AusAid has suspended aid to Union of Agricultural Work Committee which is an agency of the proscribed terror organisation the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Read More »

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The Jewish community is a funny animal. Two weeks ago, on February 10, I brought to the attention of senior community leadership news of a story that was going to break that would put a spotlight on the Jewish community…writes Michael Barnett. Read More »

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KTC Primary Year 4 and 5 boys have attended the formal launch of the National Basketball League’s new Community Program, in Sydney. Read More »

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Martin Indyk, who was raised in Australia and was a two- time United States ambassador to Israel, and Ronni Kahn, founder and CEO of the food rescue organisation OzHarvest, have become inaugural patrons of the Australian branch of the New Israel Fund. Read More »

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The second Sydney Symphony Orchestra concert in the Ausgrid series was on safe ground when it came to programme choice…writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read More »

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A record 166 entrants competed at the 62nd NSW Jewish Swimming Championships last Sunday. Read More »

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The Maccabi rugby club has pulled off one of Maccabi sport’s great coaching coups with the appointment of former Wallabies fullback and Australian rugby legend Glen Ella as coach for 2012. Read More »

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At a function launching the revitalised NSW Parliamentary Israeli Friendship Group, Israel’s ambassador to Australia expressed his farewell to the pro-BDS Greens who drove last year’s anti-Israel campaign in the inner-Sydney suburb of Marrickville. Read More »

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The president of Ben Gurion University and members of its academic staff have addressed meetings in Sydney on technology and water preservation. Read More »

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The Australian Council of Jewish Schools has announced that it will be part of the consultation process following the release of the Gonski Report into the Review of Funding for Schooling. Read More »

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Earlier this month, the noted American commentator and jurist Alan Dershowitz wrote a thought provoking article entitled ‘How the Hard Left, By Focusing Only on Israel, Encouraged Arab Despotism’…writes Emily Gian. Read More »

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The NSW State Liberal MP for Coogee Bruce Notley-Smith and the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Shelley Hancock are the latest high-profile visitors to Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen. Read More »

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A Sydney-based company is selling Kosher food on line…and half their clients are not Jewish. Read More »

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In June 2011, Peter Beinart a former editor of the staunchly pro-Israel New Republic, published a controversial essay in the left wing New York Review of Books, headlined “The failure of the American Jewish Establishment”…writes Isi Leibler. Read More »

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Over 660 people gathered at Jewish Care’s Gala Dinner, recently held at Melbourne’s Caulfield Racecourse, launching the 2012 Annual Appeal in support of those in need in the Victorian community. Read More »

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The plight of Jewish refugees displaced from Arab lands was discussed at a meeting in Sydney last night. Read More »

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Israeli music icon David Broza is scheduled for concerts in Sydney and Melbourne next month. J-Wire spoke to him at his home in Tel Aviv. Read More »

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Hakoah’s White City complex will proved youth group Betar with a new home…the first headquarters they have had in five years. Read More »

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Emanuel School’s Talia Rubenstein Emanuel School cheered to patients at SYdney’s Prince of Wales Public Hospital, Randwick and the Wolper Jewish Hospital, delivering 280 red roses with a smile. Read More »

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Lore Zusman, a Perth-based JNF Blue Box Collector has received JNF Australia’s highest honour. Read More »

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The way attacks were conducted against the car of an Israeli diplomat’s wife in Delhi has contributed to an interesting, if disconcerting theory among pundits…writes Emanuele Ottolenghi. Read More »

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Rabbi Michoel Gourarie asks and answers questions about lying… Read More »

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Are you looking for an ice-breaker, a way to really get to know someone?…writes Odile Faludi. Read More »

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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released its “Education at a Glance ” naming Israel as the second most educated country in the world. Read More »

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Being one of his greatest fans, I’d always wanted to meet Vladimir Ashkenazy, principal conductor of the Sydney Symphony and legendary pianist. It happened last week, most unexpectedly…writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read More »

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NSW Labor Upper House MP and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair, Walt Secord has made a self-funded genocide study tour to Israel, Armenia, Iraqi Kurdistan and Auschwitz-Birkeneau. Read More »

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The Obama administration formally announced its intention this week to ask Congress to waive a ban on American funding of 22% of UNESCO’s budget following UNESCO’s decision to admit “Palestine” as its 195th member state on 31 October 2011…writes David Singer. Read More »

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Gershon Wachtel is heading Down Under to appear at the Sydney Yeshiva’s Gala Dinner next week…he is a pianist for whom life has composed a sad sonata. Read More »

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The Governor of New South Wales, Professor Marie Bashir has launched the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read More »

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The final group of this summer’s Taglit Birthright Israel program left Australia last week for Israel, completing one of the most successful years of the Australian Israel short term experience. Read More »

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Gabrielle Upton, the NSW Liberal member for Vaucluse, has condemned attacks on Israeli diplomats. Read More »

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Rabbi Motti Seligson who attained his smicha at Sydney’s Yeshiva College and worked for two years at Bondi’s Central Synagogue has interviewed Oprah Winfrey. Watch the video… Read More »

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Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence spoke to members of the judiciary at Sydney’s The Great Synagogue’s annual Law Service last week. Read More »

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More than 700 members of the Sydney Jewish community watched the film made Tamar Pross as she chronicled four of the five tortuous years experienced by Aviva and Noam Shalit as they fought a daily battle for the freedom of their son Gilad, held captive by Hamas for five years. Read More »

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This week we woke to the news that two Israeli Embassies had been struck by car bombs, one in New Dehli, India and the other in Tbilisi, Georgia. 
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Victorian Liberal Senator Helen Kroger has said that SBS has appeared to have made a business decision to screen the controversial series “The Promise” even though reports said “it was offensive to the Jewish community”. Read More »

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In a statement from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia has condemned the attacks on Israeli diplomat in India and Georgia. Read More »

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A revitalised NSW Parliamentary Israeli Friendship Group will be launched in NSW State Parliament next week. Read More »

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Melissa Parke, the Federal Labor Member for Fremantle moved a motion in Parliament last night on the subject of Human Rights in Iran. The Liberal Member for Higgins Kelly O’Dwyer, brought into play President Ahmadinejad’s views on Israel, the Holocaust and questioned the silence of the Greens. Read More »

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A Sydney accountant has swapped the field of international tax at for a new set of challenges at the heart of the Israeli economy. Read More »

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Rabbi Mendel Kastel CEO of Jewish House was one of the CEO’s at Oz Harvest’s CEO Cookoff last week which fed 1000 disadvantaged people. Read More »

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The Embassies of Israel in Australia and New Zealand in a joint effort with the ReaganMilstein Foundation have donates sporting goods to the people of Tonga. Read More »

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or the first time since 1947 the NSW Association of Jewish ex Servicemen and Women has updated its constitution and has welcomed the introduction of junior members. Read More »

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Daniel Gordis is the president of the Shalem Foundation in Jerusalem, a prize-winning author, regular columnist for the Jerusalem Post and a respected commentator. He is currently in Australia. We spoke to him in Israel prior to his departure… Read More »

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A night at a Leonard Cohen concert resulted in a CityRail Tribunal after a Bondi couple were confronted by a rail official who repeatedly remarked that “they’re all Jews living in the Eastern Suburbs. They can afford to get a taxi. Read More »

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Gabrielle Upton, NSW State Member for Vaucluse has visited Jewish House as it celebrate its refurbishment and recognises the NSW Government’s contribution to the costs. Read More »

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ABC-TV’s Lateline broke a story last night on an abattoir near Sydney which authorities have shut down after hidden cameras had revealed alleged cruelty to animals. The abattoir in question is the source of Kosher meat in the Sydney region. Read More »

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The 144 Australian Shnatties landed and started their gap year on a high at the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA)/Australian Zionist Youth Council (AZYC) opening seminar at the beginning of the month. Read More »

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Before leaving Brazil at the end of the Pan America Games, the Maccabi Australia team donated its strips and medical supplies to underprivileged children. Read More »

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The United States Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey, Bleich, dropped in to Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen today…and prepa… Read the rest Read More »

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Most normal human beings have a desire to pursue moral behaviour..writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie. Read More »

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UNESCO seems set to preside over a looming global humanitarian crisis as it continues to struggle in its efforts to cope with the loss of $260 million – 22% of its projected budget – until the end of 2013…writes David Singer. Read More »

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Climate change and the encroaching desert will be the topic for a public lecture hosted by the Jewish National Fund NSW next week. Read More »

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A TV production company is looking for a young Jewish adult to swap homes with a member of another religion for two weeks in order to learn how the other half lives. Read More »

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J-Wire welcomes to its ranks Fraser Beath McEwing…its new music critic. Read More »

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Students from Emanuel School ranging from 3 to 18 years picked up spades and shoveled soil to celebrate Tu B’Shevat. Read More »

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The Sydney Symphony began its 80th year of music-making with a whimper, than a bang…writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read More »

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