Being Jewish in a non-Jewish school

For someone still at school, Year 11 student David Loven is striking in his eloquence and the passion with which he speaks. Read more

How a Jewish girl went into hiding with a Nazi family

It is the last winter before Germany’s capitulation. The seventeen-year-old Anni Gmitruk walks alongside a man wearing a swastika armband. It’s dark, and the snow crackles under their shoes. They have just been to the cinema in Zerbst, a small city deep in the Third Reich, to see Heimkehr, a classic among Nazi propaganda films. Read more

Israel’s leaders wish Jewish communities worldwide a Happy Rosh HaShanah 5783

Global Rosh Hashanah messages to worldwide Jewry. VIDEO Read more

Hakoah construction underway

Construction of a new Hakoah Club – a sports and cultural precinct on the site of the old White City tennis centre in Sydney’s Paddington – was officially launched on Friday by the Premier of NSW  Dominic Perrottet. Read more

‘Treat Iran like pariah:’ Haley hits Biden team for relentless pursuit of nuclear deal

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley sharply criticised the Biden administration for its failure to confront the Iranian regime during a special press conference held Wednesday in New York City on the sidelines of the 77th U.N. General Assembly. Read more

Iran’s inspirational protest movement

It’s impossible not be astonished and humbled by the bravery of the Iranian people. Read more

Abbas denounces Israel at UN, ignores Lapid’s concessionary speech

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Israel in the strongest terms before the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Friday, dismissing a concessionary speech made by Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid the day before. Read more

Israel’s choice: independence or appeasement

Caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid and his supporters in the media went berserk Tuesday after Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out against the gas deal the Biden administration is mediating between Israel and Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. Read more

On the other hand

Signs of the approaching Holy days are to be seen everywhere. Read more

With call for Palestinian state at UN, Lapid has defined Israel’s upcoming fifth election

With just 29 words, from the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, temporary caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid may have completely changed Israel’s fifth election landscape from the first four election cycles over the past two-and-a-half years. Read more

Preserving the children’s shoes found at Auschwitz

The International March of the Living announced on Thursday a global campaign with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial to preserve thousands of shoes belonging to children, most of them Jews, who were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Read more

Israelis lead international hunt for innovative cancer treatments

Professors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Hadassah Cancer Research Institute at the Hadassah-University Medical Centre are leading a European consortium working to develop novel immunotherapy treatments for cancer. Read more

A message from Dominic Perrottet and Mark Coure

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottett and Minister for Multiculurism Mark Coure offer their warm wishes to the New South Wales Jewish community for the High Holy Days. Read more

Honey

As we approach Rosh Hashanah and think of dipping our apples into honey in the hope of a sweet year, it’s a good time to talk about honey. Read more

Yevgeny heading to Israel: “I’m not going to be a murderer. I’m not going to kill people”

Military-aged men are fleeing Russia in droves, filling planes and causing traffic jams at border crossings to avoid being rounded up to fight in Ukraine following the Kremlin’s partial military mobilisation. Read more

NSW Shooters Party leader’s father interned in concentration camps

In 2013, NSW Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party leader Robert Borsak MP shocked participants on a NSW Jewish Board of Deputies-supported trip to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem when he told fellow parliamentarians that his late-father Czeslaw “Chester” Borsak was interned in Majdanek and Buchenwald concentration camps. Read more

The OBK bakes cupcakes using the Queen’s recipe

Our Big Kitchen’s Laya & Rabbi Dr Dovid Slavin obtained the late Queen’s cupcake recipe and used it as an opportunity to do something that would really honour her life and legacy including her personal touch. Read more

With call for Palestinian state at UN, Lapid has defined Israel’s upcoming fifth election

With just 29 words, from the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, temporary caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid may have completely changed Israel’s fifth election landscape from the first four election cycles over the past two-and-a-half years. Read more

The real reason for the war against Israel and the West

As soon as it emerged that Israel’s acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid would tell the United Nations General Assembly this week that he supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, he was engulfed by outrage, incredulity and dismay. Read more

Former Sydneysiders representing Israel in Lifesaving World Championships

 Israeli are competing for the first time in the ILS Lifesaving World Championships currently being held in Riccione in Italy. Read more

Beethoven and Schumann favourites: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Every so often, Australian international pianist and teacher Sarah Grunstein forsakes New York to visit to her original home, Sydney and gives a recital in the Opera House’s Utzon Room. Read more

Yair Lapid to UN on Iran and Hamas: ‘Put down your weapons and there will be peace’

Prime Minister of Israel Yair Lapid addressed the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Thursday afternoon. Read more

Pray for peace – prepare for action

Peace is always at the forefront of our prayers, but at the same time, most of us should have learnt from bitter past experience that being aware of the challenges ahead is a priority. Read more

Jordan-PLO-Hamas-UN-EU coy on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Jordan, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Hamas, United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) now have to choose between two very different two-state solutions to end the 100 years old Arab-Jewish conflict. Read more

A Rosh Hashanah message from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Shanah Tovah u’metukah—a sweet and happy new year—to our Australian Jewish community as you mark your precious season of High Holy Days. Read more

UK ambassador ‘optimistic’ King Charles will visit Israel

British Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan expressed hope this week that King Charles would visit Israel during his reign. Read more

Israel’s UN envoy walks out on Iranian president at UNGA: ‘This is a Disgrace’

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, walked out of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) hall in protest as the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi began his address to the Assembly Monday. Erdan did so because of Holocaust-denying comments that Raisi made during an interview that he gave to the news program “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night. Read more

Shabbat Nitzavim: Free will and choice

“When someone hears this covenant that God is making with you today, he may feel blessed that he can choose to do whatever his heart desires.” Deuteronomy.29.18 Read more

Activist for life and enlightenment: In memory of Halina Strnad (21/04/1930 – 06/09/2022)

Halina Wagowska was born in Poland and grew up in the city of Poznań, in which her loving parents (‘my fount of all wisdom’) had instilled within her a resilience and strength of character that would serve her well in later years…writes Geoff Allshorn. Read more

Life-changing community genetic screening

For over 25 years, Wolper Jewish Hospital has been at the forefront of genetic screening for the Jewish community. In fact, its preconception screening program was the first community genetics program to operate in Australia. Read more

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