UPJ and ARZA welcome government’s IHRA antisemitism adoption

The Union for Progressive Judaism and The Australian Reform/Progressive Zionist Association have welcomed the Australian Government’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. Read more

Nazi Yellow Stars copied to get out anti-vaxx message

News.com.au has reported that a celebrity anti-vaxxer with 100,000 plus followers on social media had simulated the yellow Star of David used by the Nazis to identify Jews during the Holocaust on a post. Read more

Neo-Nazi Covid activity in Blue Mountains

NSW Labor has expressed its alarm that six shops in the Blue Mountains had neo-Nazi stickers placed on their storefronts and the QR check-in codes blocked by the stickers. Read more

Foundations of Australia’s two Jewish day schools partner to connect members

Sydney’s Moriah Foundation partnered with Melbourne’s Mount Scopus Foundation to hear from an eminent panel of Israeli professors from Tel Aviv University, sharing their insights into Israel’s pathway out of the pandemic. Read more

Government recommended to proscribe Hamas 100% as a terrorist organisation

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has recommended the government consider listing Hamas in its entirety as a terrorist organisation. Read more

Australia adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism that the Australian government pledges to embrace the definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Read more

President Herzog address the Malmo Forum

President Isaac Herzog participated virtually in the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism in Malmö, Sweden. Read more

President of the Sydney Jewish Museum pays tribute to Eddie Jaku

The president of the Sydney Jewish Museum Gus Lehrer makes a personal tribute to the late Eddie Jaku, a survivor of Auschwitz who called himself the happiest man on earth…and there are others who want to pay their respects. Read more

President Herzog hopes for positive outcome from Glasgow

President Isaac Herzog has addressed the Jerusalem Post 10th Annual Conference at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. Read more

The Jewish Holocaust Centre unpacks Australia’s only Holocaust war crimes trial

On Trial Series: The Ivan Polyukhovich Trial will see the case’s key players come together and explore the landmark trial through an online panel discussion presented by Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre. Read more

NSW Labor votes against BDS and supports the IHRA definition of “antisemitism.

The NSW ALP State Conference has rejected the party’s BDS campaign and has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. Read more

New digital marketplace makes Jewish education accessible on global scale

A new digital marketplace aims to make pluralistic and diverse Jewish learning experiences and talented Jewish educators accessible to anyone in the world who has an Internet connection. Read more

Honi Soit tags the Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies department closure at the University of Sydney

The Sydney University students’ paper Honi Soit has reported “a leaked list of enrolment numbers for units in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) reveals that up to 250 undergraduate subjects and over 240 postgraduate subjects are in danger from the University’s latest Draft Change Proposal (DCP)”. Read more

Vandals paint Holocaust-denial messages at site of Auschwitz-Birkenau

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum condemned recent vandalism that took place at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp. Read more

Herzog meets the Ukrainian community

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has met members of the Ukrainian Jewish communities. Read more

President Herzog’s first state visit

President Isaac Herzog has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on his first state visit as the President of the State of Israel. Read more

US$767 million to be distributed to Holocaust survivors across the globe

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced an important achievement for survivors with first-time pensions being allotted for Holocaust survivors who survived the Leningrad Siege,  survivors who were in hiding in France and those who survived persecution in Romania, and who are not currently receiving Shoah related pensions. Read more

Yad Vashem head in Kiev

Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan is in Kiev attending the official memorial ceremony marking 80 years since the Babi Yar massacre. Read more

Video: The commemoration of the Battle of Semakh

The Battle of Semakh was commemorated last week in Israel with Australia’s ambassador Paul Griffith attending the event. Read more

A welcome for Paul Toole and Bronnie Taylor

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies has thanked the former Deputy Premier of NSW and leader of the NSW Nationals Party, John Barilaro for his service to the state and consideration and support of the Jewish community throughout his time as Deputy Premier and as a Minister.  Read more

Honig wins American award for global startup of year

Australian company Honeylight Enterprises Pty Ltd trading as Greenville has been named 2021 Global Startup of the Year in the 18th annual Stevie® Award. Read more

John Lyons latest book: ZFA has its say

The central thesis of John Lyon’s new book, Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment, is that journalists covering the middle east are bullied into submission by an extremist “Israel Lobby” who prevents the media from fact-based reporting. Read more

Government appoints Alhadeff to SBS Board

Former CEO of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Vic Alhadeff has been appointed by the government to the board of SBS. Read more

Tributes for Gladys

NSW Labor Shadow Minister for Police Walt Secord, who is also deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel has paid tribute to outgoing Premier Gladys Berejiklian saying that “despite being long-time political opponents” he was “deeply saddened to witness her departure”. Read more

Virtual Mission: Israel the UIA way

Experiencing Israel firsthand will always be a priority for the UIA. Read more

John Lyons: Rabbi James Kennard responds

Nine Media published an extract from senior journalist John Lyon’s new book Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment in which he argues that criticism of Israel is not in itself antisemitic. Read more

NSW counter terrorism estimates there are 15 active members of the far right wing “National Socialist Network” in NSW

NSW Police has estimated that there are 15 members of the far-right extremist National Socialist Network operating in NSW. Read more

New Zealand: Israel’s ambassador meets with NZ Foreign Minister

Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand Ran Yaakoby has had a fruitful meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta. Read more

Babi Yar: Images from 1966

Eighty years after the Babi Yar massacre, rare photographs that tell the story of the Soviet-era struggle to commemorate the atrocity have been released for the first time by the National Library of Israel’s Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP). Read more

Peace negotiator Becker salutes anniversary of Abraham Accords

Dr Tal Becker, Director of Legal Affairs for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and highly respected influential diplomat and peace negotiator on multiple regional tracks examined the implications of the Abraham Accords and other topics for an AIJAC Live Online webinar. Read more

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