What is happening at the U.N.?

Last week, the President of the UN General Assembly, Peter Thomson, wore a Palestinian flag as a scarf to mark the UN’s “International Day of Solidarity of the Palestinian People”, a day set in the UN calendar for 29 November. The following day, six Arab-backed anti-Israel resolutions were passed. Read more

14 Jewish groups numbered among a multicultural 18c submission

Fourteen Jewish organisations are among the 68 Victorian multicultural, faith and community groups which have sent a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Speech arguing that the controversial 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act should remain intact. Read more

I am my Brother’s Keeper: Honouring the Righteous Among Nations

Sydney’s  Jewish Museum has launched its latest exhibition in partnership with Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more

Zionist Federation plans for 2017

The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) has reviewed its operations for 2016 and launched its programs and priorities for 2017 a milestone year for the ZFA and the Zionist movement in Australia and worldwide. Read more

Sexual abuse victims welcome apology

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Crackdown on Internet antisemitism

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has welcomed a “long-overdue and praiseworthy” series of initiatives launched recently by internet and social media giants, including Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google and YouTube, to crack down on antisemitism, terrorism, and incitement online. Read more

Netanyahu – Israel and Arabs forging new ties

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American Jewish liberals have lost the plot

Throughout the two thousand years of Jews living in the Diaspora, there has been no precedent comparable to the behaviour of major liberal mainstream sectors of the American Jewish community…writes Isi Leibler.
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Rabbi resigns

Rabbi Shimshon Yurkowicz, Rabbi of Melburne’s Chabad Malvern  has resigned his membership of the Orthodox Rabbinic bodies in Australia. Read more

Jews against 18C

A submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has been presented two members of the Australian Jewish community asking for the repeal of the 18C and 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more

Celebrating Israel – a photo gallery

Did you attend the Celebrating Israel function recently in Sydney? Visit the photo gallery. Read more

Campaign against Facebook misses its mark

An Israel-based civil rights organisation launched its first-ever online campaign in the U.S. today to build public support for a pair of major lawsuits against Facebook, with a provocative video levelling unprecedented charges that the social media giant is inciting terrorism around the world…but an Australian expert says the campaign missing its mark. Read more

Golden Years – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

For the oldies in this British comedy caper, there’s nothing golden about their declining years. After a lifetime of upright citizenship, there’s no back up or recourse when their superannuation funds collapse.

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Rosalie Blum – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

It’s refreshing to watch a French film about ordinary people. .  Filmed in Nevers, a small town in rural France, it’s all about the characters and a plot which hinges on a series of coincidences.

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Wellington celebrates its first sefer torah

The Wellington orthodox Jewish community in New Zealand has celebrated the dedication of the first sefer Torah to be written specifically for the congregation in its 173-year history. Read more

Scrap International Opinion, Build National Consensus: The Key to Ending the Settlement Debate

If you missed the news about the Israeli Air force’s alleged bombing of an arms convoy belonging to Hezbollah and a Syrian Army site in Damascus, you’re not alone. Read more

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin addresses a summit of publishers and writers of Jewish world-wide media outlets

President Rivlin welcomed the participants to Israel and noted that the media, and Jewish communities were faced by many challenges, and thanked them for their dedication to the community and to the press. Read more

What are the origins of the dreidel?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi  Raymond Apple provides answers  on questions relating to Judaism… Read more

UN president slammed for wearing a Palestinian scarf

Israel’s Ambassador to United Nation has spoken out against UN General Assembly president Peter Thomson wearing a Palestinian scarf whilst addressing a session. Read more

Permanent Holocaust exhibition in Canberra

The Australian War Memorial has launched a new permanent exhibition “The Holocaust: witnesses and survivors”. Read more

Beyond language and geography…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

This past Sunday night I attended the annual Kinus Hashluchim (conference of Chabad emissaries) banquet together with 4000 colleagues from around the world.  Read more

An answer to Cathy O’Toole

In a speech to the Australian House of Representatives earlier this week Labor MP Cathy O’Toole presented a highly distorted account of the events that led to a three-month imprisonment of Dima al-Wawi, a Palestinian minor who tried to stab an Israel security guard with a knife…writes Professor Gerald Steinberg. Read more

New faces at Maccabi Australia

Maccabi Australia has marked several changes to the Maccabi Australia board, the most significant of which was the addition of three new board members in Julian Dunne, Daniel Parasol and Dean Rzechta. Read more

Inflammatory consequences…writes Michael Kuttner

Incendiary incitement usually results in a burning desire to take action and so it proved this past week. Read more

Forbidden Music: Composers banned by the Third Reich

A monthly series by Stevie Whitmont of vignettes of Jewish composers banned in by Nazis. This month features Henriëtte Bosmans. Read more

Trump and Israel…writes Ron Weiser

Since his election, Donald Trump has said remarkably little on Israel at all. Read more

Community welcomes the Royal Commission report

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has commended the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for its report into the response of Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne to allegations of child sexual abuse made against people associated with those institutions. Read more

NCJWA ‘Celebrating Israel’ Annual Event

The 12^th Anniversary of the annual National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NJCWA) ‘Celebrating Israel’ event commemorated the establishment of Israel through a series of cultural depictions. Read more

Limmud Fest 2016 brings 200+ People to the Central Coast

With 220 people in attendance, a stunning campsite and perfect weather, this Limmud Fest 2016 weekend of Jewish thought and ideas was high successful. Read more

Gassing sheep

The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has accepted Senator Culleton’s clarification that in his comments— “This will show that the ANZ bank came in and misled the farmers. In actual fact, said, ‘Come take a shower’, and gassed them.”—  he did not mean to refer to the Holocaust but to a mass gassing of sheep that took place in Australia in the 1990s. Read more

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