The Hebrew University shares the sorrow

A 21-yr-old British student on an exchange program at the Hebrew University was fatally stabbed while travelling on Jerusalem’s light rail. Read more

Thomas L. Friedman to speak in Sydney

New Israel Fund Australia is to hosting a major event in Sydney with New York Times columnist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer Thomas L. Friedman. Read more

Feintooner on the American Syrian attack

Cartoonist Feintooner’s take on the U.S. recent tomahawk missile attack on Syria. Read more

Klezmatics and David Krakauer heading to Australia

In news for lovers of Jewish music, Sydney is set to thrill to a double dose of the finest international world music stars in the genre. Read more

Jewish girl record-breaking power-lifter

In the testosterone-fuelled sport of power-lifting, the last person one expects to see is a slight Orthodox Jewish girl. Since she began competitively lifting at the age of eight, under the coaching of her father, Naomi “Supergirl” Kutin has consistently shocked spectators and lifters alike, lifting nearly three times her bodyweight and breaking one record after another. Read more

Call to preserve Broken Hill’s synagogue and mosque

NSW Labor Shadow Arts Minister Walt Secord has called on NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Arts Minister Don Harwin to provide urgent funding to help preserve the historic Broken Hill Synagogue and Broken Hill Mosque in remote far western NSW. Read more

RememberTheYom

RememberTheYom is a brand-new project created to help remember and honour Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day and to inspire others to create and to view meaningful related images…like this one taken on Sydney’s Bondi Beach Read more

New Israeli ambassador to Australia

London-born Mark Sofer is to become Israel’s ambassador to Australia current following Ambassador Shmuel Ben-Shmuel’s completion of his posting to Canberra. Read more

Terror knows no boundaries

The pervasive myth that maintains terror will vanish if only Israel appeases those dedicated to its destruction was proven yet again to be false this past week…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Holocaust remembrance at home

Ari Wenig has become the Australian organiser for Zikaron BaSalon…an initiative which promotes Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day activities in Australian lounge rooms. Read more

Melbourne’s Holocaust Centre and Maccabi remember Yom HaShoah

To mark Yom HaShoah in 2017, the Jewish Holocaust Centre is partnering with Maccabi Victoria to remember victims of the Holocaust.

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Masa gap year student wins two million shekels

At 19, Alon Moss decided to spend his gap year in Israel and applied for the Masa Israel Aardvark program through the Zionist Federation of Australia’s Israel Program Department…and won two million shekels in a food waste hackathon. Read more

McCully supported UN resolution 2334 without cabinet approval

Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully’s office has confirmed he never had Cabinet approval when New Zealand promoted a United Nations Security Council resolution denouncing Israel, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Winston Peters. Read more

Maccabiah torch on the bridge climb

When Tom York attended the eighth Maccabiah in 1969 with Barry Smorgon, could either of them have imagined a friendship spanning four decades, that would see them top of the iconic Sydney Harbour House on a crisp, pristine Sydney day, waving the Maccabiah torch in a message to be beamed back to friends in Israel and across the Maccabi world? Read more

The man who survived Dr Mengele’s experiments

Benjamin Steiner died in Auckland last week at the age of 81, and as Mark Jennings writes, his life story was unique in many ways. Read more

New Australian ambassador to Israel

Chris Cannan has been appointed  as Australia’s next Ambassador to Israel. Read more

Will the world come around to Israeli public opinion on Palestinian statehood?

While the international community hangs on to visions of a two-state solution, Israeli public opinion is unified in asserting that the establishment of a Palestinian state is unrealistic and undesirable…writes Ariel Ben Solomon/JNS.org. Read more

NSW Parliament hears “Netanyahu is an enemy of peace’

In a private member’s statement in the NSW Parliament Treasurer Dominic Perr0ttet criticised members if Labor and The Greens parties who attended a rally protesting the visit to Sydney  of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

Rivlin visits Israeli medical centre treating Syrians

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has  visited the Western Galilee Medical Centre in Naharia, where met with the medical staff and patients. Read more

JNF combines with Triguboff to aid Bedouins

The Jewish National Fund ​of ​Australia is to join Sydney property billionaire’s Harry Triguboff’s initiative in investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Bedouin sector in Southern Israel. Read more

‘World must not be silent in face of abhorrent slaughter’

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Sunday condemned the deadly terrorist attacks carried out against two different Coptic churches in the Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria, which killed at least 40 people gathered for Sunday services. Read more

United Arab Emirates ranks Technion Number One in engineering and aerospace worldwide

Technion’s Engineering and Aerospace academics have been ranked No. 1 in the world by the United Arab Emirates’ Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) based on their scientific publications.  Read more

Ken Livingstone: enabler of evil…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

I’ve written many times about the antisemitism that continues to plague the British Labour Party—once a noble party of both opposition and government that has now, under its current far-left leader Jeremy Corbyn, become a laughably ineffective opposition with little hope of attaining government leadership.  Read more

Does a terrorist fit in a big Jewish tent?

What’s the one value that the Jewish community should care most about?…asks Jonathan Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

A Passover message from the NSW Premier

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian took time out from  a frantic week ahead of three by-elections to send a Pesach greeting to the Jewish community. Read more

Israel, notified ahead of Trump’s Syria strike, ‘fully supports’ US response to Assad

Israeli leaders welcomed President Donald Trump’s surprise military action late Thursday to strike the airbase where Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was believed to have launched a chemical attack resulting in the deaths of at least 86 Syrians, including 27 children…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more

Simon Wiesenthal Centre honours Shimon Peres

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre and its Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has awarded the Medal of Valor posthumously to the late Ninth President of Israel, Shimon Peres. Read more

Passover: We have reason to rejoice…writes Isi Leibler

Tomorrow, most Israelis, secular as well as observant, will celebrate Passover, the festival of freedom in which we recount our life of slavery and exodus from Egypt and how we became a nation. Read more

Jerusalem mayor cancels San Francisco uni lecture

Jerusalem’s mayor Nir Barkat has cancelled his lecture scheduled on Friday at San Francisco State University citing the double standard of protecting the rights of anti-Israel demonstrators and denying debate. Read more

Shira’s Journey – The Jews of Greece

“Shira’s Journey” is a screenplay by Carol Freeman Gordon, with Photos by Emmanuel Santos…a video story. Read more

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