Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern in a video conference with Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in a video conference on Friday hosted by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, with prominent world leaders on the corona pandemic including Australia’s Scott Morrison and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern. Read more

COVID-19 and hate crime in Australia

The Australian Hate Crime Network (AHCN) has called for greater vigilance in countering racism and other forms of bigotry that is erupting amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

Data on the South African Jewish population

A major new research study published this week estimates that South Africa’s Jewish population now stands at 52,300, with four in five living in either Johannesburg or Cape Town. Read more

A Yom Hashoah gift from Dymocks

National bookseller Dymocks has acted to a request from The Executive Council of Australian Jewry by removing non-academic editions of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Read more

Yizkor on Yom Hashoah

On Yom HaShoah, as sirens blared across Israel, the men and women of Magen David Adom stood still with all of Israel as they remembered all those who lost their lives in the Holocaust. Read more

March of the Living ceremony on the Internet tomorrow

Although the 2020 March of the Living did not take place on Holocaust Memorial Day due to the Coronavirus world pandemic, around 10,000 people have participated in the organization’s virtual memorial plaque project during the last week. Read more

On Yom Hashoah “The Partisans’ Song”

Perth’s Eli Rabinowitz has produced an emotional video of the song which is emblematic of those Jewish partisans who fought those who perpetrated the Holocaust on their people. Read more

Yom HaShoah

Today is Yom HaShoah. Events have been cancelled but have been replaced digitally across Australia and New Zealand….this is the NSW commemoration under the auspices of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies in conjunction with The Jewish Museum and the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. Read more

The Triguboff Centre deals with Coronavirus challenge in The Negev

Established by The Triguboff Institute, Switch Centre has made necessary adjustments to their scope of work in order to assist the Bedouin minority which is disproportionally affected by the Corona crisis. Read more

A Coronavirus Zoom Q&A with The Technion

Join The Technion for a presentation and Q&A with Israeli scientist and entrepreneur Prof. Avi Schroeder who is working on a preventative drug for the Corona Virus by adapting a food additive designed for shrimp. Read more

Torah music with an African touch

South African musician Jonathan Birin, one of the best known and admired names on the South African Jewish Music scene has created an innovative new album, ‘Simcha Africa’ (“Africa Joy”). Read more

Call to ban public display of Nazi flags in NSW

NSW Shadow Treasurer and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair Walt Secord has called on the NSW Berejiklian Government to undertake a formal investigation into ways to ban the public display of Nazi flags in NSW. Read more

Israel starts to ease restrictions

Yom HaShoah and Israel’s Independence Day will be held without attendees, but Israel is easing restrictions on exercise, praying and increasing the 15% limit of employees in workspace up to 30% and opening specific types of retail. Read more

A living archive that is growing all the time: The Arolsen Archives Online

Why is it so important to digitize the world’s largest collection of documents on Nazi persecution and publish them on the internet? Read more

NSW Maccabi Sports Awards

NSW Maccabi president Lauren Ehrlich has congratulated those honorees who gained NSW Jewish Sports Awards for 2019. Read more

26 million documents 21 million names

A remarkable “paper monument,” the only one of its kind, is available on the internet with almost all the historical collections held by the Arolsen Archives documenting victims of Nazi persecution are now online. Read more

Over to the Knesset

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has informed Speaker of the Knesset Benny Gantz that he is entrusting the Knesset with the task of forming a government. Read more

Theatre Games to allay boredom at home

Music for Refugees organiser Philip Feinstein has suggested Theatre Games to deal with these boring times when we have to stay at home and isolate ourselves with our family. Read more

Virtual memorial plaques replace reality on March of the Living

March of the Living announced the launch of a unique global Holocaust remembrance project, giving individuals around the world the opportunity to place a virtual memorial plaque against the backdrop of the infamous train tracks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Read more

A virtual March of the Living

The 2020 Virtual March of the Living will be aired on Wednesday, April 22 at 9:00AM  on the MOTL website at motl.org/live, on Facebook at facebook.com/motlorg, as well as on Jewish Broadcasting Service at jbstv.org/watch-live. The program will include a special address by the President of Israel and interviews with survivors, educators, MOTL alumni and leaders. Read more

The facts about the Holocaust

With the postponement of international events to mark 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi death and concentration camps and the cancellation of Holocaust commemorations, the World Jewish Congress has produced a selection of videos and films to help people across the globe observe Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, online from the safety of their homes. Read more

Magic moments from UPJ seders

One of the positive side-effects of the presence of COVID-19 in our lives has been the emergence of creative and innovative ways to celebrate Pesach with family and friends, even while physically distancing from each other. Read more

Benny Gantz given another 24 hours

President Rivlin will extend the mandate given to Chairman of Kachol Lavan to form a government until Wednesday evening at midnight Read more

Sale of Chametz – Israel style and Sydney style

As every year, just before Pesach, Magen David Adom made sure to sell the Chametz in the organization’s possession, as the Jewish law requires, but due to the instructions of the Ministry of Health regarding the Corona epidemic made the sale through the Zoom app. Read more

Pesach greetings to the Jewish world from President Rivlin

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin sent a special greeting to Israelis and to Jewish communities around the world ahead of Passover. Read more

Moselmane resigns as assistant President of the NSW Parliament’s Legislative Council

NSW Shadow Treasurer and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair Walt Secord has welcomed and long-term anti-Israel activist and Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane’s resignation as Assistant President of the NSW Parliament’s Legislative Council over his “extremely stupid” pro-Wuhan COVID-19 comments. Read more

A Passover with a difference

Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese sends his Pesach message to Australia’s Jewish community. Read more

Jewish House partners with Lifeline for Pesach

Jewish House has today announced a partnership with Lifeline’s Harbour to Hawkesbury branch which will extend across NSW to provide additional counselling support to people in the Jewish community distressed in the lead-up to, and during, Passover. Read more

Chag Sameach from Josh Burns

I want to wish all members of our Jewish community a Chag Pesach Sameach. Read more

Ride with the Israel national cycling team

Israel’s only professional cycling team, Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN), is inviting fans from across the world to join a series of online team rides, in order to help secure protective masks for medical staff fighting the Coronavirus pandemic. Read more

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