A first in Israel: advanced pacemaker implanted through the neck in 18-year-old from Gaza

Shahad, an 18-year-old from Gaza, was born with a hole in her heart and an abnormal configuration of blood vessels connecting to her heart from the left side of her chest, but without the major vein from her lower body connecting to her heart. Read more

Netanyahu meets Biden

A video of the start of the meeting of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden in the Intercontinental Hotel in New York. Read more

Sydney jazz pianist to perform in Brooklyn – and online

Australian musician-composer Leonie Cohen and her quintet are set to perform in Brooklyn’s Soapbox Gallery next Thursday. Read more

NSW MP calls on expulsion of Labor party member

Natalie Ward has called on Labor NSW Labor to condemn and expel Amanda Fazio who called Jewish people a “race of whingers”.

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L’Shana Tova from Peter Dutton

The Leader of the Opposition sends a Rosh Hashanah message to Australia’s Jewish community. Read more

Tributes to Jeremy Jones AM in the NSW Parliament

A pillar of the Australian Jewish community Jeremy Jones passed away last week at the age of 64 following a futile battle with cancer. Read more

Off-Broadway Review: Anne Being Frank (28th Street Theatre)

Former student at Sydney’s Moriah College Alexis Fishman has received plaudits from New York theatre critics for her performance of Anne Frank in the off-Broadway production of Ron Elisha’s play Anne Being Frank. Read more

Ian Waller appointed to the Victorian Supreme Court

The Judicial College of Victoria has congratulated Ian Waller KC on his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Read more

Dr Colin Rubenstein addresses a minyan for the late Jeremy Jones AM

Dr Colin Rubenstein, Executive Director at the Australia /Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has addressed a minyan for the late Jeremy Jones held at Sydney’s Mizrachi Synagogue. Read more

Veterans of the Yom Kippur War join UIA webinars

UIA is honoured to be hosting two veterans of the Yom Kippur War in commemoration of the 50^th anniversary of this remarkable battle – Brig. Gen. Ret. Avigdor Kahalani and Major General (res.) Uzi Dayan-on two webinars on 19 September. Read more

120 years on, a plaque indicates Herzl’s house

As part of events marking  120 years since the passing of Theodor Herzl, a plaque has been unveiled on the house in Vienna where he lived at the time of the First Zionist Congress in 1897. Read more

Labor official slammed by NSWJBD president

A NSW Labor official, Amanda Fazio, has faced widespread condemnation for engaging in an anti-Semitic tirade on social media. Read more

Jeremy Jones: Australia has lost a giant, and the Australian Jewish community is poorer for his passing

Community leaders have made tributes to the late Jeremy Jones, who has passed away following a prolonged battle with cancer. Read more

NSW Police Commissioner visits OBK

Sydney’s OBK has welcomed a visit from the New South Wales Police Commissioner. Read more

A word on The Voice from Julian Leeser

Liberal MP Julian Leeser is a strong advocate of voting “Yes” for The Voice. Here’s why. Read more

A true friend of Israel is a friend of the Palestinian people

ALP luminary Michael Easson addressed the Australian Labor Party National Conference on Friday on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Read more

Rabbi Gabi joins the board at VEOHRC

ARK Centre’s Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann has been appointed by the Victorian Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes to the Board of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. Read more

Remote but not forgotten

Last week 60 Jews from as far afield as Perth and Gold Coast gathered to bring in Shabbat in the Broken Hill Synagogue in the first service since Melbourne’s Ark Congregation’s visit in March 2018. Read more

Antisemitism on campus

A nationwide survey of Australian university students has revealed widespread antisemitism on Australian university campuses. Read more

“Disgusting comments” Leibler responds to Adler report

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that the Australian Jewish Association president David Adler has posted photos of former Q&A host Stan Grant implying that his ‘COMPLEXION SEEMS TO HAVE CHANGED’. Read more

Why were we not asked?

Ameinu Australia, Meretz Australia, Habonim Dror Australia and Hashomer Hatzair Australia have written to the president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, pointing out they were not consulted about ZFA’s statement on the recent change of the Albanese government’s position on Israel. Read more

Indigenous Friends of Israel say the Albanese government has thrown Israel under a bus

Indigenous Friends of Israel (IFI) co-founders Norman and Barbara Miller has condemned “the decision by the Albanese government to throw Israel under a bus by calling its holiest sites including the Temple Mount and Western Wall ‘occupied territories.’ Read more

Pauline Rockman leaves the Melbourne Holocaust Museum board after 30 years

The Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) long-term co-President and visionary leader Pauline Rockman has stepped down from her role at the museum after 30 years. Read more

Labor policy shift troubles Victorian Liberal Friends of Israel

The Victorian  Liberal Friends of Israel say that reports today that the Albanese Government will adopt divisive, inflammatory rhetoric on Israeli-Palestinian affairs are deeply troubling. Read more

Austen’s back with Charles Waterstreet as his warm-up

Comedian Austen Tayshus returns to Bondi in October and November after his sell-out season in 2019, described as “comedy at its best”. Read more

JCCV commends bravery of boys facing a knife in bus

A man brandishing a knife confronted a group of Jewish students from Melbourne’s Leibler Yavneh College while they were aboard a public bus. Read more

$40million for faith-based institutions – applications now open

Applications are now open for the Albanese Government’s Securing Faith-Based Places grant program. Read more

JCA refutes media report that it had funded the “Yes” campaign

Sydney’s Jewish Communal Appeal has taken issue with national spreadsheet The Australian, which reported that the JCA had donated $200,000 of community funds to the “Yes” campaign ahead of The Voice referendum.” Read more

Jewish students make contribution to countering antisemitism

Students from Leibler Yavneh College were among 15 secondary schools from around Victoria presenting their ideas about diversity and inclusion to politicians and community leaders at the inaugural Victorian Youth Summit at the University of Melbourne Read more

Tisha B’Av at the Western Wall in 1967

We publish archived JNF photos of Tisha B’Av shortly after the liberation of the Western Wall during the 1967 Six-Day War. Read more

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