 were jointly issued by Israel and Australia. Read more

The end of the road

Richard Bowles, the Australian-English ultra-marathon runner, has completed the 1009-kilometre Israel Trail, described by National Geographic as one of the world’s most epic adventures. Read more

‘Til Death Don’t Us Part

In a sign of increasing inter-faith ties, Sydney’s Jews and Muslims will share the last available burial space at Rookwood Cemetery. Read more

Roozendaal quits Macquarie St

Eric Roozendaal, the former NSW treasurer, roads minister and ports minister in the former Labor government, quit politics on Thursday. Read more

Hezbollah sleeper cells in Australia?

Jewish leaders have renewed calls to ban Hezbollah’s political wing amid revelations that the Shi’ite organisation may have sleeper cells operating in Australia. Read more

Fayad – Hardly a Moderate

The recently resigned former Palestinian Prime Minister Salman Fayad is being eulogized as the late great hope of moderation for the Palestinian Authority write Michael Kuttner and David Bedein. Read more

ABC says Zygier sabotaged mission

Ben Zygier, the Australian-born Mossad agent, unwittingly scuppered a top-sec ret operation to repatriate the bodies of three Israeli soldiers missing in Lebanon for three decades, according to an ABC report. Read more

Tzedek applies to appear at the Royal Commission

Tzedek, the Jewish organisation which has been established to end the silence on child sexual abuse within the Jewish community, has made an application to appear at the Royal Commission into child abuse. Read more

A private viewing of the Archibald

The Moriah Foundation has hosted  its members and the Moriah College Grandparents Club at a private viewing of the Archibald Exhibition. Read more

Back on his feet

An Australian ultra-marathon runner who was attempting to complete the 1000km Israel Trail is back in action after a foot infection forced him off the course for a week. Read more

Working with Muslims a laughing matter? Maybe….

An Australian Jewish community will hold a comedy debate with its Muslim counterpart. Read more

Carr celebrates Yom Ha’azmaut

Foreign Minister Bob Carr joined with the Australian Jewish community this week in celebrating the Independence Day of the State of Israel. Read more

Friends of Israel v Friends of Palestine

A second member of the NSW Parliament has joined Labor MP Shaoquet Moselmane in supporting a student move to disassociate the University of Sydney from the Technion in Haifa…and Sydney University itself has expressed its thoughts on the affair. Read more

Representing Australian Jewry globally

Two members of the Australian Jewish community have been appointed vice-presidents of the World Jewish Congress Read more

Israel gets Australia’s OK

Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr has said that Israel has a right to defend herself following the air attack on military targets in Syria which may have been involved in the transport of weapons to Hezbollah. Read more

Palestine – Google Goes Ga Ga…writes David Singer

Google has spoken – Palestine is now indeed recognized as a country by the internet giant following the change of tag line on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine”. Read more

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