Prioritise the defense of living Jews while honouring the six million

As Jews around the world commemorate the Holocaust at annual Yom Hashoah ceremonies, the topic on the minds of many of those present will be the dwindling number of survivors present. Read more

Children in crosshairs: The lasting, chilling effect of the Führer

The small Jewish boy from Berlin stood a few meters from Adolf Hitler. Read more

Yom HaShoah in Perth

This year’s Yom Hashoah commemoration in Perth’s Carmel Primary School Hall was well attended by the Perth Jewish community, Survivors, friends and several WA State and Federal politicians, and diplomats. Read more

Judeophobia Recycled

Yom Hashoah this year is being commemorated by Jewish communities worldwide amidst the biggest upsurge of hate and incitement since the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945. Read more

‘King of Kink’ show opens at Jewish Museum

Fans of Helmut Newton’s iconic fashion images might be surprised to learn the acclaimed photographer spent years labouring in the Australian Army and was even detained as an enemy alien, assigned to latrine duties. Read more

University of Melbourne’s Students’ Union passes motion supporting Palestine and BDS

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has strongly condemned the motion which was passed 10-6. Read more

‘Memory that makes us grow’: Israel remembers the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust

The State of Israel marked the beginning of Yom HaShoah, its national Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, on Wednesday night with an official ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in memory of six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Read more

New Holocaust centre on IDF base designed to inspire

In the winter of 1945, a time when 10-year-old Yitzhak Perlmutter spent his days pushing wheelbarrows full of coal from train to factory in Möllersdorf, a concentration camp subcamp, saving his extra piece of bread each day for his little sister, the youngster could not possibly have envisioned that he’d have children of his own someday, much less grandchildren. Read more

Yom HaShoah in Sydney

In Sydney, almost 2000 members of the NSW Jewish community watched the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ Yom Hashoah commemoration, both in-person and online. Read more

L’Chaim – To Life: Yom HaShoah commemoration program

Maurice Klein chats with 87-year-old Holocaust survivor, Gidon Lev, author of “The True Adventures of Gidon Lev” and now a Tik Tok sensation. Read more

IDF recruiting reserve battalions amid security tensions

The IDF has announced it has decided to recruit reserve battalions in the coming weeks amid existing security tensions and a fear of further deterioration. Read more

On Yom HaShoah eve, Muslims on Temple Mount call for massacre of Jews

Muslims gathering at the Temple Mount on Wednesday night for the Laylat al-Qadr events marched while calling for the massacre of Jews, as the State of Israel commenced with events marking Yom HaShoah, its national Holocaust remembrance day. Read more

Shabbat Acharei Mot: Arrogance

Previously in Leviticus Chapter 9, the two sons of Aaron, Nadav, and Avihu had watched and participated in the dedication of the priests and the tabernacle. Read more

Downton Abbey: A New Era – a movie review by Alex First

Set in 1928, the matriarch of the Crawley family – The Dowager, Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) – may be in failing health, but she has lost none of her bite. Read more

Deves accepts invite to Jewish Museum

Controversial Liberal candidate Katherine Deves has accepted an offer to visit the Sydney Jewish Museum following comments she made comparing her anti-transgender lobbying to opponents of the Holocaust. Read more

Glen Eira Council adopts the IHRA definistion of antisemitism

Following a scare that prompted creating a petition, the Glen Eira Council passed the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism on Tuesday evening with a 6-1 vote in favour. Read more

The here and now of Holocaust remembrance

It is of tragic relevance that anti-Jewish Arab riots, rocket fire and hate-filled solidarity protests around the world have upstaged the lead-up to Yom Hashoah, which begins on Wednesday evening. Read more

Macron’s clear French victory underscores unease with Le Pen’s extremist baggage

The Jewish establishment across France and Europe breathed a sigh of relief on Sunday as President Emmanuel Macron cruised to re-election, earning 58% of the vote against Marine Le Pen’s 42%. Read more

When religion meets the barbell: Women’s powerlifting in Israel

Powerlifting competitions (known as “meets”) have been out of reach for many religious women who follow laws of modesty of dress, due to the International Powerlifting Federation requirement of competing in front of coed judges and audiences in a singlet, which exposes the arms and legs. 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

Bullet in the mail for Prime Minister Bennett and his family

Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett has received a death threat in the mail levelled at both himself and his family. Read more

IAF bombs targets in Syria, four soldiers killed – report

The Israeli Air Force (AIF) carried out an airstrike in the vicinity of Damascus on Monday night, during which four Syrian soldiers were killed, Syria’s state media reported. Read more

Israel welcomes 15,000 from Europe since outbreak of war in Ukraine

Some two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, Israel’s Ministry of Immigration and Absorption welcomed about 8,800 Olim (new immigrants) from Ukraine, about 5,800 from Russia, and about 400 from Belarus, as part of the historic operation for emergency reception of refugees from Ukraine and its environs. Read more

Wendy Sharpe: Site Unseen

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‘A small step for Man, a big step for Israel’: Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe returns to Earth

The second Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe and the crew of the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down off the coast of Florida on Monday night, after more than two weeks in space. Read more

Henry Greener chats with Jayne Josem

Jayne Josem heads the newly-named Melbourne Holocaust Museum. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: Isaac Nathan – the first European musician of repute to settle in Australia

Isaac was born on 24 January 1790 in Canterbury, England, the eldest son of Cantor Menehem Mona, a Polish refugee language master, who believed himself to be the son of Stanislaus II, last king of Poland. Read more

Arab-Israeli organisation to mark Holocaust Day in Auschwitz in Arabic

The Arab-Israeli “Together Vouch for Each Other” organization has dispatched a delegation that will mark Yom HaShoah, in Auschwitz in a special ceremony in Arabic, the first of its kind. Read more

World Jewish popluation still below 1939 figures

The number of Jews worldwide is 1.4m less than it was in 1939. Read more

Holocaust memories at the president’s home

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog have hosted a special Remembrance in the Living Room event at the President’s Residence. Read more

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