A famous sea disaster’s Jewish aspects

Bound for the relief of the British base at Gibraltar, which was under siege by France and Spain, HMS Royal George of 108 guns was awaiting sailing orders on a fine summer’s morning in 1782, part of a large fleet assembled at the Spithead anchorage off Portsmouth. Read more

Kristallnacht: “White Australia Stood Silent” (Not)

On 7 December 2018, The Guardian’s Australian edition published an article headed ‘Aboriginals stood with Jews against the Nazis – we have a long history together’…writes Hilary Rubinstein. Read more

Let’s stop this distortion of Australian Jewish history

In his Kol Nidrei 5778 sermon, a Melbourne rabbi claimed that Yorta Yorta elder William Cooper’s was “the only known private protest anywhere in the world against the Nazi regime following Kristallnacht”…writes Hilary Rubinstein. Read more