New CEO for the Zionist Federation of Australia

The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) has announced the appointment of Alon Cassuto as its new CEO, to lead the organisation through the most challenging times faced by Australia’s Jewish community. Read more

Instruction for schools over Palestine student strike

Victorian schools will be instructed not to turn a blind eye to students walking out of classrooms for a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: The Right Honourable Sir Matthew Nathan – an extraordinary life as a Colonial Officer

Matthew was born on 3 January 1862 in Paddington, London. Read more

Mixed-gender battalion fights in Gaza for first time

For the first time, a mixed-gender battalion of combat and rescue fighters is fighting inside the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defence Forces announced on Sunday. Read more

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Hostage marks ninth birthday in Hamas captivity

Emily Hand was among the some 240 people kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 and taken back to the Gaza Strip. Her ninth birthday was on Friday. Read more

Liel’s remains identified

The remains of the 12-year-old Israeli girl whose family members held a symbolic funeral at Kibbutz Revivim, burying her belongings, have been identified. Read more

Feitooner

This week’s cartoon: O say can you sea? Read more

“Antisemitism within our motu”

“There is no place in New Zealand for the threats, assaults, school bullying, graffiti, property damage, and the open anti-Jewish antagonism in social media and inflammatory public rhetoric which are threatening to our community and harmful to the country’s social cohesion,” said Juliet Moses, recently-elected President of the New Zealand Jewish Council (NZJC). Read more

Grotesque vandalism

The leader of Victoria’s Jewish community has condemned the antisemitic vandalism perpetrated in Melbourne’s CBD. Read more

Outgoing, incoming NZ government spat over Israel-Hamas

The conflict in the Middle East has become a contested political issue in New Zealand after the incoming government declined to support Labour’s call for a ceasefire. Read more

Biden: Forget Friedman & United Nations – focus on HKOPS

New York Times Foreign Affairs Opinion Columnist –Thomas Friedman – has offered President Biden some appalling advice in his latest op-ed. Read more

Israel says soldier executed, foreign hostages held

Israel has stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses at the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its devastating six-week-old offensive. Read more

What do the Palestinians want?

What do the Palestinians want? Read more

Farewell to Liel, 12-year-old victim of Hamas

KIBBUTZ REVIVIM: Clothes. Perfume. Sewing materials from school. Read more

Is Britain going wobbly on Israel?

After the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom, Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came out in emotional support of Israel, stating that it had “an absolute right to defend itself.” Read more

Awards at JCCV AGM

The 2023 JCCV General Sir John Monash Award was presented to Pauline Rockman at the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) AGM on Monday night. Read more

On the other hand

Israel and Jew haters on every continent continue to display their vicious venom. Read more

Counter-terrorism sanctions on Hamas supporters

The Australian Government has imposed counter-terrorism financing sanctions on eight persons and one entity in response to the acts of terrorism perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Read more

Hipkins and NZ Labour call for Israel-Hamas ceasefire

The New Zealand Labour Party has called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict, breaking with caretaker conventions to declare its policy. Read more

Elon Musk: ‘From the River to the Sea’ implies genocide, users will be suspended

Elon Musk, owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said on Friday that people using terms such as “from the river to the sea” and “decolonization” would have their accounts suspended. Read more

Death toll from Oct 7 music festival massacre rises to 350

The death toll from Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack at the Nova Music Festival was raised from 260 to 350, with officials stressing the number could rise more as new information surfaces. Read more

Two Holocaust missions in Amsterdam for Anne

In 2015, during a visit to Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House, a Sydney Jewish Museum’s curatorial volunteer, Anne Slade, was asked by the then International Project Manager at the House, Levien Rouw, to undertake the task of locating people who had written to Otto Frank, Anne’s father, following the publication of the Diary of Anne Frank. Read more

Palestinian Authority should govern Gaza: Biden

US President Joe Biden says the Palestinian Authority should ultimately govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank following the Israel-Hamas war. Read more

‘Tentative deal’ for Gaza hostages: Washington Post

The White House is disputing a report that Israel, the US and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free dozens of women and children being held hostage in Gaza. Read more

A Very Jewish Christmas Carol (MTC)

A MTC theatre review by Alex First Read more

March to Jerusalem calls for top priority on hostages

Thousands of family members and supporters of some 240 hostages held in Gaza have streamed into Jerusalem, castigating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over his management of the war with Hamas. Read more

Sheezel primed for big AFL pre-season after US trip

Nick Daicos and a working holiday in the United States have given Harry Sheezel inspiration as the North Melbourne young gun prepares for his second AFL season. Read more

IDF finds murdered hostage

The body of IDF soldier Corporal Noa Marciano, abducted by Hamas, was removed by IDF troops from a structure adjacent to the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip and transferred to Israeli territory. Read more

US will not share intel on Hamas and Al Shifa hospital

The US will not share any Israeli intelligence or elaborate on its own assessment that Hamas used Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital as a command centre and possibly as a storage facility, White House spokesman John Kirby says. Read more

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