Malcolm plants a tree

Keren Kayemet Le’Israel-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) hosted the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at a planting ceremony at the Grove of Nations in Jerusalem. Read more

Beersheba notebook

It is hard to describe the feelings of being in Israel at this very special moment. Particularly, that of being an Australian in Israel and more specifically, spending yesterday in Beersheba…writes Ron Weiser. Read more

David Southwick sends a Beersheba message from Israel

David Southwick sent a message to 100^th Anniversary of the  Battle of Beer Sheva events at the Victorian Parliament. Read more

Scopus students commemorate the Battle of Beersheba at the Shrine

A group of Years 7 and 8 students from Melbourne’s Mount Scopus College joined over 3000 Victorian school students and dignitaries to pay their respects at a special Light Horse Commemoration Ceremony for the Centenary of the Battle of Beersheba at the Shrine of Remembrance, Read more

WJC condemns NYC terror attack

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has condemned the “senseless” attack that killed up to eight people in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, in what federal US authorities are treating as a terrorist incident. Read more

Loving Vincent – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Loving Vincent is a cinematic ode to the paintings of Vincent van Gogh and cannot be compared to anything else.

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Dame Susan Devoy speaks out about Anti-Semitic Hate Speech from Iranian Embassy in New Zealand

Race Relations Commissioner, Dame Susan Devoy says racism in New Zealand should be ignored “at our peril”. Read more

NAJEX Youth Leadership Awards

NSW Association of Jewish Service & Ex-Service Men & Women (NAJEX) has announced that at its communal Remembrance Day Commemoration and Wreath Laying on Sunday 5 November, it will inaugurate the NAJEX Youth Leadership Awards. Read more

 Forward defends antisemitic cartoon

When the official newspaper of Berkeley published a color caricature of me as a spider-like creature with one leg stomping on a Palestinian child and another holding an IDF soldier spilling the blood of an unarmed Palestinian, there was universal condemnation of what was widely seen as a throwback to the antisemitic imagery of the Nazi era…writes  Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

Ceremony honoring the ANZAC Soldiers who fell during WWI

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara joined Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy and New Zealand Governor General Patsy Reddy and her husband at the memorial ceremony to honor the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fell during WWI marking 100 years since the battle for Be’er Sheba.  Read more

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