Jewish jockey wins Grand National on a 50/1 shot
Jewish jockey Sam Waley-Cohen has won the world-famous U.K. Grand National on 50/1 shot Noble Yeats in a fairytale ending to his career. Read more
Ukraine update from the JDC The Joint
April 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A member of JDC The Joint’s staff filed this latest report from the Former Soviet Union yesterday. Read more
Rabbi Shua Smukler talks about Aliyah
Ha’Aliyah and the new Olim to Israel was celebrated in Israel…a time to talk with Sydney’s Rabbi Shua Smukler as he and his family prepare for Aliyah…writes Michael Manhaim. Read more
Noa Tishby appointed Israel’s first ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel
April 13, 2022 by TPS-IL
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has announced the appointment of the country’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel. Israeli artist, author and model Noa Tishby will be the first person to fill the newly-established position. Read more
Prime Minister Scott Morrison sends his Passover message
April 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
As the sun sets at Passover, Jewish families in Australia and around the globe will come together to find strength in faith, family, fellowship and community. Read more
Leifer wants jury to decide abuse charges – trial brought forward
April 13, 2022 by AAP
The trial for former ultra-orthodox school principal and accused child abuser Malka Leifer will begin in August. Read more
Ukranian orphans celebrate their bar mitzvahs at the Kotel
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Just weeks after being forced to flee their homes in the town of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, a group of 13-year-old boys participated in an emotional Bar Mitzvah celebration at the Western Wall on Monday. The boys and their classmates, all of whom lived in an orphanage in the town near Kyiv, were part of an annual Bar Mitzvah ceremony for orphan boys made possible by the Colel Chabad social services organization in Israel. Read more
NSW Opposition in talks with faith leaders
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Darren Bark, together with leaders from the Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu communities, met NSW Labor Leader Chris Minns and key members of his leadership team to discuss a number of issues and priorities for their respective communities. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sigmond (Solomon) Hoffnung – an entrepreneurial merchant of his time
April 12, 2022 by Features Desk
Sigmond was born in 1830 in Kalisz, Poland and was the elder son of Rev Samuel Hoffnung and his mother Caroline.
Ultra-orthodox city to name street after Israeli-Christian cop killed defending it
April 12, 2022 by TPS-IL
The Council of the Ultra-Orthodox city of Beni Brak approved a proposal to commemorate Amir Khoury, an Israeli-Christian police officer who was killed last month while confronting a terrorist who was on a shooting rampage in the city. Read more
Walt Secord sends his Pesach message
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
As NSW Shadow Minister for Police and Counter Terrorism and as deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel, it is once again my pleasure to wish friends and family in the NSW Jewish community – a Chag Pesach Sameach. Read more
Ensuring Holocaust survivors’ stories live on
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The theme of this year’s communal Yom Hashoah commemoration in NSW is “Keeping Alive the Stories of Survival”…writes Dane Stern. Read more
A passover message from Anthony Albanese
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
It gives me great pleasure to offer you the greeting that has been a shining thread through the centuries: Chag Pesach Sameach. Read more
Yom HaShoah events in Sydney
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire
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Muslims again desecrate Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem
April 11, 2022 by TPS-IL
Muslim rioters again entered Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) on Monday morning and desecrated the shrine, a Jewish prayer site. Read more
High Court: PA liable for terrorism due to stipends it pays terrorists
April 11, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The High Court of Justice ruled Sunday that the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) practice of paying stipends to terrorists imprisoned in Israel and their families constitutes “ratification” of the terrorists’ actions and therefore the PA “shares in the wrongdoings” committed by the terrorists-detainees and is liable to pay damages to the Israeli victims of terrorism. Read more
Ukrainian refugees try OBK borscht
April 11, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen and Kangarusski ZFA have hosted eight Ukrainian families who arrived in Australia over the past few weeks having escaped the war. Read more
St Kilda Shule celebrates its 150th anniversary
April 11, 2022 by Community newsdesk
More than 300 guests joined in the celebrations as Melbourne’s St Kilda Shule celebrates its 150th anniversary. Read more
Making a kosher shop kosher!
April 11, 2022 by Community newsdesk
Feintooner
April 11, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Pharoah and sickle hammer Ukraine. Read more
Crossing a line in coverage of the Tel Aviv carnage
April 11, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
Reporters rushed to Tel Aviv on Thursday night to cover the shooting at the Ilka pub on Dizengoff Street. Less than half an hour after the deadly spree, cameras and microphones flooded the vicinity, and the whole country tuned in to watch. Read more
Herzog on video link with Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe aboard the International Space Station
April 11, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog have spoken tonight via video link with Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe, live from the International Space Station, where he is stationed as part of the Rakia Mission. Read more
Bennett: Israel goes on offensive in fight against terror
Israel is shifting “from defence to offence” in the fight against terrorism and is intensifying activities against “the sources of the terrorism at any time and any place,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Saturday. Read more
The nuclear deal is not unavoidable
April 11, 2022 by Caroline Glick - JNS
On Wednesday morning, five Democrat members of Congress held a news conference to express their misgivings about the nuclear deal with Iran that the Biden administration is obsessively seeking to conclude, seemingly at any price. Read more
UN General Assembly majority greenlight Russia’s rape of Ukraine
April 11, 2022 by David Singer
The UN General Assembly completely lost its moral compass when it voted on 7 April for Russia’s suspension from the Human Rights Council – with only 93 of its 193 member Nations voting to do so. Read more
Israel’s biggest matzah
April 11, 2022 by TPS-IL
Ahead of the Passover, President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal welcomed representatives of the factory that produced the biggest matzah in Israel. Read more
IDF conducts mass counterterrorism raid in Jenin
April 10, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Massive IDF forces, including several elite units, conducted a counterterrorism operation in Jenin early Sunday morning in the Palestinian Authority (PA) city of Jenin and arrested several terror suspects, following the terror attack in Tel Aviv on Thursday night which claimed the lives of three Israelis. Read more
Murdered Israelis identified in Tel Aviv attack, Bennett promises ‘no limitations’ in war on terror
April 10, 2022 by JNS
The two of the three Israelis killed in a terrorist shooting at a Tel Aviv bar on Thursday night have been identified as Eytam Magini and Tomer Morad, both 27, from Kfar Saba. Read more
On the other hand
April 10, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Nothing is predictable or gradual in Israel. Read more
Say goodbye to Russian oligarchs
April 10, 2022 by Ben Cohen
The International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe is the perfect example of an organization with an imposing name and an illustrious advisory board that you’ve still never heard of. Read more
