Pages come from the only existing copy of a ca. 1492 edition of “Arba’ah Turim”, one of history’s most important works of Jewish law

The National Library of Israel (NLI) has acquired 90 singular pages from the earliest period of Hebrew printing. The pages come from the only known copy of a late 15^th century edition of Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher’s “Arba’ah Turim”, a seminal codification of Jewish law. Read more

Noa makes Aya’s day

Israeli popstar and rising global sensation, Noa Kirel, has made a surprise visit to Sheba Medical Centre’s The Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital to visit Aya Abecassis, a 12-year old child hospitalized in the hemato-oncology ward. Read more

Jewish International Film Festival 2022

From hotly anticipated world premieres to captivating true tales and enthralling features from award-winning filmmakers, the Jewish International Film Festival makes its triumphant return to the silver screens of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra from 25 February – 4 April. Read more

Kesser Torah’s principal salutes students and staff

Sydney’s Kesser Torah College;’s principal Roy Steinman has recognised the efforts of both students and staff in the HSC. Read more

Moriah proud of the achievements of Class of 2021

With 68% of the HSC cohort achieving a place on the honour roll, 17 students on the All-Rounders List, four state rankings, and more than 56% of the group receiving an ATAR over 90 (top 10% of the state), Sydney’s Moriah College has ranked 18th in the State, and one of only two non-selective co-educational schools in the top 20. Read more

Online Hate Prevention Institute reaches the 10-year mark

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Survivors and community leaders team up to remember the Holocaust

Members of the newly-formed Australian Holocaust Museum Alliance are coming together to commemorate International Holocaust Day in their second annual online event. Read more

Sydney Festival: a chance to hear from the Israeli choreographer

New Israel Fund Australia will host a conversation with acclaimed Israel prize-winning choreographer and contemporary dancer Ohad Naharin. Read more

2021: The most antisemitic year of the last decade, more than ten incidents every day

Ahead of  International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Fight Against Antisemitism on the 27^th of January, the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency have published their annual antisemitism report of 2021, and the statistics are not encouraging. Read more

Masada leaps 45 places in the HSC

Mazeltov and congratulations to Sydney’s Masada College HSC students for their results and achievements in the 2021 Higher School Certificate. Read more

Trees for Cairns planted for Tu B’Shevat

Cairns Jewish Community celebrated Tu B’Shevat by planting trees for the council. Read more

SUMMIT UIA: 2022 campaign promises events with a difference

UIA is to produce a five-night symposium with Israel’s finest speakers, icons and personalities, streaming live for UIA’s annual event, albeit with a little twist in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.  Read more

NSW Parliament’s Hansard adopts growing consensus on the spelling of “antisemitism”

The NSW Parliament’s Hansard department – which officially records parliamentary proceedings – has adopted the official spelling of “antisemitism” over the increasingly archaic common misspelling “antisemitism”. Read more

BDS: Apologies and declining funds

The Sydney Festival BDS affair trundles along well after the last performance sponsored by the Israeli embassy closed its run on Sunday. Read more

Former First Lady Aura Herzog is laid to rest at the Great Leaders of the Nation Plot on Mount Herzl

The late Mrs Aura Herzog, mother of President Isaac Herzog and widow of the sixth President of Israel Chaim Herzog, was laid to rest today at a funeral service at the Great Leaders of the Nation Plot on Mount Herzl. Read more

Armed procession in UNRWA camp

The Jerusalem-based Bedein Centre has written to the Head of the Australian Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority on a Fatah commemoration held in the UNRWA-funded Deheishe refugee camp. Read more

Pre-war Vilna online

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBVOCP), a historic 7-year, $7 million initiative to process, conserve and digitize YIVO’s divided pre-war library and archival collections. Read more

Gaza 21: UNHRC Commission of Inquiry – People are urged to make submissions even though the ‘dice seem loaded’

Anne Bayefsky of Human Rights Voices has urged people to make submissions to the UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry. Read more

2021 stats of murders of women in Israel

The Israel Observatory on Femicide (IOF) has released their year-end report on femicide, the murder of women. Read more

Hamas bedfellow of Australian BDS supporters

All those who joined the boycott of the Sydney Festival created by its acceptance of a A$20,000 sponsorship by the Israeli embassy in Canberra have had a powerful Israeli enemy join their ranks. Read more

Secord calls on arts minister to introduce anti-BDS laws

NSW Shadow Arts Minister Walt Secord has called on the new NSW Arts Minister Ben Franklin to introduce American-style anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) legislation for NSW arts organisations. Read more

Decadence a hit

The Sydney Dance Company performed Israeli’s Ohad Naharin’s Decadence last night at the opening of the Sydney Festival receiving rave reviews and a fizzler of a protest. Read more

The Sydney Festival’s “important stance”

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has commented on the “very important stance of the Sydney Festival in its continued support of the dance performance Decadance and its public repudiation of demands by members of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) to divest funding received for it from the Israeli Embassy”. Read more

First temple Jerusalem elite suffered poor sanitary conditions and infectious disease

A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority has exposed the remains of 2,700-year-old intestinal worm eggs below the stone toilet of a magnificent private estate. Read more

“Seniors do not need to go to crowded places” – Israel offering 4th jab to over 60s and medical workers

Israel’s Health Ministry’s  Director General Prof. Nachman Ash has decided to allow a fourth dose of the vaccine to be given to all adults over 60 and medical crews who received the previous dose at least four months ago. Read more

Dear Prime Minister

The president of the Zionist Federation of Australia Jeremy Leibler has written to Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett expressing his concerns about Israel’s borders being closed to Diaspora Jewry. Read more

From the NSW police chopper: finding Eli and Hannah

VIDEO: The NSW police helicopter crew finding Eli and Hannah Jones, two Moriah College students who went missing yesterday on a property near Mudgee and who spent the night in a hut they built from moss and twigs. Read more

Surf Living to make its mark at Maccabiah

“The Israel Life Saving Federation (ILSF) will host the first-ever Surf Life Saving exhibition sports competition to be held at the 21st Maccabiah in Israel in July next year. Read more

An Aussie vice-president for B’Nai B’rith International

Sydney’s James Altman has been elected senior vice president of B’nai B’rith International by the organization’s International Board of Governors during its triennial meeting in Washington. Read more

Rabbinical Council of NSW head fronts assisted dying inquiry

The President of the NSW Rabbinical Council Rabbi Nochum Schapiro has fronted a public hearing in the NSW parliament on the proposed bill to legalise assisted dying. Read more

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