Shalom partners with Hakoah

Sydney’s Shalom has signed up to be the first announced preferred partner of Hakoah at Sydney’s White City. Read more

WATCH: President Herzog wishes Shana Tova to Jewish World, his ‘extended family’

In honour of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year to be celebrated on Tuesday and Wednesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog has released a special greeting for Diaspora Jewry, wishing everyone “a year of health and of coming together.” Read more

NSW Education Department “reviewing” its decision to block release of information surrounding antisemitic post

The NSW State Government has agreed to an “internal review” of its decision to block the release of documents relating to an Education department employee who posted antisemitic comments alongside a photo of Adolf Hitler on the Australasian Union of Jewish Students’ Facebook page. Read more

Bennett’s office: no plans to meet with Abbas

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had no plans to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas, his office clarified yesterday after the media had reported on a pending meeting. Read more

Prime Minister at first day of school

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Education Minister Dr Yifat Shasha-Biton and Yerucham Mayor Tal Ohana, yesterday opened the 2021-2022 school year. at the Eli Cohen Meuchad School in Yerucham. Read more

Wearing a kippah, man attacked on his way to Shul as son watches

A 48-year old Jewish man has been punched and abused in a Brisbane city street, during broad daylight, while on the way to the synagogue with his 11-year old son last Shabbat. Read more

Satisfaction in Ramallah following Gantz-Abbas meeting

Great satisfaction was registered in Ramallah following the meeting on Sunday night between Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Read more

The Chief Rabbi’s Rosh Hashanah message

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is the spiritual leader of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. His Rosh Hashanah message. Read more

2.4 million Israeli students return to class amid COVID-19 wave

Some 2,458,000 Israeli children from kindergarten through high school returned to class on Wednesday and began the school year, amid a high Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection rate in the country. 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

ECAJ discusses national curriculum with education minister

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has met with the Federal Minister for Education and Youth  Alan Tudge to discuss the national curriculum which is currently under review by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.  Read more

Gazans riot, Bennett approves relief for Strip

Hamas-led riots continued on the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel on Tuesday night, as Naftali Bennett’s government approved more relief for the Strip. Read more

JCCV hosts Nina Bassat Book Launch

A moving and personal account of child survival has been captured in Nina Bassat’s memoir, “Take the Child and Disappear”. Read more

Is Israel an apartheid state?

Like many New Zealanders over the age of 50 I can still vividly recall the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour of New Zealand. Read more

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