Israel fires at Hamas target after attack

Israel has fired on a target in the Gaza Strip, in response to a rocket attack, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says. Read more

Iron Dome battery intercepts rocket launched from Gaza over Israel’s south

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at Israel on Monday night, triggering warning sirens in Israeli communities across the border. The Israel Defence Forces said an Iron Dome air-defence battery successfully intercepted the projectile in mid-air. Read more

George Stein: 1927 – 2022

Dad was born on the 1/2/1927 to Mikosh (Mikhael) Stein. He passed away yesterday. 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

Beverly Hills residents wake up to antisemitic flyers on first day of Passover

Antisemitic flyers blaming Russia’s nearly two-month-long war in Ukraine on Jews were left in front of homes in Beverly Hills, Calif., on the first day of Passover. Read more

From Australia’s past: Moritz Michaelis – a true mensch in every sense of the word

Moritz was born on 8 November 1820 at Lügde Hanover Germany.  His father was a learned and enthusiastic Talmud scholar. Read more

A seder for Scott

Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended the Shabbat/Passover service 0n Friday night at the Ark Centre in Melbourne’s Hawthorn East. Read more

On the other hand

This is the thirtieth year that we will be celebrating Pesach in the Promised Land. Read more

Muslims use ancient artifacts to block Jewish visits to Temple Mount

Muslim vandals blocked this morning the paths on the Temple Mount on which the Jewish visitors usually traverse with rocks metal polls, and ancient artifacts, some apparently dating to the Second Temple era some 2,000 years ago. Read more

Violence threatened and PA alleges ‘Judaization and ethnic cleansing’ on Temple Mount

Senior Islamic Jihad official Muhammad Shalach said in an interview Sunday that the terror factions in Gaza Strip are “determined to respond at all costs” if Israel causes a large number of casualties, a “massacre” as he put it, during the IDF’s counterterrorism operation in Jenin, or if a Passover offering is sacrificed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Read more

Jordan and Israel need to act to end Jew-hatred in Jerusalem

Jordan’s failure to promote interfaith relations between Muslims and Jews has once again witnessed rioting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Read more

Victorian Daniel Andrews send a Pesach message

It gives me great pleasure to wish the Victorian Jewish community good health, happiness and peace during Passover this year. Read more

French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen: Jerusalem must be capital of two states

“Jerusalem must become the capital of both states, Israel and a Palestinian state, pending a negotiated settlement of the conflict,” said French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen during a press briefing on foreign policy issues. Read more

On frontlines and borderlines: JDC The Joint races to assist refugee situation in Eastern Europe

A small family from Kyiv seeking to leave Ukraine early after the fighting broke out contacted the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, commonly known as the JDC or the Joint, for help. Read more

Freedom isn’t possible without a nation

It’s the most popular Jewish holiday of the year. Though the fastest-growing and perhaps soon to be the largest sector of American Jewry is the one demographers call “Jews of no religion,” Passover is still the one holiday that is widely observed. Read more

Real freedom

America is obsessed with slavery and its ramifications and rightly so. But it is less concerned with the idea of freedom and what that means. Read more

Passover road map

It may in the end have taken forty years to get here but the road map couldn’t have been clearer. 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

Four Jews arrested for planning to sacrifice Passover offering on Temple Mount

Police arrested four Israeli Jews who stated they had plans to sacrifice a lamb on Friday on the Temple Mount ahead of the Passover holiday. Read more

The weakest link

It turns out that the weakest link in Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett’s eight party coalition government is Naphtali Bennett. Read more

Three terrorists killed during IDF counterterrorism ops

Israeli security forces continued their counterterrorism operation throughout Judea and Samaria on Wednesday night, part of Operation Wave Breaker, during which three terrorists were killed. Read more

A Seder with the Herzogs

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog will host a traditional Seder night at the President’s Residence for the first time. Read more

Don’t let the Seder be a bore

The text of the Hagadah that we use today, goes back a thousand years although its origins are Mishnaic, two thousand years ago. Read more

UIA world leaders visit Poland and Ukraine

Steven Lowy, Chairman, World Board of Trustees and Sam Grudwerg World Chairman headed a two-day mission to Poland and Ukraine. Here is their report: Read more

From Israel with love: six 4×4 ambulances

Magen David Adom has donated six all-terrain (4×4) ambulances to the people of Ukraine. Read more

Students unite with brothers and sisters from Ukraine

UIA recently collaborated with Jewish Primary Schools in Sydney to connect students to their Jewish brothers and sisters in Ukraine who have suddenly found themselves as refugees. Read more

Happening: a movie review by Alex First

Happening 90 mins: France in 1963 was a place where abortion was a dirty word. In short, it was illegal. Read more

Mobileye’s self-driving taxi service set to start this year

Mobileye announced that its autonomous vehicles are on track to launch in Israel and Germany later this year. Read more

Fear terrorism, not the Israelis defending against it

At a Tel Aviv café on Monday morning, I overheard a couple talking about the terrorist surge responsible for the fact that the normally packed establishment was as relatively empty as the adjacent Carmel Market. Read more

What is ‘Plan B’ for Israel or America if Iran nuclear deal goes unsigned?

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz made it clear on Monday that if world powers do not reach an agreement with Iran, Israel will be forced to activate “Plan B” immediately. Read more

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