Richmond man arrested over arson attack on car with Chanukah sign

A 47-year-old man has been arrested after a car displaying a Chanukah sign with a menorah was allegedly set alight in the driveway of a St Kilda East home on Christmas Day.

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Eva Schloss (1929–2026): Sydney visit remembered

Anne Frank’s stepsister’s visit to Sydney Read more

Former ALP dignitaries join the call for a Royal Commission

A group of former federal and state parliamentary ALP dignitaries has called on the Albanese government to establish a Commonwealth Royal Commission into Antisemitism and the events that led to and enabled the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach on December 14. Read more

Bondi Pavilion show postponed amid terror recovery efforts

A planned Sydney Festival event at Bondi Pavilion has been postponed following the recent deadly terror attack at Bondi Beach, as organisers prioritise community healing over cultural programming.

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Bondi Beach massacre: still eight in hospital

There are currently eight patients receiving care in Sydney hospitals for their injuries. Read more

Stanley Roth remembered

Sydney’s Chevra Kahisha was packed, with members of the Sydney community gathered and a further 150 outside to pay respects to Stanley Roth AM at his funeral service. Read more

Scientists engineer bacteria to manufacture drugs inside human body

The team from Technion’s Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering has engineered harmless bacteria to produce therapeutic compounds directly inside patients, eliminating traditional manufacturing and distribution chains. Read more

Chabad Melbourne CBD Chanukah event at Parliament House

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How they are doing

There are currently twelve patients receiving care in Sydney hospitals for their injuries sustained during the Bondi attack. Read more

How are they doing

There are currently twelve patients receiving care in Sydney hospitals for their injuries sustained at Bondi Beach on December 14. Read more

What’s on your mind, Allegra?

Independent MP Allegra Spender has called on parliament to unite in the fight against antisemitism and hate by passing hate speech laws that impose criminal penalties for spreading the hate that leads to violence, even when it doesn’t directly call for violence. Read more

How they are doing

NSW Health extends its deepest sympathies to the families, friends and loved ones of those who died and were injured at Bondi Beach. Read more

‘Fear has killed our dream’: Avner’s Bakery prepares to close after two years of threats

Avner’s Bakery, the popular Jewish bagel shop in Sydney’s Surry Hills, is preparing to close its doors, citing sustained antisemitic harassment and escalating safety concerns following the recent violence in Bondi.

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Help from Waverley Council

An emergency meeting of Waverley Council has been convened to decide on immediate and longer-term supports for the Jewish community following Sunday’s devastating terrorist attack. Read more

How they are doing

Report from the NSW Ministry of Health on hospitalised victims of the Bondi shootings. Read more

Messages

CAM Calls Sydney Chanukah Lighting Shootings a Result of Unchecked Incitement Read more

President Isaac Herzog speaks with Sydney Jewish Community Leaders

President Isaac Herzog spoke this morning with David Ossip, President of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, and Rabbi Levi Wolff, the Rabbi of the Central Synagogue in Sydney, following the horrific terror attack targeting a Chanukah event in Sydney. Read more

Top Israeli journo addresses AIJAC

Veteran journalist Maayan Hoffman, currently Executive Editor at ILTV Israel News, a correspondent for The Media Line and a regular columnist for All Israel News and Ynet, recently addressed an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) media luncheon in Sydney on the regional state of play and developments in Israel after two years of war. Read more

Hate in plain sight

CyberWell, working alongside a nonprofit trusted partner of Meta (Facebook, Instagram and Threads), TikTok and YouTube to combat online antisemitism, has identified a rapidly expanding trend of coded antisemitic hate speech that uses emojis and coded language to target Jews across social platforms. Read more

This Chanukah, help J-Wire keep the light burning

 

 

 

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UIA Australia leadership transition as Esther Frenkiel concludes four-year term

United Israel Appeal Australia has praised Esther Frenkiel as she concluded her four-year term as Federal President, and welcomed Andrew Boyarsky as her successor. Read more

Not hostages

Following the completion of the identification process at the National Centre of Forensic Medicine, it was determined that the findings brought yesterday for examination from the Gaza Strip are not linked to any of the fallen hostages. Read more

“Bound By History – For We Are One”

The “Bound By History” event scheduled for December 2 was initiated as a response to the deeply disturbing rise in hostility towards Israel, the Jewish community in Australia and those who advocate for shared humanity since 7 October 2023. Read more

Ariel Bart to perform at VJs in Sydney

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Dec-15 4:55pm SBS World Movies: The Scarlet and the Black

Based on the humanitarian works of Irish-born Vatican priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who saved thousands of escaped prisoners of war, Jews and Italian Resistance families in occupied Rome during World War II, by hiding them in the church.
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Two years of impact marking a lifelong commitment

UIA communities in both Victoria and New South Wales gathered for their AGMs and Report Back events, marking a clear post-ceasefire shift from emergency response to the long-term rebuilding of Israel both physically and emotionally. Read more

“I am Omer Shem Tov, and I am a free man”

Over 1,500 supporters under 40 filled three sold-out UIA Young Leadership events in Sydney and Melbourne to hear returned hostage Omer Shem Tov share his story of 505 days in Hamas captivity – and to back Shavim, UIA’s early-intervention program preventing PTSD and rebuilding resilience across Israel. Read more

Podcast: L’Chaim – to Life

Col Michael Scott, CSC, GAICD – If Israel falls the world tips into another dark age Read more

JIFF: Complimentary double passes

Have you attended the Jewish International Film Festival?  J-Wire has complimentary double passes to give away. Read more

“In today’s atmosphere, it could happen again”

On the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors who lived through the 1938 pogrom as children issued a powerful warning about the dramatic rise in global antisemitism, saying the world today is no safer for Jews than 87 years ago. Read more

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