U.S. lowers status of Palestinian Affairs Office in Jerusalem

In a move seen as downgrading American-Palestinian ties, the U.S. has decided to fully merge the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs (OPA) back into the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, the State Department announced on Tuesday. Read more

Sydney’s Jewish community thanks retiring police chief

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has announced her retirement. Read more

Bandt loses his seat

The leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt, lost his seat when Sarah Witty was declared the new ALP MP of the Melbourne electorate. Read more

Why is New Zealand still funding antisemitic education in the Palestinian territories?

A recent report from the education watchdog IMPACT-se has reignited urgent concerns over the content of Palestinian school curricula. Read more

Nazi recording confirms Hitler ordered Holocaust

Approximately 800 digital recordings and transcripts of Nazi criminals from after World War II were revealed on Saturday, including dramatic and disturbing testimonies that shed light on Nazi methods during the war and Holocaust and on their escape routes. Read more

San Remo at 105: The conference that helped pave the way for modern Israel

From April 19 to 26, 1920, world powers gathered in San Remo on Italy’s Riviera to determine the fate of former Ottoman territories following World War I. Read more

Israel to launch new Gaza aid distribution plan to bypass Hamas

Israel is preparing to implement a new humanitarian aid distribution system in southern Gaza designed to prevent Hamas from seizing the supplies, according to a report on Tuesday. Read more

Yemen: Israel fights back

Dozens of targets were attacked by around 20 fighter jets, and 50 munitions were dropped during the Israeli airstrike of Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah, the Israeli military has reported. Read more

Third man charged over antisemitic attack on former home of Jewish leader

 A third man has been charged over a deliberate antisemitic attack in Sydney’s east that targeted the former home of Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), amid a documented rise in hate-motivated incidents across the country.

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Four Corners probe reveals fugitive behind hoax terror threat

A dramatic Four Corners exposé that screened on the ABC this week revealed the alleged ringleader of a series of antisemitic assaults in Sydney. The man now in the middle of one of Australia’s strangest and most chilling criminal dramas has finally spoken out in self-imposed exile in Türkiye.

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From Australia’s Jewish past

Angell Arthur Phillips – a dedicated teacher and writer Read more

Israeli soccer star strikes to seal crown for England’s Leeds United

Israeli international Manor Solomon fired Leeds United to the English Championship title on Saturday with a stoppage-time winner in a 2–1 victory over Plymouth Argyle. Read more

Rabbi Smuley Boteach says Australia is a sewer of antisemitism

This past week, I was attacked three times. Not for anything I said, or anything I did—but simply for being Jewish…Rabbi Shmuley Boteach tells the Jewish world. Read more

HKOPS still the world’s best kept secret

I was privileged to attend the inaugural Jewish News Syndicate International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on 27/28 April (JNS Conference) – but shocked to find that none of the well- credentialled international and Israeli speakers I approached had ever heard of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS). Read more

Israel green lights plan to expand attacks on Gaza

The Israeli government has approved an expansion of the war in Gaza and also agreed to resume aid deliveries into the besieged enclave.
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A self-graffiti-ing Jew

Ed Avner is a fervent Jewish Australian who runs an eponymous Jewish-themed bakery in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Read more

Antisemitism up 52% in Victoria

The 2024 Victorian Antisemitism Report has reported a surge in antisemitic incidents in 2024, with a total of 552 recorded cases, marking the highest annual total ever documented. Read more

Yuval Raphael’s emotional journey from Supernova to Eurovision

One morning, when Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the Supernova music festival massacre, was a 6-year-old girl, her father gathered her and her younger brother to announce they were relocating to Switzerland. Read more

The Beep Test

A Melbourne theatre reviewed by Alex First Read more

Scientists triple survival rates in severe blood loss breakthrough

A groundbreaking discovery could dramatically change the way severe blood loss is treated in emergencies, Israeli scientists announced on Monday. Read more

Israel moving to replace U.S. aid with ‘win-win’ investment model

Israeli officials are preparing to phase out a longstanding U.S. foreign aid model and establish a new framework based on joint investments, innovation, and equal partnership. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Broken Broker Read more

Missile falls in Ben-Gurion airport complex for first time

A Houthi missile landed in a grove near a Ben-Gurion International Airport access road on Sunday morning, the Israel Defence Forces confirmed. Read more

South Africa’s Chief Rabbi urges ‘reset’ in Israel ties

In an address at the Israeli Embassy’s Yom Hazikaron ceremony in Pretoria on April 29, South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein called for “a reset of the relationship” between Israel and South Africa. Read more

Kneecap get kneecapped

The most successful musicians are those who understand that their art is about spectacle as well as sound. When it comes to popular music, the more controversy there is, the greater the spectacle becomes. Read more

Thunderbolts*

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Israel calls up thousands of reservists for Gaza war

Israel’s security cabinet is poised to discuss an expansion of the Gaza war as tens of thousands of Israeli reservists receive call-up notices. Read more

The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale

A musical reviewed by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

Following Yom Hazikaron there is an instant switch to the celebrations of Yom Ha’Atzmaut. Read more

Leaders congratulate Labor on election victory

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