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Israel’s Yuval Raphael reaches Eurovision Grand Final

Israel’s Yuval Raphael reaches Eurovision Grand Final

Friday, May 16, 2025 at 5:07 pm

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael has advanced to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Grand Final, following a powerful and emotionally resonant performance of her ballad “New Day Will Rise” during Thursday night’s second semifinal in Basel, Switzerland. Read more

ICC cases grind to halt due to Trump sanctions against court, report says

ICC cases grind to halt due to Trump sanctions against court, report says

Friday, May 16, 2025 at 4:55 pm

The work of Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, has ground to a halt since U.S. President Donald Trump slapped the top ICC official with sanctions, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. Read more

Greens continues to focus on Gaza

Greens continues to focus on Gaza

Friday, May 16, 2025 at 4:46 pm

The Greens won’t back down from their stance on issues like Israel’s attacks on Gaza, new leader Larissa Waters says, despite the party losing seats at the federal election. Read more

Sydney University Student council calls for the abolition of Israel

Sydney University Student council calls for the abolition of Israel

Friday, May 16, 2025 at 2:22 pm

At a general meeting of Sydney University’s Student Representative Council, anti-Israel students turned their backs when a Jewish student condemned Hamas. Read more

JCCV launches new strategic plan

JCCV launches new strategic plan

Friday, May 16, 2025 at 12:57 pm

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has launched its new strategic plan, saying that it formalises the work they have already started and that it provides the organisation a clear path forward. Read more

Newborn fights for life after mother killed in terror attack on way to give birth

Newborn fights for life after mother killed in terror attack on way to give birth

Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 6:20 pm

A newborn boy is fighting for his life on Thursday morning after his mother was killed in a Palestinian terror attack while on her way to the hospital to give birth. Read more

Gary Lineker apologises for “antisemitic” post

Gary Lineker apologises for “antisemitic” post

Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 5:42 pm

Football pundit Gary Lineker has “apologised unreservedly” for a social media re-post which featured a picture of a rat saying he would “never knowingly share anything antisemitic”.

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Adass Israel synagogue firebombing – fresh lead

Adass Israel synagogue firebombing – fresh lead

Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 5:25 pm

A stolen blue car may hold the key to solving several high-profile alleged crimes, including an alleged “politically motivated” synagogue firebombing and other arsons and shootings.

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Deputy Knesset Speaker condemns Belgian police raids on mohalim

Deputy Knesset Speaker condemns Belgian police raids on mohalim

Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 5:23 pm

In a strongly worded response to police actions in Belgium, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, MK Rabbi Moshe Roth, has issued an urgent appeal following early morning raids on the homes of mohalim in Antwerp on Wednesday. Read more

UAP Senator says he’ll quit politics after his first term amid outrage over praise for Kanye West’s track ‘Heil Hitler’

UAP Senator says he’ll quit politics after his first term amid outrage over praise for Kanye West’s track ‘Heil Hitler’

Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 12:01 pm

United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet says he plans to quit politics in 2028 at the end of his first term, but not before launching a tirade that has drawn national condemnation for glorifying neo-Nazis and endorsing Kanye West’s antisemitic track ‘Heil Hitler’.

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Third Houthi missile launched at Israel in 24 hours

Third Houthi missile launched at Israel in 24 hours

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 5:24 pm

Israeli air defences early on Wednesday morning intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Yemen, according to the Israel Defence Forces. It was the third such attack since Tuesday night. Read more

New museum opens at Czech industrial site where Schindler saved 1,200 Jews

New museum opens at Czech industrial site where Schindler saved 1,200 Jews

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 5:15 pm

The Museum of Survivors hosted its first visitors this weekend at the site of an old industrial plant in the Czech town of Brněnec 100 miles east of Prague, in an event timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Read more

Freed hostage Edan Alexander not well enough to join Trump in Qatar, family says

Freed hostage Edan Alexander not well enough to join Trump in Qatar, family says

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 7:45 pm

Newly released hostage Edan Alexander is not well enough to travel to Qatar to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, the Hostage and Missing Families Forum said on Tuesday. Read more

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Israeli soccer star strikes to seal crown for England’s Leeds United

Israeli soccer star strikes to seal crown for England’s Leeds United

Monday, May 5, 2025 at 6:58 pm

Israeli international Manor Solomon fired Leeds United to the English Championship title on Saturday with a stoppage-time winner in a 2–1 victory over Plymouth Argyle. Read more

Silver lining as Fox wins second medal at kayak titles

Silver lining as Fox wins second medal at kayak titles

Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 10:43 pm

Olympic champ Noemie Fox has claimed her second medal in two days, clinching silver in the kayak championship at the Canoe Slalom Australian Open in Penrith. Read more

Jessica outfoxes rivals to claim Oceania championship

Jessica outfoxes rivals to claim Oceania championship

Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 11:48 am

Olympic canoe great Jessica Fox has shaken off the competition cobwebs to win the Oceania title in the K1 event, with her sister Noemie in fourth. Read more

Defending cycling Tour champion hurt in race crash

Defending cycling Tour champion hurt in race crash

Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 4:43 pm

British cyclist Stevie Williams, the defending Tour Down Under champion and the No.1 rider for the Israel Premier Tech team, is nursing cuts on an elbow and knee after crashing during the pivotal third stage of this year’s race. Read more

Features and Articles

The gold-plated peacenik in the White House

The gold-plated peacenik in the White House

When Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election last year, many in Israel thought they’d dodged a bullet. Read more

Echoes of a disastrous past

Echoes of a disastrous past

Students of history will recognise current developments as yet another disastrous rerun of past failed political objectives. Read more

Woke Aida

Woke Aida

The opera Aida was composed by Giuseppe Verdi and first performed in 1871. Read more

The useful idiots of Sydney University: a cautionary tale of ignorance and antisemitism

The useful idiots of Sydney University: a cautionary tale of ignorance and antisemitism

If you’ve ever wondered what “useful idiots” look like in 2025, the University of Sydney’s Student Representative Council (SRC) Special General Meeting (SGM) on 14 May provided a textbook case. Read more

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Emor

Shabbat Emor

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The pope’s ‘divisions’ and the war against the Jews

The pope’s ‘divisions’ and the war against the Jews

In an era when religion seems to be in steep decline throughout Europe and North America, it might strike some people as curious that the election of a new pope would be treated as such an earth-shaking event. Read more

Family Romance

Family Romance

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

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More than an ambulance service

More than an ambulance service

Friday, May 16, 2025 at 4:14 pm

From high-tech innovation to humanitarian heroism, Magen David Adom is saving lives every day—and now Australians can step up and help carry the stretcher figuratively. Read more

Nakba Day advice for Melbourne readers

Nakba Day advice for Melbourne readers

Friday, May 16, 2025 at 3:29 pm

The Victorian CSG has advice ahead of Sunday’s Nakba Day march. Read more

Hebrew University Medical students operate “Hospital for Bears” in memory of fallen classmates

Hebrew University Medical students operate “Hospital for Bears” in memory of fallen classmates

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

Students at the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Medicine have held a special event called Hospital for Bears, dedicated to the memory of two of their classmates. Read more

Special barmitzvah for Yehuda

Special barmitzvah for Yehuda

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 5:53 pm

Ahead of his Bar Mitzvah celebrations, Israeli teenager Yehuda Neeman returned to the site where he had received lifesaving treatment as a baby, following a devastating car accident, reuniting with the Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics who saved his life. Read more

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin illuminates moral imagination

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin illuminates moral imagination

Monday, May 12, 2025 at 10:29 am

Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue has hosted the esteemed Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, a celebrated Jewish scholar and New York Times bestselling author, for an insightful lecture on the vital concept of moral imagination. Read more

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Moriah College students excel in HSC 

Moriah College students excel in HSC 

Moriah College’s Class of 2024 has delivered exceptional results in the Higher School Certificate (HSC), underscoring the school’s academic rigour and commitment to holistic student development. Read more

Emanuel School celebrates exceptional 2024 HSC results

Emanuel School celebrates exceptional 2024 HSC results

Sydney’s Emanuel School is celebrating the outstanding achievements of its Class of 2024 in the Higher School Certificate (HSC). Read more

Two Mount Scopus students achieve ATAR score of 99.90

Two Mount Scopus students achieve ATAR score of 99.90

Mount Scopus graduating class’s efforts have gained praise from principal Dan Sztrajt. Read more

Jessica Fox wins another top gong at Sport NSW awards

Jessica Fox wins another top gong at Sport NSW awards

Champion paddler Jessica Fox has won another gong, named Sport NSW’s athlete of a year for a remarkable sixth time.
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Seven-year-old Zachary’s mission to support the wounded

Seven-year-old Zachary’s mission to support the wounded

Seven-year-old Zachary Berman, a Year 1 student at Mount Sinai College in Maroubra, Australia, is turning personal challenges into a mission of compassion. Read more

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