May-03 Sydney: The Jewish Comedy Showcase is back with a stellar line-up of the best Jewish comedians

A Sydney Comedy Festival must-see, with rising stars and established knockouts, this sensational showcase will be held at The Comedy Store on Wednesday 3rd of May. This event always sells out, so make sure you book tickets quickly. Read more

The Jewish Comedy Showcase is back with a stellar line-up of the best Jewish comedians

A Sydney Comedy Festival must-see, with rising stars and established knockouts, this sensational showcase will be held at The Comedy Store on Wednesday 3rd of May. This event always sells out, so make sure you book tickets quickly. Read more

Errol joins Jewish House

Sydney-based community service organisation Jewish House has welcomed Errol Jacobson to its team as a clinical consultant and active member of the Clinical Governance Committee. Read more

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra hires assistant of former Putin confidante

A former personal assistant of a confidante of Russian President Vladimir Putin is the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s new head of artistic operations. Read more

Where Holocaust commemoration succeeded and where it failed

In the 1980s, as the generation of Holocaust survivors began to age, the Jewish world found itself pondering some relevant questions: What would happen after the last of the survivors were gone? Who would then bear witness to the greatest crime in history? And how could we ensure that their legacy did not die with them? Read more

Nearly half of the world’s Jews live in Israel

At the start of 2022, there were a total of 15.3 million Jews in the world, 7 million of whom, roughly 46% of all Jews worldwide, resided in Israel, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics revealed on Sunday. Read more

Israeli government moves to tackle haredi draft conundrum

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting on Sunday to address a longstanding issue pertaining to drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israel Defence Forces. Read more

Nearly 150,000 Shoah survivors live in Israel

The number of Holocaust survivors living in Israel stands at nearly 150,000, according to statistics published on Sunday by the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more

Report on antisemitism worldwide finds orthodox Jews main target of antisemitic assaults

A report released on Monday ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day saw a sharp increase in the number of antisemitic incidents in the US and other Western countries and that Orthodox Jews are the main victims of physical assaults. Read more

Netanyahu visits the Dee family during shiva

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has paid a condolence visit to the Dee family in Efrat. Read more

Hamas gambles and wins on Saudi Arabia

Hamas gambled on Saudi Arabia years ago, and for the first time in years, a delegation of the Palestinian terror group’s highest leaders is visiting Saudi Arabia to mend fences. Read more

Q. Why do (Orthodox) synagogues not allow the use of organ music?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

An analyst discusses Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

An analyst has finally surfaced to break ten months of silence by analysts worldwide refusing to analyse or discuss the 2022 Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution. Read more

NSW government funds for multicultural events

Multicultural NSW has launched a new $550,000 program to allow community organisations to host grassroots festivals and events. Read more

Why does God let us suffer?

Ask the rabbi! Read more

Predictable Agendas

Only those who are genetically biased or living in la la land could fail to discern the predictable preordained script which has unfolded this Pesach. Read more

Lawyer group calls for UN to fire ‘special rapporteur’ Francesca Albanese

Israel suffered a spate of deadly terror attacks at the end of last week: Two young Jewish sisters, and their mother, were shot on April 7, the second day of Passover, and an Italian tourist was hit by a car in Tel Aviv. Read more

Half a million people visited Jerusalem’s Western Wall despite tensions

Despite security tensions with Palestinians on the Temple Mount, “about half a million people” visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during the week-long holiday of Passover. Read more

Five patients receive organs from terror victim Leah Dee

Five Israeli individuals have already received organs donated from Leah Dee, who died on Monday of injuries from a Palestinian terror attack. Read more

The Holocaust and the Australian Aboriginal response

Biographer Barbara Miller has published a handbook online focusing on Australia’s response to the events leading up to and during the Holocaust. Read more

Senior Israeli military officer reprimanded for unauthorized meeting with Itamar Ben-Gvir

A senior Israeli military commander was reprimanded by the Israeli Forces for an unauthorised meeting with Minister of Public Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, an IDF spokesperson confirmed on Thursday morning. Read more

May-02 10:45am SBS-World Movies: The Song of Names

Tim Roth and Clive Owen star in this sweeping historical drama about a man searching for his childhood best friend – a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust – who vanished decades before on the night of his first solo concert. Read more

May-03 2:45pm SBS-Viceland: Cyberwar

Israel is one of the world’s cyber superpowers. So how did this tiny nation grow so strong, and who is it targeting? Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joseph George Raphael

Joseph was born on 16 February 1818 in London.  He was the son of Phillip Raphael a merchant, and his wife Grace Raphael. Read more

Julian Leeser quits front bench to back voice referendum

Shadow attorney-general Julian Leeser has quit the front bench after his party room decided to oppose a constitutionally enshrined voice to advise parliament and executive government. Read more

Rabbi Leon Dee calls April10 Dees Day

His wife and two of his daughters were murdered in Israel on Friday. A family of seven was to become a family of four. He talks to the media. Read more

A new post for Walt

Following his retirement from politics, Walt Secord has changed his position as a NSW Upper House State Labor to become the Director of Public Affairs at The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. Read more

Pear-Shaped: A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Having closely watched all 75 minutes of Pear-Shaped, I remain utterly confused about what I just saw. Read more

“You can’t be a Zionist and a pessimist”

JNF NSW guest speaker Prof Gil Troy, award-winning American presidential historian and leading Zionist activist, has inspired audiences in VIC and NSW. Read more

Leah Dee dies of injuries from terror attack

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