ECAJ’s Alex Ryvchin visits Brisbane

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-Chief Executive Alex Ryvchin travelled to Brisbane this week to meet with state and federal politicians in partnership with the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more

Maccabiah: Australia’s flagbearers announced

Sydney’s Johnny Pillemar and Lauren Ehrlich have named as Australia’s flag bearers when the team marches into Jerusalem’s Teddy stadium on Thursday for the opening ceremony. Read more

Inquisition documentation discovered, digitalized

Nearly 500 years after the Portuguese Inquisition began, rare documentation of its proceedings and victims has been discovered in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at Jerusalem’s National Library of Israel and digitized for the first time. Read more

Men at work vests on the Hakoah site at last

The Sydney White City Project Director Robert Woolf has handed over the key to the site to Parkview Constructions, who will build the new Hakoah. Read more

Forgive us – omitted on the Queen’s Birthday awards list

As expected, we have missed a couple of recipients of the Queen’s birthday awards list. Sorry to Graham and Deborah Read more

Strategic analyst warns of Israel’s increasingly acute security challenges

Brigadier General (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, Senior Project Manager at the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs and former Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy, addressed a recent Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) webinar. Read more

Not the end of Kosher butchery in Sydney

Kosher consumers are by now fully aware of the closure of Kosherworld, comprising both Hadassa Butchery and Katzy’s. Read more

Ehud Olmert to visit digitally

New Israel Fund Australia will host a streaming event with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week. Read more

Antisemitism peaked globally in 2021

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Centre for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Humanities has published its 28th Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide. Read more

ACMA dismisses complaints against ABC’s Q&A Israel/Hamas program

On May 21 last year, the believed disparity of the panel on a Q&A debating the Hamas/Israel conflict resulted in Jewish leadership registering complaints to the ABC but the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has eventually dismissed them. Read more

A 70-kilometre walk to save orphans in Ukraine

Gary Meyers set himself the challenge to complete a 70-kilometre walk from Macquarie Lighthouse in Watsons Bay to Sea Cliff Bridge in Stanwell Park to raise funds for orphans in Ukraine. Read more

Iran, Russia and a potentially disastrous new US-brokered nuclear deal

Dr Jonathan Schanzer, the Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, and a former terrorism finance analyst at the US Department of the Treasury, addressed the latest Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) webinar, where his topic was, “Iran, Russia and a Potentially Disastrous New US Brokered Nuclear Deal”. Read more

Hadassah at the Polish border

Reporting from the Polish border with Ukraine this week, Hadassah’s Dr Shaul Beyth, one of Israel’s most experienced orthopaedic surgeons, observed the Ukrainian refugees fleeing the conflict. Read more

NZJC calls for help for Ukraine’s Jews

The New Zealand Jewish Council has launched a funds drive to finance help for Ukraine’s Jewish community. Read more

SUMMIT UIA: Book now for a campaign with a difference

UIA shares with the community its planned annual event for 2022: Summit UIA. Read more

Israel and Germany’s First Ladies hosts Holocaust survivor

In honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, First Lady of Israel Michal Herzog and First Lady of Germany Elke Büdenbender have hosted Holocaust survivor Charles Siegman. Read more

Global KH-UIA award for Sydney community leader

Sydney communal leader Stephen Cordell was earlier this year honoured with an Order of Australia medal and now has received international acknowledgement for his long-standing honorary leadership as the only Australian to receive the prestigious Yakir Keren Hayesod Award. Read more

Nov-28 to Dec-5 Melbourne: Pillars of Life

A multicultural celebration of Chanukah Read more

New Israeli tech exposes liars through facial muscles

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have employed new facial recognition technology and detected 73% of the lies told by trial participants based on the contraction of their facial muscles, achieving a higher rate of detection than any known method. Read more

Victorian opposition leader Matthew Guy says a Liberal government would be adopt IHRA definition

Zionism Victoria welcomed the announcement made yesterday by Matthew Guy at its Annual Assembly, that a future Victorian Liberal Government would adopt the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism. Read more

Qantas to delete “Occupied Palestinian Territory” and “State of Palestine”

The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) contacted Qantas for urgent clarification, after being alerted by a concerned supporter, that multiple areas of the company’s website appear to take a stand on Middle East politics at odds with Australia’s long-held bi-partisan stance. Read more

Holocaust survivors return to Germany

A March of the Living delegation from Britain has embarked on its first educational journey since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Gandel Foundation continues support for Courage to Care

Melbourne’s Gandel Foundation has recently recommitted its support to Courage to Care for the next three years. Read more

Rabbi Gabi talks with the Governor-General

Melbourne’s ARK Centres’ Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann has had a personal zoom with Governor-General David Hurley and his wife Linda.  Read more

President Herzog to address virtual Innovation Summit

The Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) will host this year’s Innovation Summit on Wednesday, 20 October 2021, providing a unique forum for Australian and Israeli thought leaders to discuss Australia’s post-pandemic readiness and revolution. Read more

Online Hate Prevention Institute welcomes Victorian Government’s response to the anti-vilification inquiry but sounds a warning

The Online Hate Prevention Institute has welcomed the Victorian Government’s response to the Inquiry into anti-vilification protections but warned that the critical issue of online hate, which is fuelling much of the vilification the inquiry investigated, may not be receiving the urgent attention it needs. Read more

A second request to NSW Education Minister to release of information surrounding antisemitic post by education department employee

NSW Labor frontbencher Walt Secord has appealed directly to the Education Minister Sarah Mitchell to intervene and overturn her department’s decision to block for a second time the release of material surrounding an Education department employee who posted antisemitic comments alongside a photo of Adolf Hitler. Read more

Filmmakers focus their lens on the Bowraville murders

In 1990-91 three kids disappeared from an Aboriginal Mission on the same street in Bowraville, a tiny country town in northern NSW: 16-year-old Colleen Walker-Craig, 4-year-old Evelyn Greenup, and 16-year-old Clinton Speedy-Duroux. Read more

Dassi Erlich’s medical records to be handed over the defence

The Australian has reported that Malka Leifer’s defence will receive alleged victim Dassi Erlich’s medical records. Read more

Mark Leibler’s response to the President of the WA Bar Association

Melbourne community identity Mark Leibler has written to Martin Cuerden, the President of the West Australian Bar Association, in response to his letter to Senator Sarah Henderson who suggested that Julian Burnside should “face professional consequences” for tweeting that Israel’s “treatment of the Palestinians looks horribly like the German treatment of the Jews” during World War II. Read more

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