Christopher Pyne opens new learning centre

Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne has opened the new Education Resource Centre at Sydney’s Jewish Museum which now has the capacity to increase the numbers participating in its courses by over 75%. Read more

An award for Sam

Sam Steif has become a ‘Theodor Herzl Founder’ in recognition of his long-standing service to Israel and the Jewish People through the United Israel Appeal of NSW. Read more

Christopher Pyne to open resource centre at SJM

Federal Minister for Education and Training Christopher Pyne will open the state of the art NAB Education and Resource Centre (ERC) at the Sydney Jewish Museum this week. Read more

Yeshiva still on the hook

Reports that Waverley Council is expecting to write off a $10,000 debt owed to it by the Yeshiva Centre have been rebutted by Mayor Sally Betts. Read more

UIA Young Families launched in Sydney

Israel came to Sydney as UIA’s new division, Young Families, celebrated their launch event at the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park on Yom Yerushalayim. Read more

Yom Ha’azmaut celebrated in Sydney

More than 600 people have joined in a belated celebration of Israel’s 67th birthday in Sydney at which NSW Premier Mike Baird was guest of honour. Read more

Slezak turned down by Limmud-Oz

Associate Professor Dr Peter Slezak’s application to present at next month’s Limmd-Oz’s Festival of Jewish Ideas in Sydney has been rejected by the organisation’s board. Read more

Breaking the 18-minute rule…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

In just over a week we will celebrate Passover, which begins with the Pesach Seder. One of the important Mitzvot of the Seder is the eating of Shmura Matzah. Read more

The Road to Realisation

More than 180 people attended at the AGM of Sydney’s Hakoah Club despite there being no election and were “walked through” the Hakoah proposal for the redevelopment plans of the White City site. Read more

TV duo receive two Logies nominations

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Sydney theatre rejects Jewish production

A Sydney theatre has refused to rent its premises to a Jewish group on the grounds that their policy “does not support colonialism/Zionism”. Read more

Hakoah: Differences resolved

The incumbent board of Sydney’s Hakoah Club will hold its AGM on Tuesday free of any threat to its immediate future. Read more

Award for Cremorne

Sydney’s Cremorne Synagogue has been awarded the prestigious Supportive Employer Award for 2015 for support to Rabbi Yossi Friedman,  NSW RAAF chaplain. Read more

JCA not involved “in any way”

JCA  president Stephen Chipkin has written to J-Wire to dispel rumours that the community organisation is involved in “the current dispute” with the board of the Hakoah Club. Read more

Sydney University Disruption: B’nai B’rith has its say

The president of B’nai B’rith NSW has written to Sydney University in the wake of the protest which disrupted a lecture being delivered by Colonel Richard Kemp. Read more

Hakoah: A letter from Frank Lowy

Frank Lowy, former president of Hakoah and currently the club’s patron and one of its Life Governors,  has sent a letter to the club’s members…in favour of the incumbent Board. Read more

Hakoah: She said…he said..he said

The future of Sydney’s Hakoah Club is the focus of intense campaigns by both the incumbent board and a group focused on a different plan for the development of the sporting organisation’s White City site.  David Singer responds to Andrew Boyarsky and Victor Grynberg joins the debate. Read more

The EU peddles diplomatic immunity…writes Ari Briggs

The Jerusalem Municipality has demolished an illegally built structure just moments away from the Hebrew University campus. Read more

After the Royal Commission…

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies has established a Task Force on Child Protection that will focus on the welfare of children in communal institutional settings. Read more

Changing the world – one project at a time

A former Sydney Emanuel School student has taken on the challenge of tackling global poverty by promoting empowerment and autonomy for the women of Kenya. She will relate her remarkable story at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum next week. Read more

Rabbi Selwyn Franklin: NORA and the K-A

Rabbi Selwyn Franklin is the interim president of the New Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia and the vice-president of the NSW Kashrut Authority…a situation which The Executive Council of Australian Jewry finds questionable. Read more

UIA Major Donors: Sydney

Did you attend this years United Israel Appeal’s Major Donors function is Sydney?…Check this photo gallery… Read more

Board asks for action on inflammatory video

The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has written to Stepan Kerkyasharian, the president of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board seeking action to prosecute two Sydney men appearing in an inflammatory video stating “tomorrow you Jews will see what will become of you”. Read more

Dayenu on parade

Dayenu’s float at Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was accompanied by almost eighty participants. Read more

Holocaust Film Series Giveaways

J-Wire has six double passes to give away for the Holocaust Film Series Read more

Pop-up Kosher Nosh

Sydney’s newest luxury hotel, InterContinental Sydney Double Bay will transform its Stockroom into its first pop-up kosher restaurant on 11 March 2015, delivering a spectacular three-course dinner for the local Jewish community. Read more

The Changemakers

B’nai B’rith & JNF will acknowledge those whose contributions have helped society. Read more

New faces at the Beth Din…and a move

The Sydney Beth Din is both delighted and proud to welcome the Sephardi Synagogue’s Rabbi Michael Chriqui as Associate Dayan. Read more

Parisian Jewish family finds a new home…in Sydney

As thousands of French Jews flock to Israel in the wake of terrorist attacks, one Parisian family has made a new home for itself…in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs. Read more

Top speakers for UIA

The NSW United Israel Appeal has a bumper line up of speakers and defenders of Israel to headline its 2015 Campaign. Read more

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